[videoblogging] Visiting Aussie with one day Video job in New York
Hi Guys, i have a one day video shoot to do in NY City mostly shooting from a boat on the Hudson River. As a visitor to US from Australia will i need to have a permit to do this or even a special visa for the one days work? Cheers Ian
[videoblogging] Re: Canon SX1???
corrected link http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2009/06/14/benchmark-the-best-hd-720p-digicam-around/
[videoblogging] Crossing for Cancer Video
Across Bass Strait (Australia to Tasmania - 375km) in an Outrigger canoe, raising money for Cancer Research and honoring 2 worthy men, one was Chris Robinson the original Skipper of the famous Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior (which the French blew up in New Zealand in 1985). Chris passed away before we left, he was to be our Support boat Skipper. If you like inspirational stories, adventure action and beautiful remote islands, follow us as we relive the Crossing and raise awareness for Cancer Research. http://blip.tv/file/2228956 Cheers Rambo
[videoblogging] Face lift
Hi all, just looking for some feedback on a face lift for my site. I'm trying to customize to reflect more what i do now to my target audience. I haven't transferred much content over yet, just want to get the layout right first. http://rambostestblog.blogspot.com Thanks Cheers Rambo ps, the old site is here http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com
[videoblogging] The Doctor - Surf Ski World Series Race - Video
I know it's not nice to plug ones videos here but it may be interesting to the some and it's not every day you can shoot a 5 time Olympian smashing all the younger blokes. This was shot with my fig wheel stabilizer and canon HF100. Olympic Gold Medalist Clint Robbo Robinson won the Perth leg of theSurf Ski world Cup in smashing style, the man is a machine. This video showcases the event and what ever you do don't miss the final 5 mins of Robbo smashing it on runner after runner.. it's awesome. Filmed and Produced by Rambo http://blip.tv/file/1787721 or http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2009/02/doctor-surf-ski-world-series-race.html Cheers Rambo
[videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
Yup you're right, crazy and passionate. That Fig rig is up to version No 11, I just enclosed the Cam fully in a water proof casing and it mounts with a quick connect tripod mount to the rig. I'll post pics later today of the complete version. The details of how i built the Fig Rig are on the HV20 forum http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=20113 Contact you off list further about your project Cheers Rambo http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson k9d...@... wrote: Steve, Great post! I've been thinking about this a lot, and I agree with your assessment that different groups will have different cost structures and will be watered down to what the market will bear. In terms of Frisbee dogs, a highly complex activity with only a few people qualified or capable of delivering instruction that is worthwhile, I think we're all set in terms of pricing. I'm not selling fish, I selling a fishing manuals. Flyball on the other hand is a much more simple sport in terms of behavior - run jump over some hurdles and get the ball on your box turn, jump some more hurdles and do it quickly. Not much serious instruction opportunities there. A friend of mine produced an instructional DVD for flyball with the world's best team, and the 20 minute piece retails for $30. It's good stuff, but can it be broken down into bite sized chunks? Not sure. They'll hang out for the community interaction. Agility is another highly complex sport and instruction is very expensive. It's a great fit. Dock diving? Not much serious training there. This is just to show that there are different possibilities with different topics. The specific idea I mentioned to start this thread, the jamming videos, could not retail for more than a buck or 2, but at a buck or 2 with the right players, they'd sell like hotcakes - a couple hundred should be easy, not bad for a 2-4 minute video with limited editing. While this is kind of selling the fish, and not the manual, it is also selling the manual as the disc dog world goes round by stealing tricks. This could not happen with all dog sports, and could not happen with all kinds of activities. The people we are bringing in for instructional video are not just some people. We have, perhaps, the best discdog instruction in the world (not like we have many competitors) - it's certainly world class. I'm pretty sure we can get the price I'm talking about for instructional pieces, at least in agility and Frisbee. The other stuff not so sure. I'm betting on some good crossover numbers (agility trainers looking at frisbee after good healthy exposure) and solid hardgoods sales from the various small business vendors that service the community. Rambo, I think you and I are in the same place on this. The passion that paddlers have is very close to dog sport people's passion - we're just friggin' crazy about it. I don't think many people realize how disconnected many of these communities are from 'reality'. Who spends thousands of dollars to Fiji (and pays to ship