Full Duck Productions

Two adopted daughters playing at a family gathering

Asked to reduce a full day of orientation lectures into a single 2 1/2 hour video that adoptive parents could take home with them, Full Duck produced an information-packed package.

Challenge: Replace monthly informational meetings that lasted all day with a single videotape that can be viewed and reviewed in potential client homes of couples that wish to adopt a Chinese child. Minimize costs.

Solution: Full Duck Productions scheduled one 6-hour shoot of lectures and cutaway shots of parents, children and child care materials using a non-digital camera. In the studio, Full Duck copied clients' VHS tapes of trips to China. Then Full Duck edited the client tape and FDP tape into a 2.5-hour VHS video covering planning, child care, traveling to China to receive an adoptive baby and bonding with the baby. Extensive cutaways illustrate the lectures.