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Pat yourself on the back and take a deep breath – you just survived the job interview! It probably wasn’t as bad as you thought it would be. Or, if you are fretting over stumbling over one or two answers – relax. You probably did better than you think.

What do you do now? Well, there will be some waiting involved. It is unlikely that the hiring manager made an immediate decision and they may not be finished interviewing other applicants.

So how many times have you already relived your interview answers in your head while waiting? This will only drive you crazy as you discover flaws that the interviewer probably didn’t even notice.

If you are serious about your job search, you should immediately get back to it, and not put all your eggs into one employer’s basket. If you are truly worried about something you said, try to determine if it really needs to be clarified or if you are just being hard on yourself.

So when would you want to offer clarification? Perhaps you applied for a job that requires driving a company vehicle. If you couldn’t remember how many traffic violations are on your driving record, than later realized you have less than you reported, you should tell them.

So when would you not want to bother the interviewer with additional information? Perhaps you were quoting sales results and made a small underestimation. This could simply be left alone.

Whatever you do, stay busy. Keep looking for other opportunities, and if you don’t get this job, don’t beat yourself up. Every interview process is a learning experience, and each interview is an opportunity to practice your interview skills.

If you really feel that you could have answered an interview question better, use this as an opportunity to improve before the next one. Practice makes perfect!

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Indie filmmakers don’t have a strong need to compromise the standard of their art by having sloppy-looking shots all due to the shortage of green screen or “Chroma Key” technology. Hiring a studio that houses one is extraordinarily costly and since independent filmmakers are on a little humble small budget and always on a tight schedule, it may be nice if Chroma Key technology screens might be available and prepared anytime, anywhere. Fortunately , transportable Chroma Key screens can be made. There isn’t a need to shell out cash solely to have green screen Hollywood technology. Making a green screen that’s perfect for travel and cost cutting is as straightforward as one, two, and three.

First, prepare all of the required materials for the green screen. This is comprised of two PVC pipes, pipe connectors, clamps, end caps, and naturally, green fabric or green paint. Also make efforts to have safety necessities,eg eye spectacles. Second, make attempts to cut two PVC pipes. They need to be the ideal height for the green screen. Do not forget to cut the PVC pipes properly ; there should be no pointed edges or cracks. Sloppy cutting of the PVC pipes might decrease the sturdiness of the final product. Take care when cutting the pipe— debris might get into your eyes, so it’s best to wear eyeglasses while building the cartable screen.

3rd, cut every one of the pipes in half and place a pipe connector in the middle of every one. Having the connectors will make the green screen easy to carry around. Again, always make efforts to be safe when cutting the pipes. 4th, in order to have movable green screen Hollywood technology, take another pipe and cut them into to equal quantities. They should be approximately 4 to six inches shorter than the particular width of the green fabric. To explain, a fabric with a 50 in. width must have pipes that are 44 or 46 inches.

5th, build a stand for the transportable green screen. Cut the last PVC pipe into four parts. They should all have equivalent lengths. Connect two pieces of the PVC pipe with a pipe connector. Repeat this step for the remaining pipes. Make efforts to put end caps at the end of all the PVC pipes. 6th, cut two six-inch parts from the leftover PVC pipe and use them as spacers at the base of the finished frame. Join it to the pipe connector.

7th, assemble the parts. Use glue to secure the pipe connectors to one section of the PVC pipe so that they’ll be prepared for travel. Make sure to apply glue properly so no parts will fall off during transit. Eventually, get the clamps and attach the green fabric to the top sides of the frame. Put the fabric properly so it will fall nicely. There shouldn’t be any creases when the fabric hangs. Now, even the indie filmmaker can use green screen Hollywood technology. A portable Chroma Key screen is another tool which will help a low budget flick gets better quality.

There are so many other sites giving various forms of advice on how to use green screen but most of them are not very detailed or precise. Before following these, make sure to check my own articles and reviews on Green Screen Studio and Green Screen Hollywood, You can also reach me at 1-323-851-3825 or phillipguye@hotmail.com

Definitions of some English words can change quite rapidly these days. In the recent past the meaning of words was often very fixed. Today the meaning can change in the blink of an eye. With faster and newer ways to exchange ideas such as Twitter and with wider and more culturally, socially and educationally dissimilar groups connecting together – words are put back on the anvil of evolution and changed into something new and more reflective of current life.

