MessageMakers intern and graduate of Michigan State University, Dorrian Brooks, shared her first hands-on experience after going to a GreenStone Farm Credit Services video shoot pre-pandemic with our production team in January 2020.
"Experience is what drives me to extract value from every position I have the privilege of being in while I'm on my journey to professional success and personal achievement," said Dorrian.
During the pandemic, we have tried to do as much as we can remotely to keep our crew and clients safe. However, there are times that require an in-person shoot in the studio or off-site. To minimize exposure, we've scaled down to a "skeleton crew" which means only the essential crew is on set.
Putting on a virtual event? Here's how to keep your virtual audience engaged in 5 steps!
Topic: Make sure your event or presentation covers an interesting topic that is relevant and timely. When the audience feels like they can get value or benefit from the information you are sharing, they will be more likely to participate, engage and pay attention.
We recently completed virtual event design, planning, pre-production and live-stream production for Access for All 2020. Structured with a mix of live and asynchronous activities across 2 weeks in October, AfA2020 was a virtual conference dedicated to using plain language to break down barriers in society, improve the criminal justice system, protect the rights of vulnerable populations and affect the outcome of COVID-19.
Access for All is a nonprofit working to improve people's access to information and services with plain language.
This past Thursday, we hosted our second free webinar called Slides and Supporting Visuals for Live Streaming Video. If you missed it, watch the replay here!
This time is all about thinking outside of the box and maybe even getting a little bit out of your comfort zone when it comes to your professional life.
As creative partners, we're here to support you and your communications team as you pilot new approaches for communication. If your in-person event has been cancelled, now's the time to go digital and bring the experience of live video to your audience.
Based on our 40+ years of experience as a video and event production company, MessageMakers offers a comprehensive range of video services to help organizations to engage their broader communities through video streaming:
Streaming event design, navigating the creative and technical challenges required to produce a stream as an engaging and memorable experience for remote participants.
We stumbled across an old video production tip sheet and "introduction" to video production resource from a while back (almost exactly 10 years ago) and wanted to compare our decade old video production process to today's. Although some things have changed, such as the technology and distribution methods, the fundamentals of the video production and creative flow have been the same for years.
Photo by Sam McGhee on Unsplash
Here at MessageMakers, we interview a lot of people. Quite frankly, it's one of our favorite parts of what we do. We love getting to meet and learn from all different kinds of interesting people. That being said, we understand that talking in front of the camera can be stressful and nerve-wracking, especially if you don't do it very often.
We interviewed our video producer and director of photography, Rob Sumbler, to ask for some of his tips and tricks for good production during an interview style video.
Q: What are the most important things to take into consideration while shooting an interview?
A: The biggest thing is what's in the frame, how the person looks and what they're in front of.