a boat!) to beat themselves up in the water for some Kukui nut lei or something. It's crazy. Who has 30 leashes and collars for their dog? Or has 13 dogs, 8 of which sleep in bed with us at a time like we do? We exist in our own little reality and there is no corporate media organization that is going to go there. It's the long tail or nothing. I am doing my best to create a community that allows for the kind of support that Jay mentioned in his earlier post. All I have to do is put them all in the same place Vendors, trainers and participants, let them interact freely, and bring their preferred commercial interests (vendors and instructors) to them on a daily basis. I'm pretty sure it'll work. I'll be happy to talk about the project offlist and give you some details. I think it could benefit your gig. BTW, your fig rig pics got me fired up to create a new one of my own. It's kind of nice. Thanks! peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 7, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Rambos Locker wrote: Yet people pay $50 - $70 for an event DVD ? Cheers Rambo http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogg...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Watkins Sent: Thursday, 8 January 2009 9:13 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews My opinions, for the one thing Im not short of is opinions: Training videos that are useful to a niche are one of the more likely sorts of videos that some people will pay for. I did not like the example prices you gave at all. Depending on the subject matter, training dvds and
[videoblogging] Re:Feedback please
Paul, what browser and operating system, seems like my site might have issues with Macs and Safari. Anyone else with a Mac unable to access the flash video at either link?? http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2008/12/vaka-eiva-teaser- video1.html or http://blip.tv/file/1560157 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Paul Pierog paulvideop...@... wrote: I waited around a while but no video ever came up for me. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re:Feedback please
Thanks Rupert and Loiez, was that also the case at the blog link?? Sorry to be a pain. http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2008/12/vaka-eiva-teaser-video1.html --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: No - works fine for me on a 4 yr old Powerbook OSX 10.4 in both Safari and Firefox. Might be that Blip was having a blip, or that you don't have Flash Player version 10? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 On 5-Jan-09, at 2:11 PM, rambos_locker wrote: Paul, what browser and operating system, seems like my site might have issues with Macs and Safari. Anyone else with a Mac unable to access the flash video at either link?? http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2008/12/vaka-eiva-teaser- video1.html or http://blip.tv/file/1560157 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Paul Pierog paulvideoprez@ wrote: I waited around a while but no video ever came up for me. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Feedback please
Thanks Milt for your feedback. The intended market for the DVD are the 800+ people that participated in the event, ie the paddlers. Apart from the racing, there is a lot of cultural footage as the outrigger canoe is a huge part of the Cook Islands culture and way of life. Roxanne Darling (from beachwalks fame) who posts here occasionally, is an outrigger paddler. It would be interesting to compare her feedback to those of non paddlers. Thanks again for your comments Milt, taken on board. If anyone is interested in the purpose built stabilizing Fig Rig that was made to shoot this footage you can see it here. http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-new-camera-rig-for-shooting-from-jet.html --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Milt Lee m...@... wrote: Hi, very nice stuff. I thought it was interesting that you mentioned that you saved the best stuff for your DVD. I find that a bit counter-productive. Assuming the reason you are doing a teaser is to tease people into buying the dvd - then it seems that it would make more sense to include a few short shots of really really amazing stuff - not everything but enough to make me want to buy it. I assume that the people who are speaking - but we don't hear - actually do have sound in the real deal. That would be really nice to hear too. I don't really have a sense of what it's going to be like - what will I get if I buy the DVD? Just hours and hours and hours of people paddling? In a way it reminded me of a lot of mountain bike videos and skiing and snowboarding videos. People doing the same thing over and over and over. Having said that, you probably know your crowd a lot better than I do. It just seemed really long to me, and not very enlightening. Where are they? What are they doing? What does it take to do it? Why do people do it? Lots of questions, and I didn't get any sense from the teaser that I would actually find out any answers if I bought the DVD. Technically, it was very well shot - looked great! And it played fine on my Sony Vaio with Vista - in the Chrome browser. Milt
[videoblogging] Feedback please