There’s a significant global movement happening where consumers are asking business to take care of the things they care about such as the less fortunate in society and the environment. The request is mainly tacit and despite it being an ironic request it by far indicates still that we are in a time of vast change. Consumers these days want their cake and eat it. They not only want cheap products, they also want the environment to be preserved and they want workers to be well looked after.

There does not seem to be an answer to this conundrum and yet one does exist. It exists in the recoining or reforging of a single word. This word is a simple one – GET. Today, new movements of people who want to get but give at the same time are reforging it. It is being transformed into the word GIVE.

Every day automated email notices arrive in my inbox from Google Alerts for two keywords – BOGO and B1G1. I see all the new places these words are turning up on the Internet. Little by little these two words are gaining a their new meaning as more and more people take up the Buy One Give One cause.

B1G1 and BOGO, despite sounding like characters from a Marvel comic are acronyms for Buy One GET One free. You buy one and they give you an extra one for the same price.

Look up BOGO on Wikipedia.com (there isn’t a definition yet for B1G1) and you will discover these definitions for BOGO:

* An acronym in the retail industry that stands for Buy One Get One. For example, you could say “Buy 1 DVD, Get 1 FREE!

* An acronym in slang British that stands for Britons Of Greek Origin or Greek Britons.

* Bogo, Cebu, a city in central Philippines.

* An alternate name for the Bilen ethnic group of Ethiopia or their language, Blin.

* Norway, a village in Norway.

* The mascot of the ITESM CEM.

* BogoMips, an unscientific measurement of CPU speed

* Bogosort, an ineffective sorting algorithm

BOGO lights

There is an organisation in the USA called SunLight Solar founded by a gentleman called Mark Bent. He has created a special torch that not only is an amazing and robust solar-powered light; his company also gives a free torch to a family in need in developing nations for each one purchased. If you look on their website you will learn about their “BOGOlight”.

“The BoGo – our Buy one/Give one – program has successfully provided lights to many, many thousands of people in the developing world, changing lives because of your purchase and participation.” – BOGOlight.com

Mark Bent turned the acronym upside down when he started to use the word as part of his product name. For him now and the thousands who buy his lights, BOGO now means Buy One GIVE One. Each person gets to give a light every time they buy one for themselves. So now with each sale, people who do not have the luxury of electricity can harness the power of the sun to support their lives.

There are many other well known and many less well know businesses doing Buy One Give One giving, or transaction-based giving as its becoming known. Some of the famous companies are OLPC – One-Laptop-Per-Child and TOM’S Shoes. Some of the less well-known ones (in the US at least) are based in Oceania and the UK – Earthstar Publishing, Maple Muesli, Blinds Couture, Figure 8 Body Chains, Sunsplash Homes, Honestly Women magazine and Thavibu Gallery based in Thailand are just a small handful of these special businesses that are leading the Buy One Give One movement.

Many Buy One Give One businesses are coming together under the single brand banner of Buy1GIVE1; a Singaporean based social enterprise which is becoming the home of transaction based giving. Any business can now choose to be part of Buy One Give One giving with ease. It’s like a CSR ‘plug-in’ to allow a business to start giving from each and every sale today – starting from just one cent. It is now not even a matter of giving an equivalent product to someone else. Instead it is about giving to a charity project that is in resonance with a company’s business activity. For example a magazine publisher cannot support the planting of a tree every time they sell a subscription, a restaurant can feed a child for each meal sold, a TV store can gift a cataract blind person with the gift of sight (Get Vision-Give Vision), and a builder or property developer can build a budget home for those in need who have lost their homes in a disaster (Buy1BUILD1) – the list is only limited by imagination.

