{"id":684,"date":"2014-02-25T11:10:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T00:04:31","slug":"linktresting-content-worth-your-time-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Linktresting: Content Worth Your Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chain.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-710\" alt=\"chain\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chain.gif?resize=400%2C205\" width=\"400\" height=\"205\"  data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite being in a massive funk (<a title=\"How to Survive Encounters with your Central Marketing Organization\" href=\"http:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/?p=335\">see previous post<\/a>), I did come across some inspiring things worth our time this week. To cheer myself up I also created an animated GIF for my linktresting posts &#8211; it&#8217;s corny but I kinda like it so there you go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/10-forgotten-secrets-of-great-movie-making-from-the-80s-1520715008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Forgotten Secrets of Great Movie-making From The 80s<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; there&#8217;s nothing like the movies of my youth to cheer me up. I&#8217;d link to this article just because it&#8217;s illustrated with stills from Ghostbusters &nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/24\/showbiz\/movies\/obit-harold-ramis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RiP&nbsp;Harold Ramis<\/a> BTW) but there&#8217;s actually some things worth considering reviving in there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/4AGVD482rbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cinematography Tutorial: Using Flags to Control Shadow and Light<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; videomakers get obsessed with lights and modifiers and forget about the power of simple flags and negative fill. This video tutorial is a great reminder of the creative power of the flag in lighting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reelseo.com\/how-to-video-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creating a How-to Video: 5 Ways Not To Blow It<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; How To videos are a staple of the corporate video world. Here&#8217;s a few reminders of things to avoid.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sousproductions.com\/hints-and-tips\/how-do-you-create-an-online-presence-with-videos-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Do You Create An Online Presence With Videos?<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; very short article, but useful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsshooter.com\/2014\/02\/16\/better-b-roll-slavik-boyechko-show-how-he-shoots-for-pbs-digital-studios-series-indie-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Better B-roll: Slavik Boyechko show how he shoots for PBS Digital Studios series \u201cIndie Alaska\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; I&#8217;ll confess to loving creating b-roll more than the main interview but here&#8217;s some tips on getting the coverage you need.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2014\/02\/holy-grail-digital-shooting-get-film-look-without-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uncover the Digital &#8216;Holy Grail&#8217;: How to &#8216;Get a Film Look Without Shooting Film&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2014\/02\/comprehensive-guide-making-adobes-warp-stabilizer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Comprehensive Guide to Making the Most of Adobe&#8217;s Warp Stabilizer<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; a lot of editors swear by it, but I have struggled with avoiding the surreal warps in the image plane when trying to steady some slightly shakey footage. This is a great introduction to getting the most out of this powerful effect.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/VfbNgaL_Z0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FilmSkills.com &#8211; ADR and Dialogue Replacement<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; most of us try to avoid ADR like the plague but, sometimes it&#8217;s unavoidable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2014\/02\/10-commandments-for-directing-writing-comedy-from-david-dobkin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Commandments for Directing (&amp; Writing) Comedy from Director David Dobkin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2uAizSNjPrU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$40 Matte Box Hack<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;Caleb at <a href=\"http:\/\/dslrvideoshooter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DSLR Video Shooter<\/a> is charmingly understated in a world of over-caffeinated, video shooting celebrities and hipsters. This hack is typical of his work: it&#8217;s based on common sense and is frugal without being too so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being in a massive funk (see previous post), I did come across some inspiring things worth our time this week. To cheer myself up I also created an animated GIF for my linktresting posts &#8211; it&#8217;s corny but I kinda like it so there you go: 10 Forgotten Secrets of Great Movie-making From The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Linktresting: Content Worth Your Time #filmmaking","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chain.gif?fit=400%2C205&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wVJR-b2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}