creative corner
Welcome artists and creative people of all kinds! This page is for those of you who are trying to make it in the arts or just love the art world. In the coming issues we'll have information for visual artists, sculptors, musicians and performing artists.
Featured in this Issue
- YouTube: Getting Started
- Women in Art
- Art News: Who Cut Off Van Gogh's Ear? You Won't Believe What a New Book Alleges
Creative Corner Resources
YouTube
What can a YouTube Video do for You?
- Can help brand you
- Great marketing tool at a small cost
- No charge to put it on YouTube
- Generates web traffic and buzz
- Search engines love YouTube
- Easy to send around to friends, colleagues and clients
6 Steps to YouTube Success
This 3 part series will take you through all the steps you need to take to create and publish your own video to YouTube!
Step 1: Outline your concept
What type of video?
- Instructional | View Sample Video |
- Commentary or Interview | View Sample Video |
- Just for fun | View Sample Video |
- Showcase of your talent | View Sample Video |
Watch similar successful YouTube videos to see if what you want to do has been done before. If so, can you do it better or put a new twist on it?
Would this video appeal to a wider audience?
Step 2: Make your video
| YouTube Video Toolbox: Sound, Lighting & Camerawork |
- Use a digital video camera, your cell phone, web cam or any other digital device that can record movies | Learn more |
- Recommended resolution settings: 1280 x 720 (16x9 HD) and 640 x 480 (4:3 SD) | Learn More |
- Use a tripod to steady the camera
- Shoot more footage than you need (you can edit out what you don't want later)
- Careful with using the zoom too much; it's better to move closer if you need to
- Natural light is best
- Do a brief test video first to make sure the lighting, sound and framing are good
- Save it or convert it to a format YouTube accepts:
- Windows Media Video(.avi)
- .3GP (cell phones)
- .AVI (windows)
- .MOV (mac)
- .MP4 (ipod/psp)
- .MPEG (usually the best option)
- .FLV (adobe flash)
- .SWF (shockwave flash)
- .MKV (h.264)
In the next inSITES issue we'll look at tips for editing your video.
top of page Awesome YouTube Video: Women In Art
This cool YouTube video is sure to inspire you and open your eyes to how little has changed in our concepts of beauty throughout hundreds of years of women portrayed in art. This is longer than I would recommend for beginners, but these people obviously knew what they were doing. Enjoy!
Recommended Links
Art Books You Should Own
Oldies but goodies that should be in every artist's bookshelf:
Marketing for Artists CD
Based on Susan Lee's successful Marketing for Artists presentation, this highly informative CD can be viewed on your pc or printed. It includes the following sections:
- Marketing for Visual Artists
- Public Relations for Visual Artists
- Marketing & PR for Writers (information for published and non-published writers)
- Photoshop Tutorials
- How to Photograph Your Artwork
- Portfolio Creation and Organization (hard copies and online galleries)
- Complete clickable links to recommended instructional videos, marketing books and software
- Clickable links to artists resources on the web including grants, mailing lists, benefits for artists & more
Order your Marketing for Artists CD now for only $15 (+$5 S&H)
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