WebMadeMovies is Mozilla's open video lab and production studio. We're bringing together the world's most innovative filmmakers and web developers to show what open video and HTML5 can do. Producing cutting-edge examples and reference implementations that showcase new ways of telling stories online. And collaborating on new web tools for filmmakers and developers everywhere. Our goal: a new kind of cinema that works like the web.
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The Web Made Movies vault
September 1, 2010 • Brett Gaylor • 0 comments

In creating our first demo for popcorn, we gathered footage from projects like Grassrootsmapping.org and The Village Telco to create the final video. However, we only used small snippets, so I took some time to edit down longer versions of each.

Grass Roots Mapping

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Popcorn.js Semantic Video demo
August 16, 2010 • Brett Gaylor • 1 comments

The finishing touches are now ready on our demo of Popcorn.js.  This demo brings in multiple data feeds from the APIs of Google News, Wikipedia, Twitter, and flickr.  It also provides automatic machine translation from Google Translate, and attribution data from Creative Commons.

 

Check out the demo here!

 

You can see a small video explanation of the demo here:

 

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Filmmakers + web developers = Web Made Movies!
August 2, 2010 • Brett Gaylor • 1 comments

Explaining Web Made Movies just got easier thanks to this infographic!

 

As you can see, our goal is to bring together web developers + filmmakers (of stick variety and otherwise!) to create an open video lab.  We're going to create tools, demos and standards that will point towards a future in which video is a first class citizen of the web!

 

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Web Made Movies - Demo + Repository files
July 9, 2010 • Brett Gaylor • 0 comments

To access the Popcorn.js library and demo files:

 

Our demo can be found here:

http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~dhhodgin/video/index.html

 

the Project management and tickets for the project are handled by Lighthouse:

 

https://processing-js.lighthouseapp.com/projects/52212/home

 

The repository is on Github:

http://wiki.github.com/annasob/popcorn-js/

 

We're on IRC at:

irc.mozilla.org/popcorn

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Web Made Movies design V3
June 21, 2010 • Imported • 0 comments

As you can see we’ve evolved the design as well as the proposed functionality - videos will show feeds from those in the video, as well as feeds from related semantic content.

Any feedback is as usual appreciated as we continue to iterate!

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Early Web Made Movies wireframes
June 16, 2010 • Brett Gaylor • 2 comments

We’ve been working with the ultra-talented Gopal Raju to design some wireframes for the demo we’ll be launching at the end of the month.  Feedback appreciated!

Version 1

Version 2

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Change in Web Made Movies focus
June 14, 2010 • Imported • 1 comments

Web Made Movies was originally conceived as a frankenstein mashup of content and software - the idea being to create a documentary about the idea of the Open Web using the Open Web.  You can see from our original roadmap that it was meant to be an episodic documentary series.

 

The more I began to think about this, though, I realized it was still a very old-school way to make a documentary.  It was top down - come up with an idea, execute it, deliver it.  It wasn’t very web-like - there wasn’t a lot of room for an agile thought process that could change, accept input from anyone, and be infinitely changeable, linkable, and remixable.  I think the reason why it was conceived this way is because online video has not evolved. read more

 

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