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MNM 14 | What Documentary Filmmaking Can Teach You About Creating Compelling Content

December 20, 2009 by Jason

Categories: Content Creation Tips, Mastering New Media Episodes, Productivity and Workflow

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filmmaking I’ve mentioned on the show before that I’ve been working on creating a short documentary film. Well, the film is finally done.

It was a ton of work, but a worthwhile experience that taught me several great lessons about how to create compelling content.

I’ve been taking note of the lessons learned along the way and in this episode I share them with you.

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In this episode of Mastering New Media…

  • The most powerful way to influence someone in your content
  • How to stay motivated when continually creating content
  • How to finally finish a project that you never seem to get around to completing

Take Action

  1. Choose one lesson that you learned in this episode and make a plan to apply it to your content/business this week

What Do You Think?

  • What lessons have you learned from a creative project that apply to creating online content?

I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

6 Comments For This Post

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    Joe
    January 6th, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    Hi Jason,

    So right!! The story is the central piece in marketing communications because people are so jaded that they just don;t pay attention to plain vanilla marketing noise any more!!

    I was wondering if you are using PodPress or have you moved to PowerPress for your podcasts. I keep hearing that PodPress is not very well maintained and PowerPress [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/powerpress/ ] is the way to go.

    Thanks

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    Jason Van Orden
    January 7th, 2010 at 11:48 am

    Joe,

    I don’t use PodPress or PowerPress. There’s no need. All I use is FeedBurner and the Audio Player Plugin.

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    Joe
    January 9th, 2010 at 6:04 pm

    Thanks for your reply.

    I thought these podcasting plugins are helpful in creating ITunes ready feeds etc.

    If I don’t use the plugins (podPress or PowerPress), do I have to hand code the podcast feeds? I’m not good at that :-)

    Thanks

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    Jason Van Orden
    January 9th, 2010 at 6:16 pm

    Joe,

    FeedBurner takes care of that for you. It adds all the iTunes tags.

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    Chef Tony
    January 11th, 2010 at 11:50 am

    Hey Jason,

    Your content is amazing, and your freebies are very informative, even though I’m pretty aware of some of your topics, I love to relisten and get motivated (and GET PAID) :)

    Trying to find the audio player plugin, happen to have a link?

    Thanks, you really are a great example of great info on the web!

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    Jason Van Orden
    January 11th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    Chef Tony,

    Thanks for listening. Glad you find the show motivational. That’s very fulfilling for me.

    Here’s the link to Audio Player Plugin.

    http://wpaudioplayer.com/