Congress is failing to adopt a long-term American energy plan, and it’s standing in the way of developing more American energy now. Common sense is losing out to political posturing. So, we turn to you – the creative American – to demonstrate in a short video why we must adopt a ‘Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” approach. (more…)
18th Aug
Radiohead Quadruples Video Contest Prizes
You may recall the aniBoom-sponsored Radiohead animated video contest, announced back in March and narrowed to a field of 10 finalists as of mid-spring. In accordance with the contest rules, Radiohead were meant to pick one grand prize winner out of the ten finalists, which aniBoom would furnish with the means for making a final video in the form of $10,000. But since when do Radiohead play by the rules? (more…)
18th Aug
“It’s not the camera”
“It’s not the camera that I use, it’s not the blogging software, it’s not the widgets, it’s not the SEO. It’s the two C’s: content and community…There are so many crap podcasts out there with billion dollar cameras and editing tools for days. It’s about giving from your heart with content you really understand and, more importantly, giving back to the community that supports your show.”
Don’t forget this when you are making your videos!
18th Aug
Video Contest Watch – August 18-August 25, 2008
See the highlights of the week in Video Contests with host Andrea Ball. This week we have $19,700 in new video contests, and over $34,000 in expiring contests.
18th Aug
Great Travel Debate – $1000 – Over 18 y.o. – 30 Seconds to 5 Minutes – Due: September 24th, 2008
Hey Travelers — Post your opinions on how the rising oil prices have affected your summer vacations or business travel. Tell LoyalTV.com your travel trials and tribulations, and you could win $1,000 bucks!! (more…)
18th Aug
Bloodshots 48 Hour Horror Filmmaking – $500 – Open to all – 2 to 7 minutes – Due: September 7th, 2008
For one weekend in September, dozens of filmmaking teams from all over the world will be working against the clock to produce, write, edit, and upload a short film. And yeah, you’ve heard of that “make a movie in a weekend” thing before and you’re kind of tired of the lameness of those movies. So were we. That’s why we set up BLOODSHOTS as a make a horror movie in a weekend competition. Because when you’re fighting to stay awake so you can finish your movie, we think it helps to have an evil werewolf midget with an axe standing by to keep you on your toes. (more…)
18th Aug
Gap Philanthropy Contest – NC – Over 18 y.o. – Under 2 minutes – Due: August 30th, 2008
The contest goes live once we receive 5 video’s so get them in soon! Voting begins on August 31st and ends on Sept. 6th 2008. We know our employees are passionate, creative, philanthropic types and here is your chance to prove it! All you have to do is film and edit a short video clip based on a youth-oriented, store sponsored volunteer project. (more…)
17th Aug
Web Content Turning to Drama
Web content producers are hoping there’s room among the angry landlord babies and lazy Sundays for some serious drama. To date, comedy has been the dominant art form in the short history of online video, spawning YouTube stars and comedy-centric sites ranging from Funnyordie to Comedy.com to Crackle to the defunct Dotcomedy. But more recently, established Hollywood talents and a handful of user-producers are working to launch more dramatic fare. (more…)
16th Aug
DV Magazine’s Best Tools of ‘07
In the effort to make some sense of the amazing volume of new tools introduced (or delivered) in 2007 – from camcorders to codecs, from HMI lighting to DI color timing – we asked DV’s top writers to each pick their favorites with the proverbial “indie filmmaker” in mind, resulting in this list. (more…)
15th Aug
Local Online Video Market – $1.5B by 2012?
Many market forecasts have attempted to size the U.S. online video market, which consists of ads that are tied to a growing subset of online music, sports and entertainment clips. These forecasts project the market will grow to between US$4 billion and US$7 billion by 2012. (more…)
