Tag: FILM

With all the streaming, on-demand video sites available to choose from nowadays, a site like freshly-launched Moki.tv can be a very handy resource to file in your bookmarks. Moki bills itself as the ultimate guide to online entertainment, and it's certainly one of the best of its breed. A number of popular video services are supported, including iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Comcast's ...

As one of the highest-rated and most-downloaded WP7 apps, IMDb might just be the most popular yellow app in the world. It's a nice yellow, though, a golden, orangey tone. Anyway, I digress: IMDb for Windows Phone 7 is excellent. It provides, with a couple of flicks, everything a film buff might need. In the video review (after the break), I take a quick stroll through each of IMDb's main ...

YouTube announced today that it's teaming up with the Guggenheim Museum and HP to put on the first "Biennial of Creative Video" -- and they're calling it YouTube Play. The project's goal is to gather the very best videos on YouTube and display the 20 best nominees in Guggenheim museums around the globe. What constitutes the "best" in YouTube videos? They're surprisingly broad in that respect, ...

A few days ago there was a smattering of reports on NEC's new pirate-detection software. In essence, this software scans the original content and creates a digital signature for each and every frame. The signature is very small (only 76 bytes) and can then be compared against videos on sites like YouTube or Vimeo. NEC touts an accuracy of 96% and only five false-positives per million. But ...

It had to happen eventually -- and sooner rather than later it would seem! Today I am proud to be a crumpet-eating, tea-drinking subject of the Queen because in the UK, video games outsold movies in 2009. A total of of $2.8 billion was spent on video games, while only $1.93 billion was spent on DVD, Blu-ray and box office sales. That's not just a minor victory, that's a frackin' landslide. ...

Flashforward2008 is going to be in San Francisco this August. This annual conference is directed at Flash designers and developers and those who aspire to be called a designer or developer. Every year Flashforward features a Film Festival with open nominations of the best Flash content out there. In 2008 the categories have changed to the following: Application Cartoon/Story/Narrative ...

If you have always wanted to be a film titan and you love team work, (that ole collaborator in you), Your Broadcaster puts you in the director chair. Your Broadcaster is a Web 2.0 project where everyone (like you) contributes material for 5 full length feature films in these genres: Bollywood, Thriller, Comedy, Drama, Horror. Members' participation is primarily through the upload of scripts, ...

Public domain is a beautiful thing. The king of all things public domain, Archive.org is a great resource for downloading copyright-free music, video, texts, etc., but actually searching for specifics can be a chore. For all movie fans and filmmakers alike, OpenFlix presents a very useful solution to hunting down and classifying public domain films. The website is a directory containing all types ...

I am a closet indie film fan, in fact, I have always wished I could visit some sort of film festival, but never had the chance thus far. Now, the film festival comes to me (and you) via iTunes. The Sundance Film Festival, probably one of the most widely-known, is going to be selling some of its films on iTunes. Indie filmmakers will get the bulk of the $1.99 price for their films, with the rest of ...

Got your soda? Maybe some popcorn? Enjoyed the intermission, did you? I can tell, so welcome to the second half of our fine how-to on making your own semi-professional videos. If you missed the first part of this two-parter, you can find it here. Task Four: Editing and effects To edit my movie I used Windows XP's built-in Windows Movie Maker (you may need to download the newer version of it ...

Want an easy way to record video from your webcam and post it on your blog or website? Flixn is a simple online solution to achieve this. Simply connect your webcam, press record, grab a snippet of code, and post it anywhere you like. When you plug your webcam in, Flixn.com will recognize it and instantly let you being recording. The playback mode lets you check out your video, and record again ...

Another collaborative ratings site, Filmcrowd (beta), is born. Filmcrowd is, as you might guess from the name, focused on movies. Gibbity, which you can't guess from the title, is more of a games site, but uses the same social aspect. The two sites are from the same folks, in fact. Tags and collaboration are the key here. For instance, you can create a focus group of sorts, with users who find ...

Starting with the story and breaking down the elements, building a schedule and sharing the reports, Celtx is an incredibly thorough tool for TV and video (or film, or theater). It's cross platform and totally free. One of the interesting features involves a built-in web browser, enabling some great collaboration opportunities. For instance, you can update multimedia assets (like photos) in ...

The LA Times is reporting on an anti-spam company that has used Bayesian filtering to predict, with 81% accuracy, which films at the Sundance Film Festival will financial successes. The company's enginneers realized that "determining whether a movie is good or bad could be similar to determining whether e-mail is spam or not" and used the last 10 years of the festival to determine the ...