When Richard Brown from the Global Heartbeater Project approached Moth to Flame about developing a corporate video marketing strategy for a new invention called The SuperTrike, we were excited to be a part of it. Working with a new startup that is keen on building a solid video marketing strategy is quite rare because video production tends to take up quite a bit of resources and time that startups usually cannot budget for. Richard, however, is an innovator and he knew first hand that video marketing could help sp
Christine has been busy getting together the final cut of Funemployment. If you’ve been following our Instagram you may have seen this photo, of our cat helpers working on some inserts.
One of the most entertaining times working on the set of Funemployment was when we got to take over The Hideout Theater to serve as a backdrop for a scene. Lots of laughs were had during the filming of this scene as Matthew Broussard(pictured below) was allowed to do some improv for the cast and crew.
This photo was taken on a day when two friendly movers from Two Men and A Truck came out to help us shoot a scene. It was probably the easiest moving day they ever had on the set of Funemploment. All that was being moved was a mattress that day.
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…
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…
On the set of the Blackbox Trainer Crowdfunding video The shoot for the Blackbox Trainer app went quite smoothly compared to previous shoots I’d been involved with in the past. We had everything pretty much set up before any of the talent had showed up, and the shot list all planned out from beginning to end. Once we got everything set up, Christine and myself went about making sure I could pull her around while she worked the camera on the dolly, while Kellie Penna went about contacting the talent and Kenny Horton went about learning how to run the…
Making my first feature, Funemployment, has been an epic adventure… one of the most difficult journeys that I have ever taken as a filmmaker. Would I do it all over again? Hell yes. I am 200x the filmmaker I was before I started because I learned so much. Here are some things that I learned.