Throughout the next 7 days the Tenlegs’ blog crew is going to focus on the use of videos in marketing for organization!  You may have read about video marketing is a way for your company to stand out or that video marketing is an area seeing explosive growth rates.  Today we’ll examine some different examples of how video is used by organizations.

To Introduce Your Product to Consumers & Investors

To Give Testimonials on Your Organization

To Make Your Product More Fun

By the way, did we mention that members of Tenlegs’ community can help you with your needs?  Most people don’t know where to begin their search for a filmmaker and are leery of working with expensive intermediaries. Tenlegs helps facilitate and speed-up that process in a way that is budget friendly and delivers you tailor-made creative videos, graphics, music and animation.  Tenlegs Opportunities let you name your own price, put a call out to our community and then get proposals.  To learn more about the process visit our Opportunities page.

Over the next week the Tenlegs’ blog crew is going to focus on the use of videos in marketing for organization!  You may have read about video marketing is a way for your company to stand out or that video marketing is an area seeing explosive growth rates.  To get us started let’s by simply stating what video marketing is.

Video marketing is the use of video, either on your own site or through distribution channels such as Facebook, YouTube or Vimeo, to promote your organization.  The videos generally range anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes.  As we’ll showcase tomorrow, organizations can take many different angles with their videos and there are many different formats that are generally used.

So that’s it for today’s lesson -see we told you it was simple!

By the way, did we mention that members of Tenlegs’ community can help you with your needs?  Most people don’t know where to begin their search for a filmmaker and are leery of working with expensive intermediaries. Tenlegs helps facilitate and speed-up that process in a way that is budget friendly and delivers you tailor-made creative videos, graphics, music and animation.  Tenlegs Opportunities let you name your own price, put a call out to our community and then get proposals.  To learn more about the process visit our Opportunities page.

In March we told you about a Tenlegs Opportunity that was in process between filmmaker Jason Harper & NYU Stern School of Business’s Office of Career Development.  Well today we want to show you the fantastic completed project.  Make sure to check out the completed project!

If you need materials for content marketing like NYU, we can help connect you with artists to get video, animation & graphics for your website or other needs.  Our community loves a good opportunity! Contact us today for more information.

Periodically we will bring you news and updates from artists in our community.  If you have an upcoming event, release, or project please let us know by reaching out to community@tenlegs.com

Shannon Pelcher

We’ve profiled Shannon before and now we are thrilled to tell you about her album release, which she will celebrate with a performance on May 17th at 9:30 at the Living Room in New York City.  Shannon will be joined onstage by a full band for the performance with Leon Boykins on bass, Stephen Chopek on drubs and Jarrett Cherner on piano.

Philippe Treuille

Philippe will be holding a performance of live performance of The Black and White Princess on May 24th at 7:30pm at the DiMenna Center in New York City.

The concert will begin with four pieces for saxophone and orchestra, and conclude with my work, “The Black and White Princess,” which is scored for soprano saxophone and orchestra.  Behind my performance, I will be projecting a story, following the music, that I wrote and illustrated alongside the composition.  The basic story is that of a girl who wakes up to find she is miles from home and stuck in grayscale, while everything around her, including her beloved prince, are in color.  She must find her way to his castle and find colors along the way to find her love in the end.  For more information about the event click here.

Frustrated because you have a project that you can’t get off the ground?  Well, there’s a phrase in the professional film world that a writer never wants to hear:  ”we’ve put the film into turnaround.”  Turnaround is a word that is synonymous with “development hell” in Hollywood and to some extent in the music industry.

Development hell is often the result of not having the right collaborators on the project at the right time; for example the writer could be perfect, but his vision doesn’t mesh with the director.  Many projects enter it, but some make it out!  So keep your hope up.

Here are a few that turned around:

John Carter
This sci-fi action film spent decades in development hell until a Pixar director advocated for the project.  Sadly, the film underperformed at the box office -maybe it should have stayed on the shelf!

Albert Nobbs
It happens with indie films too.  This project waited on a shelf for 10 years while Glenn Close tried to get it made!

Arrested Development
This movie began development when the series ended in 2006, but has gone through many starts and stops as its creator and cast have gone on to other projects.  The movie looks like it is finally nearing production for a 2013 release.

