The Creative Jungle

Repurposing footage and interview sound bites into new content can deliver added value to clients. With a little more pre-production planning and forecasting of video content opportunities, a film crew can accomplish a lot more than just sticking to the storyboards of one video. Arty and Justin share their advice for keeping clients informed of the content gems collecting digital dust on their hard drive and better practices for cataloging the content of a film shoot in post-production.

Filmmakers Tim O'Donnell and Jon Mercer take us behind the scenes of their latest documentary, Life Without Basketball. The film chronicles barrier-breaking basketball player, Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, who was the first Division 1 basketball player to play wearing hijab, until a controversial ruling put her professional sports career on hold. Hear Tim and Jon discuss documenting a socially conscious story and ways for indie filmmakers to distribute their work organically. www.lifewithoutbasketball.com

Arty and Justin consider the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on all of us while offering thoughts on how businesses and video production pros can communicate through these trying times. Despite this uncharted territory, we are eternal optimists who believe in the kindness, strength, and hope of our communities, both local and international. Sharing your story with courage, passion, and soul has never been more critical. Stay safe. Stay healthy, and we'll get through this together. animusstudios.com

The subject of your documentary film will be the ultimate voice that carries home a poignant message to an audience. Animus Studios Lead Editor, Roy Power, chronicles how his documentary short, Memory Video, started as a concept that was later enhanced by finding Miguel Gomez, the owner of Viva Video, as a lead character to study. Memory Video premiered at North America's largest documentary film festival, Hot Docs, with additional screenings at the Montclair and Nantucket Film Festivals. memoryvideo.film

Arty and Justin share their experiences and tips from interviewing hundreds of CEOs, pro athletes, and people with fascinating stories over the years. Whether you're making a feature film or video marketing content, great documentary filmmaking is reliant on your ability to interview people. Capturing great soundbites from those in front of the bright lights goes beyond reading questions off a sheet of paper. How can you get better material to work with? Push play. www.animusstudios.com

Wistia's Head of Production, Chris Lavigne, dissects the true worth of production value by breaking down their One, Ten, One Hundred video marketing campaign. Challenging LA-based video agency, Sandwich, to produce videos at three different budgets, the campaign also generated a Webby-award winning documentary of the same name. What's the value of taking big creative swings? Why did Chris's heart sink after seeing the first cut of his $100,000 video? Push play and hear him tell all. www.animusstudios.com

The worlds of TV, film, comics and cosplay are converging once again in downtown Providence as we host press relations manager Susan Soares from Altered Reality Entertainment; the people responsible for delivering a world of pop culture bliss for all. Hear what's in store this weekend from iconic franchises and nostalgic 80's hits to the comics and anime favorites dominating the convention circuit. www.ricomiccon.com

"Lion's Gotta Eat" and for the past 6 months we've been feasting on productions, which put our season 2 plans on hold. But we're officially in the pre production phase of bringing our listeners an insightful, inspirational and often times comical new season of The Video Jungle. Here's an update from Arty Gold on what you can expect as well as teasing episodes we recently released that were recorded this spring. Stay tuned! www.animusstudios.com

Condé Nast is a global media company that some of the world's most influential properties call home including Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, The New Yorker, and Wired. Joining us is their Executive Director of Branded Content, Justin Montanino, to discuss how he and his team are growing the company's video unit from strategy and development to production and distribution. www.animusstudios.com

Doug Palmieri and Rob Anthony of iHeartMedia are here to put our radio voices to shame and discuss how digital media has influenced the radio broadcast industry. Besides their co-hosting duties on 94 HJY and Coast 93.3, Doug and Rob manage the programming and marketing duties at their family of channels. Hear how they turned them into some of the most listened to radio stations in the Southern New England market and the productions we put together for their latest online video series. www.animusstudios.com