Come Check Out My Latest Demo Reels!

Hey people, if you haven’t seen them yet, these are my Winter 2012 version of demo reels. Starting this year, I’ll be updating my demo reels every three months, so you’ll expect another new version this April. Enjoy! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

The Shut Up & Shoot – Freelance Video Guide By Anthony Q. Artis – Now Available For Pre-Order

Folks, if you are working or actively participate in video field production or documentary films, you should have read Anthony Q. Artis’s “Shut Up And Shoot – Documentary Guide”. It’s a filmmaking guide book to teach you how to create professional video packages with limited resources, it also talks about some common mistakes in making videos. I think it’s more like a user-friendly guide book rather than a boring, thousand-page-manual or textbook or something like that. It’s a highly recommended book for all beginning documentary filmmakers. Indeed, this book has been adopted as a textbook for many film schools and colleges.

Now, Anthony Q. Artis has a new user-friendly guide book for freelance videographers like me, it’s called “Shut Up And Shoot – Freelance Video Guide”. According to their website, this new book is considered as an addition or supplement to the “Shut Up And Shoot – Documentary” guide that I mentioned before, more than that, it tells you how to create good marketing videos, music videos, (I wish I could learn this!) and live event videos, etc. The book also provides step-by-step guidance on planning, shooting, lighting and recording the most common freelance video projects. On the other hand, it covers production strategies and how to deal with your clients. Everything is in that one book.

“Shut Up And Shoot – Freelance Video Guide” is now available for online pre-order, you can get this 400-page, full-color, user-friendly guide book for just $27.99 plus shipping charges. This is a pre-order discount offer, and all the books will be shipped on December 14. If you are interested to be a freelance videographer, or you are currently working as a videographer and wish to learn how to make different kinds of videos, this book is for you. I’m sure you’ll be benefited a lot.

Again, the “Shut Up And Shoot – Freelance Video Guide” is available for pre-order, you can now make it at their website: http://downanddirtydv.com/products/the-shut-up-and-shoot-freelance-video-guide/. For more details about the book, you can also check out that website.

Now, you can sneak a preview on some of the pages in the book here: (From the DownandDirtyDV.com, in pdf format)

http://downanddirtydv.com/products/DoubleDownFilmShow/PracticingSafeSets.pdf

http://downanddirtydv.com/products/DoubleDownFilmShow/ShootingProcedure.pdf

http://downanddirtydv.com/DoubleDownFilmShow/FreelanceVideoWorkflow.pdf

http://downanddirtydv.com/DoubleDownFilmShow/CapturingIntimacy.pdf

People: My New Demo Reels Are Here

That’s right folks, I just finished working on my latest demo reels and portfolio. It was not too long when I updated my demo reels last time, but as I have more video projects to work on, I will have more frequent updates on my demo reels. Overall, I should set myself a schedule to update my demo reels every two or three months.

My most recent (and just uploaded few hours ago) demo reels are here, the first one is video editing, the second one is producing, and the third one is broadcast motion graphics. Please take a look on each of them, and I’m looking for a job opportunity right now. If you want to contact me regarding job opportunities, business deals, etc., please call me, send me an email or leave a message on this blog. All my contact information has been shown on the first and the last 10 seconds of each demo reel.

As always, you can visit my permanent “My Portfolio / Demo Reels” page for the most updated demo reels.

Thank you people, I hope we could have an opportunity to work together someday.

Some Great Resources For Creative People – Audio & Music

As you know I’m a media producer, and I often consider myself as a creative person. Not only creating my ideas, but also visualizing my ideas. That’s the great thing to be a creative person.

Today many media producers like me have to do many different things when working on a video project, I mean we don’t just focus on the quality and the edits of the video, but we always have to pay attention to the audio level as well. People say “audio is 2/3 of a video”, I think it’s true. Good audio level and the well-chosen music will definitely bring a feeling to the video.

I know sometimes it’s hard to find an appropriate music piece for a video, especially for those who don’t have any music composing experience like me, but it doesn’t mean we can’t do anything for it. Here are the links to some great audio and music resources, and I should mention all these resources are either in Creative Commons licenses or in public domain, therefore you don’t have to worry about copyright issues when using them on your creative projects.

1) Creative Commons – Legal Music For Videos

2) Internet Archive – Public Domain Music & Audio

3) Jamendo – Royalty Free Music Downloads

4) Classic Cat – Free Classical Music Directory

5) CCMixter – Download & Remix CC Licensed Music

6) Free Music Archive – Another great resource to find public domain music

I will make a page for all useful resources later, and if I hear any other new resource comes out, I’ll definitely share it right here.

Enjoy these great resources and let’s do more creative works!

Victor Lei : Video Editor and Television Producer

Victor Lei : Video Editor and Television Producer.

I’m looking for someone who wish to hire me as a video editor. If you or anyone you know needs help in some sorts of video editing projects, send me an email to lei_victor@sbcglobal.net, or leave me a message right here, I’ll be very happy to help. Thank you people!