Videos and showreels - watch videos, short films, movie scenes & television commercials online at edwardolive.com

Above you have a selection of scenes from films, short movies, TV adverts, commercials, corporate videos, scenes from television shows, programmes & films which you can watch online (free, what more can you ask for?). I hope at the very least that you find some of them amusing or interesting. Feel free to watch them, save, download etc. They are all streaming so they go fairly fast. I am planning to shoot my own short films very shortly which I will also showcase on this website freeon the internet. Please feel free to contact me by email.

Edward Olive 12/05/2008

Internet video & film sites in link & download information

Free Movie/Film Clips
Movie clips are vignettes that clue viewers in to the story, artistry, and action of a movie. They are enticements to attract the viewer to watch the entire feature film. Clips may show background scenes, set design, action cuts, director’s introductions, technicians and actors discussing the movie, or they may be used to create hype about a new movie.

Movie clips are mostly free, financed by the studios that produce the film. They appear at a carefully planned time in selected media building up hype reaching a peak around the movie’s premier date. Advertising agencies or movie companies themselves design the movie clips, sorting out the best moments of a movie to woo the filmgoer to come to the theatre and spend his precious dollars to watch the film.

Movie clips cantered on a particular theme are also common. This includes short movie clips, children’s film clips, Disney movie clips and funny movie clips. Fans of certain actors also organize movie clips like James Bond movie clips and Harry Potter movie clips. Film based movie clips are free unlike some other clips.

Who can forget the clips from Alfred Taxi Driver with Robert de Niro in the mirror? This clip sets the tone for the film and made it the classic that it eventually became. Sometimes editors of movies may show scenes in clips that they may not show in the movie but include merely for curiosity value.

Free movie clips are available on television, theatres, and on the internet. Very often, studios like to showcase their upcoming features by showing clips before or after a full-length movie playing in a cinema. Clips are also repeatedly shown on television with interviews of cast and directors. Fans can also download favourite clips free from the Internet.

Some of the Internet sites showcasing free movie clips include:

The Internet Movie Database Movie Trailers database

AltaVista Video Search - video and music search.

Turner Classic Movies

Videos TCM in Spanish

TCM Latin America

TCM in Portugese

TCM in French

hollywood.com

singingfish

The New York Times (trailers online)

atom films

netbroadcaster.com

Free Movie Trailers
Movie trailers are short film advertisements of new movies that are not yet in cinemas. They are previews of the film that give hints of its story line and introduce the actors and the scenery. Trailers are so named because in the early years of cinema, the advertisements for one film were shown after another film. Trailers are now shown at the beginning of movies so that people do not miss them.

Trailers are often the best shots selected from the most funny or exciting moments of the movie. Some trailers carry special footage-scenes shot only for advertisement and left out of the movie. For example, in a trailer for the classic Casablanca, the character Rick Blaine says, “OK, you asked for it!” Before he shoots Major Strasser, a scene not present in the final film.

Trailers are highly condensed and polished advertisements. Some common elements of all trailers include a green or red band graphic at the beginning of the trailer to indicate its certification by Motion picture Association of America. Next come logos of the studio, production and distribution companies. The music maybe specially composed or it may consist of already popular themes. A cast run is also shown to publicise the stars of the movie along with the director. An attractive voice-over may explain about the plot.

Trailers maybe made in the studio itself or maybe contracted to outside advertising agencies called as Trailer Houses. Trailers are made with great care after doing market research and consultation with studio bosses and revisions galore before the final product is released in the market.

Free trailers are available at most internet entertainment sites (see list of links above).

Trailers are sometimes criticized for using clichéd statements like-“In a world where…” Some free trailers contain scenes that are not present in the movie. Some directors are of the view that a trailer has to summarise the whole film but others believe that they must only arouse some interest in the viewer.

With the free trailer revolution on the internet, movie studios are doing brisk business in ticket sales. Attractive trailers entice people young and old to come in droves to the cinemas.

Download Free Movies
Freebies delight many of us and computer users are lucky to be able to download free movies from the web. There are several hundred sites advertising downloads of free movies but some are in the business peddling illegal fare. The trend to download free movies has also irked movie studios that fear a napster, emule, edonkey-like piracy of music and movies via the www.

The free movies available online are usually those in the public domain because their copyright has not been renewed. The latest full-length movies are seldom completely free and they require a small fee sometimes charged as membership or shipping or mailing fee by some companies.

The websites ibiblio.org and archive.org have free movie downloads. These sites have a collection of public domain movies. You can even get full-length movies from the 1930s and 40s such as the Three Stooges. It is legal to download these movies because the copyright has expired and they are now in the public domain.

The software is being developed in consultation with movie industry. The studios are looking at controlling the movie downloading market. With broadband speeds, downloading a movie may become as common as downloading a song. A new alternative is to rent movies online for a small fee.

The movie download business is still in its infancy and faces many hurdles. For one, most people prefer to watch a movie on a television screen and not on a computer. Also, the hard drive of a P.C. can store only a few movies.

Downloading a movie from the Internet requires the following items. First, there must be a 56K modem or a broadband connection, 64 MB of RAM, Windows (95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Linux) and a movie download player like Quick Time. If all these components are present, you can play videos by download or stream. Movies should start playing within a minute or two once you select a link to the page that supports your modem speed.

It is not at all a tall order to expect the movie industry to be completely transformed by the free download business just like when the iPod hit the music scene. A way will surely emerge for the present technology to shed its defects and to bring out a high-quality product.

Free Movie Player Downloads
Communication technology is making fast strides and a lot of software can be downloaded from the Internet rather than purchased from physical stores. Music, movies, and news can all be downloaded from the Internet.

We are witnessing a critical stage in motion picture history when movies can be freely downloaded from the net. There are three types of movie player downloads. They are:

Quick Time from Apple Computers

Real Players from Real Networks

Windows Media Player

Of these, Quick Time is most popular. It is a free movie player download that is available for both Windows and Mac. Quick Time 6 was downloaded more than 350 million times and more than 250 digital devices ship Quicktime as their standard media player. Around 25, 000 websites refer customers to Quick time downloads.

Quick Time 7 offers a rich multimedia experience. It can figuratively take you on a trip to the moon or the premier of the latest movie. It makes use of the latest video compression technology called H.264. This technology represents the next generation of video for all applications from mobile multimedia to High definition playback. The video is compressed into small files without affecting quality and delivers clear, crisp pictures. Audio quality is amazing and provides 24 channels of audio and supports a wide range of industry standard audio formats.

Real Player and Windows Media Player are suitable for some movies only. Most computers have any of these three movie players installed on their hard drive. Real Player10 comes with a 14-day free trial and features pause and fast forward live streams uninterrupted, excellent audio and video quality, supports portable devices and plays every media format. It also gives access to best program in media, and a
10- band graphic equalizer that gives high quality image and sound.

Windows Media Player 7.1 consists of seven features in a single application, including a CD player, an audio and video player, a media jukebox, a media guide, an internet radio tuner, a portable device you can transfer music files to, and an audio CD burner. These software programs are combined in one easy-to-use application designed to make playing digital media a wonderful experience. The player also allows one to play streaming or download digital audio or video Internet content. Version 7.1 adds a facility called Windows Media Audio 8 encoding and decoding for use in portable devices.

Edward Olive 12/05/2008