Video Production Quiz

Welcome to the beginner-level Video Production Quiz from Indigo Productions. This quiz is provided through our University Connection program – an Indigo Productions-sponsored initiative, designed to promote the study of video production at high-schools and colleges in the North America and around the world. Feel free to send us your feedback and/or ask follow up questions. At Indigo Productions, ...

Where to Get a Video Production Degree?

Are you considering a career in video production? Or perhaps you are a video production professional and would like to beef up your resume with a degree in video production? If so, we have compiled a list of 10 film/video production and multimedia degrees from  accredited US Colleges and Universities (the degrees are listed in no ...

Hispanic Video Production – Telemundo Launches an LA-Based Multiplatform Production Studio: Fluency

From the News! Courtesy of Huffington Post (coincidentally, one of our favorite news websites): Indigo Productions just learned that Telemundo, perhaps the most well-known American TV station catering to the growing U.S. Latino community, has just opened a new video production studio named Fluency. Fluency is a multiplatform video production studio based in Los Angeles, ...

Top 10 Mafia Movies of All Time

We all have our own list of our favorite motion pictures and genres that we could watch over and over again. Are you primarily a fan of comedies?  Action flicks?  Sci Fi?  Once in a while though, we want to see something different. Just like with food: A person with a sweet tooth may all ...

A Story How YouTube Created a Power Metal Band

At Indigo Productions, we love viral marketing! Especially, working on projects on which we get to come up with an idea for a video, execute it, seed it, and report the performance after completion of the campaign. That being said, our interest goes much deeper than commercial projects. It’s amazing when YouTube takes an (not ...

Happy Easter and How To Leverage Holiday Event Video Production

Hello Everyone! First of all, we’d like to wish you all a very happy Holiday Weekend! May your Passover and Easter celebrations be spent with friends and family and filled with love and joy! Now, we have a marketing idea for those of you who will be attending corporate holiday parties or simply going out ...

Video Streaming Services, Welcome Your New Competitor: Spotify!

Spotify is an established music sharing website. It’s become one of the most recognizable music streaming services, mainly thanks to their masterful integration with Facebook. Also, Spotify provides Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection service for the music that it hosts. Spotify is a major provider of content from a range of established, as well as smaller, independent ...

USA Today: Celebrity Viral Video Move Past Sex Tapes!

Maria Puente from USA Today has just published a really interesting article about celebrity viral videos. In her piece, she makes a very interesting observation. For years now, the first thing people thought when hearing the words celebrity viral video was ‘great, a new sex tape!” Those sex tapes have grown in popularity so much ...

1939. Secret of Westerplatte – Historic Film Review from the Polish Film Festival in America

We have always been interested in Polish Cinema which has a surprising amount of hidden gems to offer. Beginning with the silent films from the first decade of last century, through the Iron Curtain times, to modern Polish cinematography, Poland has managed to create many interesting pieces – and receive 12 Oscars in the process. ...

Academics: Viral Video Production Helps Science – Who Would Have Thought?

The last several years have seen a new trend in viral videos. The sudden flood of videos with animals, especially cats, interacting with one another, took the Internet by storm. Nowadays, you cannot log in to Facebook or fire up YouTube without seeing at least one Lol Catz picture, or a video of a cat ...

Nostalgia for Old Film Technology Reins at SXSW

Retro video production is back! At least it is at the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals, where old new meet news! According to reports from the festival, which is going on right now – March 8-17 for the overall event and March 8-16 for the film-related sessions – has screened films that are ...

High-End Brand Video Production for Legendary Real Estate Company – New Indigo Productions Project

Indigo recently wrapped development and production of a high-end Brand Video for Christie’s International Real Estate, helping new CEO Bonnie Sellers make her first major creative mark on this ultra-prestigious, 200-year-old brand. This visually-opulent motion picture showcases some of the most amazing residences on the face of the earth, and is driven by a dramatic, ...

News: Vevo Moves Past YouTube, Eyes Cable TV

Vevo, a music video service known to any self-respecting YouTube user, is eyeing cable TV as possible next step in its quest to becoming the Internet’s most recognizable service of its kind. In order to secure this deal, Vevo decided to start webcasting TV-style channels – pre-programmed, linear videos, thus diminishing its reliance on YouTube. ...

Microsoft Leverages Xbox to Enter the Video Production Industry

According to Nancy Tellem, Microsoft’s Corporate VP, the tech giant has hired 150 professionals for its new video production studio in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California. Microsoft Corporation has always been know for entering new industries, from software development, through search engines, to now video production and content creation. Over the years Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer utilized ...

5 Common Mistakes in Web Video Production You Want to Avoid

Thanks to advances in web technologies, web videos have exploded in popularity. From multinational corporations to small mom-and-pop shops, businesses are using video production to connect with their customers more than ever before. With increasing availability of high-speed Internet connections around the world, websites can afford to eat a lot more bandwidth than before. In ...