As a general rule of thumb I typically don’t use photos in most of the videos I create.  For some reason it drives me nuts to mix photos with video.  Recently I ran into a video where I didn’t have footage of the person in the story and decided to tell the story with several photos throughout the video.  I decided to take advantage of the white space and use masks and filters to insert the pictures without ever leaving the video completely.  Doing this allowed me to control the style of the video without feeling like I had to revert to a slideshow in the middle of the video.  Check out the video here.


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Brandon Riley

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Currently I work at Sugar Creek Baptist Church as a Creative Media Producer. There I am apart of the Creative Communications team as well as the LYF Student Ministry assisting with creating and strategizing video projects and interactive media needs for both departments. When I am not at work or volunteering with middle school students, you may find me blogging at Part of the glue or creating media projects for organizations and other churches/youth groups Radiant First Productions. In addition to these side projects, I am also the Director of User Experience for Tuggle a ministry management platform. You can follow me on Twitter
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