Small Update: The Lecture Experiment
It’s been a while since I’ve posted something on the Lecture Experiment (click here to read the introductory post about it).
All I can say right now is that I’ve gotten the speaker’s permission to sell the DVD, and I unforunately, due to other more important obligations busying me, don’t have the final DVD out yet. I already started designing the case for the DVD, and I have to finalize the DVD Menu and opening titles of the lecture. Another thing I have to think about is pricing. I’d wanted to sell it for $10 but I don’t think that’ll allow for a great amount of sales. So, most likely I’ll lower the price to $8 (or at the least, $5), because the lecture only lasts about 22 minutes and I don’t want to over-price the product.
Though, the success of this project is not lost. The original intention of the project was to sell it and make enough money to buy myself a high-quality camera. Fortunately, in the past weeks while working on this project, I was hired for two other DVD projects (by family, but still hired nonetheless), and now (with Dawah Gear Productions, Inc., my brother’s and my company) I’ll start producing and audio CD of the Last Juz of the Qur’an recited by one of our local young Hufaaz.
And what’s even better is that a brother I know very well (that hosts Dawah Gear Productions’ website) is donating a high-quality camera to my Islamic Youth group, the Florida Association of Young Muslims (FAYM), through me. He says that it’s for FAYM, but I can still use it for my projects. That’s an amazing donation he’s making Alhamdulillah. Though, while I realize that that may just accomplish my goal for me, I still want to raise the money for my own camera because I know that using others’ equipment always has its drawbacks.
InshaAllah make Du’a for success in this project. Because I didn’t post a picture above, I have a video of a great Nasheed I love very much by Dawud Wharnsby Ali. It’s irrelevant to the post but great nonetheless.
