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Keep Trying; TRIAL CLOSES!
By: Douglas Spotted Eagle on Apr 21, 2015 at 10:13:34 am
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky Whenever we re working with a customer, it s easy to fall into a habit of merely talking about the product, but never actually trialing a close, asking a customer their opinion of the feature/benefit you ve just shown or explained to them. Trial Closes are Continue reading Keep Trying; TRIAL CLOSES!...
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NAB Diary: Dust Storm
By: Kylee Peña on Apr 15, 2015 at 1:51:12 am
Today was an uncharacteristically windy day in Vegas. The wind created a dusty, almost foggy late afternoon that sent everyone running to the nearest cab or shuttle as they left the convention center for the day. Which is an oddly appropriate metaphor for the way product development seems to be happening for the end user.
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NAB Diary: Be Nice
By: Kylee Peña on Apr 14, 2015 at 3:41:38 pm
Yesterday was the first day of the 2015 NAB Show, and appropriately enough I got too busy to write a blog. In fact, I fell asleep in front of my laptop. That pretty much sums up NAB for most people. Especially if they're me. (To my credit, it was well after midnight, and I'm from the east coast. I'm not THAT lame.)
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NAB Diary: Pre-show Observations
By: Kylee Peña on Apr 13, 2015 at 1:58:41 am
I spent half of my day at the convention center and the other half aggressively socializing with the entirety of the online post production community. Because of this, I have some observations to make on this NAB Eve.
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NAB Diary: Away to Vegas
By: Kylee Peña on Apr 11, 2015 at 8:50:18 am
Fresh off a week of some of the craziest night shift hours I've ever worked, I'm desperately trying to gather myself together (with Bloody Marys applied liberally and responsibly) for an even crazier week ahead in Vegas where I'll again be covering the NAB Show with lots of blogs and articles. (Woo.) I'll be talking to all the top companies and individuals working in video today, gaining insight into where the industry stands and where it's going.
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THANK YOU FOR SAYING “THANK YOU!”
By: Douglas Spotted Eagle on Mar 26, 2015 at 9:49:18 am
We provide services to many people, every day. These people have choices. Customers/Clients have more choices today than ever before. That they ve chosen your company, is reason enough to be grateful for their patronage and opportunity to serve them. EVERY invoice should be followed up with a thank you, within 3-4 days. We can Continue reading THANK YOU FOR SAYING THANK YOU!...
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Repairs made to WalterBiscardi.com Library
By: walter biscardi on Mar 17, 2015 at 4:37:42 pm
For the past few weeks I’ve been informed by Members that videos in the Library are appearing with the locked “Private” icon from Vimeo. It’s taken me a few weeks to really dig in and investigate and it turns out this all stems from my cancellation of Vimeo Pro. It threw the entire privacy settings for a loop on Vimeo thus locking everyone out of a lot of the library items.
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Videoguys Tech Select HPz Workstations for Professionals
By: Gary Bettan on Mar 10, 2015 at 7:18:07 am
Videoguys’ Tech Select HP Workstations are custom-configured by our technicians to hit some great price points and still provide you with a machine that we strongly recommend. HP uses only the best components, and these workstations come optimized for digital content creation. They are easily expandable and upgradable which means you’ll get a longer useful life out of them.
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How to Succeed in Shooting Pet Portraits
By: Nancy Irwin on Mar 4, 2015 at 1:49:43 pm
A number of photographers have taken to taking pet portraits . However, to succeed in this business, you need to have more than just a love of pets. Actually, it takes great skill, patience and tolerance to become the perfectly- professional pet photographer. Read on to learn more about how to succeed in shooting pet photos:
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Come to my Gender Equality Panel at NAB 2015!
By: Kylee Peña on Feb 12, 2015 at 10:45:36 am
I just realized I haven't formally invited the entire internet to a panel I'm helping to put together at this year's NAB Show. After reading my Sexism in Post article, Adobe reached out to see how they could help the visibility of women in the industry. Long story short, I've been working on this for the last two months, thanks to Adobe and their cooperation with Post Production World (who are a bunch of super cool people, by the way.)
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FILMMAKER NUNO SA PESSOA
By: Bob Gillen on Feb 9, 2015 at 12:52:08 pm
Nuno Sá Pessoa, film director at Skookum Films , is a true global visual storyteller. Educated in Denmark, based in Portugal, and working extensively in Brazil and the United States, Sá Pessoa knows firsthand what it means to collaborate internationally. “Cinema, as any other art,” says Sá Pessoa, “should have no boundaries. It’s a global language and the more you know of the world and its people, the easier it is for you as an artist to express what you want in a way that can reach each and every kind of person.” READ MORE......
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Learn to "Dance" in 2015
By: walter biscardi on Jan 27, 2015 at 6:51:22 pm
When we rang in the New Year I suggested a Resolution for everyone in a very simple tweet: “For 2015, resolve to take a risk, something you’ve thought about but never thought you’d do. It’s fun.” Lee Ann Womack said it well in “I Hope You Dance.” “I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance, Never settle for the path of least resistance, Livin’ might mean takin’ chances but they’re worth takin’”
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Photographer Trinette Reed
By: Bob Gillen on Dec 11, 2014 at 11:25:55 am
“The unknown is where the good stuff happens,” says photographer Trinette Reed. “Not knowing what you are doing is an integral part of being a good artist.” Visual storytellers Trinette Reed and her partner Chris Gramly are commercial photographers who frequently contribute to the online Storehouse app . Their posts take the form of short stories featuring text, photos and video. Reed offers advice on putting together an engaging story. “I think it is really about finding a balance,” says Reed, “between allowing for the unknown and at the same time being as prepared as possible for your shoot ahead...
