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Two More Contest Entries
I’ve re-tooled an old video from Washington DC – in fact, this is the video that inspired me to start this site (with some friendly encouragement) – and entered it into Lonely Planet’s video contest. Also, my video joins at least two others in a quest for a $1500 prize in Reel Insights’ monthly contest…
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eCompliments Contest Winner
Well, the smoke cleared and…the TAZM Pictures entry on the eCompliments video contest ended up in 12th place. Things were going well; just as it looked like we would drop off the bottom (the lowest-ranked video was dropping off the “marquis”, one per day) the work publicizing the video on Twitter started making a difference.Â
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Editing Your Own Videos
People often ask me for recommendations on what to use to edit their own videos. My first suggestion is of course to hire me to do it for you! But here are some other ideas if you want to give it a go on your own.
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A Video Contest to Support the Troops!
After some recent small successes, we’re taking a shot at the eCompliments video contest offers a grand prize of $10,000 for the highest-rated video (as voted by the public) that compliments any person, place, thing, business, organization…you get the picture. As of this writing we’ve got 90 votes, behind the front-runner with well over 1,000
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In search of raw materials…
Those of us who aspire to make video on a budget that is significantly less than, say $100 million have our own challenges. One of these is finding raw materials – legally – to incorporate into our work. Music is the obvious shortcoming- unless you’re also a songwriter and musician, you probably can’t afford to…