Posts tagged with ‘web video’

TV is Dead. Long Live Web Video. [HuffPO]

There is so much WIN in this article.

…But Web video isn’t television. It’s something else entirely. And in the past 5 years, from 2005 to 2010, as Web video has moved to become the fastest growing and most prevalent form of traffic emerging on the Web, something else happened.

Web video abandoned TV. It moved on.

…The broadcasters and cable companies that have for decades been able to be the exclusive distributor of video via closed one-way networks are now starting to feel the sands shift under their feet.

It seems that humans would rather watch interesting, thought provoking, potentially interactive video content. As Clay Shirky so extraordinarily explains in his book Cognitive Surplus, the extra brainpower we have is no longer being relegated to ‘coach potato’ activities of mindless viewing of lame sitcoms. Rather, people are engaging in the kind of accelerated innovation that Chris Anderson is seeing across disciplines.

…So, the future of Web video ISN’T more of the same. In fact, all signs point to the fact that it is something quite different and quite wonderful.

Skirky says we’ve got extra brain power to put to work. Anderson says as we see each others innovation —in the global language of images and sound — we ‘step up our game’ in a friendly competition that accelerates innovate, and honors innovators.

…The Web accelerated the connection of data. But the Video Web accelerates the transmission, innovation, and iteration of IDEAS. And that can only lead to good things.

(Source: rafimama)

Is Looking for Attention the New Paying Attention?

Very interesting read by Dee Harvey

Excerpt:

Do we really want to be teaching our children that passive activities like listening and watching are a waste of their time? The old adage was that you should listen twice as much as you speak, the idea being that wisdom came from paying attention, not from looking for attention.

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If the response to the Internet and its ability to connect us to one another in new ways is to think “brilliant, now I can make my very own TV show and put it on YouTube”, then that’s pretty depressing and very limiting. If we’re all a little bit less consumer and a little bit more producer, then in fact we’re all something else entirely. It’s not what you produce (or consume) that matters so much as how you connect with other people and what use you put those connections to.

Read complete blog post at Dee Blind Mice

(via @michellegallen)

stevewoolf: For Web-Financed Film Projects, a Curtain Rises   Kickstarter is a concept: a Web site that puts together creative types seeking money with backers willing to chip in micro- and macro-payments, a way to crowd-source the financing of ideas. Started last year, the company has become an unexpected influence on indie culture, a new model for a D.I.Y. generation. And on Friday Kickstarter will also become a curator, when it hosts the first Kickstarter Film Festival. The event, part of the Rooftop Films series, will present some of the projects that patrons of the site have financed, from features and animation to quirkier stuff like a video of a dance anthropology performance piece.

stevewoolf:

For Web-Financed Film Projects, a Curtain Rises

 

Kickstarter is a concept: a Web site that puts together creative types seeking money with backers willing to chip in micro- and macro-payments, a way to crowd-source the financing of ideas. Started last year, the company has become an unexpected influence on indie culture, a new model for a D.I.Y. generation.

And on Friday Kickstarter will also become a curator, when it hosts the first Kickstarter Film Festival. The event, part of the Rooftop Films series, will present some of the projects that patrons of the site have financed, from features and animation to quirkier stuff like a video of a dance anthropology performance piece.

worship the glitch: Sticking Your Thumb In Their Eye

Web series don’t spend nearly enough time on episode thumbnails. It’s extremely hard to find a single image/frame that says it all, but it’s worth the trouble. They aren’t the silver bullet, but when most shows don’t put any effort into thumbs, simply doing the work puts you ahead of the pack.

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Absolutely. It’s your book/magazine cover. This should always be an item on your post-production checklist. Always.