K.A Applegate and Michael Grant want videos from you!

[A ghost you know]

BTW, are you filming something? It'd be the most epic thing ever if your first video online was to Scholastic, telling them how awesome Animorphs is.   

I thought about it.

/enough said

SQUEE!

^^ What she said.

[Essam 293]

I posted this over at LJ and Hirac, but I'll post it here again. For those of you that live in different countries and speak a first language other than English, it might be worthwhile for you to do the entire video in your own language instead. It's the best and most direct way of letting Scholastic know that there is a worldwide audience still available for the series. It could potentially even give your country a better chance of having Animorphs be re-released in that language. (Just remember to add in English subtitles, so that the sales folks at Scholastic know what you're saying )

[Myitt]

Good idea, Dameg.

I was thinking that people could say something along the lines of, "My name is _________ and I started reading Animorphs in __(year)__ when I was ________ years old." and then a short bit about how Animorphs has impacted them.

I just got in from a vacation and looked over some of the stuff I've missed in the past handful of days; then I caught this thread, and it's funny because my first thought was that it would be cool if the "My name is _________" should really be worked into it. If KA and MG are interested in collecting unedited videos of individuals, maybe everyone could include a "My name is _________" line in their videos so that they have the option of editing together a series of them to introduce it.

Totally agreed!  Dave and I are thinking up our own little blurbs now that we're settled in to our new apartment.  I think we're both aiming for around 20 to 30 seconds, just to keep things short and sweet.

[Artemis]

Introducing ourselves that way in all of our vids and having a lot of "My name is ____" cuts in the beginning of the video is a perfect idea - even that shows an Ani impact on our lives. And maybe not every testimonial will make it into the final product, depending on quantity/lengths, so having "spare" fans, so to speak, with the classic Animorph intro line, is definitely handy from an editing standpoint.

[Essam 293]

That's definitely a good idea, and I think everyone who is submitting should go with it. It'll be a nice nod to the intro line of the series

[Myitt]

Submitted mine! *faint*  ...it's so blasted hot in here, and I'm sweating making this thing, haha.

[Dameg]

I posted this over at LJ and Hirac, but I'll post it here again. For those of you that live in different countries and speak a first language other than English, it might be worthwhile for you to do the entire video in your own language instead. It's the best and most direct way of letting Scholastic know that there is a worldwide audience still available for the series. It could potentially even give your country a better chance of having Animorphs be re-released in that language. (Just remember to add in English subtitles, so that the sales folks at Scholastic know what you're saying )

Roger! 

[Nateosaurus]

Oh cool, I wish I saw this earlier. I'd love to make a video for this

[Myitt]

There's still time!

[KitsuneMarie]

I emailed mine! Here it is on youtube:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WHPSlWVMdE[/youtube]

You guys who have the means and are considering making a video, but haven't done it yet... DO IT! We need the publishers to understand why these books are so important--and why they deserve great marketin. My video's sound and video quality are horrible, and the sound and image don't even line up but I did the best I could with what I had. And you can too!

[Myitt]

Ooo, awesome Marie!  Yours is so nice and conversational, I feel like mine is kinda, "daah I like Animorphs"...XD  They really did help me on the A.P. bio test, though: I froze when I was asked about the corpus callosum, and then I remembered, holy crap, I just read about this in Visser!

Here's mine!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGtQD9K_Dwc[/youtube]

EDIT:  Yes, my earlier video was accidentally PAUL SIMON...XD  No, I did not send Paul Simon in to Jake, haha...

[Aniviel]

Someone on the Hirac Delest Facebook page pointed out that KA and Grant might want to consider including some of the fan projects that have been done, as a further proof that the fandom is still healthy and passionate.  I thought the Radio Drama's "Map of Weirdness" is a nice visual of Animorphs fans: http://www.animorphs-uncensored.com/the_map_of_weirdness/ ...and that's just those who call into the show.

[Gafrash]

Holy! Is it too late now?!
Crapcrapcrapcrap!!!

[Myitt]

Nope, I think they're still looking for them...isn't early August the deadline?

[donut]

ya know, I was thinking, if the rerelease does well then there's the potential for a new TV series  ....