Documentary filmmaking is a subcategory of film and video production where the production crew creates a work of journalism rather than a fictional movie. Instead of making up fictional characters and creating a world of make-believe, the documentary filmmaker’s job is to document real life and real people by accurately and fairly telling their stories. Journalism …
Take a look at these eight marketing characters advertising national brands. How many do you recognize? Do you know what product or company they represent? Every single time I showed pictures of marketing characters like this to my media students, 6-12, they instantly knew almost every single character They knew both the character name and …
Now that you have studied character marketing, it is time to come up with an original video commercial, featuring a character. YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Your assignment is to create and produce an original TV commercial using at least one character. Your commercial will promote a product using your character and established marketing techniques. (You can make …
Computers completely revolutionized video editing. Before computers, video editing was more expensive and much slower. It took a whole roomful of high-dollar machines if you got into big-budget production. Simple productions like news used less expensive edit systems that could only do cuts, so lower-budget productions had to do without any special effects. The skills …
BUILDING CHARACTERS FOR AN ORIGINAL MOVIE OR TV SHOW Interesting and unforgettable characters are probably the single most important element for any audience to enjoy a movie. People like stories about other people, so any good movie or TV show needs to start with fascinating, well-rounded characters audiences will relate to and enjoy watching. How …
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Thomas Jefferson When he uttered those famous words, Thomas Jefferson knew if the brand new, innovative idea of a government run by “We the People” …
WHY IS THE NEWS MEDIA SO DESTRUCTIVE AND HOW CAN WE FIX IT? When I contemplate the full repercussions of the 24-hour, anything-in-the-world-goes information cycle, it scares me a bit. In my observation, as well as shown scientifically, humans are alarmingly susceptible to succumbing their will to authoritarian information and directives. It seems to be …
Who in the world am I, Lorraine Grula, creator of all this content on video making? Well, I’m a proud, middle-aged Okie who grew up with a solid foundation of science and politics. Recombinant DNA was dinnertime conversation at our house when I was a kid. So was politics. That included major stories of the …
Make gorgeous candles in your kitchen. Homemade candle crafting is a fun hobby. This post shows you how it’s done! Pretty homemade candles.
...? FIREFIGHTERS HELP US ALL! Does anyone doubt that? Apparently so. An apartment complex next to mine caught fire the other day. I was relieved and grateful when the fire department quickly showed up and extinguished the blaze. I shot the video above and added some commentary. WHY I SUPPORT A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST APPROACH TO …
Benefits of video marketing. There are so may benefits to using video marketing online.
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...Entering film festivals is a great way to get your film and video production work noticed. Here is some advice on how to go about finding the right film festival to enter.
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