Do you need to promote your video products and services? Do you want to get some meetings at CES, IBC, NAB and the Web Video and Streaming Media shows? Promote Your Video Technology
This is fascinating - from an Internet Video editing perspective. Check out how Greg Benson from Mediocre Films cuts his videos to shorten them up and make them funnier and more effective. The before version on the left includes pop notes to explain what he is going to do.
After Fine Editing
This is brilliant. Mix together the best of inside web humor with the classic "West Side Story" and you get Web Site Story. Very well done. Good acting, nice songs and wonderful production value. Directed and written by Sam Reich. This is perfect for musical web nerds who love musicals
Here are the 2009 Star Wars Fan Movie Award finalists. Vote for your favorite flick to win the Audience Choice Award, which will be presented in a lavish ceremony at Comic-Con on July 24! Voting closes on July 10th, noon PST!
This is a very cool entrant for the I Wish I Had an Ikan video contest. This is great - You don't want to be an out of focus director or cinematographer! Created by Clint Milby.
You are going to love this parody take off on SlumDog Millionaire. Wonderfully shot, edited and conceived - and its FUNNY!
Interactive Hot Tub Girl! - This is a very cool concept for Internet video. Interactive videos with hot links embedded in the video. BTW - This is a safe site to visit at work. But you can let your imagination run wild...
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A comedy about the perils of the movie making process. Greg is writing a short film about getting dumped...again. Scott and Jane, the two actors in the film, don’t like the script. So they step out of their roles to demand revisions from the writer.
This is brilliant - Quillions from the 48 Hour Film Project where a team of filmmakers get together and plan, produce, shoot, and edit a complete short film over the weekend. Its a musical with incredible production value - if you like tracking shots, you are going to love this! Original music by Andrew Gaskins; written and directed by Stephen Anson.
Credits: Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore from the Whitest Kids U'Know (Writers, Directors, and Stars of the new Fox Atomic movie, Miss March)
If you are in the web hosting or Internet video streaming industry, you will love this video, Web Hosting Gone Wild PART 1 . And if you are not techie at all, you will still like it - but maybe not as much. Extremely well produced and shot, this short video tells the story of what happens when technology becomes a bit too personal and all consuming. Daddy's Little Girl.
Do you want to see some great HD video delivered over the Internet? Check out the ELEVATE Film Festival,the fastest growing single day film event in the World. They are using Vusion’s HD Video Streaming service. Not only do these high definition videos look great full screen (assuming you have a speedy enough Internet connection and up to date computer) but the videos themselves are great, funny and extremely well made. Check them out at the Elevate Experience.
Sunshine Bob - This is really bizarre and exceptionally wonderful. Do you have control of your life? Check out Sunshine Bob. Amazingly weird and beautiful but full of pathos.
WINNER of Cannes Short Film Corner Contest "à la flip" - Focus on The Flip Trip by Vincenzo Cosentino - A small video camcorder decides to go to Cannes to become famous like its old ancestors. Watch the film on fest21.com
This is great - The Museum of the Obvious - yes it is a commercial site sponsored by Duracell and Proctor & Gamble but still it is wonderful and the videos are very funny. We really like the 3D trip through the museum as you navigate the site. Brilliant and very well done. Check out the videos here and at the Museum of the Obvious at YouTube.
Where the Hell is Matt? This has been done before - a guy videotaping himself dancing in one location after another all over the world but rarely this well produced or even more rarely, with a big supporting cast. 14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands.
Family Portrait - This is pretty darn weird and very cool. Have you ever wanted to do a video portrait of your family? Check out this odd performance piece by director Scott Kravitz. It is about 3 minutes of subtly inspired craziness. You can do this with your family and stop motion photography.
Food Fight - Gruesome images of war tend to make a person lose his appetite. But when hamburgers, sushi and chicken kabobs do battle, the result is delicious.
Food Fight is a 2008 Webby Awards Official Honoree in the Online Film & Video: Experimental category.
We love comedy here at Internet Video Magazine - especially short comedies because we don't have much of an attention span. We are proud to say that one of our favorite sites, The Onion News Network, captured the Webby Award for Best Individual Short or Episode for their Video for Onion News Network: American Heroes
Featured at NBC.com, Hula and MySpace Videos, this Saturday Night Live parody commercial looks great and is more filling. How big can an American fake Mexican feast get?
