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3 Lessons in Video Production from The Movie Bigfoot Family

Mar 27, 2021/0 Comments/in Advice, Innovation, Video/by Jeph

If you haven’t watched this family classic yet, grab the kids and pop some corn, you’re in for a TREAT! My daughter has absolutely loved it, so much so she’s easily watched it Seventy to Eighty. After the Fifteenth round of this lovely little furry family, I realized there’s a great lesson in video editing in the movie. Bigfoot (Adam’s Dad) posts a video trying to garner attention to the oil company that’s drilling in Alaska. Adam takes the video and makes it into a viral masterpiece!

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Here are the three lesson’s learned from The Bigfoot Family Movie and more specifically, Adam’s video production strategy.

1. Get feedback

Bigfoot’s first video from Alaska, to put it lightly, sucked. Adam took it upon himself to edit the video into a masterpiece. Without feedback or someone else’s eyes on the production, you will on’y take it so far.

How many revisions do your video projects go through?

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2. Have a vision, say no to things that fall outside of that vision

During the video editing process at one point the Racoon tells Adam to use a star wipe and Adam vehemently refuses! A moment in creative genius we witness! No video editor is going to take 100% of the feedback given. You need to have a goal for the end product you’re creating and anything outside of that goal needs to be discarded like a holy sock. Know when to push back on others feedback that doesn’t align with your overall vision.

What do you say no to when someone asks? In past projects what have you said no to?

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3. Ask for promotion

Once the video is posted, Adam calls Emma to ask her to share the video with her Soccer team. WHAT?! Have you ever done that? Posted a video then CALLED someone who knows a lot of people and asked them to share it? I know I haven’t and that’s a good reason why I’ve never had a video go viral. Asking for people to share it isn’t a bad thing, it shows you care more people hear a message. Find an audience that believes in what you’re doing and ask them to share it.

When’s the last time you asked someone on the phone or in person to share something of yours?

Three simple things to think about for your next video development production.

Get feedback.

Have a vision.

Promote in a unique manner.

Would you mind sharing this post? Thanks a bunch!

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“Something Ventured” the Story of Venture Capital

Oct 13, 2014/0 Comments/in Leadership, Stories, Video/by Jeph

Ever since I was a little kid I was fascinated with Venture Capitalists. Maybe little kid is a stretch, but in University we heard about these folks who lived in the big cites in the U.S. were pitched all sorts of business ideas and they got to pick their favourites and most of those businesses made them tons of money. Money they used to fund more and more businesses and the cycle went on.

I may have got their success rate a little wrong but all in all VC’s were the heros of business school. They were the smartest, they lived a lavish life, and they made thousands of dollars a day, just by being, well, remarkable at business (the good ones anyway). They were entrepreneurs that had already made it, and they empowered other entrepreneurs to achieve their goals too. Venture Capitalists were one of the major funding sources behind many of our darling companies that have been created over the past 15 years. Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Youtube, Genetech, Cisco, Oracle, Electronic Arts, LinkedIn, Amazon, Paypal, Intel, etc.)

The Venture Capitalists they talk to in the movie include;

Arthur Rock (Early investor in Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, Apple, and Teledyne)
Tom Perkins (Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, early investor in Genentech and Tandem)
Don Valentine (Founder of Sequoia Capital; early investor in Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Electronic Arts and LSI Logic)
Dick Kramlich (Founder of New Enterprise Associates, investor in PowerPoint, Juniper Networks, Macromedia and Dallas Semiconductor)
Reid Dennis (Founder of Institutional Venture Partners)
Bill Draper (Founder of Sutter Hill Ventures; Founder of Draper Richards)
Pitch Johnson (Co-founder of Draper and Johnson Investment; Founder of Asset Management Company)
Bill Bowes (Founder of US Venture Partners)
Bill Edwards (Founder of Bryan and Edwards)
Jim Gaither (One of the early developers of the venture financing structure still in use today)

These companies and people are behind some of the most revolutionary companies of our generation. We must learn what they did and ensure that the same progress and technological advancement occurs throughout our tenure.

So who’s going to be the next Arthur Rock? Who’s going to look at a business like Don Valentine in the future?

Why not you?

If you want to read more about the movie you can check out their website here or find the movie on Netflix.

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Sometimes You Just Have To Be Like Harry Potter

Oct 20, 2013/0 Comments/in Advice, Strategy/by Jeph

In Harry Potter The Prisoner of Azkaban, there’s a scene at the lake where dementors are about to kill Harry, Hermoine and Sirious Black. There are too many dementors for Harry to defend against.

Just when you think all is lost, all of a sudden a Patronus appears from the other side of the lake and staves off the dementors.

Harry believes it’s his father who cast the Patronus charm and saved them.

Some time later in the movie, using Hermione’s time-turner to go back in time, they go back to the lake where supposedly Harry’s father saves them. But what they find is Harry’s father doesn’t show up. So who saved them?

It must have been Harry. But he wasn’t powerful enough, or so he thought.

He didn’t think he had the power to do it, but because he’d already seen himself do it, it wasn’t impossible anymore.

Visualizing, affirming, positive self talk, there are many ways to help yourself do this in your marketing, business and life. Sometimes you must believe in yourself to do the impossible, otherwise how else are you going to achieve your goals? Just like Harry did.

How many major moments in your life would have been much easier if you would have saw yourself doing it perfectly in advance?

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