Distribution

Whether you're submitting your video to a film festival, or sharing it with friends online, distribution is essential if you want people to see it. After reading the following articles you will have a better sense of what avenues of distribution best suit your needs.

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New Viral Video: Piano Stairs

Julie Babcock - October 16th, 2009

Can you get more people to take the stairs by making it fun to do? That's the question asked in Piano Stairs, a new viral video that has reached well over 2.5 million views on YouTube in just under two weeks...
Ultimate Camera Recycling

Jennifer O'Rourke - October 14th, 2009

Why not? The Pet Rock worked... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/wp-admin/post-new.php
The Show Must Go On!

Jennifer O'Rourke - October 12th, 2009

It gets our blood pumping
Viral Video Causes Copyright rules changes on YouTube

Scott Memmott - September 30th, 2009

Ive been having an interesting conversation with school instructor Dylan Bennett over a blog post I made on Monday about a ...
Viral "I Gotta Feeling" Black Eyed Peas video and Ken Burns series are hot!

Jennifer O'Rourke - September 28th, 2009
HD Video from 100,000 feet...

cfulton - September 24th, 2009

group of Canadian amateur radio enthusiasts experimenting with using a balloon as a radio repeater (think very low-earth orbit satellite without active transponders) has posted YouTube video taken onboard the balloon.
Adobe Premiere Elements 8 Video Editing Software and Photoshop Elements 8 Released

Jennifer O'Rourke - September 22nd, 2009
How to be a Better Video Shooter, Learn from the Still Shooter.

Jennifer O'Rourke - September 21st, 2009

When someone new approaches me with a video project they've shot that they want me to gently critique I can always tell if that person has had any still photography training within just a few seconds. The first things skilled still photographers do is compose. They see the finished shot in their mind before they ever even put the camera to their eye. They instantly see the Rule of Thirds grid, or Divine Proportion, (also called Golden Rule), and they often say they "compose" shots everywhere they look, whether they are shooting or not. These are the people I call "The Eye".
RAGE: Coming Soon to Select Phones

cfulton - September 17th, 2009

In what is said to be "the world's first feature film to debut on mobile phones", Sally Potter's RAGE is being distributed in seven episodes on Babelgum. Starting at 12:01 EDT on September 21, you can begin pulling down an episode a day for a week, provided you have an iPhone, iPod Touch or Google Android-based phone.
How do you Find the Gig?

Jennifer O'Rourke - September 16th, 2009

Where are all the shooting gigs? How do you find them? Craigslist? Your local newspaper want ads? Some other vague work-for-hire site? I just got back last night from shooting a 3-day gig with my brother down in central California. His specialty has been architectural, environmental, lighting and product images, my specialty has been all about people: interviews and sound recording. Together we made a pretty good team and wondered how we'd shop ourselves around better.