Videos for Audience Profiles

Aspiring Filmmaker

For the aspiring filmmaker, we tend to watch videos online that either demo equipment or are tutorials for film software. We rarely care about other projects than our own, so this might be a good tactic. For the last 3 years, I have been working in the UCF Film equipment room creating content just like this. I might to a series of posts highlighting videos about DSLR cameras and Final Cut Pro. In fact, my ingest video for FCP has over 10,000 views on Vimeo. I have made another ingest video for Adobe Premiere, which is much more relevant than FCP. It also uses footage from SEANCE, the prequel to my feature film.

These are the keywords I came up with last week: DSLR, workflow, sound design, sound recording, lighting, grip, editing software, after effects plug-ins, camera rigs.

Here is a description: INGEST AND SOUND SYNC USING ADOBE PREMIERE CS6: Filmmaker Zachary Beckler takes us through an entire DSLR workflow using Adobe Premiere CS6. In this video, you will see his own personal workflow for SEANCE using Canon EOS 7D footage and Zoom H4n recorded audio within this new and popular editing program.

You can watch SEANCE, a micro-budget short film, in its entirety here: https://vimeo.com/25320119

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Horror Fanatic

I don't really know what kind of video we could make for this audience, as YouTube is currently flooded with "Scariest Films" videos. Perhaps one could do something similar to what Red Letter Media is doing, hilariously intelligent reviews of bad genre movies. Perhaps we should think outside the box... What if we did a series of videos for YouTube just like the "Scariest Films" clip packages, and we insert clips from our film within the classic films. Horror movie filmmakers, tend to have a brooder knowledge of the genre, so finding obscure clips isn't the problem. This is a form of spamming, but within a video it actually might work, if the content made sense. Or, if that it is too sleazy, just make a really great package:

Keywords we search: horror films, scariest, goriest, 100 best horror, new horror releases, upcoming horror, classic horror.

Description: SCARIEST SCENES EVER: This is a collection of the scariest horror films ever made, some new horror, some classic horror, a lot you may have never heard of. All of them, though, are guaranteed to terrify, horrify, haunt, and scare you off the computer. All clips were selected by horror director Zachary Beckler, whose award-winning film, SEANCE, is available online.

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Ghost HuntersThis might be a little more tricky. My first thought is to make a series of fake ghost videos and pass them off as real, something that is happening a lot online (though no one admits to it). This type of video has the most potential to go viral. Here is a fake one with 70 million views! 

Keywords I search: ghost video, caught on tape, paranormal activity, supernatural, evidence of paranormal, best ghost pictures, spirit photography, poltergeists, demonology.

(I love that "ghost caught on tape" is still vastly more popular than anything else, even though we have all stopped using tape)

DESCRIPTION: I CAUGHT A GHOST ON TAPE: Here is ghost footage I caught on tape in my own house. I am dont know how to explain this. Can you? Is it paranormal activity? Evidence of the supernatural? A weird artifact in the video? A poltergeist? This is one of the best ghost videos ever!

I am going to keep filming, perhaps even spend the night alone. Track my progress: Like us on Facebook.com/interiormovie