Earlier this week I gave a talk on digital video and how advertising agencies are changing to facilitate a wide range of video needs that are required by clients. From high budget brand TV adverts to medium budget DRTV adverts right to low budget web-video… the demand is increasing and now’s the time to invest in skills and training.

I gave the talk on behalf of GBM at ‘Band on the Wall’ in Manchester and have split it into three parts of around 10 minutes each. Thanks to GBM and everyone who came to the talk, I hope you found it informative… I certainly enjoyed putting it together.

Parts two and three can be viewed by clicking the red button below.

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Video Newspaper

There’s a great scene in the movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character boards a tube train and watches a passenger reading a newspaper. The amazing thing about this newspaper, however, is that it updates like a web page and appears to have video playing on it.

Movies are great for giving us glimpses into a future that is simply unachievable. I’m sure we’ll never see time travel, or even see people teleport from one place to another. Believe it or not, though, having ‘video paper’ is not the stuff of science fiction… it’s becoming science fact.

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