Internet Video Magazine Newsletter – August 2005

How is your summer going? Here in San Diego, the summer is almost over and the kids are ready to go back to school. Actually, depending on where you are, your kids may have been back for weeks now. Did you get a chance to go somewhere, to shoot some hot video of your vacation and trips? Have you edited it yet or is the cassette just sitting somewhere in a closet – or even worse, still in you camcorder – just waiting for you to make some time to pull it out, transfer it to your computer and do some editing?

There’s a three-day weekend coming up. Instead of having fun, going to a picnic, beach or football game, maybe you should stay indoors, where it is cool, and edit video. Maybe that’s not a good idea…. Maybe you should have some fun.

Suddenly it seems that everyone on the Internet, from corporate giants to nonprofits, wants to host your bulky video content--free of charge. CNET article by Paul Festa

MTV Adds Broadband Coverage for VMAs

LOS ANGELES - MTV's Video Music Awards are going broadband, expanding beyond television for a new take on the typically raucous ceremony along with "bonus" performances and other original online coverage, the channel said Thursday.

Roxio announced Toast 7 for Mac computers. Toast 7 includes a number of features that make previously impossible tasks a reality for Mac users.  These features include multi-image High Definition slideshows with pan and zoom effects, transitions and background soundtracks, audio DVDs with over 50 hours of rich Dolby^® quality music and advanced navigation, and data spanning, which allows users to backup large files, folders and applications across multiple CDs and DVDs. more

Do you love big budget, big screen flicks like Total Recall, Minority Report, iRobot, Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow, Dark City, and others? If so, you got to check out Building Sci-Fi Moviescapes,  a very interesting and well laid out guide to the science fiction and "science reality" films of the last couple of decades.

Who is America's Princess? Who has replaced the Kennedys as America's royal family? Believe it or not, its Paris Hilton. Ouch. Read it here.

·  Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - The future of television lies on television, not the Net - There are a group of technologies that are finally ready for prime time, and that together are going to reshape the way we watch television. The future - thanks in large part to the Internet - is true on-demand television. The notion of a limiting TV schedule will go out the window.

Can't get enough of Court TV? Now you can watch over your phone.

·  Court TV finds in favor of SmartVideo for mobile (Hollywood Reporter) - Court TV viewers now will have more access to their favorite legal programming through a new partnership with mobile video provider SmartVideo.

If you are thinking of making movies, or are already in the biz, you got to read this book "The Art of the Documentary: Ten Conversations with Leading Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, and Producers" by Megan Cunningham. The book contains some incredible interviews with leading documentary directors, cinematographers, and editors. more

What's your end game? Why are you involved in creating video and Internet movies? Do you just want to share some stories, exploit your message or show off your family and friends? Maybe you have something bigger in mind? Maybe you want to make big time movies? Check out long time Internet Video Magazine contributor Quito Washington and his new full-length flick, Reason To Kill. You can subscribe to Popcast to see a bunch of his films or you can simply search the Digital Cinema Pictures site.

NASA Launch sets record for Internet Video Streaming - nearly 433,000 people simultaneously watched NASA's webcast of this month’s space shuttle launch. That's more than twice the 175,000 streams that America Online Inc. had at its peak July 2 for the Live 8 concerts, an event widely cited as a coming-of-age moment for online video. It also nearly quadrupled a record for NASA set during Deep Impact's encounter with the comet Tempel 1. more

JVC's new lines of hard drive camcorders should be finally hitting the shelves. The new JVC Everio G Series camcorders record to a built-in hard disk drive and will be available in 20 and 30 gigabyte (GB) versions, offering unprecedented camcorder storage capacity. At high resolution, they can record up to seven hours of DVD movie-quality video. They also record more than 10.5 hours at a quality level comparable to a DVD camcorder’s 30-minute mode.  more

