Picture this—you’re hunched over your friend’s computer, looking over his shoulder as you see the 25th picture of the Eiffel Tower from his trip to France. Your cheeks are hurting from holding a smile, but you’re somehow able to keep saying “oh nice!” over again. Meanwhile, you haven’t even made it to the Louvre in your pictorial tour yet—better get comfy!</br>I love still photography, but everywhere you look, the world is <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/01/27/twitter-group-messaging-video-app/22379261/" target="_blank">moving to video</a>. Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are all using video. And YouTube uploads over 100 hours of video every minute. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html" target="_blank">That’s a lot of cats!</a> Video is increasingly used online to showcase consumer products, even real estate. (At CBX, we’re beginning to transition to video to highlight case studies of our work.) In fact, three-quarters of web traffic is predicted <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/jan/14/video-content-marketing-media-online%20" target="_blank">to be video related by 2017</a>.</br>
Not to mention, anyone with a smartphone has a video screen in his or her pocket and the ability to shoot video at any moment. While mobile video isn’t particularly new, what’s remarkable is the access to and use of smartphones around the globe. In the US alone, two-thirds of the population uses a smartphone, including <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/11/two-thirds-of-americans-now-have-smartphones/" target="_blank">over 80% of young adults</a>.</br>
On a recent trip to Vietnam, I took over a thousand pictures but knew that nobody would actually want to see them all when I got home. So I used my iPhone instead to film different sights and cities and later edited the clips into a minute-long video. It turned out to be a much more effective and efficient way to capture the trip (and people were actually excited to see it).</br>
Enough with these oldfangled words… check out my video!</br>
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