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Here at bv02 we have shot many a two person interview (or two up). Here are some gear/layout tips and tricks to make the interview looks amazing.
Gear:
We primarily shoot with Digital SLR cameras. After breaking a handful of expensive bodies, we settled on the Canon 550D, which balances video quality and price quite nicely.

For interviews [...]

Today was a very exciting day for us at bv02 and for our client, OC Transpo.  Andrew Milne, along with Chair Diane Deans and OC Transpo General Manager Alain Mercier introduced Ottawa to the new and improved OC Transpo mobile website – located at octranspo1.com/mobi
The new mobi website makes the most commonly used aspects of [...]

Everyone in Ottawa loves (or should love) to support local companies, and today a local company needs your help. N-product is raising funds to produce their first product called Deckster which is an watch case that can hold the newest iPod Nano. The watch is entirely made in North America using sustainable processes. Its a [...]

Last weekend the special exhibition, Japan: Tradition. Innovation, opened at the Museum of Civilization. It runs until October 10th and explores five different areas of Japanese design – Travel, Automation, Social Status, Consumer Culture and Entertainment. When I visited the exhibit on Sunday I was unfortunately too late to see the ‘Advanced Step in [...]

Today’s online world is crowded with visual clutter. The level of engagement happening outside of the web is high, and it appears in the form of new media.
Why? Well to begin with, more than half of mobile users in Canada have an Internet-ready device, so an increasing number of users are browsing the Web on [...]

QR codes, otherwise known as “Quick Response Codes” are a unique barcode that allows its content to be decoded at high speed or, in other words, in the flash of a camera on your smartphone. These barcodes hold specific information that can vary from webpages and articles to text messages, photos and videos.
Now let’s take [...]

As support grows for newer browsers like Google Chrome and the upcoming Firefox 4, HTML5 is starting to catch on. That means we’re about to see some exciting new features on the horizon.
One of the most exciting features in HTML5 is geolocation. With a user’s permission, websites will be able to tailor content to that [...]

Welcome to Matt’s video corner. I realized recently that I shoot a lot of video.  I shoot video of the things I do, the events I attend, and the places I go.  I’ll be posting updates of all the videos that the bv02 team and I produce for fun.
So. Here is a video summation of [...]

Almost everyone has a charity or cause they really believe in. Mine happens to be the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of Canada. I produced this video for a local fundraising event where we raised $99 000 for the CCFC.

I’ve found that the trick for these types of videos is to keep them super upbeat, luckily [...]

Lately, we have been talking a lot about how vigilant our clients need to be on blogging and Social media as of late.

A lot of them are worried about getting into it because the common consensus is that there’s not enough time in a day, and if there is – well, their time could be better utilized. We 100% agree. We find ourselves in the same situation all the time, but we know we must to be part of the conversation that is happening.

How? With focus…