Evan's blog

Category: Video

  • Boston University: BU Abroad & You at BU

    Interesting content aggregator site for BU Admissions – You at BU. Not sure if people would bother with fiddling around with all the options — perhaps for those who are visually minded it’s good.

    Also discovered some older BU Abroad clips on YouTube that are excellent — short and really give a flavour of the country where the student is on exchange.

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOc4LXUNdko[/youtube]

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiSd72_rSm0[/youtube]

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1z3pJKpdc[/youtube]

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkoEKfPMDDM[/youtube]

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hynwteprZ_0[/youtube]

  • Holstee Manifesto film

    The “Just Do It.” for 2012? Maybe. Nicely produced, but I’m not really sure what the message is — the script needs a little more work?

    [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/34414313[/vimeo]

  • For women in science clip – Heather Whitney

    Nice short clip, similar to what we’ve been producing for the Curtin Commercial Innovation Awards. Might be some ideas we can steal! I agree with some comments about the interview audio edit — it’s a little too sound-bitey and choppy for my taste.
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey3KdzcE-K4[/youtube]

  • RMIT’s How does… work? YouTube clips

    Interesting play by RMIT, presenting their lecturers with “kinetic text” animations explaining questions in their area of expertise. Good YouTube search fodder. However, they didn’t quite close the loop with a strong call to action at the end of each clip — how about a link back to the faculty or school? Why is the “watch the rest of the videos in this series” a text link in the description and not an interactive annotation?

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_E4DrPRLPI[/youtube]
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Gnm7B69UU[/youtube]
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoIafzc0k74[/youtube]

  • Lighting for “green screen”

    Eve Hazelton does a nice tutorial on how to light and post produce a green screen shoot. Really good demo of After Effects in the second half which explains all the controls needed to quickly get a good result.

    [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/34365256[/vimeo]

  • Bournemouth Uni video production

    Interesting collection of clips on YouTube, probably at about the same level of production as the Curtin team.

    However, here’s something different from their current campaign, reacting to the changes to government funding in the UK — a character animation — interesting! Breaks through, although possibly a little long?
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv1Whlvf7U8[/youtube]

    This clip about the international student experience is ok, but when the student support person is talking to the viewer they really should be talking to-camera to increase the personal feel, also; how come the “German” student seems to have a very strong local accent? 😉
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNRvjhSEcmw[/youtube]

    Forensic science course promo video, nice work, good cutaways. Should draw in the CSI crowd?
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWkFYM7VXfM[/youtube]

  • The United Kingdom explained

    in a very fast spoken overview:
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10[/youtube]

  • QUT Law faculty course promo videos

    Queensland University of Technology have been building a collection of course promo videos for the Faculty of Law. It’s a bit of a mixed bag — great production values, but I feel that some of them could be shorter, or broken into multiple clips. I would probably also get rid of the 5 sec “ident” at the start — it just gets in the way. Nice motion graphics. Interesting use of “props” (their “real” word block) to assist talent in relaxing and interacting during the shoot.

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhF7qVC_22M[/youtube]

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBe1iyNHZ-4[/youtube]

    QUT Law and Justice YouTube playlist

  • Rubik’s cube solving robot – YouTube hit

    Swinburne had a YouTube hit with their short clip of a robot which can solve Rubik’s cubes. Over 500k views. Pretty good! Nice combination of geek factor and obviously tapped into what people are searching for.
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWtBTKpWVXk[/youtube]

  • University of Adelaide – Life impact videos

    Yet another implementation of personal stories about changing the world. It’s beginning to become a standard format for university campaigns — Adelaide’s tagline is “life impact”.

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqle4P55wwc[/youtube]
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-x-Ks1sts[/youtube]
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7oI83qIirw[/youtube]
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHcQ_QHFvCg[/youtube]