Archive for January 2008
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know I’m a big fan of stop motion animation, especially when it involves toys. I love the work from Penny Mix Films and XOW! Studios. So I was pretty excited to see this trailer for the GI Joe Film Festival:
So far, it only seems to be making limited stops in Denver and Los Angeles, but they’re still taking submissions! Get the camera out and put your old Joes to work.
-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team
Welcome to another episode of Fringe Fridays, Yahoo! Video’s look at the best in animated and experimental video. I’m traveling for work right now, and I really miss my rabbits. That’s why this new video from Thai animators apple0only made my day:
As always, let us know what you think by posting a comment below!
-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team
To coincide with the start of the new year, we have decided to give our blog a new home and a whole new look. You can bookmark it here and grab our RSS feed for your reader or My Yahoo! page here. We know the change may take some time to get used to, so we’ll continue to update our 360 blog (http://blog.360.yahoo.com/y_video_team) for a while.
So what do you think? Let us know, and of course we’d also like to know what else you want to see here and on Yahoo! Video. Thanks for being our friend on Yahoo! 360, and keep reading us at our new home.
-Randall, Yahoo! Video Team
James Murray, the genius behind the popular Cooties PSA, teaches a class in New York City about the theory and production of viral videos. I thought this was pretty cool, so I asked him to describe the program:
“The class is a combination of theory and production. The first four weeks, I teach the students what makes a video go viral, how to write and produce professional content with the best chances of hitting online, how to turn online viral success into real world cash and opportunities, how to license videos, etc. The students bring new sketches in every week, and I choose 4 with the best chances of going viral. Then we produce the sketches, and launch them online.”
Welcome back to Fringe Fridays, our regular exploration of experimental film and video. Today I bring you two films that really highlight the importance of editing and original music. The first one, by Canadian filmmaker, James Morison is a short, existential exploration that I think is rather touching.
Our next video is from a creator who says ‘I don’t really consider myself to be a filmmaker per se.’ Jack Gray is a film composer who re-edited an old film to his own musical composition.
Both these creators do such a good job of putting meaningful images together to just the right music.
-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team
Hey Readers,
Just in case you’re counting, there are now four ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ year-end wrap-up videos. If you count Dan Meth’s Internet people, that makes five. Of course you shouldn’t really count Internet People because it doesn’t use the song. But my theory is that Mr. Meth started the ‘Fire’ (so to speak), and the folks at JibJab, Wallstrip, Cakke, and the Richter Scales just carried the idea to its logcial (and simultaneous) conclusion. So, in case you missed them here are the latest entries:
Wallstrip: STOK TIKR SING ALNG
You can watch the others here.
-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team