Whether you are a true creative or just work a regular 9-to-5 job, we all get to that point where you can’t think quite as clearly and one thing is obvious:  you need to take a break and recharge.  The question is where do you go and what do you do when you get there?

We’ve already talked about some creative’s favorite places to vacation, so today we’ll cover the second part of the question:  what things would lend themselves to creative inspiration?

Yoga/Meditation – After 30 minutes of exercise you creative section of the brain will fire up!

Read a good book – if you are a visual, film or even literature creator reading a new work could spark some ideas of your own!

Sleep - it’s been shown that sleep can facilitate insightful behavior and flexible reasoning leading to improved creative abilities.  So whether by the pool or in the bed, get some!

The winners have been named and the competition has ended at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival …but the drama is not over!

The center of attention is the Cuban actor who won Best Actor for his performance in ”Una Noche” (One Night).  Despite winning the award and a $2,500 stipend, Javier Nuñez Florian, was missing from the event.  He even had a special flight arranged from Cuba so he could attend.  So what’s behind this real-life entertainment drama?

In the film, the actor plays a young Cuban teenagers, struggling in poverty, who decides to flee to Florida.  It seems that Javier’s disappearance turned out to be life imitating art: the young actor abandoned his flight during a layover in Miami to seek political asylum from Cuba!

“What I most want is to continue acting. It’s what I like most, but if I can’t attain that dream I would work at something else, because what I want is to fight,” said Nuñez

Now that the Tribeca Film Festival has wrapped we can look forward to the next round of film festivals -namely Cannes in a few weeks!  See you then.

At Tenlegs our mission is to help artists prosper and what better way to prosper than get paid gigs!

This is an open call to animated/graphic video filmmakers for a paid opportunity (submission period only entails a written proposal & submission of portfolio materials-not a completed work)!   A top-ranked educational program is looking for an 2-3 minute graphic-based video that helps convey the concept of big data & the program, key statics of about program in an engaging and fun way. The Animation/graphics should be paired with appropriate audio. Client will look to the Artist for the full execution from detailed story-boarding to graphic imagery, asset development, audio, etc.

Business Analytics is the study of data through statistical and operations analysis, the formation of predictive models, the application of optimization techniques and the communication of these results to customers, business partners and executives.  An example of the tone and feel can be found at: http://vimeo.com/30144927

For full details of the assignment, we strongly suggest thoroughly reading the client brief.

The selected filmmaker will receive $3000 for his/her work.

Filmmaker should be:

• Able to show examples of previous work that is of a similar scope
• Communicate either verbally or via a mockup his/her vision of the tone
• Able to deliver a final product by or before June 18th

To be considered you:

• Must fill submit your proposal via our new, easy-to-use online submission page!
• Are also highly encouraged to showcase samples of your work on your Tenlegs profile for client review (it’s 100% free!)

Deadline:

All proposals & portfolios must be submitted by 12 noon EST on May 14th. Submission materials (including Tenlegs portfolio and proposal) will be reviewed by the client with a final response 2-3 days later.

Whether you are a true creative or just work a regular 9-to-5 job, we all get to that point where you can’t think quite as clearly and one thing is obvious:  you need to take a break and recharge.  The question is where do you go and what do you do when you get there?

Today we’ll cover the first part of the question!  We recommend finding a place that is both relaxing and inspiring.  Think about what you are working on (or want to work on) and find the atmosphere that would lend itself to creative inspiration.

Here are some famous creatives’  favorite getaway spots:

Johnny Depp – Cannes, France

Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Douglas – British Virgin Islands

Jack Nicholson, Matt Stone – Aspen, CA

Some of these places may be out of your price range -for now.  But tell us where would you go!

If you can’t make it to NYC over the next 10 days for the Tribeca Film Festival 0r if you live in NYC and can’t get a ticket, don’t fret:  The film festival has a very robust online component!

For the third year running, this pioneering digital initiative expands the Festival experience, enabling audiences from all over the U.S. to view select features, short films, live streamed events (open to all audiences), and more, all for absolutely free

The online festival covers multiple forms of film -from features to shorts, documentary to fiction.  And just because it’s online doesn’t mean there aren’t big names involved either -Ed Burns and Neil LaBute are among the many

The online festival has its own competition where viewers are given the power to choose awards for categories including best online feature, best short film  and most “liked” film on Facebook (winners announced on 4/26)!

So go online and check them out before April 29th when the films will disappear!