Posts filed under ‘Filmmaking’
The Anatomy of a 1 Minute Film Trailer
We had a successful brainstorm/writing meeting tonight for the Plant a Wish documentary project, and we have agreed to follow a format that we feel works well for our project. After watching a handful of what we believe to be good trailers, we’ve created a composite outline containing the things we liked about each one.
As a side note, its worth mentioning that not all trailers are born this way, but we think it works for us considering the amount of footage we have already (83 Hours!). At any rate, we’re one step closer to editing our movie trailer.
10 Easy Tips for Making a Better Video
These ten ideas are practices and habits that any videographer should be thinking about – like a checklist – each time they are ready to go out on a shoot. These ideas apply for weddings, documentary shoots, video journalism,”behind the scenes” footage, event video, and generally anything outside of a major studio production.
Film Excerpt: Interview with Doug Tallamy for Plant a Wish Project
We’ve put together a very rough short clip/excerpt from an interview we produced for the Plant a Wish project, the public awareness campaign/documentary project we’re producing that is going to all 50 states. This interview features Doug Tallamy, author of “Bringing Nature Home’>
For more details and to see the video, check out this latest post on the Plant a Wish blog.
We’re Back!
Aloha! The Plant a Wish Tour has successfully completed its first phase: 25 states now have native trees (and wishes) planted, along with caretaker/guardians who will be looking after the trees and making sure they get the water and love that they need.
We’ve planted 48 native trees in total and collected 83 hours of footage! Our footage archive now includes interviews with scientists, professors, landscapers, farmers, anthropologists, land owners, gardeners, and all kinds of opinion leaders from around the nation.
