| The world of the music video | | Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:05:02 AM by Rose Martins | MTV is a dedicated music video culture channel. One can spend literally hours watching just music videos of all your favorite artists. There are also online music video search engines and websites, such as Yahoo and Myspace, where one can watch music videos for free.
W ith the internet, amateur unknown bands can post their live music videos for download, giving them the opportunity to get "known" and for others to be exposed to their music. There is nothing simple about a music video. A good music video is virtually a mini-movie that costs a huge amount of money to produce.
Rap, anime, country music, inuyasha and even Christian music videos are available. In fact, no genre of music is exempt. Music video producer Alissa Walker says, "It's probably one of the most creative, innovative mediums. The editors get the footage and they have three days to do what ever they want, many times before the director even comes in. That doesn't happen in other types of projects.
You also have the editor working closely with the director and collaborating directly." Financially it's not as lucrative as other means of film production, but to the music video producer, it's still worthwhile. "Most of our editors cut eight videos a month," says Walker.
"Everyone's working for less than they used to, but it's worth it when we're all over MTV. All of our editors started out cutting music videos. They do some commercials and features but everyone's heart is in the music video world, although it's getting harder to survive in that place."
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| | | Brightcove Lets Users Search Videos | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:18:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | Internet-video distributor Brightcove is expected to unveil a Web hub Monday featuring programming supplied by everyone from major media companies such as MTV Networks to independent producers. The beta site will contain a new video-search engine capable of returning thousands of video clips available on the Internet, including videos available on major Web sites such as AOL.com (www.aol.com) and YouTube (www.youtube.com), the latter of which is merging with Google (www.google.com). While Brightcove rival YouTube allows Web surfers to sort videos by date or the number of times other users have viewed particular clips, Brightcove's consumer site will contain a "buzz index." The index will rank videos by a formula that combines the number of views, how frequently videos are shared with other Web surfers and "what the attention span is to that media," CEO Jeremy Allaire said.... | |
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| | | Web videos prove far more infectious than MTV fare | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:05:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | A rock band perilously dancing on treadmills has jump-started the fastest-growing music marketing craze since MTV took flight. In the space of months, countless millions across the globe have caught the viral video bug, logging on to free sites like YouTube, Yahoo! Video, Google Video and MySpace to enter a fast-multiplying universe of low-budget clips by bands they might never have heard of before. Sensing the era of the $500,000 video budget has passed, a struggling record industry is wide awake to the potential. The witty rock quartet OK Go struck the gong, attracting 3 million viewers with its hilariously choreographed clip, "Here We Go Again," within its first two weeks online at the end of the summer. Alt-rock act Beck Hansen, usually on the cusp of emerging trends, just uploaded cheaply made, self-shot videos for each of his new album's 15 songs onto YouTube, MySpace, Beck.com and various other corners of the Internet.... | |
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| | | Deal Puts Videos And Music Legally On YouTube | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:14:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | The deal allows millions of people who upload their homemade videos to YouTube to license an array of Warner Music's songs. By Laurie Sullivan TechWeb Sep 18, 2006 03:10 PM Music from Paul Simon, Madonna and Red Hot Chili Peppers will become legally available on the YouTube Inc. Web site. Warner Music Group Corp. said Monday it stuck a deal with the video-hosting Web site to distribute its music video library from a roaster of artists. The deal allows millions of people who upload their homemade videos to the San Mateo, Calif.-based Web site to license Warner Music's songs. The pact helps the music label distribute videos, behind-the-scenes footage, artist interviews and original programming. The two companies plan to begin sharing ad revenue derived from site ads placed next to Warner Music's content by the end of this year.... | |
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| | | Tony Gets A Job And Meets Solo, Max, And Franny | | Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 1:07:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | My life has been too busy and I haven't felt the best the past week. I've been going to a back clinic. At my age, there are only a few options for back problems. Surgery, walking and working out at a back clinic, getting a scooter, or sitting on pillows in my apartment. I've only walked once this past week but hope to have better news to report next week. In the mean time, here's everything that happens to Tony around noon on Tuesday. I'll try to get two or three blog postings a week so I can get caught up and have everything posted by the middle of October. This will be pretty much the complete book even though I plan to go through it four or five more times which will mean some minor changes, probably the fleshing out of some of the characters.Changes can always occur ifI add or delete characters or change the direction of some of the events.... | |
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| | | Explosive Defcon videos ( News ) | | Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:03:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's looking like a bit of a slow day, so we thought we'd draw your attention to a few videos chucked up in the dying stages of last week - an overview trailer and four gameplay videos from Introversion's exciting-looking Defcon. The gameplay videos give you a chance to see how combat plays out across the world as defcons change and gentle music accompanies the eerie march to Armageddon. And when that happens, as the game says, "everybody dies". You can watch parts one, two, three and four of the gameplay trailer onslaught on EGTV now. And if you fancy a neatly edited recap of what Defcon's about (including flowers and everything), check out the main trailer. .... | |
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