Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-31 Thread Tom Dolan
Hi All, Been looking @ some video blog sites and comparing to the one I'm building. I've imported two short videos I made, from YouTube just to chk compatibility, etc. They appear in a list format on the Home page/ Blog and I can add commentary if I choose so far so good. But now, I've

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-31 Thread David Jones
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Been looking @ some video blog sites and comparing to the one I'm building. I've imported two short videos I made, from YouTube just to chk compatibility, etc. They appear in a list format on the Home page/ Blog

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-31 Thread Jim Turner
As a full disclosure Tom, Lijit is a previous client of mine. The Lijit widget is paid for on its end buy advertising. The reason it offers up other sites for the serach term is because it will provide information of the people in your network. You can configure the search results to default to

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-31 Thread Tom Dolan
Hi Jim, You know, this whole adventure is so new, and so I'm advancing a little more cautiously than I normally would. Actually, with so much bad/cautionary Press re: the web, I find it difficult to 'trust' unknowns. I did get into lijit quite late last nite and I'll take a look at it

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2010-01-31 Thread Jay dedman
Just a quick note as the moderator of this list. I notice that we have a thread here under Turnhere free videos, yet none of the discussions are about Turnhere. Please appease my obsessive compulsive behavior and start a new email thread with a new subject heading when changing topics. This helps

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-21 Thread Rupert Howe
I agree with all of you. $25-100 for 1-2 days work is not acceptable, and debases the market. There are a lot of filler video content work for QA sites being parcelled out that pays appallingly, as I think we discussed before. On the other hand, the proposition that was offered by

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-21 Thread Patrick Delongchamp
It looks like video production is going the way of photography. It will be harder and harder to make a living from delivering high production quality video when it is increasingly in the hands of more people. It also means we'll see larger sums of money traditionally paid to one person be split

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-21 Thread Jay dedman
On the other hand, the proposition that was offered by Turnhere was that you shouldn't spend more than 3-4 hours in total (pre-production to delivery) making each 1 minute video, for businesses in walking distance from your house.  They have a checklist, provide all the documents, etc.  They

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-21 Thread Jay dedman
It looks like video production is going the way of photography. It will be harder and harder to make a living from delivering high production quality video when it is increasingly in the hands of more people. Totally agreed. But to be more specific, it's now now enough to have expensive

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-21 Thread Yahoo
Jay is so right. You can have the best tech all you want. Video storytellers are special and with the right exposure and talent they will make a living over someone who can buy a nice camera. Chris Sent from my mobile. On Jan 21, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: It

[videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-20 Thread Rupert Howe
So much to catch up on here. Before I do, I thought I'd let you know about this: TurnHere.com, who are an agency who match up filmmakers with small businesses, have a new promo going for US Canadian filmmakers. You can offer free 1 minute videos to small businesses, and Turnhere will pay

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-20 Thread Ernie
Thank you Rupert Nice heads up :) Ernie @ernmander http://www.ernmander.com On 20/01/2010 20:22, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: So much to catch up on here. Before I do, I thought I'd let you know about this: TurnHere.com, who are an agency who match up

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-20 Thread Jay dedman
TurnHere.com, who are an agency who match up filmmakers with small businesses, have a new promo going for US Canadian filmmakers. You can offer free 1 minute videos to small businesses, and Turnhere will pay you $200 to make them. It's a very small amount of money, and is undercutting other

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-20 Thread Tim Street
Hey Jay, Turnhere had a camera operator interview me and I assume he also cut the piece together. http://www.turnhere.com/blog/favorite-videos/the-future-of-online-video-by-tim-street-part-1/ If he got $200 for shooting and editing this simple interview that took about 30 minutes to set up

Re: [videoblogging] Turnhere free videos

2010-01-20 Thread Bohuš
Hiya, Just a word of background, I do TV production for a living. Mostly independent stuff, but some broadcast stuff... I've been approached a lot by companies like this, especially start-ups. They want me to find ways to reduce costs, and still deliver a large percentage of what I do to