#trending in video - September 11, 2020

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The worldwide Covid pandemic has changed the world. The carries on with lost and financial aftermath alone speak to a remarkable misfortune that will leave the globe reeling for a considerable length of time. 

So much will never be the the same. 

What's more, inside this more extensive emergency, every segment of the economy and incalculable laborers are confronting their own individual fiascoes. Numerous associations won't endure the plunge, and the amusement world has not been saved. 

A few marquee film creations have been deferred because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Different films booked for the big screen moved to computerized discharge. Furthermore, numerous network shows have been pushed back. 

With films shut, there is no place to screen motion pictures. With movement and lockdown limitations, its absolutely impossible to film. Also, with just fundamental representatives permitted into workplaces, film creation work has been required to be postponed. 

Indeed, even an organization as large as Hollywood has been pushed to the brink of collapse. 

Film Production Delays and Impact 

A year back, it is difficult to concoct whatever could stop the accomplishment of the blockbuster plant that is Marvel. However, it had to push back the arrival of Black Widow from May to November. At that point came the domino impact, changing its whole "Stage 4" plan with delays for forthcoming Doctor Strange, Thor, and Spider-Man films. 

Wonder was a long way from alone. The following James Bond film, No Time to Die, was moved to a November discharge. Another government agent themed establishment, Mission Impossible, deferred recording for two of its forthcoming portions. Also, the globe-jogging Fast and the Furious arrangement declared it won't discharge F9 until 2021. 

Furthermore, these are simply the "too huge to fizzle" level movies. In the event that 007, Tom Cruise, and The Rock can't beat the infection, what chance do outside the box creations have? 

Network shows in Limbo 

The little screen has likewise been hard hit. The Walking Dead was appreciating something of a rebound tenth season. At that point the pandemic hit, and the team couldn't finish distant after creation on the finale. Presently, the last scene stays in an in-between state, leaving us with one of the most surprising cliffhangers in TV history. 

Or on the other hand course, there's more: Stranger Things, Fargo, Succession, Young Sheldon, Atlanta, Riverdale, Barry, and Star Trek: Discovery — in addition to many, some more — are for the most part presently confronting delays. 

Dreading the remainder of the year might be miserable, the CW picked to proactively push its fall plan into 2021. System administrator Mark Pedowitz, in a meeting with USA Today, summarized the test for his organization — and the entire business: "Conviction is a hard thing in this world at the present time." 

Imaginative Workarounds for Live Television Shows 

As is commonly said, the show must go. However, is that still conceivable? At times, the appropriate response is yes. 

Saturday Night Live drove the charge, making due with its first "at home" scene in April. While surveys were blended, it's difficult to disregard the inventiveness. Glue Magazine called the Tom Hanks-facilitated not-prepared for-primtime Zoom call "one of the most noteworthy scenes in the show's 45-season run." 

Other live shows — including Conan, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and The Daily Show — stuck to this same pattern. Others concocted different alterations. Family Feud and America's Got Talent shot without a crowd of people, and American Idol had competitors perform from home. 

At the point when life gives you lemons, in this circumstance, you settle on a gathering decision. 

Corporate Clashes and Business Model Disruption 

Films have been battered. As ahead of schedule as mid-April, a few experts dreaded AMC could confront liquidation because of tragic mix of obligation, neighborhood limitations, and social removing conventions. Up until now, it has looked after liquidity. 

Be that as it may, the organization ha made significantly more features during the emergency for its hardline position against Universal. Instead of tolerating delays, the studio chose to make Trolls World Tour a computerized discharge, permitting watchers to stream the enlivened continuation on in-home stages for $19.99. 

It was a tremendous achievement. In the initial three weeks, the Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick-voiced film acquired around $100 million. This didn't coordinate the principal Trolls film industry of more than $150 million, per the Wall Street Journal. Yet, the appropriation strategy got Universal almost a similar whole — in around one-fifth of the time. 

Significantly, it additionally set another precedent for computerized discharge profit. This made the film something of a proof of idea for streaming presentations — something theaters dread could be an existential danger. 

