[videoblogging] Call for entries film sharing Filmfestival tour
+++ DEUTSCHER TEXT UNTERHALB +++ +++ CALL FOR ENTRIES 2009 +++ film sharing Low & No Budget VideoFilmfestival Tour 2009 We are looking for narrative and fictional shorts. The films and film ideas may have developed in all sorts of ways: we like accurately planned films, spontaneously done projects, exercises and inventive products which came into being (almost) by accident. Filmmakers who are not willing to submit their creativity to a fixed kind of commercial frame are invited to share their work with our festival audience! Originality of the plot or the way in which the story is told and flows are the crucial factors of evaluation. (And then there are some more formal criteria regarding the length of films (see below). But that is about it. Categories short narration and fiction * extremely short (<3min) * short film (3-15min) * short film special for the category It started promising..." (3 - 15min) This year, we will show the festival's films in three different towns on three consecutive weekends in July 2009. And as every year, we'll be trying to show those selected films and the whole programme not only in Stuttgart, Heilbronn and Mainz, but in several European cities as well. After all, it's an international festival, not to be happening at one place only. Of course there is no entry fee for submitting films- you will find more information and the entry form on: http://www.film-sharing.net +++ ENGLISH VERSION ABOVE +++ +++ AUSSCHREIBUNG 2009 +++ film sharing Low & No Budget VideoFilmfestival Tour 2009 Wir möchten ein internationales Forum sein für unabhängige Produktionen mit unterschiedlichster Finanzierung; was zählt, ist die inhaltliche und ästhetische Eigenständigkeit. Die Entstehungsweise kann von sorgfältig geplanten Filmen über spontan entstandene Projekte bis zu gelungenen Übungen und originellen Zufallsprodukten reichen. Filmemacher, die ihre Kreativität nicht unbedingt in einen kommerziellen Rahmen pressen wollen, sind dazu aufgefordert, unser Festivalpublikum an ihren Werken teilhaben zu lassen! Originalität der Handlung oder des Ablaufs sind ausschlaggebende Kriterien der Bewertung. Ein paar formale Kriterien gibt es allerdings auch bei uns, die Filmlänge betreffend (siehe unten). Kategorien narrativer und fiktionaler Kurzfilm * Ultrakurzfilm (<3min) * Kurzfilm alle Themen (3-15min) * Kurzspielfilm spezial zum Thema "Bisher lief alles ganz gut..." (3- 15min) 2009 wird das Festivalprogramm an drei Wochenenden hintereinander voraussichtlich im Juli 09 in verschiedenen Städten gezeigt werden und Ihr seid natürlich wieder alle herzlich eingeladen hinzukommen. Meldet euch früh an, damit wir euch soweit dies uns möglich ist, einen Schlafplatz besorgen. Und wieder werden wir später ein Auswahlprogramm auf Tour schicken. Wir sehen die Aufgabe eines internationalen Festivals darin, nicht nur an wenige Orte wie Stuttgart, Heilbronn oder Mainz gebunden zu sein. Mehr Informationen zum Festival und das Einreichformular sind zu finden unter: http://www.film-sharing.net
Re: [videoblogging] Interest in a mailing list re online cinema of the experimental/video art/etc. persuasion?
