In the above video, I have created letters using multiple circular=cropped photos. Although they look like letters when looked at from afar, a closer view shows the photo clearly. This is a creative way to animate initials or names using a single photo – via repetition. Some photos may flicker, but I am not able to do much about it. The effect creates so many photos and keeps changing its size, opacity, etc. that it becomes difficult to control what it does to individual photos. Combine these initials/letters with a plain text message at the bottom and it will make...
LTD(s) – Limited Time Deals – Worth it? NO!
If you are in the marketing or creative fields, I guess you’d have come across many LTDs – Limited Time Deals. Products and Services that presumably cost multiples of tens of dollars per month are released for a one time (low) price of $29, $39, $49 USD, or whatever number catches their fancy. The catch? They are available at a low price for a short period – usually a few hours to a few days. As a victim of quite a few of these LTDs, I can give you only one suggestion – DON’T fall for them. Most of these...
Social Beat’s “Design Beat” – Hackathon on Road Safety
I went to participate in Social Beat‘s “Design Beat”, a one-day Hackathon to promote road safety, on Nov. 1, ’19. We were divided into teams of 3-4 and were given a brief on design thinking and our task for the day. We were expected to brainstorm ideas, shortlist one idea and develop a small prototype (physical or digital) and present it before a panel of authorities who have a say on framing public policies here in Chennai, India. Here is the presentation we (Team 10) made on that day: Idea for Road Safety (Presented during Social Beat’s Design Beat Event...
Happy Haloween – Video Greetings
This Haloween, why not make a spooky video greeting and share it with your friends and relatives on social networks like Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram? Have a look at the above video to see the Haloween themed wishes we have created – as a short 12-seconds video. The photo & text can be changed/customized based on what you send us. You’ll receive a small video file that can easily be uploaded to most social networks. This video is inspired by Haloween props and objects. It even has spooky music that matches the ghostly mood. The best part about the above...
Save The Date Video [Wedding/Marriage Invitation Video]
Here is a Wedding/Marriage Invitation Video template that I made. It’s also called Save the Date Video in western countries. This is in the new 2.5D format where I animate 2D objects in 3D space. Nowadays it’s not possible to hand-over or courier physical invitations to everyone as many friends and family members live across the globe. A short virtual wedding/marriage invite video like this could instantly be sent anywhere over email or social media messengers like Facebook and WhatsApp. You can also upload it on your Facebook wall or publish it as an Instagram post. You don’t necessarily have...
Music Video Collage Effects (incl. Dancing Woman Silhouette Effect)
I have created some new Video Collage Visual Effects. You can see them in the below-embedded music videos. These effects can be applied to any video, not just a music video. Before showing you the longer video with twelve collage effects, I want to show you a short video that has my favorite “Dancing Woman Silhouette” effect. Check it out below 🙂 If you find this a somewhat heavy effect or if the action in your video is spread across the screen (unlike just in the center – as in the above video), look at the twelve different video collage...
How to Create Viral Videos (Book Review)
I found the above video ad recorded and released by the author of ‘Fast Cheap & Viral‘ – Aashish Chopra on Instagram and purchased the book almost instantly after reading the blurb. I did another unexpected thing – I finished reading the entire book within a couple of days in spite of the fact that I don’t read books nowadays – I only listen to audiobooks or using text-to-speech. First off, Content Marketing interests me a lot. Second, Content Marketing through Videos that are affordably produced interests me even more. Third, the fact that someone successful in that art decided...
Content Marketing Meetup Summary: HelloMeets
Yesterday I went to an information-sharing session organized by HelloMeets at Facilio Chennai on Content Marketing. In this post, I’ll summarize the key takeaways from that session presented by Mr. Manish Nepal. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rajesh K (@wowsuper_net) on Sep 25, 2019 at 9:33pm PDT About the Speaker: Mr. Manish Nepal is a Journalist turned content marketing specialist with over 7-years of experience in marketing. As a content marketer he has worked with brands like Bharat Matrimony, The New Indian Express, etc. He is the co=author of a book called ‘The Growth Hacking’ in...
Sep. ’19: Yamaha music Launches New Keyboards for Kids & Semi-Professionals (PSS Series)
Yamaha Music recently organized a press meet to launch their Made-in-India PSS Series Keyboards/Pianos for the Indian market. Above-embedded video shows the sounds/music from the new keyboards as demonstrated by Mr. Glen, an executive of Yamaha Music India. He plays a few melodies composed by AR Rehman with these keyboards. Do see the above video to know what these tiny instruments are capable of! During this press meet, Yamaha launched three new models. The first two keyboards are focused on kids & teens; the third one can be used by teens-adults and semi-professionals. Yamaha PSS-E30 (Beginning model with something special...
B2C Youtube marketing event highlights: social beat & hello meets
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rajesh K (@wowsuper_net) on Sep 20, 2019 at 4:41am PDT Today I had the opportunity to attend “How to do B2C Youtube Marketing” workshop organized by HelloMeets at Social Beat office, Chennai. Here is a summary of the learnings from there. This is a very broad topic and it’s impossible to cover everything required to create a successful Youtube marketing strategy within such a short time. However, the speakers for the day made sure that the audience got a good overview of the process they use at Social Beat to create...