Wednesday September 26, 2007 Scary shorts wanted
How good a filmmaker are you? There’s nothing like going up against your peers to stretch yourself creatively, and the Halloween Horror Film Challenge is the perfect opportunity. You have until 24 October to submit your horrific shorts (10 minutes or less)...
Monday September 10, 2007 Cadbury's monkey business
It looks like advertising agency Fallon has come up trumps again with its new Cadbury's chocolate ad. The agency who has Sony Bravia – you know, the bouncing balls and paint – and Orange – you know, the annoying whimsy singalong ads – knotched on its bedpost...
Friday September 07, 2007 Eclectic Method
Digital Video were lucky enough to be invited to the launch event of Sony's new Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition 8 yesterday and were impressed by what we saw. Not only is the editing software a snip at £69.99, we were given a live performance of the...
Friday August 31, 2007 BT offers online storage
BT’s Digital Vault is a new online media storage system offering users the ability to save, share and automatically back-up precious digital files. The Vault is, refreshingly, available to all, so you don’t need to be a BT customer, and has a range of...
Thursday August 30, 2007 Big Brother Britain
Pardon our tabloid-esque title but, according to Martin Sadler of Hewlett Packard, by 2057 the technology will be in place to record a human’s life constantly from birth to death, Truman Show-style. It’s all because of the growth in intelligent sensors. He...
Wednesday August 29, 2007
Friday August 24, 2007 Digital Video: issue 233 out now!
Trust us: you need to buy this month’s Digital Video , as it’s The Most Useful Issue Ever. No matter what your filmmaking ilk, we have something for you. For starters, there’s the Videomaking Survival Kit, which houses essential camera skills, tips from...
Apple falls for iForest destruction
By Gareth Mason With nearly a million iPhones sold in the US, the first glitch in the system has come to light. Not with the phone, which appears to be making calls, toast and everything else it promised, but in the paperwork. A...
Thursday August 23, 2007 Sony gets a semi
Sony has announced the launch of a new HDV camcorder aimed at prosumers and semi-professionals, the HVR-HD1000U. Astute readers will guess from the U suffix that the HD1000 is an American model, but an international launch is expected to follow shortly. ...
Wednesday August 22, 2007 YouTube goes transparent with its ads
The inevitable has happened. YouTube has started to include advertising in its videos. As of today, the video-sharing portal will have ‘transparent’ advertising on a choice number of videos. The ads will appear 20 seconds into the bottom-fifth of a clip, and...
Tuesday August 21, 2007 Format wars: Bay bales out of Transformers 2!
Those who were (un)lucky enough to see Michael Bay’s smash-and-grab robot epic, Transformers , will be interested to hear that the big-shot director is not very pleased with Paramount’s decision to drop Blu-ray as a high-def format. In fact, on his...
Monday August 20, 2007 Talent Shows are Crap Shocker
By Gareth Mason The Chinese watchdog known as The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has banned a show based on Pop Idol on the basis that it’s ‘vulgar’, ‘coarse’ and ‘lacks artistic standards.’ What did they expect? Talent? Quality...
DON'T MIND YOUR LANGUAGE
By Gareth Mason No doubt the Albert Hall will soon resound to a chorus of Briton’s Never Will be Slaves as the Proms wind up to their conclusion. And if you forget for a moment the successful invasions of Romans, Normans, Angles, Saxons and Jutes, they...
Friday August 17, 2007 The Virus of Video Nasties
In Russia, a student has been arrested for posting a video on the Internet, which seems to show two gagged migrant workers being savagely murdered beneath a Swastika flag, writes Gareth Mason. It came to light on Sunday on a right-wing website linked to...
Wednesday August 15, 2007 UK definitely ready for HD
British consumers’ reputation for being early adopters of technology has been affirmed by the results of a new joint survey by Ofcom and Digital UK, and it’s news that bodes well for high-def digital moviemakers too. Research by the two organizations has...
