Comments on: loren feldman is my new hero

By: Den Leola

Den Leola — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:06:15 +0000

Its bad enough you do it, you do it to yoursel. Den Leola.

By: vaspers the grate

vaspers the grate — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:14:31 +0000

I like Loren Feldman, but the fled man, where is he: Chartreuse?

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:39:37 +0000

I believe that Hugh is right. I doubt that there is a lot of money in this for video professionals. Back in the 1990’s, the going rate for a corporate video was around $1,000 a finished minute (i.e. a five minute training video would cost about $5,000). The economy tanked around 9–11, the market for corporate video died and it never came back.
Cameras and computers got cheaper, better and faster. Mac OS and Windows now come with video editing software that’s actually pretty good. Now, any zit-faced geek can shoot and edit–generally– some pretty dreadful video. They need to learn production values such as lighting, audio and locking the camera down on a tripod.
Maybe the opportunity here is to train the geeks how to shoot and edit.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:40:33 +0000

Got it.
Low production values and YouTube. Love it.
Just didn’t get that particular execution of it.
Just sayin’.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:28:15 +0000

Tim, point taken. But I’m seeing it mainly as something very useful for the business owners.
Whether there’s lots of money in it for video professionals is another question altogether.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:00:30 +0000

Coming from broadcast television, I’ve often wondered why more businesses aren’t throwing little two or three minute infomercials on their web sites. Hell, low-cost video editing technology has been around for more than a couple of years–and the bandwidth is there. How come we aren’t seeing more of this?

By: crawford

crawford — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:56:45 +0000

So, how much were the music rights?
What? How much?

By: Tim Clague

Tim Clague — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:08:57 +0000

I’m not sure here Hugh. As someone who went around all this in the 1980s this style of shooting and the suggested uses for video seem very familiar.
A lot of my (older) colleagues remember the 80s as a video heyday and then the bubble burst. Could we be heading that way?

By: Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:12:20 +0000

I have been worshiping at the Feldman altar for quite a while now. Below is my favorite, the guy's a genius http://www.1938media.com/bathing-in-the-bloghaus

By: Robert Bruce

Robert Bruce — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:07:53 +0000

Yep, he’s one of the few in this web video game who really knows what he’s doing, a mad-dog visionary for sure.
But more importantly, he’s the type of guy who would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it.
The real deal if there ever was one.

By: Loren Feldman

Loren Feldman — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:46:54 +0000

Thanks for the very kind words Hugh, nice to meet you. Are you Hugh Macleod from the Clan Macleod? Sorry, bad “Highlander” reference.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:21:10 +0000

Dean, try to see the forest from the trees
Drew, you got it in one

By: Drew Bell

Drew Bell — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:59:14 +0000

Yeah, I’m curious about the Étoile video too. Do you like the idea of combining low production values and YouTube to make it easy for microbrands to poke into the web? Because I can see some elegance in that.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:25:36 +0000

Are you kidding me?
That was painful.