Day in day out we complete website projects for clients and we advise how to get the most from the web and succeed online. I’ve realised recently that we can’t fully do that, unless we have experience in running successful websites. So with that in mind, we set about changing that.
If anyone knows much about my background, you’ll know that I actually trained in video production (more specifically – post-production). I’ve had many years experience in creating videos for online and mobile. When we started skysoclear (as a partnership) a couple of years ago, our core service (and still) is web design. Recently, I’ve found that I’m not utilising the skills I’ve learnt in video production and have a keen interest in featuring this more in our work at skysoclear.
Enter Video DSLRs
My keenness to use video in my work has often been long extinguished due to one crucial element – the camera itself. Now, I’m not a workman blaming his tools, but for people who wish to enter video production and buy their first camera, the options have been limited to cameras that produce pretty average pictures – not an encouraging thing.
This all changed about a year ago with the popularization of video dslrs – simply put, DSLR cameras with video recording functionality. The advantages were huge – quality HD images for a fraction of the price of low-cost video cameras (they use them on 24 don’t you know!). My mind was made up and in February we took delivery of a Canon 7D.
Collaborate
Through Twitter, I met Alex Lawrence. Alex runs Clearhead Media, a video production company based in Luton. We talked video dslrs and would often send each other links of video community sites that just didn’t work – either due to poor quality content, or the inability to inspire. I also noticed that all these sites seemed to just copy news releases, add a sentence with their opinon and call it news – where’s the value in that?
We then wondered why we couldn’t change all that. If we produced good content and got it out there and people like it – that would be awesome. It would also serve as a project, something I’ve been itching to do for a while now and something that would justify our claim to help in producing successful websites.
VideoDSLR.tv launched today and will feature original content catered towards people with a vested interest in producing videos with DSLR cameras.
Soon I’ll be sharing with you how we create videodslr.tv, from concept to launch. Grab our RSS feed to make sure you get notified.
