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Context is king. It’s not the content of the video that generates the return, it’s the ability to integrate the video into a larger information loop where value feeds back to the producers. And that involves getting a commitment to more than 3 minutes. Without appropriate context the content has limited value.
[UPDATE  10/26]   “The New […]

Michael Eisner on What works in Online Video:
Sex seems to work. User-gen, sports, news, anything with Sarah Palin works. At the end of the day, like in all the other industries from movies to TV, long-form, story-driven content is what ultimately works. paid content
Time is the currency we use to pay for online video. […]

Yesterday a journalist who (still) works at a big Florida newspaper told me, “Last year we were trying to shoot as much video as possible. This year, we’re trying to save the paper. - Mindy McAdams.

A year or so ago video was going to save newspapers! - so what went wrong? Why […]

YouTube Cofounder Chad Hurley spoke at the MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, France yesterday.In the talk, which is transcribed here, Hurley compares the current state of online video to the nascent years of television. In 1941, he says, “CBS has just launched its new television network amidst cries that it means the death of radio.” […]

Faced with the continued threat of rock stars using video camera lenses as ash-trays, the techs at Nikon and Canon have both hit on the same solution - have the DSLR handle the video for you. Today Canon announced the 21 MP 5D MKII following Nikon’s introduction last month of the D90, both capable of […]

Back in 1966 Ken Loach set an impossibly high standard for documentary film makers with his TV drama Cathy come Home. A fictional account of a young family plunged into despair and homelessness the play caused furore in the British Parliament, was directly responsible for sweeping changes in the British Legal system and the […]

This American Life via Joe Imel

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“Video content on the web must differ from TV. It should be shorter, less intermediated, less heavily produced. It should be raw and direct, not like sitting back and watching TV” Richard Sambrook interview with Richard Edelman
Fairly conventional wisdom in 2008 I think, but why is it that so much online news/PR video ignores […]

Tampa Bay: where your dreams can come true, you can get the respect you deserve:

Each time you send me a video story that either makes it on the news or on our web site, Tampa Bay’s 10 will pay you TWENTY DOLLARS!

A couple of month’s back I blogged the changing skillsets required for video […]

Several years back the Center for Social Media published “Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use“. They have now followed up with a similar guide to fair use with regard to online video — via videomaker.com
Fair use is an “equitable remedy”, and as such is designed to protect the […]

is about keeping photographers out of trouble, and supporting them when trouble looms.
We have been covering Photographers Rights continuously since the 4th of July, 2004.
Photography is not a crime; photography is not terrorism;
but systematic harassment of photographers… what is that?
Have you been hassled while trying to make what you thought was an innocuous photograph or […]

This is one awful example of video camera technique, and one fine specimen of street VJ. It tells a whole story in under a minute, no editing. Just a guy in the street pulling his camera out when he sees a someone dumpster diving.
The guy with the camera in this case happens to be Paul […]