The Making of Kimberley Kleczka’s Magic Carpet Ride for Alook's Dance in France

What are the key ingredients for making a read-along video in which the author rides on a magic carpet with her new character called Alook?  Rather than tell you, let’s take a look.  Hold-on everyone here we go, sometimes fast and sometimes slow!

We start with me sitting on a table with my legs crossed in front of a very large green screen.

Then I start doing silly things, so it looks like I am flying.

And the silliness continues until the director says "cut"!

Wow, that was really fun, and what a laugh!  We actually had to do several takes because someone (not mentioning any names) was laughing and this was one of the silent scenes.

Now we have to find a carpet, a city, a nice looking background and all of the illustrated elements that will allow post production to complete the read-along video.

Throw in a magic carpet.

Or two....

We need some nice furniture.

Of course we need Alook.

Alook needs some wings to hold-on tight.

When in Paris, you need an Eifel Tower.

You get the idea, there are a lot of different objects that will be added in post production, but I thought I would provide a first look at a few of the finished scenes.

If you would like to hear the song I wrote for this book, please stop by our sing-along page and it will start playing for you.

Now it is starting to look like a magic carpet ride and Alook is joining me.

How about a high five in front of the Eifel Tower?

Hold on tight Alook, here we goooooo!

And before I sign-off, you can get a free Kindle version of Klara The Cow Who Knows How To Bow starting on September 14th.  You can go to my author page and add it to your Amazon Wishlist, so you don't forget. 

Are you ready for a quick sneak peek?  Let's see if I can embed a short video into this post. Here we go.  Hang on tight and look for the final version in about 2 weeks.

We are looking forward to a September release.
Bye for now!