Vimeo Video School
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If the buzz surrounding the current Sundance Film Festival has you daydreaming of red carpets, trophies, and distribution deals, then you must be a filmmaker. And if you're a filmmaker then you must have either submitted or thought about submitting to a film festival at some point in your career. Navigating the film festival circuit can be tough, but we've got your back.
Illustration courteousy of the talented and handsome Joe Lifrieri.
- Category:
- Behind The Scenes
- Difficulty:
- beginner
Interested in a bit of hometown adventuring? We've got a great project for you, where the process is every bit as fun as the final product. Our friends at Candy Glass Productions made this great tutorial on spinning a camera around a building. With some careful planning and exploratory legwork, you'll be able to fly around a monument of your choosing with ease!
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- Category:
- Shooting
- Difficulty:
- advanced
Welcome to 2013! Did I hear you say "what better time to think about the past year and clean out my hard drive a little"? You've read my mind!
Thanks to technology and magic, we have more devices with enough digital storage to shoot whatever we want, whenever we want. A side effect is that there is more extra footage than ever before, so we'd like you to dig through all of the clips that didn't make it last year and give some of them a spot in your 2012 Memory Bank!
Memory Banks are a way to remember, appreciate, and share something big with little bits of information. It's easy to dump your extra footage into one project, but it takes some consideration to do it creatively. For a more detailed description of what a Memory Bank (or vidblog) is, check out our lesson Art of the Vidblog.
Take a look at this video by Daniel Kwan, and you'll see how exciting someone else's life can be:
- Category:
- Editing
- Difficulty:
- beginner
Hey all you good lookin’ Vimeans! Whatchu got cookin’? How’s about showing us with a recipe video!
We’ve all seen cooking shows on television, where attractive hosts make witty banter while demonstrating cooking techniques in exquisite kitchens. Those are nice, but there are other ways to relay a recipe. Here on Vimeo, we’ve got a crop of cooking videos that will satiate your creative cravings for days. For inspiration on turning your favorite recipe into video form, we’ll break down a few examples into the essential ingredients.
I’ve still never tried beet cake, but have been meaning to whip one up ever since I saw this video from tiger in a jar. I’m pretty sure these cats could make chopped liver look amazing:
- Category:
- Shooting
- Difficulty:
- beginner
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