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'By the Numbers, simple statistical sequence shown during CNN/You Tube candidates' debate
By Carol Biliczky Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007
All it took was poster board, his girlfriend and a simple idea.
Those were the keys to the winning video that College of Wooster graduate Zachary Goode produced for the Hillary Clinton campaign.
His 30-second By the Numbers aired during Monday night's CNN/YouTube Democratic candidates' debate just minutes after he learned he won.
''I had no idea it would go this far, said a delighted Goode, 30, of Pasadena, Calif.
Goode was surfing the Internet on July 16 when he checked in on a favorite site Hillary Clinton's.
There, he saw Clinton was asking supporters to supply 30-second videos to show at the debate about why she was their choice for president.
''Hillary's YouTube Initiative is her latest groundbreaking effort on the Internet, a campaign news release said, citing other innovations the HillCam, which posts behind-the-scenes footage of Hillary and Bill Clinton campaigning; the online announcement of her candidacy; and her live video Web chats with residents nationwide.
The challenge for Goode was that the deadline to submit the video was the next day.
There was no time to lose.
''I sat and thought for a few minutes, he said. ''I knew it had to be simple the simpler the better.
He hit on the idea of filming a sequence of statistics that cast the Bush administration in a bad light. He enlisted the help of his girlfriend, Stacey Kattman, originally of Indianapolis, to turn the boards while he filmed. The sequence ends with the lines, ''Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman. Hillary for President.
Then he paired the edited video to the imposing music of In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.
Total cost: $15 to $20. Total time invested: A few hours, primarily to check and double-check his statistics.
The video has been the highlight of his career to date, said Goode, an aspiring filmmaker.
After graduating from the College of Wooster in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in sociology, the native of Grand Haven, Mich., changed career courses.
He enrolled in the master's program in film production at Chapman College in Los Angeles with the goal of combining his interest in politics and social issues with documentaries.
His master's thesis, Look Away, a 23-minute film about a pregnant runaway, was screened at a showcase of the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.
Today, he is post-production supervisor for the Shoah Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California.
He would love to work on Hillary's campaign and to meet her, but that hasn't happened yet.
See his winning video at http://www.hillaryclinton.com/blog/view/?id=10462.
Carol Biliczky can be reached at 330-996-3729 or cbiliczky@thebeaconjournal.com.
All it took was poster board, his girlfriend and a simple idea.
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