Blog Archives - Sparkworks Media

Value and Cost of Paid Talent

Lights, camera, action! You're ready to promote your product or service and you want to bring it to life with real people. But where will they come from? And what will they be paid? Hiring paid talent for your video or broadcast / streaming advertisment through an agent can be a large portion of your...

The Future of Production is Virtual

Filming on location may be obsolete before we know it. Like a lot of people stuck at home during the pandemic, I watched a lot of TV. One show that made me sit up and take notice was the Mandalorian - now in Season 3. Not just because it’s a good show but because of...

Edward Jones Spotlight

In 2022, Sparkworks had the honor of working with Amp Agency to tell the story of the Edward Jones Centennial celebration. Edward Jones started in 1922, and has been providing financial advice to people from all walks of life for the last 100 years. To celebrate this historic milestone, the folks at Edward Jones put together an...

A Great Video Producer

We often hear from our clients that working with Sparkworks is a great experience. It feels really good to know that we’re meeting or exceeding our client’s expectations.We think a lot of it has to do with the producer. The video producer’s job is to ensure a project is produced on time, on budget and...

Full Time Producer Position

UPDATE: We hired someone and his name is Tim Boyd! We're excited to have him. Sparkworks Media is a motion media production company in Seattle, WA. We are passionate about our work and strive to provide the best creative, value and an overall excellent experience to our clients. We work to foster a healthy work...

Webcast Live Stream Production

Webcasting might become the new normal for the foreseeable future when it comes to live events. With large gatherings being cancelled and risks deemed too high to meet in the office, we’ve seen the approach to corporate communication video production shifting fast. We live stream events for several of our corporate clients when they want...

Video Social Campaign

Video for social - it’s huge right now. It’s easy to leverage a video you’ve already produced to create a campaign that lasts weeks after your initial video launch. Think of it as the movie trailer for your main video – Between 7 and 15 seconds works best. Share it on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram,...

A Brief History Of Video Hosting

Hosting your video used to be really difficult. Due to the bandwidth constraints of the day (56k anyone?), you needed to encode your video to a bunch of different sizes, all with heavy compression, and then the viewer would pick what looked like the right connection speed for them and either download or progressively...