Corporate Communications & EPKs

Current TV just completed the series “50 Documentaries to See Before You Die” The list included a number of entertaining and socially moving films. Admittedly, I’ve only seen 20 of the 50 in this list and I had 7 more of them already on my own list. However there were a number that were on [...]

Göran Olsson (director) of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Sweden) Interview with Göran Olsson (director) of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Sweden) a feature documentary film that screened in the World Documentary Competition of the Sundance Film Festival 2011 and at the Berlinale Film Festival. The footage was shot by a group of Swedish journalists [...]

Lilly Scourtis Ayers (director) and Danielle Bernal (associate producer) of Last Fast Ride (USA) Indie Film Nation Video Podcast #045: Interview with Lilly Scourtis Ayers(director) and Danielle Bernal (associate producer) of Last Fast Ride (2011), USA, documentary feature film recorded during the film’s world premiere in the documentary competition of the Slamdance Film Festival 2011. [...]

Michael Barnett (director) and Zimmer (superhero) of Superheroes (USA) For our Sundance & Slamdance coverage for the Indie Film Nation podcast, one of the films that was on my must see list was this independent documentary film called “Superheroes”. On this episode, I interview Michael Barnett, Co-Writer/Director and Director of Photography of Superheroes (USA) during [...]

Tweet At this year at the Sundance Film Festival, in addition to scheduling and shooting interviews, we managed to see a number of films and catch some parties, including the “Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, premiere featuring The Roots. While wrapping our up for our interview with the director [...]

You are what you eat, the clothes make the (wo)man, the quality of the video on your website reflects the quality of your business. Uploading poor quality videos from your webcam may be OK for personal use, but posting a video with bad lighting, shaky or random framing and poor audio is not acceptable for [...]

Video coverage at NAB 2010, the WEVA News Minute team of producer, Bruce Himmelblau, cameraman, Steve Eisen and host/editor, Sue Lawson interview Jeff Greenberg from FMC Training on how videographers can improve their editing skills. As a bonus, Jeff gives 3 tips on Final Cut Pro Studio and Motion.

How the movies get made is often times better than the actual movies themselves.

A LinkedIn group for anyone working on EPK productions. If you are producing, directing, shooting, lighting, editing, etc. behind the scenes videos for film, music, video games or corporate communications/PR, feel free to join. www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2540311/ Mention that you heard about it on the EPKproducer blog.

Behind the scenes of the low budget zombie film, “The Christian Fury” shot with the RED digital cinema camera. The non-traditional EPK interview style delivered a more relaxed interview subject.