K.A's First Ever Video Message

( From AW Newsletter, Ziana and Morphz, here's the whole KA webcast)

Woman's voice: May 17, 1996. It was the day we first learned of the invasion. The day we first met, Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie and Tobias. Since then we've learned much about the Yeerks and Visser Three, and we also met some allies like Ax and the Chee. We learned a lot and they've won many battles. There is reason to celebrate. As a matter of fact, the Year 2000 Animorphs Party Winner is celebrating with his family and friends right now (shows a pic of Andrew M.). But we can't tell you where. So, you've read the books and watched the TV show, what next? Is there a key to changing your world? According to K.A. Applegate, it's learning as much as possible and keeping a great sense of humor. Here's K.A. and a young friend, with a millenium message recorded for Animorphs Funniest Home Videos.

K.A.: I'm K.A. (laughing), oh dear, OK (beep). (clears throat) Hi. I'm K- (laughing) (beep). Hi, I'm K.A. Applegate, thanks for joining us here today (laughing) (beep). Rolling? Okay. Hi, I'm K.A. Applegate, thanks for joining us today. Thanks for (very big laughter) over the last three and a half years (beep). A new millennium doesn't roll around every year. In fact, at least a couple years between a millennium. Math was never my best subject (laughter) to think about (laughter). You know, I could get a kid who would be able to do this better (beep).

Kid: Hi, I'm KA Applegate, thanks for joining us here today, and thanks for supporting Animorphs for the last three and a half years. A new millennium doesn't roll on every year, in fact, I believe it is several hundred years between millenniums. Maths was never my best subject. But every time the 00s turn on the calendar it is a good time to think about what has been and what could be. A new Millennium always holds up hope that that True and Fictional may at last be conquered. That peace may come both in the place we never name, and that all places get named on the evening news. But how ever much we have for the new millennium, we have to be ready to act, in order to know what is right, we need to make a change, to make the world a better place. You have to start with learning, knowledge, and knowledge is pretty much all you know, read everything, read books, read everything, read newspapers, read tomalears, read the tabloids at the supermarket check out, no, wait I read those, read at home, read on the bus, the more you read the more you'll know. At the end of every day, you should be able to think, hey I know something I didn't know yesterday, why? Because the more you read, the more ready you'll be for everything that happens, in your life. Like the new invasion for example, now go, and read a book and join the the millennium. Bye!

K.A.: That was incredible! (laughs)

Woman's voice: And that's the last we're likely to see of K.A. Applegate - on video, anyway. So arm yourself with knowledge and a sense of humor, and on January 1, 2000, visit the Animorphs website. Use "knowledge" as your password to gain entry into an all new Animorphs Virtual Time Capsule. It will feature 200 messages to Animorphs fans for the new millenium. So the more we know, the more we can change.

Here's what the people looked like, thanx to AniNews:

"KAA, herself, was wearing a blue turtleneck. That's all you can see on her. She is sitting at a table. No jewelery or anything else. Her hair is down on the sides of her face. The kid that reads most of it is a boy, about 10, with dark hair. He was wearing a blue-black baseball cap. He is wearing a black shirt, with a white one under it."

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A Savable Video of K.A Webcast

This video has been made by Ziana, it is her video, that's why I'm going to quote the rest from her site.

"... I have a special present for everyone, for the new millennium!... Okay, you know how the webcast was a RealMedia broadcast, so you can't save it? Well, I've gotten around that. I have almost exactly duplicated the webcast. There are only four differences between the RealMedia thing and my version.

#1: mine doesn't have the transitions in theirs (you know, the flying letters and fade-ins and stuff).

#2: mine doesn't have the audio (but that's not real important because we already have the transcript of it, see previous News items for it).

#3: the times in the bottom of the thing (you know, telling you at what place you are in the RealMedia webcast) don't change as it goes along, although the progress meter does move along. I could have had the times change as it went along, but I decided not to, because for it to do so, the file would have to be even larger than it is. And

#4: mine has a screen at the end giving credit to me. That's it. Other than that, they're exactly the same.

I created mine as an animated gif (composed of 53 frames which are screenshots from the original - yeah, that's right, 53 screenshots! - and the last frame giving me credit), and I set the frame timings the exact same as those in the original, so that it proceeds at the exact same pace as the original. And it even looks like you're watching it in RealPlayer! ;)

So, although it is a gif, it is exactly the same (except for the four things previously mentioned) as Scholastic's webcast. And it's saveable!!! So you can watch it whenever you want to, even after Scholastic takes down the RealMedia thing from their site! And you can watch it without needing RealPlayer, which some people don't have because they aren't allowed to install stuff on the computer they're using or because the computer is too old or otherwise incompatible to support RealPlayer. Now everyone can see the webcast!! YAY!!!!! :)

Okay. To get to the point, this file is approximately 905 kilobytes (that's less than a megabyte!), and is available for download. All you have to do is go here (if you click the link it will open in a new window), and you can watch it. If you want to save it, once it's done loading, in the window the image loaded in go to the File menu and select Save As. Then navigate to the folder you want to save it in, and click Save.

If later you can't remember where you saved it, you can go to the Start button on the taskbar (these instructions are only for Windows computers; sorry, I don't remember how to do it on a Mac), go to the Find submenu, and select Files Or Folders. Then, in the Named box, type in "webcast.gif", select "My Computer" in the Look In box, make sure the "include subfolders" option is selected, and click the Find Now button. It ought to tell you where the file is saved, if you saved it at all.

There! I think that's about it.... Enjoy! :)

Oh, one more thing: just to be sure no one claims this as their own (I spent a whole lot of time and effort on getting this thing to work right!!), let it be hereby known to all that I was the first to come up with this idea, the first to create it, the first to post it, and anyone else you see with this either got it from me or copied me. I was the originator, and I just want credit for my hard work. Thanx! :) "

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And there you have it, that's the whole thing, hope you enjoyed it!

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