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Creating A Viral Buzz

  • 02-12-2009 10:20PM
    #1
    em34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif]Hi All, [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif] [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif]We have created a short video for a DCU business school with the idea of generating some Buzz!!! [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif] [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif]We have developed DCU's very own TV Channel including a parody of Sky News, Sky Sports News, The Apprentice, Who wants to be a Millionaire and MTV Cribs. [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif] [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif]Would really appreciate some feedback and your help in creating a buzz! [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif] [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif]Thanks in advance for your time. [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif] [/FONT]
    [FONT=comic sans ms,sans-serif]EM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PDGjxv39g [/FONT]
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Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 366 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Good video lol. However the television bit with the laptop and the camera panning mute the audio as it really ruins it and when filming make sure your actors don't burst into tears of laughing :rolleyes: 


  • #3
    reece
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭reece


    you could frame the actors a bit better. Sound wasn't great. You could also do with some more comedy - the apprentice part was the only part I found funny. I dig the chick in the bar photo though :)


  • #4
    afatbollix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,152 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    1 sound... you made the mistake of forgetting all about it.. its the most important thing in video making..


    Framing... You dont have a clue, Where you not taught how to frame a picture????!!! its the basics that your taught on day 1...

    It looks cheap, alot of mistakes were made in production so ya you could do 100% better... Infact if I were you Id throw it in the bin and start again...


  • #5
    reece
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭reece


    also, to create a viral buzz - you're going to have to offer people something that they feel happy about forwarding on to their friends - like the "we are sinking" advert. Work on the comedy, be controversial


  • #6
    Crowdof1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Crowdof1


    Seems like it was just a bit of a laugh really. There ARE lots of simple mistakes: the sound, the acting, and the framing is shocking! I'd say the overall problem is a fundamental lack of quality-control. After doing a take someone has to be able to step in and say "Hang on, we can do better"

    But, to be fair, this was made by business students (It'd be unfair to hold it to the same expectations as those put upon film students) and, technical aspects of film-making aside, that might be the problem - it feels like it's essentially a corporate video that tries to be funny. A good effort nonetheless.


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