Video Interview Series Launches…
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Simon ChenI hope I can keep this up. I always thought it would be a good idea to post to the blog actual video interviews, rather than just the link to the phone interview and transcript.
So, after much debate amongst the geeks at the office about which type of camera to buy and how we should produce it, I made an executive decision and basically ignored everyone and went out and did my own thing. As I always do (apparently).
I rarely wheel out the super geeks I work with - because many of them are somewhat socially challenged and to be honest, there’s always a sort of gamble when they talk publicly - you never know what will end up coming out of their mouths.
Anyway, Ben is an exception. He’s one smart dude. And I’m lucky to have him on the team. Ben and one his colleagues have been buried on Taguchi Mail for the past 9 months now. It’s shaping up nicely.
Here’s the video interview. Tell me what you think. I’d appreciate the feedback. (More to come, including James Masini, Founder, Hippo Jobs, Richard Noon, CEO,Webjet, Cameron Riley, Founder, The Podcast Network, James Farmer, Founder of Edublogs and Incsub (James is Australia’s Wordpress Guru) and many more.
Hopefully, by the time I leave next week to go to Web 2.0 Summit, I’ll have figured out how this whole video upload and editing thing works out without having to yell across the office for a nerd to help me.
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October 9th, 2007 at 12:19 am
I like the video interview concept and you did a good job but the sound could be better. What camera are you using? I’m looking at including video interveiws on my site and the camera choice is an important one. Appreciate hearing your advice.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Bill, thanks for the comment. Appreciate that the quality was sub par - we are using a JVC Everio GZ-MG275, 40Gb hard drive camera. Apparently hard drive cameras still dont talk well to Mac’s, and in order to convert to iMovie, we have to export to another program before sending to iMovie. We’ll work on the sound quality issue. It’s a work in progress!
October 9th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Like Bill, I think it was really good, but the audio could have been louder. Also, the content was really interesting (am looking into email/newsletter options at the moment in fact) but it could have been slightly shorter. I’ve found, both personally and working with video that people’s attention spans are really limited these days (no reflection on the quality of the content necessarily, although ofcourse it helps..)
October 9th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
… and if you used Vividas, it would be better again ;P (shameless, i know)
October 9th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Anna, it’s not shameless. Sometimes the reason we dont buy is because we dont know!. We’ll work on the audio quality - no dramas. All that takes is giving one of the poor geeks I work with a damn good thrashing. And I agree re the length - because we “adlibbed” this, we didnt use a script and were not aware of the time. It’s also the reason we had to load to Google Video and not YouTube, because YT only permits videos that are 10 mins or less. Lesson learned.