Chasing the elusive "Get It Perfect" or getting it done... the dramas of shooting my first video tour.
By Anneke Cundasawmy
(Keller Williams Ottawa Realty)
I have been known to be somewhat perfectionistic... in fact, my mother has a nickname for me Miss Perfectionista. What I've come to realize in recent years is that it's a handicap! This week I shot my first video tour of a listing: 144 Post Road, Kanata. And while the producer, a pro, assured me I took less takes than actors do... I interpreted this as a bad thing. Faced with not enough time to do my hair, no idea how my clothes would show on camera, and worried that I'd sound nasal and somewhat "Fran the Nanny " or "Janice on Friends"... I bravely stood beside my sign and spoke clearly and loudly, "Welcome to 144 Post Road!" The home is situated on a very quiet curvy street. Ironically, the minute he hoisted his camera onto his shoulder, three cars needed to drive by. Nothing like an a...
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