We're A Webby Award Honoree!
By leelefever on April 8, 2008 - 9:39am.
We have just been notified that The Common Craft Show is an Official Webby Award Honoree in the category of View With Comments
The Learning Curve of Video Lighting
By leelefever on October 15, 2007 - 10:52am.
I while back I wrote about solving problems when they need to be solved - and it's still very applicable. With every video we continue to learn and solve new problems.
In almost any video project, lighting is a huge factor we've learned so much. There are few more stark examples of our learning curve than the listing of our videos on our YouTube page. Notice the gradation of the white backgrounds:
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Solve Problems When They Need To Be Solved
By leelefever on August 28, 2007 - 8:06pm.
When we got started with the Common Craft show, it would have been easy to feel overwhelmed. We were stepping into the world of video production and in that world there is a lot to know. Looking back - we had something very valuable on our side: ignorance. We didn't know what we didn't know. Had we done all the research and tried really hard to make videos the "right" way from the start, I don't think we would have been as successful.
View With CommentsTranscript: Social Bookmarking in Plain English
The text below is a transcript from the Common Craft Show video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English.
It's just too much. Did you know that there are over 15 billion web pages? To make sense of it all, we need to pluck out the best pages and save them for later.
We have choices. We could bookmark or add to favorites in our web browser. Nah, it quickly becomes messy. Plus, these bookmarks are tied to only one computer. This is the old way.
Why Paperworks: All About Constraints
By leelefever on June 24, 2007 - 3:58pm.
Since our first couple of videos came out, I've been talking to a lot of people about what makes the Paperworks format work. Aside from the content/message, I often say that a set of constraints is what makes the format a great fit for our goals.
In this case, a "constraint" is a rule that we have decided not to break in making our videos.
Examples: We only use certain materials (paper, whiteboard, markers, string), we won't make a video over 4 minutes long, we only use our hands to tell the story and we don't use any external music (just humming, snaps, claps, etc.). Further, everything we make in the format is 100% copyright infringement free. These are the Paperworks constraints and they have a huge impact.
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By leelefever on June 13, 2007 - 10:40pm.
Common Craft (the company, not the blog) is in the midst of a change. It appears that we're becoming, quite fortuitously, a video production company.
This is our story:
View With Comments Wiki Video in Multiple Languages via DotSub
By leelefever on May 31, 2007 - 10:47am.
Just after posting our first video on RSS , I learned a few valuable lessons:
1. Video is inaccessible for the hearing impaired
2. Video is not easy to translate into other languages
3. There is a new site that addresses both of these issues called DotSub .
DotSub makes it easy for me to transcribe the spoken words into text subtitles. Then, once the subtitles exist, it enables DotSub members to voluntarily translate the text into other languages and post the video to their blogs. This makes videos international and more accessible - for free.
View With Comments The Verdict (and stats) on the RSS Video
By leelefever on May 28, 2007 - 1:54pm.
The Verdict: Exceeded Expectations
You're going to have to forgive me, I'm about to spew all sorts of facts and figures while at the same time stroking my ego. I fear that it will sound like bragging , but we were completely blown away by the success of the RSS in Plain English Video and I want to share.
The video was posted on April 23rd, 2007. Today is May 28th and in just over a month the video has been...
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