There is something very special happening these days as more and more people are switching to giving and what are known as ‘citizen brands’ as a part of their everyday experience. In the 2008 Goodpurpose study of global consumer attitudes it reveals that almost 68% of consumers would choose to remain loyal to a brand during an economic downturn if it supports a good cause. And 71% say that when they think about the economic downturn, they have either given the same or more time and money to good causes. This study also highlighted some other key points as well such as:

* Half (52%) of consumers globally are more likely to recommend a brand to others when it supports a good charity cause over one that does not.

* 54% would sing the praises of a brand to promote their products if there was a good cause behind it.

* And going even further globally, consumers are voicing a strong desire for marketers to connect their brands to social causes or action. Forty-two percent say that if two products or services are of the same quality and price, commitment to a social purpose trumps factors like design, innovation and brand loyalty when choosing one product brand over another.

Transforming Getting into Giving

In the minds of consumers, Buy One GIVE One is expected to replace Buy One GET One as the new global giving movement led by Buy1GIVE1 spreads. Certainly with the massive sales results and consumer demand shown for companies like BOGOlights, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and TOMS Shoes, this tide will continue to spread and grow.

I did a recent Google search to find the top 25 keywords associated with the keywords BOGO and B1G1. The results were interesting indeed seeing none of them contained the word Give. You can see the results below. It will be interested to repeat this experiment in 12 months time to see what changes. Consumers are now starting to drive significant change and despite them wanting to receive free gifts (as in traditional BOGO/B1G1), they equally want to help others and the environment. This feeling is validated by 2008′s Goodpurpose global study.

Keyword results:

Free, shopping, pics, join, prose, photography, blogging, discount, boots, groups, music, dallas, togo themes, wallpapers, buy, applications, skins, values, coupon, gift, sharing, networking, African.

Transaction-based or transactional giving

Unlike traditional charity giving, Buy One Give One giving is transactional in that every time you buy something, you give something. In the case of SunNight Solar they happen to give a physical light for every light sold. However, in most cases, Buy1GIVE1 associated businesses give in a different way. At Buy1GIVE1, giving can start from just USD 1c contribution per sale and go up to thousands of dollars in the case of Buy1BUILD1. At 1cent almost every business in the world can afford to give from each sale especially when they know 100% contributed goes to the cause.

The amount contributed from each sale is not the point of focus with Buy1GIVE1 transaction based giving. The focus is instead on the story and sharing the simple joy of giving. In the end, if you think that 1c is not a lot to contribute and is unlikely to make much of a difference think again and consider the following idea.

From its origins in Ethiopia, where the main coffee production is still from wild coffee tree forests, coffee consumption has spread globally. Brazil is still by far the largest coffee producer in the world producing on average 28% of the world’s total coffee. In 2006 Brazil produced enough coffee to make 216,400,000,000 (216 billion four hundred million) espresso coffees. If we were to calculate across global production then we get a daily global consumption of around 2,117,416,830 cups of coffee – wow. The figures are somewhat hard to track down but let’s guess that 40% of the world’s coffee is sold and consumed in coffee shops then we would get that 846,966,732 cups are sold commercially each day globally – nearly 900 million. This would equate to about’5,485,714 cups in the US on its own seeing they purchase around 21% of the world’s coffee.

Imagine now that for every cup of coffee sold a child in a developing region like Africa received drinking water from its own well and it costing only one US cent per person per day. Now any coffee shop could afford to contribute this amount from the sale of a single cup of coffee because it has a high profit margin sale. Imagine the different that this alone would make in the world.

Transaction based giving is the story of a thousand mile journey starting with the first step. To dig a well costs a few thousand dollars hence many communities in developing nations cannot afford to dig wells. But when you see that it only takes the sale of a single cup of coffee to give clean well water to a single person for a day1, then you can see the magic of transactional based giving. Buy1GIVE1 giving is like the compound interest of giving – a little turns into a lot very quickly.

So many companies are used to doing things on their own. Doing transactional giving is no different. A company can go out find a cause and start doing Buy One Give One giving. And yet they are missing the point when they do this. Buy1GIVE1 giving is about sharing the joy of giving and not trying to change the world. As soon as you step up and say you are going to change the world then the world will step up and challenge you. Within a heartbeat a company would experience the sharp scrutiny of the media inspecting their every move. And yet when a company steps up and says it is supporting what its customer want and joins with others in its industry to do that in a win-win way, the story is different. When companies choose to join together under a commonly recognised banner/brand they can have a powerful joint effect. The ripple that a single company creates is added to that of another and the ripple grows into a tidal wave that benefits so many. This is the power of giving and doing things together.

