I love the people walking into the picture. You need a camera assistant who would film, and cordon off the area!

“Not at all.”…huh?

Thanks for the video. It looked like Cory waited to shake your hand as the interview finished.

I loved the cinematography of this piece. Good framing. The long shot worked well to set the mood and location. The walk on roles were excellent. The female lead from the first half helped generate an air of suspense that grabbed my attention till the main plot built enough captured my interest.

Bravo!

One minor nit: The credits at the end were unreadable.

Interested to hear (2nd hand)Cory’s word on Nielsen.

I hate Emperor Nielsen’s clothes, I find them mostly unwearable and pretty ugly to look at. I don’t care if he can prove he’s right; he’s wrong.

Ahh, he really did want to shake hands!

Great vid and in theory such simple, helpful information. I’ve found that my blog posts with the most descriptive headlines or certainly ones with 2-3 key words close to the heart of the matter are the ones that generate the most traffic.

Will bear in mind for future…

Thanks

great, informative vid, thanks.

out of interest, how did you record the sound? I couldn’t see a radio mic on Cory, yet it came through crystal clear, with a lot of potential background noise to compete with.

Nice video!

Just wanted to let you know that your “about me” and “archives” are giving error messages.

good thing your cam wasn’t stolen during the shoot. XD

Nice points - thanks for that! It reminds me of some of the advice from ‘Dont Make me Think’ by Steve Krug - keep it simple, don’t bury the lede, make it scannable.

I love the idea that you treat your headlines / summary by using the notion of ‘attention conservation’ - allow your readers to skip it if it doesnt tickle them.

p.s.: You should have shook Cory’s hand after the interview!

ok now you’ve had a blogging lesson, now for a videoblogging lesson. I understand what you were trying to do by setting up the camera from across the room, but it didn’t really work. When people watch web video (especially Youtube) they want to see faces. They can’t see faces when the camera is that far away. That shot would look great on a big HD tv not in a little youtube screen. So get close. In their face. Look at how ZeFrank used to do it–close in the face. Also think about what you are showing people. If you aren’t really conveying new or more or different information in the video (even if it’s the facial expressions of the speaker) ask yourself how video serves your subject and question why you are doing video in the first place and not just text or audio. Also don’t shoot 16×9 if your final product is just gonna be 4×3. If the video you post is gonna be square, shoot in a square aspect ratio.

Hope you don’t think I’m picking on you. I really thought that there was some great info here. I just wish it was better presented.

You don’t let that woman out very easily, huh.

Thanks for all the commments!

As for the sound, I recorded it using a pair of audio technica wireless mics.

I was aiming for the long shot to give the scene more action. I do, however, appreciate the critique that this shot robs the video of the interaction that comes with close-ups.

Any further thoughts are most welcome.

I like the long shot. I think it works great. It’s different.

It was a very useful video, thanks! The long view was OK for me, except I’d have preferred more light on the figures and darker in the background.