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VideoBrand is a digital marketing blog and YouTube channel that helps entrepreneurs learn how to use video to grow their brands. We focus on helping creators, marketers, business owners, and entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes make better videos.

Our content includes tutorials on making videos, using YouTube as a marketing channel, and the latest news in the world of video media and marketing.

Location, Location, Location

Nov 12, 2008 |

It's funny how much I take film slang for granted. So to start from the beginning, there are six stages in making and releasing a movie: Development, Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production, Distribution, Exhibition. Usually Development can take the longest -...

Film School Grad in Hollywood Reporter

Nov 11, 2008 | ,

Ali Bell, 30 vp production and development Montecito Picture Co. Not everybody can trace their film career to their mother's love of John Singleton's "Boyz n the Hood." "It was a combination of the acting, the cinematography and the way my mom was so rocked by the...

Filming in the Trenches (And Live Video!)

Nov 10, 2008 |

This is the craziest film set I've seen on the soundstage. After emerging from a dark editing room around midnight, I was told to check out the trench. I had heard someone was making a WWI trench movie. I didn't know it was a trench epic. I can't believe how detailed...

Toronto Film Festival in 120 Seconds

Nov 7, 2008 |

This is a little montage of the video clips I shot while at TIFF. The people we're having dinner with at the end (divided by the drinking straw) are Cherie Saulter and Justin Barber, both Film School alumni who produced "Medicine for Melancholy," directed by another...

How to Make a Movie – Start to Finish

Nov 6, 2008 | ,

Just when I thought there would be a dry period of stories after I graduate ((More on this soon)), Thoth gives me a goldmine. I've been asked by a recent graduate to co-produce a short film she just received funding for. This film (tentatively title Undercover) will...

I’m Chuck Bass (And Who Watches the Watchmen?)

Nov 2, 2008 |

A film school Halloween obviously has to have character related costumes. Above, characters from Watchmen. Below, me as Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl. I had a lot of fun Goodwill hunting. It reminded me of production designing again. Unfortunately I don't believe red...

Burn Notice – On-Set and Production Assisting

Oct 30, 2008 |

At the beginning of the summer I had mentioned how I stumbled on the set of Confessions of a Shopaholic and through a couple degrees of someone who knows someone, I was put in touch with the Location Manager of the show Burn Notice and invited to come out to the set....