Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. A ‘documentary film’ was originally shot on film stock — the only medium available — but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas. “Documentary” has been described ...
This was an especially difficult week to group the videos together according to a common theme. While there were plenty of viral video success stories this week, it was about as diverse a bunch as I've ever seen. We have accident videos, we have animal ...
As Nalts writes today, there aren't too many YouTube stars who have crossed over from the Internet to television with much success. Whether audiences aren't ready to embrace web stars on the TV or the web content doesn't easily translate to the traditional TV format, ...
Life In A Day, the documentary from Kevin Macdonald, Ridley Scott, and thousands of amateur filmmakers--otherwise known as "the YouTube movie"--is coming to a movie theater near you this summer. Before that time, though, the producers are asking the YouTube crowd for help one more ...
It's that time once again--Friday morning, to be exact--when I provide you with a list of some of the best viral videos I found and read about throughout the week. Some are branded advertisements, some are artistic projects in nature, and of course some are ...
Jeroen "JW" Wijering is an online video pioneer, Chief Digital Architect of LongTail Video and the creator of the Internet's most popular and ubiquitous media players, the JW Players, which have generated millions of downloads since their launch in 2005.
Logitech (& Google) scored a viral hit with their Logitech Revue/Google TV commercial back in December of 2010. It starred Kevin Bacon as Ivan Cobenk--the world's biggest Kevin Bacon fan (Ivan Cobenk is actually an anagram of Kevin Bacon). The humor was spot on, and ...
We've written a lot about Life In A Day here at ReelSEO, and with good reason. It is, to my knowledge, the very first Hollywood film created from video clips shot by amateurs. That gimmick alone would make the movie worth checking out, I believe, ...
We caught up with Jay Holzer a few weeks back and he was gracious enough to chat with us for a bit about online video. He is the Senior Director of Video Production at Demand Media, the publisher of websites like eHow, Cracked, LiveStrong, and ...
It's time again for another recap of the week's best viral videos. In addition to naming some of my favorites from the last seven days or so, we'll also try and dig a bit deeper to find a lesson—some nugget of inspiration or advice we ...
In case you weren't the lucky winner of that contest ReelSEO had, or just didn't make it to New York this weekend, Vimeo is kind enough to be putting up the events in, of course, video form on their site. Not only are there award-winning ...
You might have notice our contest announcement yesterday regarding the Vimeo Festival+Awards—we're giving away 4 pairs of tickets to the event for free, and all you have to do is submit a video with a tip for using Vimeo. I though it might be a ...
I've been following the Life in a Day project for some time now, because it's incredibly fascinating to me. The project—a joint venture between YouTube and Hollywood producer Ridley Scott—asked YouTube users to film upload footage of themselves going about their normal daily routine, and ...
Welcome to Part 4 of our ongoing Online Video Marketing Basics series. It's intended to be a help—a sort of guide, if you will—for individuals and businesses just getting started with online video. We've already covered Why You Should Get Involved with online video, Choosing ...
When you produce a piece of online video content, you probably pay a lot of attention to the quality of the sound and picture. You want the best possible presentation of your work. But sometimes, if you're like me, you can get ahead of yourself, ...
The YouTube Life In A Day experiment appears to have gone very well, at least in terms of participation. You might remember the project, in which the video site partnered with Hollywood directors Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald to create a documentary film out of ...
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