A horror trailer—”Vacant”—won the top prize in our Instagram Close-up Video Contest. Directed by Oliver Richards, the one-minute teaser trailer previews an as-yet-to-be-produced feature film. The contest challenged mobile filmmakers to create a video—60 seconds or less—that included at least one memorable close-up. Entries came from eight countries. You can see Richards’ entry here and…
read more →If you want to capture a low-flying UFO on your phone, artful moviemaking tips aren’t that important. Just hold the camera steady, and frame the action in the wide (landscape) orientation. Then keep shooting until the UFO disappears…or vaporizes you. But in just about all other cases, a few simple but powerful techniques can greatly improve your videos. We’ve written about…
read more →The title of Lauren Evans’s Instagram series—”#WaitingforGodot”—clearly identifies a key source for the project. But as Evans explains in the following interview, a personal experience triggered what has become an epoch with 1,155 episodes at the time of this post! MMM: Tell us something about yourself. Evans: I was in Toronto and trained at the George Brown Theatre…
read more →Instagram might soon permit the posting of videos that run for up to an hour. This would be a big increase. Currently, Instagram Video RunTime is limited to 15 seconds for Instagram Stories and 60 seconds in the main feed. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, videos will be vertical rather than in the landscape…
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