Magic Doors

I called Don Entertainment and asked my friend Kellz for help. I explained to him my situation and I received an answer. He said "of course"! Well I thought it was pretty obvious that he would say yes anyway, or else I would've shown him what's up... No, I'm joking, he's a really good friend of mine and very talented with the camera, I couldn't have asked anyone better. Unfortunately, he's busy with his own work which is expected, so I just had to do some work on my own for now... Sort of.

I called my cousins and asked if they would volunteer to be my subjects for a small video, just so I can get the understanding of shooting and a bit of editing. They said yes, I went to their house, got the camera set up aaaand then I thought about what to shoot. Maybe planning ahead of time would've been a good idea. Lesson learned. Then I noticed a narrow hallway in his basement with 4 doors and thought of a pretty cool idea that would help me get a better understanding of editing if I wanted my idea to come to life. So I told him what to do and I recorded it. After recording I took the compact flash memory card out of the camera and uploaded it onto a computer. I didn't have any editing program that the pro's use so I guess Windows Movie Maker will do. I made the adjustments and I must say, that I am really proud of the final results for my first time.

Kellz contacts me the following day and tells me that he's ready to make a video with me for next weekend. So I'll be back to report what happens next week and I'll see if I can get a video or a picture up so you guys can see what's being worked on.

Beginning My Journey To Marketing...

Here's the setup I got so far.

Today's blog is about the beginnings of me learning to shoot
film. I'm doing this because I am currently enrolled in the Business Marketing
program at Humber College. As every marketer should know, the marketing mix
consists of 4 elements. Those 4 elements are Price, Product, Place, and
Promotion. Now, the last one, promotion, is the one aspect of the mix that I
want to concentrate on for now. I would like to learn and acquire the ability
to shoot and edit my own videos, and to learn how to take good photos so I can
make my own advertisements so that I can also provide these services that require
these skills when I begin my career after college. The first thing I did was
research how to take good pictures, and which camera would be a good one to
take them. The camera that came up a lot was the Canon EOS 7D. People were
saying that its one of the best cameras and that they are also used to shoot
commercials. Now the key word "commercials" came up and now I got my
target. So I saved up, and went out and got me a 7D. Next I needed a tripod to
better stabilize my shots. Luckily, there was one on sale over at The Source,
so I picked that up. Now I have my camera and my tripod, I learned some of the
major functions of the camera through Youtube and the manual, and now I'm ready
to get shooting some videos, but all I need is an idea on what to shoot and
lessons on how to shoot good videos. I'm going to call my friend, Kellz, who
has his own production company going called Don Entertainment, and ask him if
he would be willing to coach me and tag along on my journey to becoming a
better marketer by teaching me what goes into film making and editing.
Hopefully I get the answer I'm looking for. If I have professional help, it
would be a lot easier to learn and refine my video making skills. Or in other
words, sharpen my pixels... Aahh? Aahh? See what I did there? I put the title
in the... Ahh forget it. Anyways, let's keep our fingers crossed.