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Viewfinder — short,
opinionated arguments.

Viewfinder pieces are the shorter arguments in each issue — 8 to 10 minutes each, one position defended. They exist to give video-marketing practitioners something specific to consider before their next commissioning brief, and, occasionally, permission to stop doing something the industry has told them they must.

VF 01 · CREATIVERECViewfinder
Viewfinder · Creative

The 3-second hook is fifteen years old and quietly broken.

Every video-strategy deck for the last decade has cited the three-second hook as a compulsory design element. Its persistence has produced a generation of videos that look identically desperate.

Solvej Erikson · 9 minRead
VF 02 · SOUNDRECViewfinder
Viewfinder · Sound

Sound is underpriced. The specific reason your video underperforms.

Most brand videos fail on the audio track. Visual production competent, writing passable, sound design treated as an afterthought.

Petar Vukelić · 8 minRead