Current Buzz Film School
Check out the “Current Buzz Film School” on Yahoo Current. Learn how to turn your video into a viral sensation by adding the right sounds and slow mo. Very clever piece.
Remember. No “Dude Screams.”
Check out the “Current Buzz Film School” on Yahoo Current. Learn how to turn your video into a viral sensation by adding the right sounds and slow mo. Very clever piece.
Remember. No “Dude Screams.”
While Google/YouTube may change the dynamic of video search, it’s still hopelessly frustrating to find a video online. Wall Street Journal writer Jessica Vascellaro wrote a nice article on video search today. I liked it not just because it was the first time I’ve been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. The article shows that companies have made significant efforts…
Did you ever play the game in college where you tried to imagine the perfect woman, and you’d combine parts from various people you knew? Kinda like building the Frankenstein of women? Jennifer’s nose, Cathy’s eyes, Christy’s… um… personality, etc.? That’s what we’re going to play now. I’ll start. I’m going to create the perfect…
Having plenty of people viewing your YouTube videos has achieved such social status that prominent YouTube creators are “cheating.” In this video Redskulled describes the simple method to inflate total views on your video, and identifies some of the “famous” YouTube cheaters — and shows the crude and simple ways to cheat. Consider, then, the…
I’ve been studying online-video comments for a few months, and I’d like to share my unscientific but well-documented conclusions. Online-video commenters come in three segments: Angry cynics (66%) Supportive fans (23%) Self promoters (11%) For some of my videos it would take more time to read the comments than it did to shoot, edit and…
TubeMogul’s blog did a nice summary of the online-video sites it feeds, and provides user feedback about the site and monetization status (whether you can make money on the sites). You can also read the “Zagat’s”-like report as a PDF. Thanks to Mark from TubeMogul for bringing this to our attention.
It’s time for the first annual WillVideoforFood.com’s Top 10 Stupidest Moments of Online Video in 2007. This list is my first draft, so I invite and encourage moments I’ve no doubt missed. I haven’t kept a notepad besides my bed all year, and I try to suppress these moments. That said, I did review hundreds…