This is from an insightful infographic "So You Want To Be A Photographer" by Foto Seeds. It could just as easily be about being a Videographer. You will recognize yourself and see what happens when you make it a business. If you've lost some of that passion you had as...
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Financing Your Video Business
by Hal Landen Let's consider all the possible ways to finance a start-up video production business. There are loans, bootstrapping, friends and family, grants, Kickstarter, and saving the money yourself. Loans Banks are in the business of loaning money, but they are...
8 Tips To Keep Your Film Legal
It's not hard to keep your film legal if you follow the following guidelines. 1. All music, even a short riff, must be cleared unless it is royalty-free music. Most royalty-free music has a license you should read carefully to understand how you can use it and for how...
Audio For Video Refresher
One of the principles of good audio recording is to bring the microphone close to the source. That's why audio usually sounds bad when recorded from a smart phone or an on-board camera mic. The mic is simply too far away to record good audio. A lavaliere mic attached...
Phone Business for Video Producers, How to Stop Robot Calls
First, I'd like to share a minor victory with you. Because I have a business phone line, that line is not protected from the Do Not Call List which is reserved for personal phones. I have been flooded with robot calls usually trying to sell me something. These robot...
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,...
How To Show Videos To Clients
In an ideal world the best way to show a video to clients is to bring the client into your office. This facilitates communication and allows you to control the viewing for best effect. If you have some kind of screening room, they'll see it on your best screen while...
Panasonic GH4 Shoots 4K
The new GH4 from Panasonic is due out this spring. It looks a lot like the GH3. In fact, the external battery grip is actually the same as the GH3. Some of the differences between the GH3 and the GH4 are the new camera sports a 1024x768 OLED viewfinder, the shutter...
Pete Seeger
May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014 Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt (center) in 1944 when Pete was in the Army during World War II. I first met Pete Seeger aboard the Clearwater, a 106-foot gaff-rigged sailing vessel designed after 18th century Dutch sailing...
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