Where Should You Host Your Videos?
We recently conducted an (unscientific) survey of media professionals to answer the question “Does self-hosting videos on a website make them appear more professional than embedding them from a service such as YouTube or Vimeo?” Responses fell into three major categories:
“Use a video hosting service.”
A plurality of respondants felt that there is no longer a [...]
Shorts from 48HFP:DC
Two weeks ago, we featured a series of interviews with the team leaders of three films entered in the 48 Hour Film Project in DC. Two of these films were selected for a second screening in the Best Of DC series, but all three are now available online for your viewing pleasure. The [...]
Validation in Short Film
Here’s another inspirational short film. Films of this quality are easily produced in a technical sense, though not easily written, and a perfect example of how an engaging story and good acting trumps the cost of your camera. I find this kind of film both uplifting as a viewer and encouraging as a producer.
Validation
If you’re [...]
Post-Election Roundup
Image from tsevis’s Photostream
Tuesday night, as I skyped into Teague’s election night party taking place a few hundred miles from my own living room. . . two things hit me: (1) I’m a dork for using skype to attend someone’s party and (2) That won’t be true in 2012.
Right now, across the country, [...]
Lucky There’s Seth MacFarlane
Image from Cheryl’s PhotostreamI used to be a pretty big Family Guy devotee (back in that golden age when it was only shown on Adult Swim). While I’ve personally gotten a little tired of the manatees-with-idea-balls approach to storytelling (just watch the South Park episode), I think that MacFarlane’s talent for tapping into [...]
Virtual World Creation Gets Democritized
In an interview with Information Week, Raph Koster talks about the Metaplace project.
“As [game] technology has risen, it has been harder and harder and harder for ordinary people to contribute,” said Raph Koster, the founder and president of Areae. This has driven budgets up “and the result is less creativity, less innovation, and fewer worlds,” [...]
Favorite Gaming Moments YouTube Contest
Image from thebusybrainiBUYPOWER is sponsoring a contest where filmmakers can submit a video to YouTube of a real life re-enactment of any event that happened in a computer or console video game to be voted on for a chance to win a $2,000 gift card and a $1,800 iBUYPOWER PC. One submission, any length, [...]
I want my MTV, I mean. . . YouTube
Weezer is just so cool. . .
They made a video that’s a super impressive mash-up of every YouTube trend in the last year. Some of these are reproductions, but many appear to have been shot with the original YouTube “stars.” In fact, those people have their own videos about being on set with [...]
Can you wear leggings with that?
So, the Producer’s post got me thinking. First of all, thanks to SXSW for the shoutout! Second of all. . .
I read this article in the NY Times a while ago. To sum up: Steve and Barry’s is setting out to be the cheapest, most fashionable chain store ever created. [...]