Spatula Madness! One of the top videos of the week. If you have a weakness for animation and talking kitchen tools you'll love this flick. More cool videos and animations at the FilmCow site.
Fugitive Baby - great idea and simply produced. Funny and cute.
What if a clever baby figured out a way to escape her crib before her parents woke up? Watch this! :)
If you are into next generation technology, open source and cusp between human life and the net, you ought to watch this. Open Systems and the Speed of Innovation - You are Listening to the Heart of the Sage Machine - from ScribeMedia.Org is a mash-up of the “The Information Machine,” by Charles and Ray Eames. The original was produced for the IBM Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, and attempted to demonstrate how modern computing and human creativity were developing hand in hand.
It's Pete's release day from the nick, he's collecting his personal belongings from the duty officer and dreams about what he awaits on the outside...
Experience the transformation of renowned cartoon character - ''Peanut Pete'' as 3D film and animation studio the-BOX bring to life the latest crazy adventure!
TriggerStreetTV - "Displacement" - A Short Film Spotlight: In this podcast, TriggerStreet TV looks at the short film "Displacement" with a brief introduction from the filmmaker, Chris Perry. It is a short computer-animated film about an individual tempted by change. The film was one of twelve overall Nominees that went to the end of season judging phase of the TriggerStreet 2nd Film Festival Season.
Maybe we need a topic like Best Real Estate Videos? Bradford Squared was shot by Squint/Opera to promote the regeneration of Bradford city center by the realization of World-renowned Architect Will Alsop’s masterplan. They say a picture paints a thousand words, but this video paints millions. Very, very cool. Also check out Surreal Estate
You got to watch this ... "withtheeyesofeveryman riveted uponher" Laurent Briet& Fatima Robinson. First of six flicks at LittleMinxTV - A distributive film series created by Little Minx & Idealogue based on the surrealist parlour game: The Exquisite Corpse. The Little Minx Exquisite Corpse features directors Laurent Briet, Chris Nelson, Malik Hassan Sayeed, Josh Miller, Phillip Van & Fatima Robinson.
Politics, politics and more politics. The Internet, and Internet streaming video, is becoming a powerful channel for promoting politicians and their views. Check out this very cool video promoting Obama and his ideas, his campaign. Whether or not you like him, regardless of whether you support his ideas or not, this is a very well produced video. DipDive - Obama Song Hey Hillary, your turn.
Lone Rider This is brilliant, Short, cute and oh so very true And extremely well made. If you are a film maker, you got to spend a couple minutes with this flick. Sometimes a filmmaker's greatest challenge is simply raising cash. But financial woes won't deter this director.
MySpaceTV debuted the first interview between Director Wes Anderson and Actor Owen Wilson as part of the social networking site's popular original content series, Artist on Artist. The two friends are using MySpace as a platform to discuss a wide range of topics including their highly anticipated new film, The Darjeeling Limited.
This is quite interesting. What happens when you do a music mash-up between some of the world's most classic rock and roll tunes and a classic film like The Wizard of Oz? Check it out here Video Mashup: Dark Side of Oz
Here are a couple of cool music videos to check out - you might not dig the music but you will probably like the video
The Knife's "Like A Pen" combines various animation techniques with a little live action to create a very interesting, very strange and slightly bizarre video experience.
Also, on the strange surrealistic side, is the latest music video from The Bird and the Bee "Again & Again". Without having to use extreme cutting or expensive effects, it takes you into their off-beat world.
Attention cinematographers and editors - ya got to see Push for Signal by Andrew S. Allen Barely over a minute in length, this is great. Do those crosswalk buttons actually work? Or do they merely exist to make us feel like we have some semblance of control on chaotic street corners? The guy in this artfully crafted film finds out real fast just how wild things can get at a busy crosswalk.
Habits of Mind, the third episode of Clock Tower Production's dramatic Internet serial "Windinggear", has been released. Homepage: www.windinggear.com. It combines some great editing, writing and story telling into an ongoing web story.
This is a series of very cool and occasionally artsy videos. You won't find this kind of stuff on YouTube.
This is really interesting - a mash up of creativity, animation and game playing. It is sort of cool - a very different look on making animated movies. Check it out. Final Fantasy A+ - this is a top vote getter at Newgrounds