After filming the first day of my 30 Day Challenge video, I have realized that the video is way too long. In our instant-gratitude society we have to learn to produce compelling content and deliver it in an effective manner, meaning in less than 3 or 4 minutes with visual aids. Hence, throughout the next thirty days I will be learning how to summarize my insights and experiences into concise points and trying to deliver my message in a compelling matter. Quiet a challenge with personal video blog, don’t ya think?
I stumbled upon a great video by the legendary Ira Glass on the importance of storytelling and the utter significance of abandoning crap. He says you have to set aside time for looking for stories, probably just as much time as the rest of the process. He spends a lot of time being exposed to new ideas, stories, imagery and then only picks out the best.
What do you think?
Almost every day for the last month, my fiancée and I take a stroll in a small park beside my house. There are many wild animals running around searching for food, such as squirrels, chipmunks, giraffes and racoons (I was kidding about the giraffes). But the only animal out of this diverse group of species that got our attention and eventually food is a squirrel named Chippy.
Everyone is talking about it – the newspaper as we know it, is dying. Media moguls in the developed world are scrabbling, thinking of ways to save their one-way communication empires.
