I am movie buff, love and get excited about upcoming releases by viewing the trailers on YouTube. It's easy and convenient to watch trailers online, but I've often wished I could get closer to the theater experience in my browser. So I did some research and found a few really handy Chrome extensions that can make your YouTube experience bigger and better.
For example, maximizes Window Expander for YouTube YouTube videos to fill your entire browser. By turning off the lights, you can do the whole page without the video fade to black as if you're in a cinema. Not sure if a video is worth viewing? The opinion cloud expansion summarizes comments on YouTube (and Flickr!) so you can quickly get the audience overall opinion.
And just the Google team released YouTube Feed, which notifies you when new videos are available in your YouTube homepage feed. You can get direct access to videos that your friends upload, rate and similar right in your browser.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Great video on a budget: how to fake a zombie attack
Heather Menicucci, Director, Program Howcast Filmmakers, who writes a weekly guest post for the YouTube blog about filmmaking in the digital age. You can catch up on previous posts here.
Last week, we made several arguments for why quality matters in web video, and we hear from Howcast filmmaker Lukas Neumann, who said that it was important "because you never know who's watching." Duh! Luke watching the video, you can tell he's motivated by more than that, but as we said last week, it's a good starting point.
Howcast Luke has made a video for about a year now and he's got more than 50 under his belt. From the start, he impressed us with videos like "How to yodel," in which he showed he could build a story around a simple script, working on some cool camera angles, and make us laugh. Last week we featured one of the newest, "How to Survive Zombie Attacks." If we think yodel pretty darn good when it arrived at years ago, you could imagine "Zombie Attack" knock our socks clean.
Luke was clearly trying to best each time the upload. This website offers free access to the audience like no media ever has. As filmmakers, we were served by not wasting this access. Each upload should be better than the last to keep this crowd coming back for more and to improve our capabilities to the day when maybe we handed that check to make something big.
We asked Luke to tell us about how he did it. How did he make this video zombies beautiful on a budget that barely would cover the average wedding video? How did he create an apocalyptic feeling, complete with fiery explosion? And, how he makes it look like their zombie rot before our eyes?
Here's Luke's first "behind the scenes" videos to Howcast. This is the first part of a new series where we'll let you come in behind the scenes to see how our filmmakers make the most creative how-to videos on a DIY budget. Step 1: Cover yourself in plain old soil looks like you've been to hell and back. Walking Dead manufacturers could learn something from Luke!
Last week, we made several arguments for why quality matters in web video, and we hear from Howcast filmmaker Lukas Neumann, who said that it was important "because you never know who's watching." Duh! Luke watching the video, you can tell he's motivated by more than that, but as we said last week, it's a good starting point.
Howcast Luke has made a video for about a year now and he's got more than 50 under his belt. From the start, he impressed us with videos like "How to yodel," in which he showed he could build a story around a simple script, working on some cool camera angles, and make us laugh. Last week we featured one of the newest, "How to Survive Zombie Attacks." If we think yodel pretty darn good when it arrived at years ago, you could imagine "Zombie Attack" knock our socks clean.
Luke was clearly trying to best each time the upload. This website offers free access to the audience like no media ever has. As filmmakers, we were served by not wasting this access. Each upload should be better than the last to keep this crowd coming back for more and to improve our capabilities to the day when maybe we handed that check to make something big.
We asked Luke to tell us about how he did it. How did he make this video zombies beautiful on a budget that barely would cover the average wedding video? How did he create an apocalyptic feeling, complete with fiery explosion? And, how he makes it look like their zombie rot before our eyes?
Here's Luke's first "behind the scenes" videos to Howcast. This is the first part of a new series where we'll let you come in behind the scenes to see how our filmmakers make the most creative how-to videos on a DIY budget. Step 1: Cover yourself in plain old soil looks like you've been to hell and back. Walking Dead manufacturers could learn something from Luke!
Thursday, February 3, 2011
World’s smartest dog
Sound, and a channel featuring the irresistible cuteness of the Jack Russell terrier named Jesse is the winner of this months competition "On the Rise".
Jesse and I have a beautiful relationship, and we have got where we are now through the love, respect, patience, mutual understanding and trust. Trick is a wonderful bonding experience. This is very exciting to think Jesse while learning, and he had so much fun doing his tricks. We keep training sessions short, fun, and optimistic. You can find out that Jesse is having fun because she has a big smile on his face:) He is a joy to live with, and I appreciate every moment we have together.
Jesse and I have a beautiful relationship, and we have got where we are now through the love, respect, patience, mutual understanding and trust. Trick is a wonderful bonding experience. This is very exciting to think Jesse while learning, and he had so much fun doing his tricks. We keep training sessions short, fun, and optimistic. You can find out that Jesse is having fun because she has a big smile on his face:) He is a joy to live with, and I appreciate every moment we have together.
Video: Greatest artworks in the world
Earlier this week, Google launched Google Art Project-new site that lets you explore hundreds of works of art from 17 museums in the world's most famous art at the extraordinary level of detail, and take a tour of the museum uses a 360-degree Street View technology.
With this project comes as many channels launching its own museums' YouTube - along with an array of new videos on the works of art displayed in the project. Google's Art Project On the site you can explore the 1000 + pieces of artwork at unusually high resolution. While zooming into a work of art you can also watch YouTube videos about it, and read more about specific works of art and its artists. More than 170 works of art in the project have been accompanying the video, learn about the perspective of a professional snowboarder in alpine landscapes, 20 + locations Rembrandt's 'Night Watch', the process of preservation for the Van Gogh 'The Bedroom' or even a live reaction from a pair of identical twins with century painting -17 twin.
With this project comes as many channels launching its own museums' YouTube - along with an array of new videos on the works of art displayed in the project. Google's Art Project On the site you can explore the 1000 + pieces of artwork at unusually high resolution. While zooming into a work of art you can also watch YouTube videos about it, and read more about specific works of art and its artists. More than 170 works of art in the project have been accompanying the video, learn about the perspective of a professional snowboarder in alpine landscapes, 20 + locations Rembrandt's 'Night Watch', the process of preservation for the Van Gogh 'The Bedroom' or even a live reaction from a pair of identical twins with century painting -17 twin.
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