A Contemporary Take on Film Editing

Posted February 2nd, 2015 by Kelie Petterssen

UPDATE: Past the deadline? DON’T PANIC! Due to popular demand, Pond 5’s Public Domain Project creative challenge has been extended by a week. The deadline is now March 9th, so you have a whole other week to email kelie@shootingpeople.org with your name and link to your submission.

Don’t worry, you won’t  have to get your hands on a Steenbeck for this editing challenge.

Pond5 is launching their new ‘Public Domain Project’ and it’s pretty snazzy. A library of royalty free content designed specifically for media makers, including over 10,000 video clips, 65,000 photos, endless sound recordings and 3D models.

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With Shooting People and Soho Editors, Pond5 are granting four filmmakers with copious amounts of credit for their site and places on some of London’s most elite editing courses.

Sign up to Pond 5 for free and create a 1-2 minute film that tells a compelling tale of ‘Journeys and Hidden Treasures’ using any of the free clips available to download and any of these 50 free music tracks. Then, upload your film to a video platform, (ie:Youtube or Vimeo) and email kelie@shootingpeople.org with the link and your details.

The Pond 5 youtube channel gives you a snapshot of the media you can explore…

The 4 winners are in for a treat:

Top prize is $2000 Pond5 credit to spend on stock footage and a GoPro camera.
– 2nd – $500 credit and one of any Soho Editor’s 3 day courses of your choice.
– 3rd – Soho Editor’s free 12 month license to take the ‘Inside The Edit – The Creative Editing Course’.
– 4th – $500 Pond5 credit.

The Deadline is 9th March, so start piecing together your journey jigsaw for an opportunity to delve deeper into what Pond5 have to offer & learn more about editing from a reputable organisation.

Learn a bit more about Pond5 & Soho Editors…

Pond5

Pond5 is the world’s most vibrant marketplace for media makers, offering the Web’s largest collection of royalty-free stock video footage, as well as millions of photos, illustrations, music tracks, sound effects, Adobe After Effects project templates, and 3D models. Disrupting the traditional stock agency m odel with an open, dynamic marketplace, Pond5 invites media makers from all over the world to submit their own content and set their own prices. Contributing artists earn 50% on each sale—significantly higher than traditional players.
Submissions are curated by the Pond5 team, and made available for immediate preview, purchase and download. All content is licensed under a simple royalty-free license that provides customers lifetime, worldwide usage rights across all media.

 

Soho Editors

Soho Editors are Europe’s premier talent and training provider to the creative media industry. For over 18 years Soho Editors have been supporting professional creative organisations and individuals to realise their full potential.

 

Inside The Edit

Inside The Edit is the world’s first creative editing course. This highly specialised training program has been developed over three years by a prime time editing team working at the very highest level of television. The Creative Editing Course goes way beyond basic editing theory. You will learn hundreds of structural, journalistic and creative techniques used in documentary and entertainment television. From the fundamentals to the highly advanced. No other course provides you with professional level theory, raw footage to practice on and a guided tour through the creative editing process.

 

  1. Mike

    WARNING !!! – Media available in the public domain in the U.S. isn’t necessarily categorized as public in other countries!!!!!!!

    P5 Content License Agreement – http://www.pond5.com/legal/license

    8. Public Domain Content.
    A work designated on the Website or otherwise by us as being “Public Domain Content” or otherwise as being in the public domain (collectively, “Public Domain Content”) is designated as such when WE BELIEVE THAT THE WORKS IS CONSIDERED under copyright laws of the United States to be in the public domain. However, SUCH WORK MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN OTHER COUNTRIES and notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else in this Agreement, we assume no responsibility whatsoever, and you are solely responsible, for reviewing the Content Information and if necessary confirming that the Public Domain Content is in fact in the public domain in the United States and every other country where it or Works For Distribution including it will be used, copied, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, telecast, displayed or performed or derivative works created based thereon and obtaining any rights that are legally required with regard thereto.
    Notwithstanding anything else in this agreement, the restrictions in Sections 4 (c), (e), (f) and (h) and 7 and the warranties in Section 9 (a) and (b) and 10 do not apply to Public Domain Content.
    Generally, no releases have been obtained for any Third Party IP or musical, dramatic, choreographic or literary work depicted, performed or contained in Public Domain Content, so to the extent that any Public Domain Content depicts or contains any of the same, it should be considered to be Editorial Content.

  2. Martin Ellerbeck

    The UK uses the rules that flow from the country of origin of the public domain footage. So for American footage it is anything over 70 years like here in the UK.

    Here is the legal spiel on this:

    In respect of literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or film, where the country of origin is not an EEA state and the author is not a national of an EEA state, the duration of the copyright to which the work is entitled is that to which it is entitled in the country of origin or the country of which the relevant author is a national, provided that this period does not exceed the relevant period of protection provided under the UK law.

    In respect of literary, dramatic or artistic works in the UK, copyright expires 70 years from end of the calendar year in which the author dies or (in respect of works of unknown authorship or films in respect of which the specified person’s identity is unknown) copyright expires 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was made or “made available” to the public (if the work is made available to the public during this period). In considering whether a work has been made available to the public no account is taken of any unauthorized act

  3. Mike

    “A work designated on the Website or otherwise by us as being “Public Domain Content” is designated as such when WE BELIEVE THAT THE WORKS IS CONSIDERED under copyright laws of the United States to be in the public domain.”

    This is not enough for me to trust your content being cleared.
    Also I talked to Huntley Film Archives and concluded better don’t risk.

  4. Rob

    A brief guide to copyright durations is here to get you an idea how complicated licensing actually is and how risky is to play with it, no matter nice awards.
    Pond5 is not clear in their licensing statement how deep they looked into the matter so therefore you are downloading and using files at your own risk.

    European Union

    Currently: UK, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal. Provides protection for life of the artist plus 70 years from the end of the year of death of the artist.

    EU exceptions:
    Spain
    If the artist died before 11th November 1987 their work is protected for life plus 80 years.
    French war artists
    If the work of art was published before 31st December 1920 it is protected for life of the artist plus 84 years and 272 days, and if it was published after that date, then it is protected for life plus 78 years and 120 days.

    USA

    Life of the artist plus 70 years. Please note that the legislation extending the duration from life 50 years to life 70 years was not retrospective. This means that if an artist was out of copyright under the 50 year rule on 27th October 1998, they stay out of copyright even if it is now less than 70 years since their death. It should also be noted that before 1978, copyright protection was not automatic – works had to be registered with the US copyright office. Protection also varies depending on whether the work was created before 1978 and whether it was published by that date.

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