NEW (22.02.2009): Links to useful resources specially prepared for Redeye by Ross Dalziel of www.SoundNetwork.org.uk can be found HERE.
More and more photographers are realising the value of photography in video format. Putting work on YouTube or higher quality hosting sites like Vimeo opens up a whole new audience; and a soundtrack of commentary, interviews, music or ambient noise adds another dimension to the work. If you can add html to your own site you can embed videos without using up your bandwidth and space.
Simple recommendations:
• Keep it short, punchy and interesting - people have very limited attention spans online;
• Use the format to tell a story - think of it as a movie rather than individual images;
• Pay careful attention to the soundtrack - the wrong one can drown the images.
Redeye's regular submission-based event, Projection09, is now over but the entry page contains technical info about submitting work, here.
Here's one of the entries features in Redeye's Projection 08, Duppies, by David Dunnico.
Here's a couple more interesting examples. The first is by Christian Payne, one of the first UK photographers to use this format; this was a landmark piece:
This one is from the Vimeo site, which offers an HD option:
