This YouTube Ad is worthy of a look. Forget about the message. I want you to see the style of this commercial. This is a style you could easily adopt for a client. Not at all hard to do. Green screen is the most challenging aspect. Then look at the video that is on...
Art of Video
Bioshock Infinite – An Interactive Feature Film
I recently bought BioShock Infinite for $22 from Amazon. See trailer below. It's my first video game in a long time and I was absolutely stunned by the quality of graphics, animation, music, and story-telling in this game. I was also quite surprised to find a...
Every Corporate Video Cliche’ Ever Used
"This is a Generic Brand Video" includes every corporate video cliche ever used. It's created entirely with stock footage from company Dissolve. This could be a brand video from hundreds of corporate videos. Use the ideas if you like, but of course not the footage...
Rules For Directors by Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes is best known for directing American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award for best director. He also directed the James Bond movie Skyfall (2012) as well as musical stage productions of Cabaret and Oliver! At a recent Manhattan theater event,...
Unusual, Interesting Things To Do With Your Go Pro
The GoPro is usually thought of as a POV camera for extreme sports, but students at ECAL, an art and design school in Switzerland, came up with some new ideas. The wise instructor said "create videos that the world has never seen."
Bob Dylan TV
Just flipping around through TV channels and I felt like I had fallen through the rabbit hole into the fantasy world of Alice in Wonderland. Every person in every channel was singing the same Bob Dylan song. A news broadcast, sports show, a romantic comedy, Game Show,...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-1
Introduction Editing is an essential part of making any film or video. As Francis Ford Coppola says, “The essence of cinema is editing. It’s the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general...
Video Art – An Introduction
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures with audio. Video art began in the 1960s and 1970s. It can be seen in video installations in museums and art spaces. Video art shares the language of film but excludes many of the techniques. No Actors No Plot...
TV Test Patterns
Below are a few excerpts from a terrific UK site by Darren Meldrum TV Test patterns from around the world. Darren's site includes test patterns from the BBC, Australia, Singapore, Ireland, Sweden, North America and lots more. Probably the most famous American B&W...
Shoot Video to Look Like Film
by David Crossman, DGGB What follows, as in all things artistic, is born out of my own personal taste - but my views and techniques are from actual experience. THE WAYS TO MORE LOVABLE VIDEO A couple of years ago I won an Award for the Photographing a video "short"...
Recent Comments