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Cecilia Queiroz on Film Festivals in Brazil
By: Bob Gillen on Nov 24, 2014 at 10:23:47 pm
“Most movies we present show a Brazil that few people know.” Film festival curator and manager Cecilia Queiroz has exhibited more than 500 Brazilian films in global markets. Her responsibilities include organizing workshops, networking and pitching with professionals in the film industry at the festivals. READ MORE......
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Editing a Web Series: Arson Dogs
By: Kylee Peña on Nov 24, 2014 at 1:28:34 pm
If a thing happens and nobody blogs about it, did it really happen? Of course the answer is no, which is why I'm writing a post about a project I finished editing in September. But there is some freshness to it: it's actually airing nationally(ish) this week. You could have seen it online this whole time, but there's something about a thing airing nationally(ish) that brings a new layer of legitimacy to it.
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Brazilian Filmmaker Roberto Studart
By: Bob Gillen on Nov 17, 2014 at 6:55:19 pm
“For the action shots I would tie myself to a car with mountain climbing equipment, where I was, literally, one inch from the ground at 60 mph.” Brazilian filmmaker Roberto Studart shot Curvas e Ladeiras, a skateboard adventure about four girls in breathtaking downhill action in the mountain towns of his country. “I love the Curvas e Ladeiras project,” says Studart , “because it was shot in real underground conditions and the end result is so nice. Brazil is a huge country and we were all over the place. We had to carefully plan our logistics to overcome the really...
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PRODUCER PONY GAYLE ON “OUTRAGEOUS”
By: Bob Gillen on Nov 13, 2014 at 2:37:11 pm
The reality show “OUTrageous” is the brainchild of veteran producer/writer/filmmaker Pony Gayle. Gayle is developing the show as an interactive web series. What kind of story is she hoping to tell with the project? “A real life story,” says Gayle. “This is a passion project for me. I feel it is important to showcase a series about great women who are part of the LGBTQ community. We are in a historical time with LGBTQ issues at the forefront of the civil rights struggle. Our show will show a slice of our personal investment in this civil rights movement from an everyday...
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“Leave out the Parts People Skip”
By: Bob Gillen on Nov 10, 2014 at 11:13:08 am
Recently YA author Maggie Stiefvater (@mstiefvater) tweeted: Every time you skim a novel, a kitten dies in a paragraph you skipped over. Do you want kittens to die? No. No one does. READ ALL THE WORDS. READ MORE......
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ACTION CAMERA OPERATOR ON VIEWPOINTS
By: Bob Gillen on Nov 10, 2014 at 11:05:44 am
Action camera operator and DP Lawrence Ribeiro joins us again ( See his original interview ) with comments on the importance of observing and appreciating viewpoints in camera work. “Viewpoints, in my eyes, are the catalyst to collaboration. Create! “Some years ago the combination of doing Search Rescue, Heli-logging and studying Native American mythology/tracking gave me the eyes to see and feel the land. The wind, clouds, leaves colors, soil texture/impact, sound of the birds…all tell a story and is much more accurate then most modern devices as nature has been around a lot a longer. The ability to observe...
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Psssssst.. There's an election coming up.
By: Steve Modica on Oct 27, 2014 at 11:09:33 am
As most of you haven't heard, there's an election coming up next week. It's a mid-term election, so very few people will vote. It means the real hard core extreme groups get to come in and influence, since the moderates don't bother to show.
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“Apart” Available Now on Amazon
By: Bob Gillen on Oct 21, 2014 at 12:52:51 pm
When Cabe Wray, sixty-one and a business technology salesman, abruptly quits his job and his career, he feels himself drawn to intensify the search for his long-missing twin sister. On the advice of a friend, he hires a documentary filmmaker to create an Internet-based video about the search. The hope—that someone will recognize her and provide answers to her whereabouts. The filmmaker, driven to make this project a success, brings on a young woman friend to help with the production. Her role in the video project quickly deepens, as she becomes the catalyst that forces Cabe to grapple with his...
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Teach Your Children Well, Teach them Avid
By: Gary Bettan on Oct 13, 2014 at 9:34:29 am
Avid is the NLE tool of choice for Hollywood, Broadcast Television, Film Makers and Post Production facilities. While other NLEs may claim to be used for a few select programs, almost every Oscar and Emmy winning program was cut on an Avid. Being an Avid editor still means something, and if you want your students to have the best real world training and experiences to launch their career, you need to make sure you are teaching them Avid Media composer. I'm not saying it's the only NLE to teach them, I'm saying that if you don't teach them Avid, you...
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The Millennial Video Producer: 6 Things To Know About My Generation
By: Kylee Peña on Oct 12, 2014 at 1:23:47 pm
This week, I've seen maybe a dozen articles about "Millennials". What do they want? Why aren't they buying houses? What brands do they like? Why don't they vote? What's their favorite color? They're mostly all written by people from the Baby Boomer generation, and they're mostly filled with generalizations and assumptions like "all Millennials care about is texting each other." Seriously, that was a comment. Not even a clever burn. Like offensively non-clever .
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Remixing Cinema with Soderbergh, Spielberg, and Me
By: Kylee Peña on Sep 22, 2014 at 8:32:18 pm
Today, one of my favorite directors, Steven Soderbergh, posted a really great blog about “staging” in film, which is meant to mean how all the elements of a scene work together to tell a visual story. To illustrate his point, he took ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and remixed it a little: converted to black and white, all music, sound and dialogue removed with a different soundtrack alongside it to help you focus on the staging — the direction, the length of each shot, how the cuts work. It’s pretty much as awesome as you might think, so you should...
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