A GUIDE TO KEY WEBSITES FOR CAMCORDER USERS Free video sharing sites http://www.bliptv.com Founded in 2003, the site offers to cut through the dross, locating and hosting the best and funniest video clips from other video websites. It shows films and clips lasting between10 seconds to three minutes gathered under certain key topics such as short films, animations, spoofs and it also allows extreme sports and popular video clips from other films and programmes www.clipshack.com A video sharing site in the YouTube mold. The content dominated by certain key themes including funny family and animal clips. http://www.ifilm.com/ iFilm is an online archive of short films, movie trailers, and other video clips of interest. Like many commercial websites, they offer free basic service supported by ads, as well as "premium" services featuring higher-resolution clips. iFilm also hosts many Viral marketing videos, allowing these clips to spread between users easily. As of October 15, 2005, it was purchased by MTV Networks in a multi-million dollar deal. (Source: Wikipedia) http://www.metacafe.com/ Another video sharing site, featuring a large number of clips ‘borrowed’ from mainstream TV and cinema output alongside amateur-made sequences http://www.myspace.com Set up in 2003 by Chris DeWolfe – the site offers simple software enabling members to create their own mini-blog and vlogsites. Visitors are then invited to view them meaning that each site maintains its own discreet community. The site is famous for building a substantial fan base for successful bands such as the Arctic Monkeys and singers Sandi Thorn and Lilly Allen. In 2005 its parent company was bought by Rupert Murdock’s News Corporation The service has gradually gained more popularity than similar websites to achieve nearly 80 percent of visits to online social networking websites. The 100 millionth account was created on August 9, 2006. MySpace reportedly attracts new registrations at a rate of 230,000 per day. (Adapted from Wikipedia entry) http://www.liveleak.com/ A website featuring uncensored events including: beheading videos, execution images, accident pictures, gruesome scenes from Iraq, etc. http://www.outloud.tv/ Outloud.TV is a crossmedia platform that connects the web to real tv broadcasts. Outloud.TV pro duces tv broadcasts on demand generated from user created content. Outloud.TVpioneerded community created content since 2003. The shows broadcasted by Outloud.TV are 100% automatic, generated from user created content. Any (registered) webuser can influence the daily show by voting for clips. http://one.revver.com/ The Revver site rewards filmmakers by attaching advertisements at the end of their productions and then shares revenues with them. As a Revver member, you gain access to the tools you need to "superdistribute" your video across the web. You can share your video however you like - you can post it on your blog, your MySpace page or even via email, instant message or peer to peer networks.Your video becomes a part of the Revver library, which means the network of Revver syndicators can share your video with their friends and they can share it with their friends and so on. When you upload your video to Revver, they attach an
unobtrusive advertisement to the end of it. This is called "Revverizing." Whenever anyone clicks on that ad, the maker gets paid. Revver hosts such videos for free, giving participants the tools to share it with the world and then splits the ad revenue with the video-maker 50/50. www.scoopt.com Scoopt is the original citizen journalism site which will broker deals for users with the news organisations to sell their material. Membership to the site is absolutely free, and should you have that video that runs on the main news bulletin, Scoopt will split the profits with you 50/50. http://seemetv.spaces.live.com/ 3 mobile’s video sharing site, for mobile movies on 3 network. SeeMeTV is also a chance to earn. For every 3 customer that watches a clip on See Me TV, the performer gets paid 1p – and with a potential audience of 3.2 million, who can each view the clip as many times as they like, the money to be made can quickly mount up. (02 runs a similar site called Look at me.) www.sharkle.com Sharkle is an online community that allows users to share videos over the internet, both publicly and privately. The service is free to users, and the company that runs it hopes to make money with advertisements on the site. www.youtube.com YouTube is a popular free video sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Founded in February 2005 by three employees of PayPal, the San Bruno-based service utilizes Adobe Flash technology to display video. The wide variety of site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging. It is staffed by 67 employees. In October 2006, Google, Inc., announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for $USD1.65 billion in Google's stock. (Source: Wikipedia.) http://video.google.com : Google Video is a free Google service that allows anyone to upload video clips to Google's web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge or through Google Video Store. Users can search and play videos directly from Google Video, as well as download video files and remotely embed them on their webpages http://www.vimeo.com : A video-posting and sharing site started in 2004. It claims over 65,000 registered users. http://www.youthnoise.com/YN_home/: A relative newcomer to the ranks of social networking sites, youthnoise is aimed at young people involved in social change. The site’s explanation of itself is as follows: ―Across the globe, youths everywhere are making a difference. Combating issues without blinking an eye, they possess the spirit and strength, along with the heartfelt belief, that they can change the world. And change the world they do! YouthNoise gives these world-changers, these hopegivers, a voice, a place to connect, and a place to inspire—and be inspired. An activist haven, a socially conscious sanctuary, YouthNoise invites youths to write, to learn, to think, and to act. A virtual conference hall, playground, coffee shop, and classroom, YouthNoise is where the difference begins.
Subscription video sharing sites http://www.neptune.com/ http://www.streamload.com/
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Digital TV channels featuring amateur videos http://www.sumo.tv/ http://uk.current.com/ http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/t4/microsites/H/homemade/ AMATEUR FILM MAKING SITES http://www.fvi.org.uk/index.html IAC – The Film and Video Institute (includes list of about 300 local film clubs, a small ads board, and a forum) http://www.glosvideoclub.org.uk/ - this is a good example of a website for a film and video club in Gloucester! http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/Entertainment/Movies_and _Film/Filmmaking/Amateur/ Yahoo list of amateur film sites in UK.
VIDEO AND MOBILE PHONES http://www.micromovie-award.com/ - one of several mobile phone movie competitions. http://www.muvee.com/website/mv_mobile.php - offers templates for making movies on mobiles. VLOGS, VIDEO BLOGS http://www.freevlog.org/ - A step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog for free http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/ - a well-known vlog http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog/ - this is Adrian Miles’ site –the superstar of vlogging (at MIT). ‘This is a research blog about videoblogs, new media, and other stuff.’ http://www.mefeedia.com/ - a vlog directory http://uk.im.tv/vlog
FORUMS, NEWSGROUPS, ETC http://www.avforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=61
http://forums.dvdoctor.net http://uk.dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Entertainment___Arts/Audio_and_Visual_Equipme nt/Camcorders http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.video.digital?lnk=sg http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/ http://blog.camuser.co.uk
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