Reconsidering vertical video

From The Unofficial Apple Weblog:

"Jesse Rosten, a director in Northern California, asked himself what a magazine cover on the iPad should look like. He came up with the incredibly sweet Sunset Magazine mock up above. Jesse notes that until now, books and magazines have been traditionally portrait in orientation and film and TV has been landscape in orientation. He says with the iPad there's no longer a strict landscape limitation for video. "Maybe you want your vid to appear full screen in portrait mode? Maybe you need a long, tall video banner-ad on the side of a digital magazine page? I think we're going to start seeing a lot more vertically shot video soon," Jesse wrote on his website.

Sunset magazine on the iPad (concept)

iPad Sunset Mag Cover Spec from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

Beach Verticals from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

Personally, I think Jesse's right.

-dp

Would you like to play a game?

Great way to deal with the necessity of a long download.



Page down.

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The next Camera Sensor tech

I thought that this was interesting. This article talks about the next Camera sensor technology. They claim that it will make your camera phone take pictures to rival what professional cameras can do today. However I doubt that after carrying even a professional camera in your pocket, like you do with your phone, would help the image quality. Also the lenses make a huge difference. But what this could do for professional cameras would be pretty amazing. Anyway check out:
Quantum Film

I need me one of those.

Check out this riding—and the personal, private compound he's riding in.

Note camera guy at 1:22. Looks a bit smaller than our behemoths..
Almost looks like a parabolic mike. DSLR?
What's he using? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Randy, who is our resident Bueller?



Love the shooting. Hate the painfully obvious "drink the product" shots at the top and tail.

hat tip: Jeff "We need a helicopter" Henson

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The new Print Media

A perfect example of what DP posted on the other day - Rethinking how print works. This has both the digital "print" piece, although not in a user-interactive format, and a "how it was done" piece. Enjoy.

http://alexxhenry.com/blog/ipad/

VIV Mag Interactive Feature Spread - iPad Demo from Alexx Henry on Vimeo.

VIV Mag Featurette: A Digital Magazine Motion Cover and Feature for the iPad from Alexx Henry on Vimeo.

The Great DSLR Shootout

http://www.zacuto.com/shootout



Great video to start it off.. It's been interesting to see what's been happening with the DSLRs coming out, and it'll be even more exciting to see what comes with the second generation of them. If anyone wants to geek out on DSLRs, see me and we can talk. 5DMii has 24p now with a firmware update yesterday, the Canon t2i is a $800 camera with all the Video capabilities of the 7d, and what a market for accessories! The latest rumor that I heard is that they're good enough that the TV show House is going to be shot on 5DMii HDSLRs.

Now if only Red would release something one of these days...

A must-understand for all of us.

Thanks to Wayne for pointing me to this:



and this:



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This Will Teach You Nothing...

Here is a parody of the 'Parks & Recreation' show open. It doesn't have anything to do with videography, graphics, style, dubbing, editing, photoshop, twitter, facebook, cubicles, branding, Dairy News, shooting, writing, Wilderness, Discover Wisconsin, or the refrigerator. It's just there to enjoy...


Enjoy your Friday and week-end!

2010 ADDY Awards Online

YouTube Page



Check everything out there!

Nothing is in this is real. This was all done in Maya.

I thought that this was cool, and the logo was handled nicely at the end also.

Audi "Beauty In Engineering" from Aladino Debert on Vimeo.