Photo Movie example worth watching!

Over the years I’ve encouraged my students to make videos from photos. It’s easier to do technically and still carries a powerful whallop to the heart. I just learned about this newspaper story on our friends in Wimberley and I HAD TO SHARE WITH YOU for two reasons…

1. A newspaper has taken on the task of making photo movies to tease and enhance their upcoming stories in print. Bravo!

2. The person who put this photo story together did so very consciously but to us it appears smooth and engaging. Movie editing should appear seamless and invisible to the untrained eye; magic. Notice how the issue of faith appears as the photo moves to reveal the cross. Bravo!

Watch at Collie Story.

Enjoy!
Nerissa Oden
www.thevideoqueen.com

Film Preview of “Capitalism: A Love Story” by Michael Moore

Does this man know US or what?!

(Excerpt from Huffington Post)
Read entire article here:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-lear/dear-justice-scalia_b_192790.html

I’d put nothing past the cultural wisdom of Justice Scalia whose prevailing brief included these stunning insights: “We doubt that small town broadcasters run a heightened risk of liability for indecent utterances… their down-home local guests probably employ vulgarity less than big city folks, and small town stations generally cannot afford or cannot attract foul-mouthed glitterati from Hollywood.”

Look how he nails us all — kids; small-town folk; big city creeps; trashy Hollywood types — does this man know his Americans, or what?!

How Advertisers Psychologically Mug Women

OUCH!! Article written by Sheila Gibbons puts words to my feelings. Enjoy! How Advertisers Psychologically Mug Women http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/85293/ (excerpt) “While marketers may be aware that women are major spenders on the so-called small stuff — groceries, apparel, kids — they are not fully aware that women are the majority of buyers of new cars, consumer electronics and home improvement,” says Marti Barletta, CEO of the marketing consultancy TrendSight Group, who was a keynote speaker at last week’s annual M2W marketing conference in Chicago, which debated how marketers could improve their appeals to women. Women’s Purchasing Power is Green, Not Pink. Marketers, Barletta says, “are worried that marketing to women means making it pink and that would horrify men. … They don’t know what marketing to women is.”

One Million Frames Per Second

“Japan’s NHK has developed a high-speed camera that can record video at the staggering rate of one million frames per second. On the exhibit floor, the camera was trained on a hanging water balloon. When an NHK engineer punctured the balloon the camera captured every cascading droplet in ultra slow motion.”

Video of slow motion shot with this camera onthis link
http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/69013/gadgets-and-gadflies

LIVING LIKE ED

I made a video review of the new book, LIVING LIKE ED. And so far it is the most popular review and appears to also be the most helpful with 21 outof 22 people voting that it was helpful. Enjoy!http://www.amazon.com/review/R1V1GV3PY0ZTRT/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

JING FROM TECHSMITH

Techsmith is the company that makes SnagIt and Camtasia, both are screencapture programs. They’ve released a new way to offer these programs. It’s an online tool called JING. It’s a program that integrates screencaptures for screencasting and video hosting. You can try it out for FREE here.

Animation Art is at Least 5,200 Years Old

Oldest Animation Discovered In Iran
[video is running on the page]
“Long considered a modern invention, animation has apparently been lying about its age. A 5,200-year-old bowl found in Iran’s Burnt City in the 1970s features a series of five images that researchers have only recently identified as being sequential, much like those in a zoetrope. Giving the bowl a spin, one would see a goat leaping to snatch leaves from a tree, as seen in the video clip in the above link.”

WHAT IS LOVE?

Watch as I try to define what LOVE is….

FENG SHUI JOE

The series is called “Feng Shui Your Way” and it’s host is Leigh Kubin. Not only is this a great FREE educational / entertainment tool for the public at large, it’s also a way for YOU to earn an income making videos. No longer are YOU stuck with pitching your video project ideas to a handful of broadcasters. Today, YOU can pitch to web entrepreneurs as well. And there are thousands of them!!

This episode was shot last year. Joe’s office was altered to compensate for principles of Feng Shui. Our friend Victoria Schaefer and her husband Kevin created this mini series for ONNetworks.com, a web video channel.