I shot this short teaser video for a DVD soon to be released of the Vaka Eiva Festival on the Cook Islands. The entire footage was shot with a Canon HF100 on a purpose built FIg Rig. Any feedback from any aspects of the 3 min teaser would be most welcome. http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2008/12/vaka-eiva-teaser-video1.html Cheers Rambo
[videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground
TaulPaul, what i have found moves product, is actually using the products in the video content rather than just advertising it in a banner ad or overlay. To give an example, a simple video i made of myself just using and having fun with 3 different items, was instrumental in selling bucket loads of all 3 products for the manufacturers. One of them (a video camera manufacturer used the video as a feature on their web site and it's still there on the front page www.goprocamera.com (video is Another day in Paradise) they gave me 12 free cameras and continue to send new releases for me to trial. The other 2 products were a canoe and a paddle that i was using. The canoe people sold a container load of canoes ($350,000) in the next month and i now have a sponsorship arrangement with them and the paddle company doubled the sales of that particular item and gave me $3000 worth of product free and ongoing sponsorship. Getting back to the video itself, there was no blatant selling of any of the items in the content, other than logos displayed on clothing the canoe and paddle. The camera was the one used to shoot the video of me just enjoying myself on the ocean as the sun goes down. The video has 17,000 plays on BlipTV stats most of it coming from the camera website feature and my own Vblog. I'm a dummy when it comes to marketing and making video, but i guess people identified with what i was doing in the video and that was enough for them to want to purchase and for the sellers to want to continue sponsorship. I guess this is more endorsement than advertising, but it works. Cheers Rambo http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, taulpaulmpls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Some of you know me. I'm one of those shit bag online marketing types, that strong arm the little helpless online content creator into giving my clients control over their weekly brain dump. Ironically, I've also been in this group since the end of 2004, did a couple appearances on Chasing Windmills, and met some of you guys even you Jon http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandandbutter/2077900021/in/set-72157603581578626/; at the Winnies last year. Yeah, I'm one of the assholes that's failed you guys. Jon wonders where this Revolution has gone. Statistically speaking, we're sitting in the middle of it right now. The problem doesn't sit solely in the content creator's hands. You look around, and wonder where the bags of money are being stashed? The problem is the decision making process for sponsorship is with the wrong people. They're looking at the wrong metrics, and they don't know who to work with, or how to do it? Study after study shows that people ignore banner ads, but where do online media buyers put their money? Yup, in banner ads. Why? Because if you show the client that for X ammount of dollars, you can send a bazillion people to a page on their website. It gets even worse. You can even track if a person has bought something, or filled out a form, or what ever conversion should happen. The funny thing is, that most don't do it. Ever. Why? Accountability. Clients start asking questions like, What was the ROI on this buy? Advertisers hate questions like this. Buying banners is also very easy, why do you think that pre-roll and post-roll video ad units were such a hit to advertisers? It's an almost identical buying system as banner ads. Wait, they are banner ads. Then they upped the ante with video overlay ad units, or floating banner ads on videos. Yup, it's the same ole shit repackaged. Marketers and Advertisers are way behind on knowing how to work with online content creators. I've been in the community for 4 years, and sometimes I don't know where to start. Networks like Rev3 and NNN, have made it a bit easier to work with these shows, but most content creators will never work with them. There's just a shitload of content out there. I've approached a couple content creators about sponsorship. I've asked how much they charge. *cue crickets*. Do you know how much your content is worth? How much would you ask for sponsorship for your content? Is it how many views you get that matters? Is it how many comments people leave for you on youtube, telling you how much you suck? What brands do you want to work with, or not work with? If you script a can of RC Cola into your video, and your audience hates you for taking the money, and promoting cola they think sucks, it's a risk you decide. In the end, it's your content, and you are the only one that can make that decision. I've got a panel submission for SXSWi, on what marketers look for in a video content creator. We'll even talk niche, and long tail for people that don't get a bazillion views on youtube. http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1979?return=%2Fideas%2Findex%2F3%2Fq%3Abolin It won't happen overnight. The
