Author Archives: Erik V

Teaching workshops at the NW Film Forum

I have two workshops coming up at the Northwest Film Forum:
Basic Video Production
October 31st and November 1st, 10am - 4pm
The ever-so-popular class that covers it all from Aperture to Zebra Stripes. It always fills up, so register early. Or don’t. Your choice.
Scene Building and Montage
November 8th & 9th, 10am - 4pm
An exploration into the visual [...]

Mr. Film Biz will elucidate you

My friend John Rodsett (part seasoned executive, part guru, and a university professor besides) brings a new seminar to LA, Miami, and Seattle.  He has a great deal of experience in the industry, and several years teaching at the University of Washington and University of Miami.  For anyone interested in his unique perspective on building [...]

Hitchcock - Awesome new storyboard app for the iPhone

The folks at Cinemek have released Hitchcock, a new storyboarding app for the iPhone. For those of us who already use our phones when location scouting, this ratchets up the fun a couple notches. Now if only someone would come out with a mobile phone camera with a 35-100mm equivalent analog zoom…

YouTube opens Ad Sharing

I’ve heard some lamenting lately that ad revenue sharing on YouTube is only open to those producers who consistently crank out the hits. I know more than one producer who feels their videos create good traffic from time to time, but that the YouTube Partnership Program’s criteria put revenue sharing out of reach. Until now [...]

“Sci-Fi Double Feature” Wins 48 Hour Film Project Audience Award

This may be week-old news to some, but thought I would throw it up here. Our team won an audience award at the 2009 Los Angeles 48 Hour Film Project! The short will run in the best-of show this Wednesday, where it may be made eligible for the national run off later in the year. [...]

Yellowbird * Photosynth = 360 Virtual Video?

As mentioned on TechCrunch today, a company in the Netherlands called Yellowbird is debuting a video technology that lets the user pan and tilt through a 360 degree video stream in real time. It may not be totally groundbreaking, but a pretty cool application nonetheless. It’s much like the 360 degree view [...]