In Case Anyone Here Wonders What I Look Like In Action...

Being a former teacher, I excel at being brutally honest with students/friends (hey... CCF is a family!) ... and appreciate the same from them.

Cons:
- Very scripted: Remember not to just read the script - communicate it (sometimes requires a bit of overemphasis). When teaching students to perform, if they did not get each word perfect, it did not matter as long as what they did say conveyed the same meaning.
It is obvious a lot of work went into finding good phraseology to cue the ones being interviewed. But be careful - in a couple of instances the prompting question and delivery reminded me of the opening of the movie Night at The Museum II where they are doing a parody of TV infomercials ("And so John, what brought you to the conclusion ...).
Along this same train of thought, it was easy to tell when a cut/edit was made sometimes b/c the wording, attack (as in attack, decay, sustain, release) of the one speaking. A person starting from a new cut should be wary not to have abnormal peaks in volume b/c they hear the director say "action!"
- I saw one "camera oops" where the wrong camera was the primary when you were speaking (but only for a second before switching to the correct one).

OK - now the brutal stuff is over...

Pros - mechanics related:
1. Excellent mood set by the opening music - starts the presentation off on a postured, professional perspective (intended alliteration!).
2. Excellent graphics work - blended greatly with the presentation's atmosphere.
3. Great, sharing of airtime by speakers to cover the book's aspects.
4. Enunciation good (imperative in a good presentation)
5. Great looking stage - loved the 2011 ASE Anniv set and silver pucks in the background.
6. It was a nice touch having available retail places being shown continuously.

Pros - content related:
Great coverage of what a prospective buyer would want to know such as the book's purpose, work/research behind this book, material covered, practical application, etc.
The nature of this work as a good reference book is made very obvious.

I went into the video thinking, "Who cares - its modern stuff and I only like older coins." You accomplished your goal with the video b/c I came away thinking, "Wow, I need to rethink my collecting! Next time I am in Wal-mart I need to look into a copy."

Earle - Thank you for taking the time to write out your insightful criticism. I agree with you on the whole. The one thing that must be considered (I think I said this) is that we were shooting with two cameras for the first time ever, we were using two sound recorders for the first time ever, and I was on-camera for the first time ever. A few different things came together to make it a little "choppy." Additionally, Eric was flown in from Georgia to do this shoot, and he didn't have much time to "learn" what we were doing for the video. Literally a couple of hours after he landed at the airport we were filming. None of this is set up to be an excuse of any kind, but we had a LOT of cards playing against us. I'm almost surprised we pulled it off as smoothly as we did. I would have liked to change a number of things after the fact, but alas, the second camera was gone, Eric was gone, and we were left with what pieces we had and had to make something of it.

As for a list of the 50 coins...the best I can do right now is to point you to the store category containing listings for all of the coins, but will later be publishing a complete checklist. Be it known before you enter that there is only one circulation coin in the entire list - the Washington Presidential dollar missing the edge lettering. All the rest are precious metal coins.

http://www.moderncoinmart.com/cart1....php?cat=286