These short marketing videos are found on Vine and Instagram videos. You could use these styles for any business video. These may be large companies with brands, but the techniques they use are simple and could be used by you to help a small business client. Are you...
Art of Video
Make Night Art with a Quadcopter
(Note: The original video has been removed. This shows the same idea.) Photographing light trails at night has been a popular technique of both still photographers and videographers. We've all seen the light trails of night traffic in a time lapse video. Light...
Learn Cinematography
Five C's of Cinematography Item #5CsBookPrice: $24.97 plus $6.45 shipping Quantity:Here's What You Get: Paperback: 252 pages Five C's of Cinematography “Mr. Mascelli provides the attentive reader with the equivalent of a complete course in filmmaking.” —The New York...
Free Google Earth for Video Production
Below is an example of Google Earth in a business video, in this case a real estate tour (just the first 40 seconds). The cloud footage is not Google, simply stock footage. Google Earth can create powerful HD videos of virtual trips anywhere around the world. What...
Google Cardboard DIY Virtual Reality Headset
Reactions from people who viewed Google Virtual Reality Virtual reality is about to change entertainment, information consumption, possibly the way we interact with the world. As Google says "Visit new places, play immersive games, fly through space and more." This...
Make A Parody
Looking for a great topic for your next video? Make a parody of a well-known film. The example above may get your creative juices flowing, but it will only be meaningful if you've seen Birdman which just won the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday night. Below is the...
Video Production Trends for 2015
Many of the video production trends for 2015 are technology-driven. And while the techniques themselves are nothing new, they are now available to everyone with an artistic eye. 1. Shorter, Shorter, Shorter A one minute video will be watched by 50% more people than a...
Shaky Cam
Shaky cam, also called queasy cam, is a cinematic technique used to give a scene an ENG (electronic news-gathering) or documentary look to persuade viewers that the subject or scene being filmed was happening live without rehearsal or any artifice. It is often used in...
A Great Business Video From LLBean
Sometimes simple is better. This is the kind of business video you could do for your clients. It's effective and relatively easy to produce. There's no fancy graphics or After Effects work. A simple sound track with VO and one instrument music. Most of the lighting...
Just One Camera Position and A Little After Effects
One Hour of San Diego Surfing Time Collapsed: San Diego Study #4 By Cy Kuckenbaker "There are no CG elements in the video. It’s all documentary footage arranged and collapsed together with After Effects. Compositing water is difficult. The basic strategy I worked out...
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