Comments on: iTech: Vivacious Video Taping

By: iTech: Editing with Excellence | Muslim Youth Musings

iTech: Editing with Excellence | Muslim Youth Musings — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:15:27 +0000

[...] It’s time to bring some Ihsaan to our productions. For part 1 of this two-part article, which speaks about video taping, see here. [...]

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:17:01 +0000

I took the liberty of writing a blog post on MessageMastery.com addressing the priority given to some points in these two articles:
http://messagemastery.com/adjust-blinders-102.htm

By: Arif Kabir

Arif Kabir — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:36:09 +0000

@AlBaraa That’s definitely true, and that’s why we mainly concentrated on those points in the second part of this series: http://muslimyouthmusings.com/2009/10/21/itech-editing-with-excellence/ and we used the prime example: :)

I believe there is more to the three-act structure than mentioned here, but the main point I’m trying to get across is that you should tell some sort of story to connect with your audience.

To conclude, there are many sites that I’ve researched to find out what I know. Two good ones are Leechon.com (a Muslim brother’s reflections on his business, in the field of video and marketing), you can check his archive to see some of his older stuff that deals more with video and film; and also TakeZer0.com (go to their episodes and look at some of their older stuff that includes tips on film and video).

And finally, there’s brother Belal Khan’s (of Leechon) project called MessageMastery

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:13:16 +0000

Regardless of what sort of video one makes, and regardless of how great the specs of the quality are, if it doesn’t have a meaningful story and/or strong characters on screen then the audience wont be engaged.

Story and character are one of the main elements that make a movie financially attractive to investors and viewers (spending $$ to see it).

This comes first. Everything else is secondary.