Writing the next episode this week as I put finishing touches on the Baseball episode of Laughing Historically….
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Posts tagged "web series"
In today’s edition of Learn From Brandon’s Mistakes in web video production…
When I first bought my Canon T3i (600D) DSLR to film Laughing Historically, I was foolish enough to buy a starter package, which included a kit lens. After many episodes and trial and error adding lighting, shooting in daylight, trying every setting to balance out aperture and white balance, I came to terms that the kit lens was absolute garbage. Everything looked lifeless and dead, my iPhone could almost film better video. But I did what I could to get episodes out…
After lots of research, I came to the conclusion that for dslr video, the two default lenses are the Canon 50mm f1.4 and somewhat pricier Sigma 30mm f1.4. I headed to B&H and it was evident immediately that the Sigma, even though it wasn’t Canon glass, was the hands-down winner. In the little time I have gotten to play with the lens on my camera, I finally feel like I have a DSLR. It is sharp, quick to focus, and has incredible depth of field. I can’t wait to really give this thing a run for its money!
What I learned: If you want to buy a DSLR, don’t fall for a “starter kit”, just buy the body and get the lens you need for the type of scene you need to shoot.
have you seen the first episode of my new web series yet?
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I am extremely pleased to launch the first episode of my new educational comedy web series Reel Science, ”The Scientific Method of Oz.” Reel Science is an animated guide, where I take a science lesson and put it in a gene splicer with one of your favorite movies (hopefully we can avoid too many Jeff Goldblum The Fly abominations). In this episode, I start with the basics, explaining the Scientific Method with The Wizard of Oz.
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My new web series is here! Try holding down alt while pressing the reblog button to see some magic happen….
My new pal @blip is particularly annoying. (Easter gift from family friend) (Taken with instagram)
Pretty damn sure Facebook bought Instagram because I posted this sweet photo this morning. The timing can’t be a coincidence.
Science + Movies = Reel Science
From the makers of Laughing Historically (iTunes “New & Noteworthy” & Top 10 video podcasts) comes a fully animated guide to science using something we all know and love, movies.
View Teaser Here. Share and Enjoy
I’ve been planning this one for months and extremely proud of how it is coming along. Don’t worry, plenty more Laughing Historically on the way as well.
Great title.
Credit where credit’s due, Mr. Flowers may have helped with the name…
Have you watched yet? What do you think?! Share and Enjoy!
While playing around in the new Apple Tv interface, noticed Laughing Historically is still rocking Top 50 Society and Culture on iTunes!
“According to former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Boris Nemtsov, the bizarre behavior of Yeltsin resulted from “strong drugs” given to him by Kremlin’s doctors, which were incompatible even with a small amount of alcohol.”
Well, how about that. Tumblr knows all. Watch the new episode of Laughing Historically Boris Yeltsin: Drunkest Man in History to learn more!
You can’t make this stuff up, believe us, we tried.
In the one year anniversary episode of Laughing Historically, we go back to our roots, nudity and drinking. It’s Boris Yeltsin: The Drunkest Man in History, guest starring foreign policy wiz-kid Jared Haase.
If there is one episode of Laughing Historically to watch beginning to end (and reblog), I think this is the one. I still can’t believe its all true. Watch now.
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You can now add Blip to your home screen on your iPod, iPhone, or iPad! Click above for a how-to.
Since I go with a heavily Terry Gilliam-inspired collage style, assembling the characters for episodes of Laughing Historically requires a maddening amount of stock images, google image searching, and blind luck. Since hands are so hard to find decent pictures of, I have literally hundreds of iSight shots of me posing my hands in front of my computer late at night with exhausted looks on my face. If someone didn’t know what I was doing and looked in my Photobooth, they would undoubtably think I was utterly insane.
I am only partially insane.
New Laughing Historically Logo for March’s episode. Slowly but surely over the last year, everything we threw together in a night has gotten actual thought and time put into it…
The one year anniversary episode 16 of Laughing Historically with special guest expert Jared Haase is in the can. We have lighting now!
No Valentine’s Day episode of Laughing Historically - here’s the skinny, Catholic Church lied about some guy MAYBE being beaten with clubs then beheaded to tie into a Pagan holiday, then Chaucer made up some holiday-like connections in his fiction, then hundreds of years later Chocolate and Greeting Card companies popularize it to get a holiday between Christmas and Easter. Our episode on Santa Claus had more true events in it than that. In the meantime, check out Chiara’s great A Brief and Unromantic History of Valentine’s Day for more
Hey Space Monkeys! Did you miss the new episode of my web series Laughing Historically, “The Truth Behind Indiana Jones?”
In this episode, we dive right back into fridge history, with time traveling nazis, UFOs, witches. Learn about Germany’s supernatural experiments, rumors and legends of which have worked their way into countless movies and video games. Watch Now!
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The online adventures of Brandon B Werner: time lord, designer at Blip, and web series producer (blip.tv/laughinghistorically)
