VideoBrand

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.

So We’re Making Movies

Wow, the site statistics are just scraping along the bottom as the non-existent readers just pile in. Maybe lack of posting has something to do with it... To explain, I had this grand plan of creating this really nice post that would explain the F1's, what they are,...

Perhaps I Cared Too Much

Regarding the first post, awesome Screenwriter (and now Director) John August seems to have a different view: I decided that while I was on set, my only responsibility was to the movie, and my ability to direct it. With this philosophy in hand, many decisions became...

The Story So Far

Welcome to Coffee and Celluloid, a blog dedicated to the fine craft of filmmaking from the point of view of a film school student. I realize I just jumped into the action, so it's about time for a recap of the story so far. I'm a first year in film school -- one of...

One Friday the 13th to Rule Them All

Or at least in the past 476 years. All of the digits in today's date add up to 13. (1+0)+(1+3)+(2+0+0+6)=13 "The phenomenon hasn't happened in 476 years, said Heinrich Hemme, a physicist at Germany's University of Aachen who crunched the numbers to find that the...

Be Brilliant – No Previous Experience Required

The Bard scores one point today as Discovery.com reports: A computational fingerprint that uniquely characterizes William Shakespeare’s writing style is helping dispel any lingering doubts that he penned his own plays. The method could serve as a literary device to...

Film Term Lexicon

The film world enjoys bestowing new titles upon everyday household items, because honestly, “give me a clothespin and extension cord” is so lame. Abby Singer – Second to last shot of the day Apple Box – Sealed wooden box with a variety of uses to mainly raise the...

Revision in Technicolor

I tried googling the script revision colors but couldn't quite find a site that had them all listed. So here they are, all eight colors, some with names you'd think they pulled from a Crayola box. And remember, this is mainly for production, after the script is locked...