In his monthly column in St. Louis Small Business monthly, MarketVolt's Tom Ruwitch urged readers to join the video revolution. Here's an excerpt from the column that describes the videos below.
Here are the videos, embedded directly from YouTube (the sound quality in the room was not great; and please keep in mind, these musicians are 12-years-old or younger)
Here's the excerpt from Tom's SBMON article:
It's far easier than you may think to produce and distribute effective online video. To demonstrate this, I'll share a story about my son, the budding rock star.
Jacob, 12, has spent most of his summer at Dave Simon's Rock School. Roughly 15 kids attend each summer camp session, and they are split into three bands that receive private and group instruction. On the final day of each camp session the bands perform live for adoring audiences (a.k.a. parents and other relatives).
One week before Jacob's concert, I bought an iPhone, the new model with a built-in video camera. When Jacob and his mates took the stage, I pulled the iPhone from my pocket, tapped once to open the video camera application, tapped again to start recording, and pointed the phone at the band.
Fifteen minutes and three songs later, I had a phone full of ear-splitting, bone-jarring, rock-and-roll video. I then clicked the "Send Video to YouTube" button on the iPhone. Five minutes later the videos were on YouTube, ready for the world to see. Twenty minutes later, the videos were on my web site (see http://marketvolt.com/rockvideo). I would have had the videos on my site sooner, but I had to drive 10 minutes from the camp to my office.
In well under one hour (including a 10-minute drive), I shot 15 minutes of video, posted it on YouTube, and embedded it in a page on my web site.