Indeed, even before the studio's fruitful rollout, AMC declared it would fight back by declining to screen any future Universal film creation. Great Cinemas joined the promise, and this issue presently speaks to a furious new battleground over the business.

The outcome could be a significant ocean change for film discharges. Is it conceivable that the studios don't generally require theaters all things considered? Will we despite everything even be going out to see the films in five years? 

A Remote Post-Production Future? 

Films versus streaming isn't the main significant interruption. In the same way as other businesses, an ever increasing number of individuals in film creation and TV programs are working from home. SNL and others demonstrated how Zoom-like distant advances consider live coordinated effort. In any case, this is only a hint of something larger. 

Entertainers in scripted works and video creation may consistently require sets and physical areas to film. The business is acknowledging, notwithstanding, that it can move other work to distant after creation. A few obstructions stay for cutting edge CG and sound work. It's still difficult to get front line processing force and system speed into the normal home office. In any case, equipping more group individuals with top of the line machines is absolutely attainable for additional errands in a segment where top films clear $1 billion in ticket deals. 

Also, there are an ever increasing number of apparatuses that empower individuals to do video creation from anyplace. Frame.io, for instance, is a cloud-based cooperation stage that sets up work processes and keeps groups associated. With combinations for applications from Adobe Premiere and After Effects to Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer, it makes chipping away at video extends simple from anyplace. 

Different territories, as shut inscriptions and captions, can likewise be taken care of by at-home laborers represent considerable authority in record creation. Media firms like CBS, PBS, and TCM are now utilizing stages like Rev, which coordinates with Frame.io, and other cloud joint effort apparatuses, finding that it's easy to complete things even without social occasion in a focal space. 

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Making Video Productions from Anywhere 

While some prescribed procedures are as yet being created, coming up next are a couple of the means that can help any distant after creation collaboration better together: 

Sort out Asset Management: Keeping everything composed is consistently key in this industry. Indeed, even short video ventures have a huge amount of crude video, picture, sound, text, and different documents. Be that as it may, the requirement for clear, legitimate film the board and structures are considerably more significant when groups are working distantly. Particularly when utilizing cloud stages, having easy to-utilize mixes can be a lifeline. Regardless of whether it's through Dropbox, Google Drive, an undertaking worker, or other stockpiling choice, all that will be simpler in the event that it suits perfectly with your work processes. 

Build up Video Production Workflows: Remote after creation work requires efficient work processes that keep everybody on task. Some essential targets are guaranteeing that errands can't be misjudged, setting clear cutoff times, and building up needs. The less equivocalness there is, the better. This is the reason the specific undertaking and assignment the board style is typically less significant than keeping everything easy to use for all colleagues, particularly newcomers to the task. 

Make Roles and Task Managers: Speaking of colleagues, they should all have clear jobs. Preferably, this can be incorporated with the work process stage — where everybody can look into their own dashboard to see precisely what's on their plate. This should all be directed by high level administrators who agent work to various undertaking directors. At that point they will be liable for moving every thing from the creation stage to in progress and afterward last endorsement. In a perfect world, you will have the option to incorporate everybody from outside contract based workers chipping away at the captions to workhorse editors doing the truly difficult work to the customer who needs to approve certain choices. 

Organize Ongoing Communication: Communication is essential. In a perfect world, you can make it simple with remarking or comparable abilities incorporated straightforwardly with the work process stage. This permit anybody partaking in a particular undertaking to pose inquiries, offer experiences, and give refreshes progressively. Different interfaces, similar to Zoom or Slack, can likewise be useful to arranging interchanges in this present reality where messages are not, at this point adequate. 

Phenomenal Disruption to the Entertainment World 

Advanced interruption has been desiring everybody. Netflix and web-based features have just changed the scene. Furthermore, any semblance of Disney+ and HBO flooding the market mean this will just quicken. 

In any case, far off advances that previously existed are additionally demonstrating themselves to be amazing assets as video creation groups are compelled to adjust. Applications like Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere are presently so progressed — and cloud and physical stockpiling are so modest — that movie producers truly do a great deal of altering and far off after creation at home. 

