Originally posted by: TonyPearson
Continuing my coverage of the ITSO Cloud Social Media Residency, day 4 was focused on incorporating video into your blog.
This blog post is part of a five-part series:
As a filmmaker, I am not stranger to making and being filmed in videos. Here are some of the different types of videos that you can incorporate in your blog.
Machinima
[Machinima] is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production.
In 2006, I produced IBM's first [Product Launch in Second Life - April 26 Event].
It was a live event, but we decided to screen capture it for posterity, and we created a short [Second Life Highlights of IBM Product Launch] video on YouTube.
In 2011, I thought it would be good to bring back this video as the basis for an April Fools' prank, titled [IBM System Storage Video Recognized at International Film Festival].
In the prank, I indicated that I had submitted my video to the [Arizona International Film Festival], of AIFF for short, which coincidently was running April 1-20, and that it had won an award. I invited everyone who read my blog to see me accept the award at a ceremony at 6:00pm on April 1 at the Fox Theater, followed by the 8:00pm showing of another award-winning film.
I didn't submit the video, the video didn't win any award, and I was not invited to the award ceremony. I did, however, plan to see the movie at 8:00pm.
When I got there, I learned that a dozen of my friends, not realizing it was a prank, showed up, asking for me. The AIFF was quite amused, and invited me to award ceremony still going on. The other filmmakers were impressed I had concocted such an elaborate social media campaign!
Slideshow
A slideshow is another style of video, animating still images to music. The [Ken Burns effect] was named after the technique fellow filmmaker Ken Burns used in his documentaries.
In 2010, I worked with the XIV team to address FUD that our competitors were flinging about double drive failures. My blog post [Double Drive Failure Debunked: XIV Two Years Later] set the record straight and put this issue to rest once and for all. XIV sales shot up dramatically after this post went public!
The blog post included a short 30-second video [DDF Debunked: XIV Two Years Later] that I produced using [Animoto.com] in just a few hours.
Some tools you might find useful are [Camtasia Studio] and [Jing] to capture your screen in motion.
Live-action
Live-action is what we traditionally think of video of humans, cats and other animals. I did [Enterprise Systems: Storage] for a product launch last year, and [New Redpaper on IBM Smart Storage Cloud] to promote the new ITSO Redpaper.
For this residency, one of the exercises was to make a quick 30-60 second live-action video talking about your thoughts on cloud, when was a good "cloud moment" or vision for the future.
Here Martin Keen (IBM Redbooks Project Leader) is filming Farzad Aidun, IBM Cloud Client Technical Specialist for US Federal. His video is [Cloud: Meet Farzad Aidun].
Here is my video [My Cloud Moment by Tony Pearson], referring to Derek Gottfrid's success at the New York Times using Cloud to convert millions of articles into PDF. You can read the original NYT article [Self-Service, Prorated Supercomputing Fun!]
For some fun, Martin put together a [blooper reel].
What was your "Cloud moment"? When did you realize that Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing was a major driver for business growth? Enter your Cloud moment in the comments below!
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