Archive for July, 2007

Share your favourite South African videos with all your Facebook friends

Friday, July 27th, 2007

So you were standing around the braai with a couple of friends over the weekend and one of your buddies mentioned MyVideo. They said it's a site where you can find a bunch of great South African videos and upload your own if you like. So, after you've polished off ...

Jumping on the online music video bandwagon

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Thanks to the internet, bands these days can easily make available sample or full-length tracks to fans for download. A number of bands have chosen to go this route, as it's a surefire way of winning fans and growing exposure. Reputation and revenue are key to most band's agendas ...

A curious case of stop-frame animation

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Stop-frame animation involves shooting an entire video using only a still photograph camera, and then painstakingly selecting a sequence of stills (a few thousand for a few minutes of footage) and 'playing' them in quick succession so the end result looks like a twitchy video. That's in fact exactly what ...

National Arts Festival gets dedicated video channel

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Experiencing the National Arts Festival no longer means you have to take a few days off work, grab a scarf, get into your car and drive to Grahamstown. Now, the festival is mere clicks away. MyVideo has teamed up with Grocott's Online and Cue – the official National Arts Festival newspaper, ...