I created a new mailing list today: Artists in the Cloud http://groups.google.com/group/artists-in-the-cloud I remembered this thread afterward so it may be of interest to some here who are looking for a new source of discourse. "This list is for those interested in the techniques, style, hardware, economics, sustainability, collaboration theory and anything else related to using the cloud as a primary venue and medium for artists and where the global culture is concentrating." sull On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: > Howdy Videoblogginglistfolk. > I'm considering starting a list for folks making or interested in work made > for the web (or using the web as a venue) that is coming from an > experimental film / video art / installation direction. The list would > focus > on aesthetics and theory as well as tech help, economics/sustainability, > and > anything else about online cinema art and its relationship to its offline > context. Would love to hear from anyone who would be interested and also > any > concerns or desires about such a list. Thanks. > > -- > ___ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
there are two of us at dyna-flix.com and after a year and a half of hard work and 50 fifteen minute chapters on the market as $5 downloads or 3 on a DVD for $20 we were up to $100 a day in sales. average. down a little with all the fear out there about money. most "pay sites" in our niche sell subscriptions. we prefer individual sales with active feedback from our customers thru a guestbook and a yahoo group. we tend to get our money back for each chapter in the first 48 hours we have it on the market. so we own our library free and clear. but we don't own much else but a pole barn. we currently run advert free on blip as our 150 or so clips there are nothing more than commercials for our work - getting some 1200 views a day. but once we finish the toned down (ever so slightly) set of 6 shows for australian broadcast we might park them on blip and troll for a sponsor. we had invited a third artist into this project. he helped us get up and running but dropped out. we'd take him back in a heartbeat, but he can't wait for the money like we can. mind you during this year and a half we have been deleted from youtube some dozen times in spite of millions of channel views with no complaints. seems it might be industrial sabotage of some sort - one is likely to find hot competion in a well funded niche. this year i hope to add ringtones and wallpapers to our product line, see about getting into the i-tunes store, and sacrifice 40% of the sale price to sell some more of our commercials on clips4sale. we are maybe getting close "1000 true fans" level where we will venture into the exciting world of profit. the above is offered in hopes it will help someone else believe in themselves enough to try. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson wrote: > > I don't care about people doing this for me, it's not about dog > sports. It's not about me. My stuff was only an example. > > This is about the concept of profit sharing with producers and > supplementing income of video producers and giving much needed help > to community developers. > > It's the idea that I'm pushing, I don't want to push anybody into > doing anything for me, but I do think this idea has merit and am a > bit confused about the lack of interest on the list here. > > I hate this kind of communication, email lists, it's so easy to get a > mixed message. > > I do like the latter part of your post, Jay, and think you are on it. > > I don't think Rosenbaum's piece was very groundbreaking either, other > than the fact that it was in print (large blog) and it reinforced > what I've believed and have been in the process of doing for a couple > years now. And it did so with a little bit of anecdotal evidence and > experience. > > I'm not used to seeing my thoughts and ideas in media until several > years after they develop. > > You are right about the passionate hobbyist supporting their > community, but I think it goes further than that. I think we're all > about to realize just how important community is. We've been having > our eyes opened it here Michigan for a few years now and as the > economy takes it's final spins around the toilet bowl we're all going > to get a look at how worthless our lives as consumers feeding an > economy have become and how damaging it was to our society. > > We're all going to want to belong to and we're all going to *need* to > belong to something in the near future. > > I think that profit sharing for niche content is a viable method for > keeping a cottage studio afloat and for getting great content for > niche communities. > > Creating daylight between spectator quality video and decent > production has to happen in order to get the concept of pay to play > video working. > > Getting past the flash in the pan YT viral score / instant celebrity > thing has to happen as well. > > Thanks for the thoughts Jay. Enlightening as always. > > peace, > > > Ron Watson > http://k9disc.blip.tv > http://k9disc.com > http://discdogradio.com > http://pawsitivevybe.com > > > > On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Jay dedman wrote: > > > > I don't want to beat a dead horse, though, and I can see that > > there's > > > little interest on the list in entertaining the concept of making > > > money through profit sharing with community developers and small > > > businesses. > > > It's a bummer though. It could be the big thing that makes producing > > > independent video profitable, or at least not a total money pit. It > > > also could put different kinds of creative people in the same room > > > and on the same page fostering who knows what kind of exciting > > > possibilities. > > > > I think you just need to change your strategy. > > Why approach this group who aren't passionate about dog training? > > Just not something I want to spend my time doing for any amount of > > money. > > > > BUT I'm sure you know a whol
Re: [videoblogging] Interest in a mailing list re online cinema of the experimental/video art/etc. persuasion?
