Business

Successful marketing, as well as minding legal issues such as copyright laws and release forms, can save your business from complete disaster. Being well informed on the business-side of video production will increase your chances of success and save you from legal problems down the road.

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7 Minutes of Terror: Not your Grandfather's Science Class Film

Jennifer O'Rourke - August 03rd, 2012

"7 Minutes of terror" - a NASA produced movie designed to catch the viewers' interest in only 5 minutes. Educational movies have come a long way form our old science and history lessons in school!
Genre Movies Inspire Video Enthusiasts to Create

mikerosen - August 02nd, 2012

We may become documentarians, wedding videographers, broadcast cameramen or indie filmmakers, but one thing holds true for almost everyone who works in the medium of video: We first became intrigued by moving pictures from watching Hollywood genre movies as kids. And no wonder!
Video Production for the Real Estate Market

Anonymous (not verified) - Wed, 08/01/2012 - 12:00am

Real estate shoppers have been sold on the concept of pre-qualifying their properties of interest via a real estate video for a long time now. But realtors have been slow to jump into the parade.
Protect Yourself - Watermarking Video

Anonymous (not verified) - Wed, 08/01/2012 - 12:00am

How do you keep your footage from being used online without permission? Watermarking. Well-known to still shooters, video producers need to equally protect their property.
Fighting the Summer Doldrums with Imagin8ion

Jennifer O'Rourke - July 13th, 2012

How do you challenge yourself to keep your video producing skills fresh when you have no current project to work on? Whether you make video for a hobby or for a paycheck, you need to keep at it to stay abreast of the trends and technology and to keep your skills honed and fresh. But sometimes, especially in the hot dull summer months, you can get a bit bored and not want to do much more than settle in a nearby hammock sipping a fruity refreshment or libation of choice.
With Animal Movies You Have One Question to Answer

Jackson Wong - July 10th, 2012

Though animal movies have persisted since Rin Tin Tin, there is quite a difference between viewing animals from then and those found nearly 90 years later.
Creating a Successful Media Database

Anonymous (not verified) - Sun, 07/01/2012 - 12:00am

A database is a tool for storing, organizing, searching, investigating and displaying mass amounts of information and how it relates to even more information. Ahhh! Information management.... this sounds like something we can use in our production.
How to Find Clients for your Video Business

Anonymous (not verified) - Sun, 07/01/2012 - 12:00am

Getting your Production Services known by an eager audience isn't like the old days. You can't put an ad in the Yellow Pages or the Classifieds and wait for the calls to come in.
Filming Police

Anonymous (not verified) - Sun, 07/01/2012 - 12:00am

Your First Amendment Rights - Can you get arrested for videotaping police, politicians, and other government officials - perhaps not in Massachusetts. Are the rest of the States ready to stand up?
Emerging Film Maker Profile: Sean Durkin

Mike Wilhelm - June 29th, 2012

In January of 2011, at the Sundance Film Festival, the world's indy elite descended on Park City, Utah to showcase their newest projects and gain some momentum and word-of-mouth with the hopes of getting distribution for their films. Dotting the landscape also were some indy filmmakers whose films don't have any actors of note, no special effects and rely solely on story and passion to gain the attention of festival goers and distribution companies. One such filmmaker is Sean Durkin.