13 posts tagged “videos”

My filmmaking activities have been curtailed by the day-to-day at the university, but last Friday, 13 February, I screened a short film, "24-Hour Comics Day at Cosmic Monkey", as part of the Oregon 150 commemoration at Western. The short was produced from footage shot for my larger documentary project on the comic book scene in Portland, Oregon (USA). I've inserted the YouTube version below, but better viewing can be found on my lo-fi cinema page at blip.tv.

"The Decision", the Monmouth Film Collective's 48 Hour Film Project short is now online at blip.tv and on YouTube. I've inserted the YouTube version below. blip offers better viewing, including a Quicktime version (best quality for online viewing, but it will take longer to load).

View in Flash on lo-fi cinema at blip.tv.
View in Quicktime on lo-fi cinema at blip.tv.

I've posted the Willamette Valley Film Collective's entry in the 2008 International Documentary Challenge to the web, both at blip.tv and YouTube. The YouTube version is inserted here, and links to the (better quality) blip.tv versions are below.

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Taking some license, I'm sure, with a recent loosening of the International Documentary Challenge's warnings against posting entries online, I've put the Willamette Valley Film Collective's 2007 entry, "Visual Vitriol: The Art of Punk," up at lo-fi cinema on blip.tv. Our genre was "art" and the theme for the year was "faith." More details at blip.

View the flash version.
View in Quicktime.

If you're a Dazed and Confused (1993) fan, I suspect you'll like my newest post to lo-fi cinema. And even if you're not, it's an interesting, if minor, experiment with the pliability of digital media; I made the video from digital still photos taken of a TV broadcast of the movie on Encore. If nothing else, it's a short look.

Watch the Flash version.
Watch the Quicktime version.

The biggest drama in this year's IDC was at the beginning of the week as we lost one member of the crew after another, and then scrambled to nail down a subject to fit into our selected genre of "Music." Ironically enough given that director David Doellinger is a historian, we pretty well took our other choice, "Historical," off the table for lack of compelling ideas (it isn't actually all that ironic if you think through the proposition of asking a professional historian to compress what they normally do with, often, years of work into five days and four to seven minutes of video).

Fortunately for us, one of the remaining crew, Jenn Richards, put us onto a house near the WOU campus occupied by music majors and host to a monthly concert series that just happened to be running on the Friday of the IDC (March 7). David, Norris Lee, Jenn, and I went to work on Friday, and Josh Du Chene joined us on Saturday. Maren Anderson found some time away from the new kiddo to help preview raw footage.

One of the key lessons I've learned from these timed film competitions is the benefit of starting editing early. To that end, I devoted myself as much as possible to that job during the competition. I can't say for sure if this year's effort is "better" than last year's, but I do think that it's more immediately accessible and certainly less fueled by crazed, late, late (or early, early depending on your perspective) punchiness.

For the record, this year's Willamette Valley Film Collective was: myself (editor and producer), David Doellinger (director and miscellaneous tasks), Jenn Richards (co-producer, sound, original music), Josh Du Chene (sound and photography), and Norris Lee (behind-the-scenes photography). Maren and Anne-Marie assisted with editing. Thanks to the residents of "8veU" and Tom Bergeron and the Brazilian Combo, who played Friday night.

You can watch a preview at blip.tv. Go here for a Quicktime version.

Since originally posting about my new home at blip.tv, I've posted a few new videos.

Watch "Hybrid Natures on the City floor" (this is the video I prepared for the Toronto Urban Film Festival).
Watch "Friday Lentils & Rice" (experimentation with a "movie" made from still photographs).
Watch "Drive Run Walk" (a short made from work I did with one of my classes last Fall).

The links take you to the primary Flash versions of the videos. However, in blip.tv you can choose alternate formats when available. Each of these shorts is also viewable in Quicktime, which are generally the higher quality versions.

Go to the Lo-Fi Cinema page on blip.tv
Go to the Lo-Fi Cinema page on Miro
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Lo-Fi Cinema is now in the Miro Guide. I caught it on the "Just Added" page:

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And here's a shot of the channel page:

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Go to the Miro Guide.
Go to Lo-Fi Cinema on Miro.
Go to Lo-Fi Cinema on blip.tv.
Get Miro for yourself.

My favored alternative to YouTube, YouAreTV, seems to be at loose ends and perhaps not long for this world. So, I recently opened an account at blip.tv. I've resisted this site because of how heavily it pushes the TV model, but after doing another round of research and taking a closer look at its features, I decided to sign up. I've also added my "show," Lo-Fi Cinema, to Miro. You can subscribe by clicking on the Miro button in my sidebar (this also the case on Short-Circuit Signs, my TypePad blog). Content will probably come in bursts rather than in regular episodes, but if you already use Miro, and your experience has been like mine, you'll probably appreciate having a few channels that only update periodically.

"DreemRz, Inc," the Monmouth Film Collective's entry in this year's Portland, Oregon 48 Hour Film Project, is now online at YouAreTV and YouTube. I've embedded the YouTube version below. The version on YouAreTV offers generally higher quality viewing, especially if you let the video download before beginning playback.

DreemRz, Inc