It’s not very often I get the opportunity to be in front of the camera rather than behind. But when I do stop onto the other side, it’s almost always in a comedy. Last year I got an awesome opportunity to act in a marketing video for Mountain Valley...
There are some artistic projects where you’re in the lead. You find pride in the vision that you create and the actualization of that vision with the help of those you delegate to. And then, on the other hand, there are some projects you’re just a piece of...
It’s helpful to remember sometimes that it’s equally as important to have a good client as to be a good contractor. There are certain skills and dispositions that make the client you’re working for enjoyable and efficient and that help you, the...
Project-Scope: Speak Nerdy To Me About four months back Steve Bowman (yes, relation) from Model Technology Solutions, one of my cornerstone clients, sent me an email. In it, he said that he wanted some media items to advertise some of his company’s new offerings....
Word of mouth is your best source of lead generation in media. It’s as true today as it was in the days of the newspaper, the printing press, or the rock tablet and chisel. A quality recommendation from a satisfied customer who feels like they have experienced value...
There’s something about fire and metal that is aesthetically pleasing to film. The way the fire explodes and flicks here and there in slow motion. The orange ember glows, the reds and yellows, the little bits of blue. The energy, the suddenness. The little...
Full disclosure: I’d never designed an eBook before this project. Full disclosure #2: I’ve still never designed an eBook. Now, before you label me a fraud and unsubscribe from my emails and content and never work with me again, I want to say right off the...
There’s far too much beauty in creation for this all to have been made out of nothing for no reason.Bob Jenson Sometimes I worry that I overly pester people in my zeal to make media about them. “Hey, do you want to be in a video? Hey, do you want to do a...
Sometimes a video edit takes a single draft. Sometimes it takes three. The nature of editing is that it’s a crazy, unstable flutter of video clips, soundbites, sound effects, and PNGs all flying around that somehow ends up in a final, polished video. And...