After having done the 24 hour 24 artists project this idea makes a lot more sense to me :-) Subscribed. - Verdi On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:57 AM, @sull wrote: > I created a new mailing list today: > > Artists in the Cloud > > http://groups.google.com/group/artists-in-the-cloud > > I remembered this thread afterward so it may be of interest to some here who > are looking for a new source of discourse. > > "This list is for those interested in the techniques, style, hardware, > economics, sustainability, collaboration theory and anything else > related to using the cloud as a primary venue and medium for artists and > where the global culture is concentrating." > > sull > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: > >> Howdy Videoblogginglistfolk. >> I'm considering starting a list for folks making or interested in work made >> for the web (or using the web as a venue) that is coming from an >> experimental film / video art / installation direction. The list would >> focus >> on aesthetics and theory as well as tech help, economics/sustainability, >> and >> anything else about online cinema art and its relationship to its offline >> context. Would love to hear from anyone who would be interested and also >> any >> concerns or desires about such a list. Thanks. >> >> -- >> ___ >> Brook Hinton >> film/video/audio art >> www.brookhinton.com >> studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Profit sharing for film crews
Liza Jean, I guess the profit sharing could work both ways. As a production company, you are killing yourself with the presentation of your site. It just doesn't look serious. (just being frank here...). I think I could help you with the presentation of dyna-flix.com. There is no reason for your site to not look incredible. You've got all that scantily clad talent, and it's just sitting there in the middle of a white page. If you had a better layout and design, and asked people to cruise around and check things out I bet you'd be doing much better. Please take a look in my signature for examples of my work. If you are interested, give me a shout privately. That goes for anyone else too. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com http://rescuedogstv.com http://k9athlete.com On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:14 AM, liza jean wrote: > there are two of us at dyna-flix.com and after a year and a half of > hard work and 50 fifteen minute chapters on the market as $5 > downloads or 3 on a DVD for $20 we were up to $100 a day in sales. > average. down a little with all the fear out there about money. > > most "pay sites" in our niche sell subscriptions. we prefer > individual sales with active feedback from our customers thru a > guestbook and a yahoo group. we tend to get our money back for each > chapter in the first 48 hours we have it on the market. so we own > our library free and clear. but we don't own much else but a pole > barn. > > we currently run advert free on blip as our 150 or so clips there are > nothing more than commercials for our work - getting some 1200 views > a day. but once we finish the toned down (ever so slightly) set of 6 > shows for australian broadcast we might park them on blip and troll > for a sponsor. > > we had invited a third artist into this project. he helped us get up > and running but dropped out. we'd take him back in a heartbeat, but > he can't wait for the money like we can. > > mind you during this year and a half we have been deleted from > youtube some dozen times in spite of millions of channel views with > no complaints. seems it might be industrial sabotage of some sort - > one is likely to find hot competion in a well funded niche. > > this year i hope to add ringtones and wallpapers to our product line, > see about getting into the i-tunes store, and sacrifice 40% of the > sale price to sell some more of our commercials on clips4sale. > > we are maybe getting close "1000 true fans" level where we will > venture into the exciting world of profit. > > the above is offered in hopes it will help someone else believe in > themselves enough to try. > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson wrote: > > > > I don't care about people doing this for me, it's not about dog > > sports. It's not about me. My stuff was only an example. > > > > This is about the concept of profit sharing with producers and > > supplementing income of video producers and giving much needed > help > > to community developers. > > > > It's the idea that I'm pushing, I don't want to push anybody into > > doing anything for me, but I do think this idea has merit and am a > > bit confused about the lack of interest on the list here. > > > > I hate this kind of communication, email lists, it's so easy to get > a > > mixed message. > > > > I do like the latter part of your post, Jay, and think you are on > it. > > > > I don't think Rosenbaum's piece was very groundbreaking either, > other > > than the fact that it was in print (large blog) and it reinforced > > what I've believed and have been in the process of doing for a > couple > > years now. And it did so with a little bit of anecdotal evidence > and > > experience. > > > > I'm not used to seeing my thoughts and ideas in media until > several > > years after they develop. > > > > You are right about the passionate hobbyist supporting their > > community, but I think it goes further than that. I think we're > all > > about to realize just how important community is. We've been > having > > our eyes opened it here Michigan for a few years now and as the > > economy takes it's final spins around the toilet bowl we're all > going > > to get a look at how worthless our lives as consumers feeding an > > economy have become and how damaging it was to our society. > > > > We're all going to want to belong to and we're all going to *need* > to > > belong to something in the near future. > > > > I think that profit sharing for niche content is a viable method > for > > keeping a cottage studio afloat and for getting great content for > > niche communities. > > > > Creating daylight between spectator quality video and decent > > production has to happen in order to get the concept of pay to > play > > video working. > > > > Getting past the flash in the pan YT viral score / instant > celebrity > > thing has to happen as well. > > > > Thanks for the thoughts Jay. Enlightening as always. > > > > peace, > > > > > > Ron Wat
Re: [videoblogging] Interest in a mailing list re online cinema of the experimental/video art/etc. persuasion?
