Show page for the Wiley book "Get Seen: Online Video Secrets" (Jan 2010) This book encompasses the knowledge of online video pioneers who are figuring out how to be successful telling stories and gaining audience. I first put video on a blog in January of 2004. It's time for a new handbook to review how people have become successful putting video on the web, and to share with you the tools you'll need to use, today.
Steve Garfield: Okay. Quiet on the set, everyone. Thank you. Quiet on the set. Okay. Good. Ready? Okay, tell us who you are. Dunkley Gyimah: My name is David Dunkley Gyimah. Steve Garfield: And what do you do? Dunkley Gyimah: I pretend that I do video. Steve Garfield: Okay. What's happening in citizen journalism right now? What are people doing and what should they be doing? Dunkley Gyimah: That's a big question, Steve. People are doing amazing things. There are different variations of video j...
Interview transcript: Jacob Soboroff: I'm Jacob Soboroff. I'm the executive director of "Why Tuesday?" which is at whytuesday.org and that's a non-partisan election reform group, most are correspondents for AMC news and the AMC network and I contribute to NPR Weekend Soapbox, which is the blog from Weekend Edition on NPR. Steve Garfield: Okay. So, I'd like to know what is your advice for people who want to put video online. Jacob Soboroff: Just do it I think. Grab a camera like a Flip camera, ...
Tim Street Transcript: Steve Garfield: Now, you've produced high quality shows like you produce shows that could go on TV and you're using the Flip Tim Street: I produce TV shows. Steve Garfield: TV shows, okay, and you're using the Flip to do interviews and things like tell me a little bit about that process, like choosing that. Tim Street: It's great. I don't remember how I got turned on to the Flip, but it's right in my pocket and I just pull it out and if you're here with the press, you're...
Schlomohttp://schlomo.tv Steve Garfield: So, it says "camcorder empty" and I'm like, "Oh, my God. The camcorder is empty!" I'm like, "No, wait a minute. That's a good thing." Schlomo Rabinowitz: Yeah. It's empty. I haven't used it today. I could actually put stuff on it. Is that what you mean that was a good thing? Steve Garfield: They need a new wording for that. Schlomo Rabinowitz: They do. Steve Garfield: Camcorder is fabulous. Record. Schlomo Rabinowitz: Yeah, camcorder is excited to be us...
Brett Gaylor http://opensourcecinema.org Get Seen http://stevegarfield.com/getseen Interview Transcript: Brett Gaylor: My name is Brett Gaylor and I directed a film called "RiP: A Remix Manifesto." It's a film I made over the course of about six years actually and kind of the thing that I tried to do all the way through the production of the film was to try and involve the audience in the creation of the actual film. I mean the film is about remix culture, right? It's about this kind of tensio...
Mark Rotblat http://tubemogul.com Get Seen http://stevegarfield.com/getseen Interview Transcript: Steve Garfield: Okay, this looks brilliant. All right, so tell me who you are. Mark Rotblat: Yeah, so hi I'm Mark Rotblat with TubeMogul and we're a web video distribution and analytics company. So, if you're getting your videos out to all the distribution points where people are actually consuming content, it's a pain to upload at each of the sites. So, if you up load to us once, then you can cho...
Bre Pettis http://brepettis.com Get Seen http://stevegarfield.com/getseen Interview Transcript: Steve Garfield: Tell me who you are. Bre Pettis: I'm Bre Pettis. Steve Garfield: And what do you want to tell us about online video? Bre Pettis: So, the thing that came out lately with online video is I've been remembering the old days. In 2004 and 2005, me and about 20 other people started sharing videos and we would just like take tours of our apartment and get the video online and we would have c...
I interviewed Brian Shaler at SXSW 2009 about adding a wide angle lens to his Flip minoHD camera. Brian Shaler http://brianshaler.com Interview Transcript: Brian Shaler: Hey, I'm Brian Shaler and I have a Flip Mino HD just like what we're filming this on and one thing that bugged me about it was that if you hold it at arm's length, it will crop really tightly on your face when it's the type of camera where you want to be able to see a little bit more, you want to be able to get everything in t...
David Pogue. Get Seen. Interview Transcript: Steve Garfield: All right, so tell us who you are. David Pogue: David Pogue. One minute. I'm going on stage at Harvard. Steve Garfield: Excellent. So, you're using the Flip Mino HD. What tricks have you learned about it? Like sometimes you have to hold it close to get the sound, but you want to hold it far away to get them clear. David Pogue: Right. It's a catch-22. It's more than that. It's like a catch-27. Steve Garfield: So, what's the secret? Da...
Testing the mic in jack on the Kodak Zi8 with: