Startups, Marketing, and Life in San Francisco!
Product Marketing Manager at Posterous.
Another wedding highlights video by me and Francis. Eric and Indira were a fun couple to work with. They were extremely down to earth and they had one of the best receptions I've seen with a Spanish themed night.
An interesting fact is that this was the first wedding where we had the opportunity to shoot alongside Ed Pingol, a photographer I've looked up to since even before I started doing event coverage.
Hope you enjoy the video!
Great wrap up by Sachin on all the new marketing behind the Posterous Spaces launch!
You always hear that when you work at a startup you have to wear many hats; I found myself doing everything and anything to help with the launch efforts (aside from marketing tasks). It's very rewarding to see some of my fingerprints on the designs of several pages and concepts :)
There's a been a lot of success around this launch but we didn't work this hard to stop continuing our passion for building the easiest way platform to share.
This is only the tip of the iceberg, and we're listening to every piece of feedback. Expect much more to come, and happy sharing!
As well all know, Javascript isn’t allowed in Posterous themes. Luckily, iframes are and that’s what we’ll use to go around the no Javascript limitation.
Simply go to your Posterous dashboard, click "Settings" on the top right, then click the "Edit Theme" button and select the "Advanced tab". Now, all you have to do is paste one of the following snippets where you want the button to show up and click the "Save, I’m done!" button.
That’s all you have to do to integrate Google +1 to your Posterous.
If you want to host the script yourself, the source code is available on Github:
git clone https://olalonde@github.com/olalonde/google-plusone-posterous.git
Thanks to Olivier Lalonde for writing this tutorial!
After some weeks of working on this with my designer Raj, the initial launch of our new Posterous examples site is up! With 70+ entries to begin with, users can browse through categories from Artists, Business, Design, Education, Events, Fashion, Food, Personal, Photography, and Startups. This new inspiration center should give new, old, and non-users ideas on how to use Posterous to its full advantage.
I'm excited to see even more creative use-cases of how our users are using the platform!
I made this little infographic to show how sending to Posterous makes it easy to share across your social networking sites. Post to one and done!
Thanks to Jason Lang for the textures!
Video by Ryan Brown and Francis Basco.
The day would prove tough since the bride and groom's preparations were being held in two different locations but we managed to coordinate things. Having four videographers for the day was a definite help. For future weddings I'll be sure to have contact information of not only the bride and groom but also of others who will be with them throughout the entire morning (best man, parents, etc.)
Cressane and I took the duties of capturing the guys get ready in Pacifica and Francis and Vinny took the duties of getting the ladies get ready in San Francisco. The ceremony went well with a 4 camera set up - a "V" formation with two 70-200mm lenses getting the faces of the bride and groom, one wide lens in the center, and a "roaming" camera on a Glidecam getting great b-roll footage. Our wireless mics were giving off some terrible interference in the beginning but calmed down right before the vows were said (phew!)
The crew of Francis, JJ and myself had the opportunity to shoot video and photo for a church group in San Francisco who performed a play "Chirst Must Be In Our Hearts" at Bret Harte Middle School. A very special thanks to Eli and the rest of the church group for being so passionate about what they do and giving us some of the best hospitality I've received in recent memory!
It was amazing to see the youth of the group perform such a powerful and moving story. Eli warned us to not get teary eyed during the show for good reason. Almost half the entire hall was sobbing by the ending act. After the show we were fed (very well) in true Samoan fashion.
I believe that when filming a production such as this, audio is probably one of the most important aspects you must capture. I used the Zoom H4N audio recorder to record two direct feeds - one from the stage speaker and one from the piano player Eli (who was amazing on the keys). The Zoom H4N is one of the best tools to have in your kit if you're a videographer.
To get the audio of the crowds reactions, I'll be using the on-board microphones from our two DSLR cameras and if necessary, the audio from our backup wide angle camera. The Zoom H4N also acts as a microphone in itself, giving us six audio tracks to play around with. (I could have also used my Zoom H1 to be my backup to my backup, but that's just overkill)
The main audio we'll be using is the line in from both the stage mixer and the midi keyboard - everything else will just be filler if needed. I haven't really messed with mixing so many tracks before, but my sound engineer wizard friend Ryan Frias assures me that everything should work out well. With the actual mixer having some problems during the production, I've got some work cut out for me.
If you've ever done post-production with an external audio recorder, you may find it to be a headache, especially with multiple cameras and even if you do the old school clapboard method. A piece of software I've discovered, PluralEyes, is very popular for this exact setup and from what I've seen from it so far (my footage is still transcoding) it's a gift sent from heaven to match up all the multiple video and audio tracks exactly where they should be on the linear timeline.
Photo credits: JJ Casas
Here's a panorama shot I took with my iPhone of the auditorium:
Imperial had 3 domains that had great SEO value but poor redirection and design on some of them. Only one domain had useful information for prospective clients to find any of his information and/or videos. I consolidated all three of his domains into one central domain with 301 redirects and gave his website a cosmetic lift. His traffic for this one central website increased twofold having the new redirects in place. According to his Vimeo stats, he got a 5,000+ view increase on his wedding videos alone ever since we fixed his website issues.
Vinny is one of the most talented wedding videographers in the game right now (he used to be a professional skater) and I look forward to helping him this upcoming wedding season!
Here are some videos to give you a sense of what he does:
A couple weeks ago Francis and I had the chance to work with Atussa Couture's designers Daryoush and G for the Evolution[2] of Fashion. They were extremely enthusiastic and helpful in getting us to be a part of their brand and vision. This was our first gig working a fashion show so it was definitely an on-the-job training experience. Check out what we came up with:
Let me know what you think! Thanks!
