When we saw this incredible video for ‘Snow City Radio’ by the unsigned UK band The Lost Cavalry, we assumed that they were either rich kids able to afford a big budget production, or that the band members all doubled up a film industry professionals.
We were intrigued enough to write to them to ask them how it was done, and were amazed by what they told us: the whole thing was done on a budget of less than £50 and filmed and produced entirely by the singer, Mark West – who has had no training as a cameraman or photographer.
Here’s the story of how he managed to put together such an incredible video:
We’ve seen music videos created on mobile phones before, but this one’s actually for a decent artist and is refreshingly short of gimmicks.
Directed and filmed by fashion photographer/video director Todd Cole, the official music video for Kurt Vile’s “Baby’s Arms” has been shot entirely on a Windows Phone – and isn’t a bad looking thing at all.
Enthusiastically pre-hyped by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week, the new “awesome” add-on to the social networking site has been revealed as video chat tool created in partnership with Skype.
To mark the 50 years since Yuri Gagarin was launched into space, a stunning, real time recreation of his pioneering flight has been released on YouTube.
The video may be called “Guy Walks Across America,” but it seems he didn’t literally cover every step, but what the hell: it’s still a great piece of creative cinematography, and nicely shows off what the current generation of Canon dSLRs are capable of.
There’s no doubting that Apple has created some tremendous adverts over the years – even the hideously smug “I’m a Mac” adverts were hugely effective – but this latest batch advertising the FaceTime feature on the iPhone 4 really is scraping the barrel o’cheese.
If you can sit through these four slabs of mawkish, crass, sentimental attempts to sell you a luxury, high end product through cheap emotional manipulation you surely have a stronger stomach than us.
Click on for the worst adverts we’ve ever seen from Apple.
We’re rather partial to Google’s quirky promo videos, and this latest one is certainly more offbeat than most.
Titled, “Introducing the Grandmother’s Guide to Video Chat,” the 1.45 min cartoon tries to explain to crumblies how to get up and running with this crazy, new fangled video chat thing.
Apple may not be keen on the idea of tablets with built in video cameras, but Cisco reckon businesses are going to be mad for it, and have unveiled a 7-inch tablet designed for real-time conferencing and collaboration.
Billed as a “a tiny camera with huge possibilities,” Swann’s diminutive ThumbCam video camera is a mere whisp of a thing, measuring just 2.2” x 0.8” x 0.8” and ideal for all your nefarious recording needs.
We figured it would only be a matter of time before someone got to work with the iPhone 4′s vastly improved video recorder and editing facilities to knock out a showcase video, and sure enough one has arrived on the web.
Inbetween all the mutual high fiving and backslapping over the site’s remarkable achievement of reaching two billion downloads a day, the bods at Google has managed to put together a very detailed infographic tracing YouTube’s explosive history.
It’s good to see Palm’s new webOS attracting the attention of developers, hackers, homebrewers and general fiddle-abouters, and it seems that the first signs of video recording are being coaxed out of the Palm Pre.
PreCentral have posted a video showing a video clip taken on the Pre, and although it’s currently restricted to 30fps at 320x480px, the clarity and colour seems pretty good.
With the Flip Mino proving to be a bit of a hot seller, JVC has decided to grab a piece of the pocketcam action, launching its bijou HD video recorder, the PICSIO GC-FM1.
The pocket sized point’n'shoot camcorder is available in range of groovy colours and records 1080P Full HD video with the ability to directly upload your footage to iTunes or YouTube.
We love this kind of stuff. A bunch of Edmonton radio enthusiasts (that’s Edmonton, USA, not the grimy north London suburb) bodged together a DIY video platform on a balloon and sent it soaring upwards on a mission to film the edge of space.
The mission, dubbed BEAR-4 (Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio), involved wedging a video camera in a box protected by foam blocks, and hooking it up to five AAA Lithium L91 battery cells to provide nearly four and half hours of footage.
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