It's 2pm. As I order a second Stella at a dive bar in Brooklyn, a dozen story ideas swim around in my head. 80s music plays in the background. An old man asks, loudly, for his 4th pint of Guinness (British) and the sound of rain hits me from behind every time someone enters or exits the tiny place. I find these little bars hotspots for ideas. There have been hundreds of articles and books written on how to jumpstart creativity, ideas, motivation. I'll tell you what has always

It's all about prep-work and and being organized. The Puzzle Pieces approach. This piece of advice best suits video producers getting into short-form video editing for the first time. However, I've used this method of editing since I first started cutting my own pieces. I'm not the best director out there, but I am a thorough editor. Whether I'm working on branded content or short form documentary pieces, most non-fiction/unscripted videos fundamentally rely on Interviews + B

El contacto directo es lo de menos. Con un portafolio decente y un buen "pitch" cualquiera puede vender historias a las cadenas más importantes del mundo. Cuadro de un próximo promo. En un previo post "Entre lo Trivial y la Tragedia y Cómo Sobrevivo en Ambas" hablo sobre la masiva producción de contenido original por parte de publicaciones internacionales (tradicionalmente asociadas con televisión) y sobre cómo acceder a plataformas que nos conectan directamente con los edito