04 Feb Meet the McCombs BBA Students
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02 Feb Top 5 Crowdfunding Campaigns
Moth to Flame makes a lot of crowdfunding campaigns for startups. It is fun to be able to think outside of the box and figure out what is the best way to get at people’s hearts and most importantly, their purse strings. What makes us different from all other production companies is that we don’t simply make whatever video a client wants. We make sure that it coordinates with their overall strategy. We even provide consulting services for the running of the campaign itself, for example marketing ideas, marketing strategy, and overall campaign design. In fact, we ran our own…
29 Jan Throwback Thursday: Loop and Poop
One of Moth to Flame’s favorite things to do is create content for startups. Why? When you are a startup, most companies want to stand out and be different. That is exactly what we strive to do at Moth to Flame, be raw, unique, and edgy. The most common request we get from our startup clients, in regards to their crowdfunding campaign or commercial is… we want to go viral. We have helped many Austin companies raise over $200K worth of funding. Some products are definitely challenging, but we are not afraid to make fun of ourselves. Some of our…
26 Jan Moth to Flame New Year Resolutions
Chasing a dream and capitalizing on it is hard. The biggest lesson I learned in 2014 is that there comes a time when the business takes over the craft. It takes extra effort on your part to let go of the business and trust the people you work with, so you can carry out your craft. Every step of growing a business has its own set of problems. In the beginning I ran Moth to Flame pretty much on my own. As we grew in size and added more and more people, processes had to be put into place, quality…
22 Jan Throwback Thursday: Adam and the Pirate
This was taken at the fabled Peter Pan Mini Golf course in Austin when pirate love was in the air on the set of Funemployment.
19 Jan Moth to Flame Resolutions: Jason and James
Jason Cates'(Social Media/BTS/Set Sound) Resolutions 1. Make at least one original short film Last year began with a rather lengthy stint being a background extra on Revolution. Then going out to Shreveport to run sound for A Bird’s Nest. After that I ran sound on a few more productions, and also managed to film a little project of my own. That project however was silent, and this year I would actually like to film something with sound. I’d also like to use my own music instead of using a recording. First things first though, I need to get something written…
07 Jan Wedding Anniversary of Mary and Marco Restrepo
A look at the wedding anniversary of Mary and Mary… One of the first weddings Moth to Flame filmed was for a fellow McCombs colleague. Today marks the wedding anniversary of Mary and Marco. It was quite special since many of my classmates were in attendance – a mini McCombs get together. Hook em! I can still remember the bride & groom getting ready at the San Jose Hotel on South Congress, followed by a beautiful ceremony around Pecan St. and ending with the bride running down dirty 6th into the middle of the road for an awesome light drawing…
05 Jan Moth to Flame’s New Years Resolutions
We are officially a week into 2015, which is about the time statistics say people have already lost momentum towards the resolutions they made on new years day. To avoid falling into this pool, below are some tips to help you reach your goals. Before all steps, write down your top goals and make yourself accountable by sharing it with as many people as you can. In our case, we like to broadcast our most important goals loudly, so that all of you can hold us accountable. Instead of saying what you aren’t going to do, create a list…
01 Jan Top 10 Moth to Flame Moments in 2014
2014 Top 10 Moments at Moth to Flame Moth to Flame has a lot of great moments in 2014. Here are our top 10! Top 10 1. Finishing Funemployment and submitting it to SXSW 2. Getting Top 5 at the Louisiana Film Prize for A Bird’s Nest 3. Blind Date Rules Short Film Coming soon 2015. 4. Making creative training videos for HP! 2014 5. Creating a series of videos for McCombs BBA classrooms and a series of web videos! All launching early 2015. 6. Raising a client’s (Modern Fuel) Kickstarter goal in one day. ...
31 Dec Thank you 2014. It has been great.
Thank you 2014…. The last few weeks before the new year is always a much needed time of reflection for me. In the world of entertainment and entrepreneurship, you experience two types of projects, the ones that come and go in a whirlwind or the ones you are stuck on for so long that you cannot see an end in sight. It is difficult in both cases to find time for reflection because while you are in the moment, all you can do is hold on and hope you come out alive emotionally and physically. Running Moth to Flame…