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Mediatwits #181: TV Rights Up for Grabs in the Streaming Age
The streaming media industry is still relatively young, but a recent story in the Wall Street Journal illustrates how the services are bringing massive change to the entertainment industry. According...
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5 Takeaways About Interactive Documentaries from IDFA’s DocLab
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam’s (IDFA’s) DocLab conference and exhibit, the most well-established international showcase for interactive documentary, featured plenty of buzz...
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The #OscarsSoWhite Controversy is More than Numbers
Race played a leading role in the run up to this past weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony. The heated controversy for its tone-deaf nominations–20 out of 20 in the acting categories went to white actors...
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10 Lessons From the Virtual Reality Scene at Tribeca FilmFest
VR was everywhere at the Tribeca FilmFest, where the standouts were animation productions, not video. Expect more, not necessarily better, as headsets spread. “This is going to be the year of a lot of...
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Why 4K Matters, But Isn’t Worth the Hype, Yet
The following piece is a guest post from Matt Smith of Anvato. Guest posts do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this publication. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. It seems everywhere...
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Futures Lab Update #155: Capturing 3-D, 180-Degree Virtual Reality
This story first appeared on RJI’s Futures Lab. Reporting by Mitchel Summers and Rachel Wise. This week we look at a new tool called LucidCam, a camera that shoots 3-D, 180-degree virtual reality. The...
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Framestore VR’s Pete Jones on How Virtual Reality Is Changing Media
The following Q&A with Pete Jones comes from the Storyhunter blog and is cross posted with permission. Pete Jones is the senior producer at Framestore’s VR Studio in New York–the world’s first...
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The State of Video in 2016: Social Video, Mobile Video, Heavy Competition
Click on the photo or here to see the full series. Creative Commons photo. This is a guest post that originally appeared on Storyhunter’s publication The Video Strategist and is cross posted with...
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RJI Futures Lab Update #177: Making Video Content Searchable With Vidrovr
Vidrovr is new technology that can comb through video files and identify what’s happening in a video. As a result, video content can be easily searched or automatically linked to other related...
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The Stark Reality for Documentary Makers at SXSW
AUSTIN – The SXSW experience is, above all, noisy, both in a physical and also signal-to-noise sense. In the documentary film strand of the conference, it was barely possible to distinguish some...
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