Vlogging News - Festivals Covered
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Video blogs, podcasts cover fests
By Bob Mims and Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune
Thanks to technological advances, there's more than one way to savor the Sundance Film Festival, and to an extent, the alternative Slamdance Film Festival as well.
Two companies are working together to offer a video blog - or vlog - containing Sundance news, celebrity updates and editorial posts in high-definition.
DivX Inc. (http://www.divx.ocm), a provider of video-sharing tools, and Flavorpill (http://www.flavorpill.net), a publisher of e-mail culture magazines online, are partners in Flavorpill Sundance, which can be viewed at http://www.flavorpill.net/sundance.
Contributors to the vlog are equipped with digital camcorders. The raw video is edited and uploaded to Flavorpill, providing the site with almost-live, on-the-run coverage.
A visit to Flavorpill Sundance found links to film listings, interviews with stars, and items on parking irritation. One entry, "Brokeback Utah," noted how in the wake of the ranch-hand romance "Brokeback Mountain," this year's festival was chock-full of independent, gay-lesbian fare - in all, 19 features. Meanwhile, the Slamdance Film Festival is introducing films and festival atmosphere through MP3 players and Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Slamdance has started Slamdance Podcast, a collection of movie trailers and festival highlights from past years to give video iPodders a flavor of what happens there. It also is expected to post daily video podcasts by film directors on their exploits in Park City. You can get it through Apple's iTunes (http://www.itunes.com).
The podcasts are made for Apple's fifth-generation video iPod, which can download and display video on a 2 1/2 -inch screen.
"Podcasting can be kind of its own mini-art-form," said festival co-founder Dan Mirvish. "As our filmmakers go through the week, we told them, 'Guys, bring your digital cameras and shoot stuff, and we can put it up.' " The project began with festival organizers asking the makers of this year's films to make their own two- to three-minute trailers for the podcast.
"Their goal is if you get enough attention on podcasts and iTunes, then all of a sudden people see there can be an audience for this film," Mirvish said. The festival expects to post new podcasts daily, and they also will include festival highlights throughout the day.
More articles like this are at http://www.ipods-and-onlinevideo-reviews.com/ipods_and_onlinevideo_master_articles_page_2.htm.
More soon -
Chip Tarver
Story courtesy of http://sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_3426713
Video blogs, podcasts cover fests
By Bob Mims and Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune
Thanks to technological advances, there's more than one way to savor the Sundance Film Festival, and to an extent, the alternative Slamdance Film Festival as well.
Two companies are working together to offer a video blog - or vlog - containing Sundance news, celebrity updates and editorial posts in high-definition.
DivX Inc. (http://www.divx.ocm), a provider of video-sharing tools, and Flavorpill (http://www.flavorpill.net), a publisher of e-mail culture magazines online, are partners in Flavorpill Sundance, which can be viewed at http://www.flavorpill.net/sundance.
Contributors to the vlog are equipped with digital camcorders. The raw video is edited and uploaded to Flavorpill, providing the site with almost-live, on-the-run coverage.
A visit to Flavorpill Sundance found links to film listings, interviews with stars, and items on parking irritation. One entry, "Brokeback Utah," noted how in the wake of the ranch-hand romance "Brokeback Mountain," this year's festival was chock-full of independent, gay-lesbian fare - in all, 19 features. Meanwhile, the Slamdance Film Festival is introducing films and festival atmosphere through MP3 players and Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Slamdance has started Slamdance Podcast, a collection of movie trailers and festival highlights from past years to give video iPodders a flavor of what happens there. It also is expected to post daily video podcasts by film directors on their exploits in Park City. You can get it through Apple's iTunes (http://www.itunes.com).
The podcasts are made for Apple's fifth-generation video iPod, which can download and display video on a 2 1/2 -inch screen.
"Podcasting can be kind of its own mini-art-form," said festival co-founder Dan Mirvish. "As our filmmakers go through the week, we told them, 'Guys, bring your digital cameras and shoot stuff, and we can put it up.' " The project began with festival organizers asking the makers of this year's films to make their own two- to three-minute trailers for the podcast.
"Their goal is if you get enough attention on podcasts and iTunes, then all of a sudden people see there can be an audience for this film," Mirvish said. The festival expects to post new podcasts daily, and they also will include festival highlights throughout the day.
More articles like this are at http://www.ipods-and-onlinevideo-reviews.com/ipods_and_onlinevideo_master_articles_page_2.htm.
More soon -
Chip Tarver
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