Posted on January 18, 2012 in Featured, Internet, Legal & Copyright | 6 Comments
Now that Occupy Wall Street is dead the interwebs are abuzz with a new protest meme denouncing SOPA. This should not be confused with their decades long protest against soap.
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Posted on January 16, 2012 in Outtakes | No Comments
This Saturday Night Live skit called “You Can Do Anything” offers spot on satire of the YouTube generation.
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Posted on December 15, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation — a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness.
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Posted on December 8, 2011 in Internet | No Comments
The folks at ReelSEO share the backend of the new YouTube site including how they organized it to maximize social interaction and drive viewers.
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Posted on October 4, 2011 in Internet | No Comments
ReelSEO takes a look at the 10 best tips from the recently released YouTube Creator’s Playbook including regular posting and full use of tags.
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Posted on July 26, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Internet | No Comments
In this five part series from Nino Film, screenwriter and director Gregor Schmidinger discusses how he got his YouTube film, “The Boy Next Door” to top 1 million views.
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Posted on July 14, 2011 in Contracts and Law | 2 Comments
This video from Patrick McKay is the winning entry for Public Knowledge’s video contest to create a response to YouTube’s new “copyright school” video.
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Posted on May 5, 2011 in Internet, Legal & Copyright | No Comments
Youtube invited Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project, and Julie Ahrens, Associate Director of the Fair Use Project, answer a selection of questions about Fair Use and YouTube.
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Posted on April 22, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Marketing | No Comments
There’s no escape from it, if you want to be successful in film (or anything), you have to market yourself as a brand that investors/clients want to believe in. And if you’re using social media, part of selling yourself will be your online videos. YouTube user yourgreatlifetv proposes three tips on how to open up and expose your humanity in order to strengthen your brand.
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Posted on April 20, 2011 in Internet | 1 Comment
Daisy Whitney’s “New Media Minute” sits down with YouTube exec Bing Chen to discuss how you should use YouTube tools to fill in that gap between collecting underpants and profit.
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Posted on February 21, 2011 in Editing, Trailers | 4 Comments
In an effort to prove that people on the internet have way too much free time on their hands, we’ve collected 55 films trailers re-cut using the Hans Zimmer’s heart pounding score from Inception.
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Posted on January 6, 2011 in Internet | 8 Comments
Since the dawn of the interwebs filmmakers looked to it as a new magical tool that may finally allow us to breakdown traditional walls opening up a whole new world. We all envisioned a future of social collaboration, new financing models and open distribution. So are the walls coming down or are we just creating new ones?
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Posted on November 7, 2010 in Film Reviews, Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment
In the season three premiere, co-hosts Steve Weiss and Philip Bloom take on 3 new films: a Clockwork Orange diatribe, an 80s style drama and a true Hollywood short film which will set the bar high for any new filmmaker.
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Posted on August 5, 2010 in General Screenwriting, Internet, Selling Your Film, Selling Your Script | No Comments
Presented by the WGAW Publicity and Marketing Committee, this March 27, 2010 all-day seminar offered Writers Guild members tools to help them get online, promote their careers, raise their industry profiles, build their brands and distribute and monetize their work.
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Posted on August 3, 2010 in Contracts and Law, Internet, Legal & Copyright | 1 Comment
Margaret Gould Stewart, YouTube’s head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.
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