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Hello and welcome to a screen test.
No, I'm not auditioning for any particular role.
We actually are testing a screen and lighting situation in a studio that I've set up in
a loft above my garage on Hilltop Road in Healy, Alaska.
My name in Jay Elhard and I am a media specialist at Denali National Park and Preserve.
And we are gearing up in the coming weeks to start shooting and producing a series of
videos with park researchers and scientists that has a working title, "Thirty-second Scientist."
The set-up being that we would have a scientist or researcher sitting in this particular chair
to open the video, they could introduce themselves and their field of work and why it's relevant
and significant to folks.
And then we could cut to a center section in which we have slides and videos and graphs
and other illustrations that the scientist wants to use to illustrate their work.
And at the very end we would cut back to this particular view so that the scientist or researcher
can tidy things up and come to a conclusion and sign off at the very end.
This is, I hope, a fairly efficient and straightforward approach that we can use to *** through efficiently
a series of videos, six, or eight, or 12 of these things over the coming weeks.
It's also, as I am amply demonstrating here on this particular cut here, it's a little
bit more forgiving for the performer in that you can do mulligans and do-overs.
And when you actually have illustrations and things happening on the video tracks, you
can tidy up the audio tracks behind the scenes.
Thank you for your time and for enduring this particular test.
We will see how it turns out and how people take to it, and see if we make a go of it
in the coming weeks.