If time restraints are stopping you from getting your message out on video I have some tips to streamline your video making process to get out there and get your voice heard. Showing up on video allows your audience to start to get to know you before they’ve even had an interaction with you. If […]
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If you’re doing Facebook Lives, IGTV videos, or want to have a quick chat with your audience, here are three tools and techniques you can use to achieve more professional-looking videos. 1. Use a Tripod The first tool I recommend having is a tripod for your phone. Not only is it exhausting to hold your […]
When I first started calling myself a videographer a few years ago hardly anybody knew what that meant! “So are you a photographer?” “Videos? Like for movies?” “Do you work for the news?” While I dabbled in those things, and yes I did work for the news once upon a time, that’s not exactly what […]
I arrived to do a shoot with a client who was telling me how nervous she was, and how she had never been in front of the camera before. She asked me if I was nervous about the shoot. I thought, that’s such a strange question, why would I be nervous? I get to […]
I was doing a hard drive clean up recently and stumbled upon some old projects from the very beginning of my video making days. I actually love looking back at old work to see how much I’ve grown, but it was also an eye opener to things I wish I had known from the start! […]
Video editing apps are becoming more advanced and more intuitive all the time, and it’s so exciting! You don’t need a desktop computer to be a YouTube star anymore. Most apps allow you to edit and export straight to social media, and are adding more features and editing precision with every update. Here are five […]
A video edit is not finished when it looks right, it’s finished when it feels right. If a story doesn’t make you feel something, then what is the point in creating it? A story void of feeling is hardly a story at all, right? I will admit, before we go on, that filming and interviewing […]
Audio can make for break your video. It doesn’t matter how amazing your footage is, how beautifully lit your set is, how much effort you put into making your titles and graphics; if the audio is bad your audience is going to keep on scrolling. Pulling our smart phone out to capture something on video, […]
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One Motel, Two Pubs
The town had one motel. Two pubs. A road running North to South, crossing the road running East to West. There was a bakery and a coffee shop – although the bakery sold coffee too. Every person we passed in the street knew each other, so it was obvious we weren’t from around those parts […]
“We tell and take in stories as much as we sleep, and even then, we dream.” – Robert McKee Storytelling is a fundamental human experience; without story, we wouldn’t be human beings at all. From the earliest recorded history there has been evidence of story used to educate and transfer information. The storyteller has the […]