The final power of Buy One Give One transaction based giving is that everyone wins – the consumer wins – at no extra cost to themselves they have made a difference through their purchasing choices – the business wins in so many ways – and the worthy cause or charity wins because they can now receive small amounts from many sources all aggregated and paid as a lump sum from a single source if done through the Buy1GIVE1 service.

A new start – a new world – new thinking

If you go right now and check Wikipedia.com for the word BOGO you should find that a new definition has been added. And soon B1G1 will be added. It is time for a sea-change – a change from the focus on GETTING to focusing on GIVING. I personally added a small addition to Wikipedia’s BOGO definition that says this: “… an acronym in the marketing industry that stands for Buy One GIVE One.”

Simply imagine our world where every time you go and buy something you give something automatically and seamlessly – giving a gift forward to someone in greater need than you. This is the simple joyful magic of transactional giving.

This is the world I choose to be a part of.

And remember – you don’t ‘get’ giving till you get giving.

References:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee

http://www.dep.org.uk/globalexpress/13/page1.htm

http://www.scfnw.org.uk/site/article183.html

http://www.coffeepoet.com/2007/09/

http://www.scfnw.org.uk/site/article183.html

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee

http://www.tesco.com/greenerliving/what_we_are_doing/ethical_clothing.page

Footnotes: 1 The daily cost for clean well water per person is calculated by taking the average cost to dig a well then dividing that amount by its average expected life without major maintenance then divided it by the number of people in the community benefiting from the well on a daily basis.

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The arrival of satellite tv has seen the digital explosion of Television channels, broadcasters, production houses and content material producers. It is because cable Television and direct to home platforms have certainly pushed the frontiers of television broadcasting beyond all conceivable limits and onto a global level. It’s no wonder that Television networks across the globe employ the usage of a Green screen.

One of the popular techniques that are utilized in television program production is those of employing a Green screen in the backdrop of the studio where a specific program is getting taken. This really is a part of the strategy of chroma key that deals particularly with the removal of certain images in the background of the shot as well as superimposing this with another picture, which is more suitable for the production. For example, one can work with a screen that’s green in color behind the broadcaster who is reading out the weather report. When audiences view the programme, the green or blue screen as the case may be, is actually replaced with a weather map or scenes of certain cities or satellite images.

A Green screen is specially useful for chroma key uses, on account that the conventional human skin tone has very little elements of green in it. This helps in the better level of quality of picture superimposition plus the alternative of background, without interfering much with the basic image of the broadcaster who is standing up in the foreground. If there had been any green shade or tone in human skin, elements of the body would seem invisible when utilizing the other coloured screen, making the effect quite strange and very inappropriate and out of place.

One of the main benefits of employing a Green screen is that it’s pretty simple to apply as well as being cost effective. If one were to use a huge plasma or HDTV screen behind the broadcaster, the impact could be marvellous, but the price will be far greater compared to that of using a green screen. In these times of downturn in the economy, cost management would be the key and the dice is loaded in favour of utilizing less expensive options.

One can effortlessly make a Green screen that may be used in TV programme production. With this, simple things like a table cloth may be used. This fabric has to be uniformly painted, so that you will find no streaks or uneven areas that would stand out when the show goes on air. One can also work with a bare wall that’s equally painted in green to create the coloured background. Among the tricks to keep in mind when utilizing trees or forests as the backdrop picture is not to use green. Green is known as a more acceptable color to use if your background is the picture of the ocean or of the heavens. Using a green screen is therefore a highly effective way of utilizing chroma key technique in TV program production, which is popular because of its simplicity and inexpensiveness.

There are a lot of other websites giving different forms of advice on how to use green screen but most of them are not very detailed or precise. Make sure to check my own articles and reviews on Green Screen and Green Screen Rentals, additionally, you can reach me at phillipguye@hotmail.com or 1-323-851-3825