One of our clients is Fatburger. They have a new campaign called “Bud’s and Burgers”, geared towards the male audience of course. Originally from, Kazakhstan, the beautiful Natasha Kizmet now lives in Denver, Colorado. She is a professional model, and actress and we were lucky enough to find her for the new Fat Burger commercial. This took place in Denver Green Screen Studio. On set was Michael Anderson, Dan Knudson, and Steve. As merely an intern at Unleaded Group here in Denver, Colorado, I was completely new to all this. Setting up took only about twenty minutes since Mike and Dan have been doing this for many years and are obviously pros. They produce quality commercials and leave clients extremely happy with the final product. On top of all that, they work excellent together, and make the perfect team, while professionally getting the job done. Dan and Mike taught me the basics of how to set up the microphones, roll out the green screen, and provide the perfect lighting and sound. They also taught me what each piece of equipment was called and what it does. I learned that the green screen is green because it is the farthest color from skin tones. It is important to not wear any shade of green or anything close to green when shooting in front of a green screen. Another thing I learned is that the mike is very powerful and needs to be directly pointed at the person. If the person moves to one side or the other, the sound will not be as clear. Something I did not know is that the green screen is made out of paper which you can buy in huge rolls. I never knew just how technical the whole process was!
We took a number of shots of Natasha in three different bikini’s in order to get the perfect shot. Natasha brought a special kind of energy and charm to the set which was exactly what we were looking for. Her easygoing attitude and quirky sense of humor made the whole process a breeze. She definitely had us all laughing and in high spirits. You would never have guessed that this was her very first commercial shoot in front of a green screen. English being her second language, her adorable accent also added the perfect touch. The shoot took about two hours and we walked away with some great, usable footage. This commercial will definitely catch your attention and make you want to immediately go out and buy a burger at Fatburger. Here are some of the stills we took during the shoot.
If you’ve never worked with Jill Hodges, I suggest you do. Dan and I had a great time doing this shoot for fatburger with Jill. She is a breath of fresh air and brough some great energy to the set.
Here are a few shots from the green screen shoot from Unleaded.
Drinkin (and Spittin) With Pete – April is all about Spring, Easter, lamb, ham and the renewal of life. Join the Hooch Hounds; Pete and the Wine Chicks Ash and Krisana as they taste their way through some super value wines from Greece, Australia, South Africa and Italy that are not only delicious but also will work beautifully with ham, lamb and even bunny…
Produced by Unleaded Productions
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So if it looks like this:
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Normally the youtube url looks like the one below which gives you low resolution 320×240 videos.
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Simply add &fmt=6 onto the end of url
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Now you should see high resolution videos. If no change is observed, then it means the video has not been converted to the higher resolution yet. View the video in full screen mode to see the difference.
If you add &fmt=18 to the end of url.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDE&fmt=18
Now it will play the high-resolution 480×360 MP4 high-bandwidth videos with higher quality audio when available, otherwise it will play the regular version. Give it a try.
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Did another shoot with Pete and the girls today. We refined the format so it wasn’t a 26 minute video that lost your interest after 5 minutes.
I just gave them a few signs when their 2 and 3 minute marks hit. Ashley didn’t pay attention at all… she was too busy hitting the goat cheese, but I think the signals helped Pete break up the shoot. It’s now 5 short (2-3min.) videos that focus on 1 wine each. Give me any feedback on the format so we can make March better.
Stump The Chump
Great article I found on reelseo
Written September 30, 2008 – 11:14 AM | by Mark Robertson
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Well, if you haven’t already noticed, it seems that the testing we found out about a few weeks back is the direction that Google has decided to go for the current interface of the Google Universal search results for videos in organic search. It appears that Google has adjusted the interface for video results that are part of universal search and are now promoting only two videos in the first 10 results if the search query is strongly associated with relevant video results.
It seems that this is only the case when Google identifies multiple videos as being relevant to the search query. It is still possible to find searches that return only one video within the top 10 results and I have seen pages that look unchanged. This is probably still a layout that they are testing but with a wider group? The new interface separates the 2 video results which is more in line with other types of OneBox search results like news, images, maps, books, etc…
What Does This Mean For Video SEO and why did Google take this approach? Read our post from a few weeks back where we discuss this format in more detail - New Google Universal Search Video Thumbnail Tests
Pete Marczyk and “the Girls” Ashley and Krisana, of Marczyk Fine Wines, located in Denver Colorado showcase their January Wines of the month.
This was a really fun and simple shoot. All you need to do is mic these three and let them drink and talk. I’ll be the first to admit, that this episode was a little long and that will be taken into consideration for next months show. It’s hard to stop Pete once he gets going. View Episode.
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