Posted on: August 30th, 2009 What’s the Difference Between Indie and Studio?

Q and A with Heidi Van Lier

A: Lately, a lot of people who would normally be making bigger budget films have been forced to make smaller-budgeted films, maybe even indie, and frankly, they’re a bit confused about the differences.

I am actually counseling some major studio producers and directors about how to handle this transition, and to be honest, they’re a bit lost. Before they end up wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars I thought I’d point them in the right direction.

Here is a list to clear some things up

Studio Films = Trailers and honey wagons

Indie Films = Curbs and the bathroom at Starbucks

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Posted on: August 29th, 2009 How Videos Go Viral

Dancing, singing, kids, emotions, humor, underdogs achieving, girls, music videos, and bizarre incidents caught on tape… Such is the stuff of which top viral videos are made — on or off a video publishing site.

The overall video market is booming, with 420 million-plus unique visitors to YouTube Inc. in June 2009, according to comScore Inc. In the same timeframe, 11.2 billion videos were viewed online in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen Online , by 136 million unique visitors.

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Posted on: August 29th, 2009 True Hd on the Web-How to Webinar on Smooth Streaming

Learn how to deliver web video with the quality and reliability of HDTV. Dramatically increase viewing times and repeat visits using this scalable online video delivery technology.

Standard video on the Web is plagued by 2 major issues: the quality of the video (either too small or too blurry) and the reliability of the playback (constant rebuffering or stuttering). These two variables are interrelated: increasing the quality requires higher bandwidth, and using less bandwidth to minimize rebuffering sacrifices video quality.

Smooth Streaming solves these issues by dynamically modifying the bandwidth of the video stream based on available bandwidth and individual PC performance. This process is invisible to viewers; they just connect to the live event. If bandwidth drops, the video seamlessly transitions to the next lower stream. When the bandwidth recovers, the stream will automatically use the higher bandwidth. This enables the viewer to watch the live event in the best possible quality at all times, without pauses or interruptions in the video stream.

During this webcast, you will learn about Smooth Streaming from two industry experts, who will teach you:

* What Smooth Streaming is and why it is the future of online video delivery
* How Smooth Streaming delivers HDTV-quality experiences
* How it has been successfully implemented for major live events
* How to start delivering your content with Smooth Streaming

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Millimeter Magazine

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Posted on: August 29th, 2009 Web Video Is More Prevalent Than Social Networking

Web Video Is More Prevalent Than Social Networking Producers Guild of America: What Every Film, TV and New Media Producer Needs to Know about the Mobile Industry

A guy walks into a bar. It’s the old start to an older joke, but in this case the guy is comedian Jackie Gleason and his character Joe the Bartender. The camera was the POV of the person entering the bar, bellying up to it and listening to Joe the Bartender’s comic monologue. John D. Heinsen, co-chair of the Producers Guild of America’s Mobile Committee, would like to remind everyone that those very early TV screens weren’t much bigger than the size of today’s mobile screens. “Jackie Gleason invented the mobile shot,” said Heinsen–and he’s only partially kidding. “That’s what we need to find today: that new talent, the new Jackie Gleason who will invent this experience of original content for the mobile platform.”

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Posted on: August 29th, 2009 So You Wanna Be A Cinematographer?

Or maybe you are already…

by Oliver Stapleton
Without doubt the thing that has helped me the most in my 40 years of being “on-set” (with about 20 years of time-off), is a strong family life and an internal discipline, which in my case is Pa-K’ua (which is a form of Tai-Chi). Although I no longer practice the “form”, the many years I spent learning and practising internalised the “state of mind” to the point where I can “call it up” pretty much anytime, anywhere and especially when the going gets rough. The challenges of Cinematography are many and great, but an equal challenge is that of “personnel management” which can range from contrary Film Stars and Directors, to bolshy Crew and Bad Catering. A curious costume assistant walked up to me yesterday (9/2009) when I was in the middle of it all on set, and said: “How do you deal with what is going on: can you jump to the top of the room and look down?” “Oh yes!” I said, “I certainly can!”

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Posted on: August 28th, 2009 KUBOTA IMAGE TOOLS – 2009 WEBINAR SCHEDULE

Free webinars from Kubota on Dashboard, Lightspeed (workflow) and AutoAlbum.

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Posted on: August 26th, 2009 Neill Blomkamp’s Alive in Joburg- The Short That Became District 9

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Posted on: August 26th, 2009 Red One and Pmw-Ex1 on District 9

South African director Neil Blomkamp received a lot of attention for his six-minute short “Alive in Jo’burg,” which concerns a group of extraterrestrial aliens who land on Earth and end up living essentially in a refugee camp outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. Among those who took notice of Blomkamp’s clever use of desktop visual effects and storytelling prowess was the director of the Lord of the Rings series, Peter Jackson. For the new feature, District 9, Blomkamp had access to RED ONE and Sony PMW-EX1 cameras and a lot more time and resources to tell a more involved story based on the notions in his short.

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Posted on: August 26th, 2009 Free E-Book! 3D Movie Making: Stereoscopic Digital Cinema

Download free ebook 3D Movie Making: Stereoscopic Digital Cinema. 

Hollywood is going 3D! Join the revolution with this primer to all of the essential skills for live action 3D, from preproduction through distribution. 3D perception and science is presented in an accessible way.

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Digital Cinematography

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