This weeks Optimistic Monday is a quick video on how to make your family holiday videos a little more interesting for your family and friends to watch then your making them sit through it when you get back!
When filming scenic views on your family holiday, press record and count to 5 and then press stop… its as simple as that. Then, when your back home, and watching it with the family, the video you have put together is really engaging and interesting to watch.
Im “On the Road” as of tomorrow for 9 nights, filming some Caravan Parks up and down the west side of the UK.
This vid also covers the reason’s why my last Optimistic Monday disappeared as well….
Expect lots of Evening Tweets, and perhaps the odd Audio Boo from me, and maybe some text only blog posts as my only companion will be my Iphone for the next week or so!
The reason why im typing this is what happens right at the very end of the film…. She kisses her hero on his eyes… and that to me says it all… Have you ever been kissed on the eye? If you havent, let me tell you, its the most amazing feeling.. and that just about sums up what I feel about the Film Avatar.
First of all, If you haven’t seen it, its probably NOT what you think its going to be like ok!
its about Love and Passion and whole load of spirituality thrown into the mix.
Perhaps it just ticks all my boxes for an amazing film, im not sure.. but I have just seen it again on DVD and it moved me as much as it did when i saw it in the Cinema. I didnt think it would.. but thankfully I was proven wrong.
Yes, there are amazing creatures, yes, there is war, and fighting and a silly idea that native people can overcome the might of a military force….so what! thats just the script.. the essense of the film what makes it breath taking to me.
If women can get swept away by Pride and Prejudice then I can be swept away by this.
Its emotional, its techie, its full of amazing animals and its full of love and amazing huge eyes!!
I love it.. and im sure it will be one of my favourite films of all time….
Thank you Mr Cameron.
I have another “guest video blogger” in this weeks Optimistic Monday because my better half has my Flip cam with her over in France this week!
In the video below, Mike Morris from Mimomedia explains the importance of building your own personal brand and how it will help your business profile regardless of what you doing, or choose to do in the future.
Check out Mikes Youtube channel for more videos like this one! 
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If you would like help with your personal branding in business, then go over and check out my other blog - Click On My Face for details of Workshops, 1 2 1 coaching and specific company training solutions from myself and my friend Ann Hawkins.
Our next half day workshop is “Twitter for Beginners” and is on Friday 30th April at the Wood Green Animal Centre in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire.
(Sorry for the auto play! something I normally don’t support but cant seem to take this out of the code)
I recently worked with Olly Lawer (seen left) who runs an online video production company called opl productions over in Norwich. He asked me to be his “production assistant” for the day, helping with client communication, and supporting him and another camera operator as they both worked on a “web video” shoot for one of his clients.
I was totally in my element, with 2 amazing cameras, and two focused but relaxed guys who loved their work.
David Crute
Using the power of Google, Olly hired the talents of David Crute (above) with his amazing Steadi cam rig. With 20 years experience in broadcast filming, including large film productions, pop videos and tv adverts, it was really great to work with a seasoned pro, who was very friendly, very focused and just loved talking about his work!
I spent most of the day “shadowing” Dave, making sure he didnt bump into things as he used his Steadi-cam rig for some lovely sweeping shots of the people in the factory hard at work. As the floor was slippery in places, and he does a lot of “walking backwards” it was important I was right behind him just incase he lost his balance.
I don’t know the make of his camera, but lets just say it was extremely expensive! To put it into perspective, his “view finder” cost more than my camera does! 
The great news is that we are all meeting up again next month for another day’s shoot at the same location, where perhaps even more “toys” will be used, and Dave has also promised me that I can wear the Steadi-cam rig to see what it feels like! (Im definitely going to do a video blog about that!)
I have started my own Flickr account, so if you want to see the rest of the pictures I took of this film shoot then please click on the picture below and you will be taken to the Flickr website to view them.
a large LOL factor on this video, I had to put it onto the blog!
Here’s a little video from Gary Vaynerchuck talking about the recent change Facebook has made to the button that is used for fan pages
on their site…. much better I think….
