A marketer at heart, a storyteller, ambitious cinematographer and photographer. I was born and raised in Athens, Greece. I currently live in London working in AdTech and capture London in stills or videos in my spare time. More
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Ever wondered what goes in behind every short video you see online, or how long it takes for someone to film and post a video on a social sharing platform? It depends on the length, production quality and storyline. I just thought of giving you an inside view on what goes in creating a short 1-minute product video, and to walk you through my creative process.
Alcohol, and more specifically cocktails, have traditionally been one of the best products for TV ads. It’s easy to create stories around them, since the process of mixing the various ingredients is a story of its own. So since we’re in lockdown and I can’t film outside, I decided to make my own short cocktail-making video one morning. And yes, it involved some sipping and tasting during early hours.
Two year’s worth of footage and photos are gone. There’s no way to recover them and I have only myself to blame. And that’s all because spending north of $80 a couple of years back seemed like an unnecessary and costly expense. I couldn’t be more wrong. Let me explain.
Every YouTuber who respects itself (and drinks coffee) has to have a coffee making video in its channel. Jokes aside, videos like this present a great opportunity to sharpen my product videography skills and focus on the frames and sequences I want to include. At the very least, I’d be left with a delicious cup of coffee.
Last year more than 60,000 London homes were broken into. One of those was of my good friend and best man who came home from work one day only to find out his apartment of 6 years was broken into in the middle of the day. That gave me an idea to stage and film my very own break-in... of my own apartment.
Can you measure creativity? How do you determine whether you’ve become more creative? I’m not one that keeps his new year resolutions, failing pretty miserably every time I try it. So how do I make sure I achieve such an aspiration and broad objective or being more creating? I believe the key lays in setting long term goals and work your way down. Let me explain…
Celebrating Christmas early by decorating the tree, was not my cup of tea earlier in life. However, everything changed when I met my wife, and since, decorating the Christmas tree in November has now become a family tradition I hold dear in my heart.
How long is too long without your other half? I lasted less than a week and I was eager to reunite with Katerina. Not home. At a Greek island. Travelling half across the world to meet her didn’t scare me. What scared me was that I had to spend another 1.5 weeks apart…
I recently launched a Pond5 page and started selling stock footage from various projects I worked on in the past. Haven’t always been a fan of stock photography or videography, but times changed. So did my opinion for stock footage. Here’s why.
Last year I took a 30-day photography challenge to improve my skills and find my style in photography. This year it’s all about animation and creating compelling and engaging stories with short videos. Not just any video challenge, a Broll challenge!
I’ll probably sound like an old romantic, but I prefer to do the old people watching on public transports than stare the glaring screen of my phone. It feeds my imagination and entertains my brain far more than reading the news or playing sudoku. Here’s why.
I recently went through a rebranding exercise in an effort to adjust to the new changes in my storytelling workflow through stills and animation. Check it out at www.nikosdrakatos.com.
Ever dreamt of travelling to a new destination and exploring its beauty? Well, my wife certainly has, and you get to see her living her dream in this short travel video we shot together while visiting Florence and Pisa in Italy.