Hollywood isn't going anyplace. The workmanship and business of filmmaking will consistently request that in-person enchantment. 

Yet, we are surviving difficult days. 

Furthermore, this novel second in time — when innovation, emergency, and imaginative resourcefulness have all impact — has always changed amusement.

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Corporate Videography FAQs

Answers for companies looking for event videography, corporate branding videos, convention coverage, and more.

What videography services do you provide?
Best Made Videos® is a full-service video production company focusing on live events, conferences, corporate branding videos, small business marketing videos, weddings, and more.
What is your experience with corporate events specifically?
Reid Johnson, owner of Best Made Videos®, has been a corporate videographer for over 18 years and has filmed for companies such as Amazon and Microsoft, plus a wide range of organizations and conferences.
Can I see a full-length sample of a similar video?
Yes. Corporate work is organized by video type so you can quickly find relevant examples, including conference videography, corporate video production, live event videography, real estate videography, small business promo videos, and livestreaming services.
What types of conferences do you film?
Best Made Videos® provides full-service coverage for conferences, conventions, and summits—from single-day meetings to multi-day gatherings. Coverage can include keynotes, panels, breakout sessions, sponsor activations, and the “pulse” of the event: attendee engagement, networking, and real reactions—while coordinating smoothly with planners and AV teams.
Do you offer corporate or conference photography services?
Best Made Videos® focuses on videography and can recommend or partner with highly rated corporate and conference photographers in Seattle when needed.
Where is Best Made Videos® located?
Best Made Videos® is based in West Seattle, Washington.
Do you offer destination videography services?
Yes. Best Made Videos® is available for destination and travel videography anywhere in the world.
Why should I choose Best Made Videos® over another corporate videographer?
Corporate projects often require speed, reliability, and brand-safe storytelling. Best Made Videos® emphasizes fast turnaround when timelines are tight, professional interview and storytelling experience, reliable event execution, transparent pricing, and strong technical capability for complex productions (including multi-camera and live-stream logistics when needed).
Will you be the lead shooter, or will you send an associate team?
Reid Johnson will be the lead videographer on-site, alongside any contracted associate videography team members if your event requires additional coverage.
What moments or events do you capture during a conference or trade show?
Coverage typically includes main stage/keynotes, panels, and breakout sessions, plus attendee engagement and reactions, networking and “in-between” moments, branded B-roll (signage, venue scale, details), and optional on-the-spot testimonials or soundbites for future marketing.
What do you and your team wear?
Typically black slacks and a black shirt (or venue-required attire) to blend in professionally and stay unobtrusive.
Are you fully insured?
Yes. A Certificate of Insurance (COI) can be provided upon request.
Will you perform a site walkthrough or tech rehearsal?
A pre-event walkthrough or tech rehearsal can be requested on a case-by-case basis. Depending on timing and distance, a fee may apply.
How do you handle audio?
Depending on the event, audio can be captured using dedicated microphones and recorders, or by working alongside your AV team to record clean feeds with redundancy.
Do you record to dual card slots?
Yes. Cameras record dual-slot for redundancy, and footage is backed up in multiple locations after your event.
Do you provide 4K exports?
Yes. Deliverables can be exported in the resolution and file type you need, including 4K when requested.
Do you offer same-day or next-day social media edits?
Yes. For conferences and trade shows, overnight recap highlight edits can be provided when requested.
Do you provide closed captioning or accessibility options?
Yes. Closed captions can be provided, including burned-in (permanent) captions on exported video files.
What is your revision policy?
Corporate video projects include two rounds of feedback and edits.
What is the turnaround time for the final master film?
Most corporate edits are delivered in about two weeks unless otherwise specified (and faster timelines are available for certain event recap needs).
Who owns the final product?
You own the final deliverables. Best Made Videos® generally retains the right to display work for portfolio/marketing purposes unless otherwise agreed.
What is your data backup and archiving workflow?
Footage is protected with a multi-step data preservation process using redundant backups (such as local and cloud storage, and additional archival methods as needed).
How do you handle talent releases for attendees?
If needed, Best Made Videos® can provide recommended signage and/or release forms to support attendee filming at your event.