How does one produce a children's video? Try to visualize a concept on how you .
Sounds easy to produce a children's video, at least that is .
what I thought when I started seven years ago. .
First you need a great idea and preferably passion. My idea came when I was .
training to be a helicopter pilot a few years ago, and when I began to run out of money to .
continue flight school, I noticed a construction video for children being marketed with .
great success and I thought why can't I do the same with a helicopter video? One thing .
lead to another and my passion for helicopters evolved into an idea for a an educational, .
and entertaining video for children.
The next thing you need to determine is a concept for the video. Do you want to make .
a documentary or a story? I determined there are enough boring documentaries about .
helicopters, and I wanted to create a story that would inspire, entertain and educate .
children about the evolution of helicopters. I wrote a script and it has been revised at .
least 20 times from inception due to the fact that I was constantly changing characters .
that would appeal to children and their imagination. And after several trials and errors, I .
came up with the concept of "Helicopter Harry and the Copter Kids Whirlybird .
Adventures.".
Briefly, the story itself is about a boy and a girl that walk onto a heliport and ask .
Helicopter Harry to teach them about helicopters. Helicopter Harry agrees, and takes .
them on a journey like none other. Helicopter Harry begins the adventure with Leonardo .
Da Vinci's first design of the helicopter 500 years ago. Helicopter Harry explains how .
Da Vinci studied animals and insects like the dragonfly, birds and pterodactyls, .
to fashion his first helicopter. Can you imagine the helicopter being fashioned 500 years .
ago? And Da Vinci also created the name of the first helicopter, helixpteron, which .
means spiraling wing.