Me too. And since he's too shy, let me link to the 24hours24artists archive - you can see almost all the 24 hours at the site, at: http://24hours24artists.com/archive/ You all might be interested to check out the videoblogger contributions: Loiez, Robert Croma, Jen Proctor, Wreck and Salvage and Jay Dedman & Ryanne Hodson, Richard BF - and, of course, Verdi and Aren. But there's a lot of other artists doing all kinds of other performances there, too. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 9-Jan-09, at 9:30 AM, Michael Verdi wrote: After having done the 24 hour 24 artists project this idea makes a lot more sense to me :-) Subscribed. - Verdi On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:57 AM, @sull wrote: > I created a new mailing list today: > > Artists in the Cloud > > http://groups.google.com/group/artists-in-the-cloud > > I remembered this thread afterward so it may be of interest to some here who > are looking for a new source of discourse. > > "This list is for those interested in the techniques, style, hardware, > economics, sustainability, collaboration theory and anything else > related to using the cloud as a primary venue and medium for artists and > where the global culture is concentrating." > > sull > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: > >> Howdy Videoblogginglistfolk. >> I'm considering starting a list for folks making or interested in work made >> for the web (or using the web as a venue) that is coming from an >> experimental film / video art / installation direction. The list would >> focus >> on aesthetics and theory as well as tech help, economics/ sustainability, >> and >> anything else about online cinema art and its relationship to its offline >> context. Would love to hear from anyone who would be interested and also >> any >> concerns or desires about such a list. Thanks. >> >> -- >> ___ >> Brook Hinton >> film/video/audio art >> www.brookhinton.com >> studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- http://michaelverdi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Interest in a mailing list re online cinema of the experimental/video art/etc. persuasion?
nice, i need to carve out some time to watch the archive! nice job, michael! On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Rupert wrote: > Me too. > And since he's too shy, let me link to the 24hours24artists archive - > you can see almost all the 24 hours at the site, at: > http://24hours24artists.com/archive/ > You all might be interested to check out the videoblogger > contributions: Loiez, Robert Croma, Jen Proctor, Wreck and Salvage > and Jay Dedman & Ryanne Hodson, Richard BF - and, of course, Verdi > and Aren. But there's a lot of other artists doing all kinds of > other performances there, too. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv/ > > > On 9-Jan-09, at 9:30 AM, Michael Verdi wrote: > > After having done the 24 hour 24 artists project this idea makes a lot > more sense to me :-) > Subscribed. > - Verdi > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:57 AM, @sull > > > wrote: > > I created a new mailing list today: > > > > Artists in the Cloud > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/artists-in-the-cloud > > > > I remembered this thread afterward so it may be of interest to > some here who > > are looking for a new source of discourse. > > > > "This list is for those interested in the techniques, style, > hardware, > > economics, sustainability, collaboration theory and anything else > > related to using the cloud as a primary venue and medium for > artists and > > where the global culture is concentrating." > > > > sull > > > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Brook Hinton > > > > > wrote: > > > >> Howdy Videoblogginglistfolk. > >> I'm considering starting a list for folks making or interested in > work made > >> for the web (or using the web as a venue) that is coming from an > >> experimental film / video art / installation direction. The list > would > >> focus > >> on aesthetics and theory as well as tech help, economics/ > sustainability, > >> and > >> anything else about online cinema art and its relationship to its > offline > >> context. Would love to hear from anyone who would be interested > and also > >> any > >> concerns or desires about such a list. Thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> ___ > >> Brook Hinton > >> film/video/audio art > >> www.brookhinton.com > >> studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > >> > >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://michaelverdi.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Catching The Kobe Sunrise
Heya folks, it's me again, (still) the one and only Malaysian member of this mailing list (I think?). Had finally uploaded the second part of the video I shot during my trip at the Kansai region, Japan on New Year. Decided to go for something stylistically different, more minimalistic, done away with the background music etc. More of a 'you are there' feeling, I hope. Well, here's the post, you can choose either to watch the Facebook video or the Youtube one. Whichever loads faster. Er, enjoy. http://swiftywriting.blogspot.com/2009/01/video-catching-kobe-sunrise.html Feedback, thoughts, flames, suggestions, remarks etc. Much appreciated. Cheers! Edmund Yeo P. S. If you miss the first video the first time around, here's the link: http://swiftywriting.blogspot.com/2009/01/video-my-new-year-trip-at-kansai-region.html
