Archive for the ‘Creative Inspiration’ Category

Featured App: 8mm Vintage Camera

Posted by Dan Svizeny on May 2nd, 2012. Categories: Creative Inspiration | Comments Off

Whether you are trying to nail the perfect shot for your spec commercial, or if you’re just having fun with your friends, Nexvio’s 8mm Vintage Camera is tons of fun. Vintage filters have been all the rage in iPhone photography – why not give your videos that same retro feel?

With a bunch of different lenses and films to choose from you can create a super unique effect that will make your footage really stand out. You can record with retro effects in real time, or apply effects to existing videos. You can check out and demo all of the different films, lenses and jitters right here on Nexvio’s site.

Check out a video shot by our very own Director of Community, Mark Schoneveld on the Nexvio 8mm camera app. Full disclosure – this is a music video for my band, and I can’t skateboard. The footage was shot on a laid back summer day, right outside of Poptent East HQ!

The video was shot using the Siena filter and slowed down a bit in post to give it that hazy summer vibe. The filter, in combination with the time of day really gives this video that “magic hour” feel. What a way to spruce up your boring iPhone ids!

*Keep your eyes open for a cameo by our very own Erinn Capozzi!

If any of you have suggestions or comments regarding this, or other cool apps for filmmakers, be sure to drop us a line.

GreenSkyMedia’s “Making of…” Video

Posted by Mark Schoneveld on April 1st, 2010. Categories: Community Highlights, Creative Inspiration | Comments Off

Star Poptent creators, GreenSkyMedia just put up a really sweet video detailing how they went about creating their Beck’s Beer assignment video! So awesome of them! I love when our creators go ‘above and beyond’! Check it out:

And here’s their assignment submission:

Creative Inspiration: Post-it Notes Stop Motion

Posted by Mark Schoneveld on June 11th, 2009. Categories: Creative Inspiration | Comments Off

Videos don’t get much cooler than this. Director Bang-yao Liu’s school project is really tearing up the viral video charts, for good reason. Just take 6000 Post-it Notes, and spend some time with your buddies locked in a room for four days and this is what you get…

This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.

Directed by Bang-yao Liu
Music by Röyksopp (http://royksopp.com)
Sound design by Shaun Burdick

And how lucky are we that he made a ‘making of’ video, too!

(via Sun Sentinal)

Creative Inspiration: A Powerful Punch Line

Posted by Mark Schoneveld on March 27th, 2009. Categories: Creative Inspiration | 1 Comment »

A friend of mine passed this video on to me this morning. Five side-splitting commercials for (now defunct) Ameriquest Mortgage, each with a similar witty punch line. What I love about these is how simple they are. Nothing fancy here, just a tight script and a few clever shots.

Of course, the irony of these spots (and their message) in light of current events is a bit, um, rich. But all things being equal, these commercials are quite amusing as stand-alone stories.

Creative Inspiration: Get Everyone to Dance

Posted by Mark Schoneveld on March 6th, 2009. Categories: Creative Inspiration | 1 Comment »

T-Mobile in the UK signed up a couple hundred of their free spirited folks and taught them a dance. Then went into the middle of the Liverpool train station and did it spontaniously, filmed it and posted it to YouTube. Gotta love when people dance together! And look! How easy would it be to make this with a couple hundred of your closest friends?

[hat tip: Ingrid]

Creative Inspiration: The Eyebrow Dance

Posted by Mark Schoneveld on January 30th, 2009. Categories: Creative Inspiration | Comments Off

This Cadburry commercial has us all in stitches here at XLNTads HQ. So simple. So good.

Thought-Provoking Photo of the Moment

Posted by Mark Schoneveld on January 7th, 2009. Categories: Creative Inspiration | 1 Comment »

Just saw this photo and it struck me as profound. What do you guys think?


[via Agencia Brasil]

Creative Inspiration: Hire Zack Galifianakis

Posted by Mark Schoneveld on July 16th, 2008. Categories: Creative Inspiration | 4 Comments »

Okay, I know – that’s a long shot for 99.9% of you. But I had to think of some catchy title, didn’t I? Well, how about this. I’ll change it to “Creative Inspiration: Surrealistic Humor”. How’s that?

Absolut Vodka did the right thing. They hired Zack and his friends to make some ultra-surrealist humor. And I, for one, was ROFL! Observe:

Hat tip to my brother Dave for IMing this link to me (hey, you got funny commercials? Send ‘em my way!). Watch all three in the series here.

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Creative Inspiration: Crazy Stunts

Posted by Mark Schoneveld on June 27th, 2008. Categories: Creative Inspiration | 3 Comments »

Man, crazy stunts. You just can’t go wrong with them! Yes, this is totally fake. But how cool is it?

It’s actually a ‘viral video’ for Gatorade. Not sure how the drink fits into this, but I just love watching it again and again. And sharing with you. Ergo – she’s viral, baby!

[Thanks, AdPulp!]

[tags]viral, video, advertising, gatorade, funny[/tags]

Creative Inpiration: Fake Security Camera

Posted by Mark Schoneveld on June 11th, 2008. Categories: Creative Inspiration | 1 Comment »

This video was all the rage around the Interwebs last week. Turns out, it was a fake. It’s a commercial to promote the director, Timur Bekmambetov’s new film! Crazy, huh?

But man, it sure got me thinkin’… I bet you could to a lot of neat stuff with that ‘security camera’ look. Which reminds me, this band made an entire music video with other people’s actual security cameras!

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