Month: October 2012

Cinemagraphs: Animated Gifs From Video

Coco in Oscar de la Renta (Image source: From Me To You. Link removed) We've come a long way from the animated GIFS which once plagued the web. Cinemagraphs are a big step up. The term was coined by fashion photographers Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck. They used the...

How To Shoot a Documentary Scene

Shoot These Five Shots Among video journalists and documentary producers one tried and true approach to covering a scene is the "five shot" method developed by Michael Rosenblum. Most experienced shooters know the method without thinking about it. Make these shots in...

Crowdsourcing Commercials With Poptent

An example of a Poptent video for Paypal that was purchased for $7500. Poptent is a crowdsource exchange that connects producers with advertisers. The arrangement produces thousands of commercial videos each year for clients which include numerous Fortune 500 brands...