Ready, Set, ACTION! (8/22/14)

You have got to love some of the advancements that haven taken place in the last 10-20 years. These advancements have leveled the playing field giving Average Joes the tools that are needed to succeed when competing against the big dawgs.

Just think about it. Twenty years ago if you wanted to shoot some video with an on air celebrity you would have to be live on location. You would also have to pray to be selected from the list of countless other people who wanted to be on TV with the same celebrity. The second option is you could drop over ten thousands of your hard earned dollars on the equipment to record your own video and hope to get it picked up or buy some airtime on a public broadcast station.

Ten years ago you could rent space for a nominal fee at a little boutique video production company and upload your video to this new magical world called the internet, or you could invest a couple thousand greenbacks on video equipment and do the same thing.

Now all you really need is a bed sheet, a lap top with wifi and a webcam (pretty much standard issue now a days), a flood light, wifi, and a really cool image and branding professional with TV experience like my bff Starley Murray and you can create competitive professional quality video via Skype.

Here’s the proof. This is was my video set where I shot my video looked like. Starley then coached me on how to take that video and pitch myself to both local and national TV producers for my book tour. It’s beautiful that even a wet behind the ears first time author like me can has the opportunity to be as successful as the big names out there in the real world. The even better part is you can use the same tools, and achieve the same success; if you want to.

Studio Average Joe