Sooo Typical
By leelefever on January 11, 2008 - 12:45pm.
Sachi came into the room where I draw and saw this piece of paper and nearly died from laughter. It's true - I'm sorry to say, I had a problem coloring a checkered flag. Such things are all too common in my world.
The Tools of Our Trade (analog version)
By leelefever on December 13, 2007 - 10:47am.
Like our videos, the tools we use to make them are quite simple. Below is a quick tour of some of the non-electronic elements of our productions...
The photo below represents a near-complete selection of the tools we use almost everyday to create illustrations and videos. You can view the photo below with "notes" on Flickr.com.
Help Translate the Google Docs Video on DotSUB
By leelefever on September 21, 2007 - 3:55pm.
We've been friends and fans of dotSUB since we first started making video for The Common Craft Show. They make it easy for videos to be translated into multiple languages via subtitles.
The RSS in Plain English video has been translated into 20+ languages on dotSUB. A truly useful and innovative service.
I've gotten permission from the Google Docs team to share the Google Docs video on dotSUB so it's acessible for the hearing impaired and our non-English speaking friends.
View With Comments Booos and Yeahs - Coming Back By Popular Demand
By leelefever on August 9, 2007 - 9:50am.
Boy, did we learn something about our videos. You like the booos and yeahs, eh? I think that's pretty clear.
It's funny. Did you know that the first time we did it for the RSS video it was completely spur-of-the-moment? The booo just seemed to fit in that moment of production - we had no inkling that it would be a trademark.
I'll take the blame for it not appearing in this video. I felt like it started to get a bit trite - I thought people might be getting tired of it. I was wrong.
I promise, cross my heart, that the next Common Craft Show video will have the booos and yeahs.Â
View With Comments Investing in Paperworks Videos
By leelefever on July 10, 2007 - 5:42pm.
If someone told me back in March of this year that we'd be making videos as our full time job in July, I would have said it was preposterous. What do we know about making videos? Such is the current state of affairs - we're booked through the summer doing paperworks videos on commissioned basis and feel 100% confident that this is the right direction for us.
Of course, having people paying us to make videos means we have to learn fast and make some investments in our equipment and software.
View With Comments Why Paperworks: All About Constraints
By leelefever on June 24, 2007 - 3:58pm.
Since our first couple of videos came out, I've been talking to a lot of people about what makes the Paperworks format work. Aside from the content/message, I often say that a set of constraints is what makes the format a great fit for our goals.
In this case, a "constraint" is a rule that we have decided not to break in making our videos.
Examples: We only use certain materials (paper, whiteboard, markers, string), we won't make a video over 4 minutes long, we only use our hands to tell the story and we don't use any external music (just humming, snaps, claps, etc.). Further, everything we make in the format is 100% copyright infringement free. These are the Paperworks constraints and they have a huge impact.
View With Comments Common Craft Video Productions
By leelefever on June 13, 2007 - 10:40pm.
Common Craft (the company, not the blog) is in the midst of a change. It appears that we're becoming, quite fortuitously, a video production company.
This is our story:
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