• Work From Home Job Opportunity: Video Production
A few days ago we wrote about Google’s new emphasis on video content. Kids today don’t read, they watch. So Google is bumping up sites that have moving pictures. And that means there’s an opportunity: somebody has to create all those videos.
Sure, kids today are creating videos like crazy—there are over 10 billion on YouTube—using cell phones, web cams, Movie Maker and iMovie. They’re uploading almost 30,000 a day, but that’s nothing compared to the number of blog pages created daily. So who’s going to create video for the bloggers? That’s where you come in.
If you have some computer skills (if you don’t telework is probably not an option) and an ounce of artistic talent, there are some programs out there that will do text-to-speech conversion and antimate an object. If you’ve seen the E*Trade ad with the baby in front of the computer you know what I mean.
In a very interesting article in the New York Times titled Becoming Screen Literate, Kevin Kelly has a lot more to say on this topic. To incude a video with this blog post I took a JPEG of him I found on the Internet
and animated it with CrazyTalk 5, just to give you an idea what’s possible. Took me two hours to learn enough to create something, 15 minutes to do it, and 15 seconds to add the text.
(P.S. I hate the terrible voice. Better ones are available, though).
March 13th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I would like to know about this job opportunity. Thanks
March 13th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Sorry, I wasn’t very explicit about the opportunity, just the underlying concept.
The business idea is to 1). use people’s digital images or snapshot and combine them with text or music to make amusing gifts, and 2). provide website owners with videos that combines images with blog text.