The Basics of Video Conferencing and How You Can Up Your Game

,
video conferencing

Video conferencing has become so common that almost everyone in the country is familiar with some kind of conferencing software such as Zoom, Teams, or Facetime. It has become the new “norm” to now meet with your colleagues in a 2 dimensional world as it’s ideal for safety, and less so for communication purposes. Video conferencing cannot compete against face to face, but it does have it’s benefits, especially when the very best of the technology is used properly. 

Multimedia professionals agree, video conferencing can be enhanced by better tech, and especially better technique. You don’t have to spend a fortune to create a professional looking view of your living room, kitchen, bedroom, or office space. 

Read more

With More People Staying at Home, Media Professionals Turn to Voice Overs as a Potential Career

,
voice over microphone

You can be driving down the highway with the radio blasting, sitting at home watching your favorite TV show, checking out groceries at the self checkout station, or even watching your kids play with their new Christmas toys. In every one of these scenarios, voice actors are impacting your life in some way. You hear voices come through your speakers so often that eventually, you stop paying attention to what’s behind the voice. You become desensitized to a man or woman in a studio actually recording that commercial you’re listening to or your favorite video game character shouting during a battle scene. 

Read more

Will Streaming Services Replace Movie Theaters? Recent Studio Choices Raise Questions on Whether the Theater Industry Can Recover

empty movie theater

The pandemic has radically changed everything about our lives. How we shop, how we eat, who we see, where we travel, and it continues to be unique in the way that it keeps rolling out surprises in the way it changes business.

In a radical move that angered struggling theater owners across the country, Warner Brothers made the decision to release the highly anticipated “Wonder Woman: 1984” on HBO Max the same day it was released in theaters. This decision was not only a shock to the movie industry, but it showed that the production studio giants are beginning to favor at home releases amid concerns of in person film viewings. 

Read more