School Library Journal reviews the Kodak Zi8 pocket camcorder

 

Quality looks pretty good for the price.  With lav mic, portal lighting, and a tripod, one could use this to make some decent talking head content.

 

Spice it up via postproduction by placing the talent in front of a greenscreen, do some keying, add some motion graphics, put in a music bed, maybe do some nice title/ending graphics, and you'll have a low budget studio production that should look nice.

 

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