Intro

This is an intro for a series I am crafting titled "Raw Passion". The premise for the show is going outside of my comfort zone and experiencing first hand experiences with peoples passions in life. The show will have a mixture of interviews, on-cameras, guest speakers, and a summary of my experience and what I have learned in the field.

Stay tuned, the first episode will air next week Thursday at NS1productions on my youtube channel. Feel free to join the fun and contact me if you wish to share your passion, who knows.... Maybe the next episode can be yours for the taking.

Casual Conversations

This was a last minute idea I had for a sample reel on my youtube channel. The point of the video was to illustrate a clear and concise message and have a little fun with it. The first actor that appears is Mathis Schmidt who agreed to free style some dialog. The second actor that appears is Robert Keller who also agreed to help out with this project.

I also wanted to show off different editing cuts and different camera angles to show the diversity within my style of pre-production and post production. I was inspired about doing this project right after I watched "Death to Smoochy" when the scene with Robin Williams andEdward Norton, with the death threat phone call. I picked monochromatic in order to keep it very dull, that way the visuals would not distract you from the conversation.

The premise of the video is simple, two guys talking about the previous night. When all of a sudden it gets interrupted by the annoying friend that dials in. Then the two main characters decide to drop their third friends call leaving him hanging.

Spanish Lessons

I am currently taking a Multi-Communications class that assigns me to a new story each week. This particular week we were asked to answer a simple question. "Something you may not know about me". The assignment was supposed to stay underneath 2 minutes in length, and besides that, there really wasn't any rules to the project.

This is a true story, I used to take Spanish Lessons with my Friend Jose Irizar because a group of friends and I went on a trip to Mexico on last years spring break. This was to pay tribute to the lessons but more importantly have fun and go over the top with the material. My goal was to make the instructor laugh... Needless to say MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Music Stories

A few weeks back I was assigned a project in my multimedia broadcasting class, to come up with a 2 minute story that had to be written/filmed/edited/and completed within 3 hours. I thought about the assignment as I walked around downtown San Francisco listing to my favorite playlist, when it came to me. I wanted to create a film explaining some of the key reasons why I listen to the different types of music, I wanted to explain this through storytelling. So I sat down, pulled out a pen and a piece of paper and I wrote out my entire audio track. With time being limited, I also wrote the different shots I wanted to execute, so I could hand the list off to a friend from class and he would know exactly what I was expecting. We shot the content in a half hour, which gave me roughly an hour and a half to edit the material in Final Cut Pro. This is the end result.

Connections Planningness

I can't believe I was lucky enough to see this presentation and partake in Planning-Ness!

Connections Planningness

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Charging You For Things You Don't Buy: Preacquired Account Marketing [Free

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One person who commented on this said it best, "these marketers aren't Lexus rich, they are 4 ferries rich". Its sad that people fall for this, and its even more sad to find people who entrap these poor online citizens. Ban pre-acquired account marketing indeed!

Tens of millions of consumers have fallen prey to "free" trial offers and membership clubs offered by preacquired account marketers. These companies insert themselves into your everyday transactions, hoping to trick you into letting them charge your account.

In a soon-to-be published law journal article, University of Minnesota Law School professor Prentiss Cox details how preacquired account schemes work, and says we should get rid of preacquired account marketing (PAM) entirely.

PREACQUIRED ACCOUNT MARKETING: THEMEMBERSHIP CLUB

Most PAM involves a FREE trial membership!!! offer. If you do not cancel within the trial period, you become a paying member (surprise!). The trick is that you never give preacquired account marketers your account number.

They are able to charge your account through arrangements with banks and merchants that partner with them. For example, you may not realize that the "Everyday Values" club offer in your Budget car rental packet is a separate company, Trilegiant. If you cash the $9.25 check from Budget's Everyday Values package, Budget will bill you and send the money to Trilegiant—minus a small fee.

MANUFACTURING CONSENT

Consumers who fall victim to PAM are generally unaware they have bought anything from the PAM company. In part, this is because all they have to do is get your "consent" to start the free trial offer. But "consent" here does not mean getting you to say "yes, I would like to purchase this product" or handing over your account number. More often, it just means getting you to say your birth date.

You may notice when that monthly fee appears on your account statement, but if so, you are not the PAM company's victim of choice. Like a good consumer predator, PAM's hope you are the kind of inattentive consumer who will not notice one more monthly—or yearly—fee that shows up a month or more after the "transaction" originally occured.

BAN PREACQUIRED ACCOUNT MARKETING

Because PAM is deceptive by nature, Cox advocates adopting the Uniform Consumer Account Control Act, which prevents anyone from handing out access to your account. Instead, you would get to decide what charges you authorize by explicitly authorizing them yourself.

The Invisible Hand of Preacquired Account Marketing [SSRN]

Sam Glover is a consumer rights lawyer, enemy of shady debt collectors, previous Consumerist contributor, and writes the Caveat Emptor blog. His column appears monthly on Consumerist.

(photo: Celeste)