Platinum’s five L’s of Film Making 1. Light – you need to control it, and pack it. 2. Location – the place you’re going to shoot has to tie in with the L approach. 3. Lenses – without a serious set of fast primes, you’re restricted. 4. Look – the style, feel and genre you’re …
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PlatinumHD Propvid is proud to announce it has been appointed preferred HD video supplier for Australia’s No 1 real estate portal, www.realestate.com.au. Bringing video to the Internet has been a long, hard road, which started for us back in Sydney in 2004 as a small company called SMASH POP! We then morphed into Propvid (www.propvid.tv) …
An Emperor who cares for nothing but his appearance and attire hires two tailors who promise him the finest suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or “just hopelessly stupid”. The Emperor cannot see the cloth himself, but pretends that he can for fear of appearing unfit …
As we slowly expand internationally, we’re being exposed to different ways of doing things. Different ways Agents do things. Different business models. Increasingly, we are being asked, why is the quality of real estate marketing in Australia so high and how overseas Agents can achieve these results? The most defining answer – in terms of …
The 12 x $10,000 PlatinumHD Challenge. At PlatinumHD Propvid, we’re all about exploring the outer edges of the envelope for real estate video. Making quality, creative stuff that stands out from the crowd and delivers “eyeballs”. So, we’re launching the PlatinumHD Challenge. You come up with the best idea for a property video – and …
A time to ‘LIKE’ the Truth in advertising. The age of Facebook & YouTube ‘Likes’, ‘Sharing’ and ‘Comments’ poses some challenging dilemmas for ‘Mad Men’, ad merchants and copywriters. For the first time in history, selling points claimed in a media increasingly going ‘social’ gives the general public (buyers) not only the opportunity to disagree …
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There’s a very BIG misconception with property videos the longer a film goes for, the more value your Client is going to get out of it. The old ‘more bang for the buck’. That’s just plain wrong. In our world, cutting shorter is harder. It demands creativity and discipline. Any mug can throw together a …
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the …
When dealing with a medium as relatively new to real estate as ‘video’, it’s application demands a big re-think around dialogue. Take ‘You see’. Viewers ‘can see’ it is a kitchen. There’s no point in pointing it out to them. “As you can see, I’m in the kitchen.” Yep. We kind’a guessed that. The fridge …
Towards the Holy Grail of HDR 3D Video The later part of 2011 could see ‘real estate video’ surpass ‘real estate photography’ in it’s one area of weakness. That of Dynamic Range. The technology isn’t available to ‘commercialise’ it for property just yet – the operative term being ‘yet’. What we’re talking about here is …
