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  • Caachi Vidget snags trailer sharing

    Snag Films has been out for a bit now, and I’m not sure how they are doing, though I have noticed Snag-related stories and promotion around the internets.  When they launched, I wrote to them to suggest using the technology for trailers as well as full-length films.  For me, the chance of making money in a scheme where revenues are tied to people watching the whole film (Snag monetizes the films with a series of interstitial ads, and the filmmaker gets something like $.10 if the viewer watches the whole film) and this is a streaming situation, even… [more]

  • Crash Course

    As we’ve moved increasingly into mobile technologies, English teachers have been aghast at the trend of shorter, even micro communiques with questionable spelling and grammar that have all but made the elegant postal letter obsolete.Cinema studies grads may be the next to gasp. If When the Internet and Film Collide is the guide to the new film ouvre, ‘mobile cinema’ looks a lot like what we formerly called a “promo clip”. On mobile, attention spans are short and pixels are few. Even on laptops with giant 14″ screens, on services such as MySpace or YouTube, viewers… [more]

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