Helping Your Small Business Find Its Voice
Since launching in 2007, video crowdsourcing company Poptent recently paid out their 5,000,000th dollar in awards. I was one of the first freelancers to start working with them when they started, and I also happened to be the recipient of that five millionth dollar when Olivieri Pasta purchased an animation I did this spring. Even […]
Something fun for a Friday morning. I’m not sure the source or the significance. It might have been done “just for fun.” A Google search of the “Absolute Music” slate at the end proved inconclusive. However, it was great for a laugh (especially the shot of the engineer potting down the slide that says “Ringo […]
Would you consider producing a TV spot or internet video ad with no images — just an audio track over blank screen? Of course not. Then why would you produce one with ONLY images, and no copy? I’ve always found the practice more than a little frustrating. When there’s no V/O or dialogue as part […]
This is how it’s done, friends: Fiber One has knocked long-form sponsored online video out of the park with this one. It’s genuinely funny and entertaining, and they found the absolute perfect spokesmen to reach the perfect demographic for the product (which you’ll note, we aren’t even exposed to until two minutes in). It’s advertising […]
Most everyone I know who works with video or photos is always on the hunt for an easy way to share or transfer them. Tough part is, unless you’re sending a REALLY low-resolution video, most video files are fairly large — too large to simply attach in an ordinary e-mail. There are a ton of […]