Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know video dominates the Internet. YouTube is the most second most popular website in the world (behind Google, which, of course, owns the video platform); Facebook now prioritises video, particularly live video; and even LinkedIn, home of the business article, welcomes video – with video campaigns having […]
What to expect if you’re a “presenter’s friend”
What can you expect if a TV programme wants you to appear as a “presenter’s friend”, an expert interviewee the presenter can turn to for clarification, analysis or information about an issue? This is what we were asked ahead of a recent training course. The client asked us to help prepare one of their experts […]
Legal checks when making a video
Companies and organisations are increasingly using videos shot on mobile phones to promote themselves and their campaigns. As well as being relatively cheap, they can be fun to work on and – when well done – reap huge benefits. But there are also pitfalls if you fail to carry out relevant checks before filming and […]
Covid filming precautions
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve started filming again – after summer spent in pre-production of the videos we’re currently working on. In this new corona-virus world, this means we’ve had to think carefully about how to keep our shoots safe, so I thought it would be worth sharing the Covid filming precautions we […]
Planning a video
What do you need to consider when you’re planning a video? Traditionally the process of creating a video is divided into “pre-production” (planning), “production” (filming) and “post-production” (editing). The more organised you are in pre-production, the smoother production, and post-production will go – and the better the final video. While the questions below are aimed […]
Top tips for brilliant DIY business video
Video is becoming more and more important as a way of communicating with clients, staff and the wider world. Paul Curran, who leads our Smart Video training courses, has written this brilliant guide to DIY business video. What would you rather do – read five pages of text or watch a two minute video? If […]
How to maximise video marketing
Gareth Simpson is an SEO pro with over a decade in the industry, and he’s done it all: freelancer, entrepreneur, agency owner. He’s written this fantastic guide on how to weave video into your content marketing mix. Still struggling to use video in your business? Not sure how to maximise video marketing ROI? Knowing that 80% of […]
Video production training: how to film a sequence
If you are producing a video which shows an activity, rather than a talking head, then you will need to know how to film a sequence. A sequence shows the action as it happens – and it is very simple to film. As we demonstrated in our last Smart Video production training course, all you need […]
Video content: storage best practice
We recently ran our smartphone video training course for a PR agency, who plan to use their skills to create content for clients. One issue which cropped up was how to store the huge quantities of rushes they were likely to film. Here, our Smart Video expert, Paul Curran, gives his top tips: Content is king […]
How produce a video on your phone
Here are two videos produced by trainees on our new Smart Video course which showed them how to produce videos using their smartphone. We ran our first course for the Churches Conservation Trust, training nine volunteers and staff to film and edit short videos of the churches under their care. The idea is that these will be […]
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