Hal Landen's latest book, "Marketing with Digital Video: How to Create a Winning Video For Your Small Business or Non-Profit," shows how small-budget businesses can take advantage of today's affordable digital
technology to produce effective business videos. more

Cool new online videos

What if god was a DJ? What if time, fate and destiny could be controlled by a couple turntables and an audio mixer? Checkout Spin, a brilliantly conceived, written and edited short film by Jamin Winins. You got to see this! According to Winins, "SPIN was shot over two weekends and one afternoon in June of 2005 for a total of about 35 rigorous hours of shooting. The shot list was ambitious at over 200 shots, and our original plan was to shoot it in two very long days using the Sony HDV camera. We shot SPIN just north of the central downtown Denver area in a beautiful new area called Riverfront Park, adjacent to the Platte River. The location was ideal considering a number of different events had to occur, including the car crashing into the cyclist."
 

Look over there on the Internet, its Gorillaz!. Not a bunch of big apes or terrorists, Gorillaz is a virtual band whose music videos feature hip hop beats, cool cartoon characters and cutting edge animation. Checkout D.A.R.E.  the fantastic new video for the incredible new Gorillaz single, featuring Shaun Ryder. To find the movie, scroll all the way to the left.

Are you a political animal? Have you ever wondered just how President Bush manages to write and present his unique manner of speech? Checkout this short but highly interesting investigative study of President Bush's behind the scenes content creation process- Presidential Speechlist

Do you have issues with real life? Have a hard time separating what is real from what is happening on the net? Check out this cool animation - Real Life vs Internet. Excellently written, this is really funny and hilarious and even worse, true.

This is pretty darn goofy yet oddly entertaining in a kitschy way. Check it out. Heavy Metal Wonder Woman is a strange and pseudo artsy hybridization of the Wonder Woman comic character, superhero cartoons, Betty Page stag films, and Death Metal performance. While you are at the YouTube site, also check out Money, Get Away - not a great video but some of the best coin tricks I have ever seen!

Some video makers create movies to honor great musicians of the past like The Beatles, Bo Diddly, Beethoven - Todd Washburn however, chose to create an animated music video that celebrates the 1986 pop-hit Everybody Have Fun Tonight by the popular 80's band Wang Chung. On the Cutting Room Floor of Oblivion is a humorous, strange, and fun video that features bizarre imagery and different styles of animation, including: traditional animation, stop motion animation, clay animation, ASCII animation, and computer animation. Try to figure out how Todd did it.

Ready to rock out and dance? Created and submitted by Isaac Klotz, "Yep" is a very cool hip-hop music video with some truly exceptional cinematic touches. We especially love the superimposed animated sketch effects. Extremely cool.

Love is tough - even if you are a dog. Check out this funny little clip which demonstrates the drama of being in love and being done wrong by the one you love.

Evolution is often debated...rock and roll is often derided. But where did it all start? Was it space aliens seeding our planet? Maybe it as a mixture of all of the above. Check out Rok

A recent selection of Atom Films Reactor Forum, "Bomb" is a humorous tale of what can go wrong in our world where terrorism and paranoia may be just a little too prevalent.

Not only can you find lots of cool, strange and even bizarre Internet videos and animations on YouTube, you can post your own videos for free. This is a great web site if you are a non-commercial videomaker who needs a free space to host and stream your videos. Check it out.

Also check out ClipShack, another  new online video hosting service that provides free video hosting for your clips. ClipShack is a little more "family" and amateur oriented than YouTube.

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If you like watching and sharing goofy, strange, bizarre, hot and crazy video clips, you'll love the aptly named Kill Some Time web site. Every day they find and spotlight about 8 new clips - some of dorky and some are pretty good. Good stuff and they got archives too.

The StreetCast TV site is very interesting amalgam of online video and an interactive web site catering to the investment community. Each day features a streaming webcast of the StockWatch TV show. You can also access stock quotes, current financial news, and other items of interests to news junkies and investors

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