Videorista - Futuristic Stock Video & VFX Animations
Over the past years, the major Hollywood studios have been using an accesible and creative resource to minimize their high costs of production. This resource is widely known as:
STOCK FOOTAGE
But what exactly is stock footage?
Have you ever seen a film where the characters are watching an older movie? Well, that older movie is considered stock footage.
Stock Footage is any kind of video material that is edited into a project and composited as part of it, and does not have to be filmed for that specific project. This resource comes in various types of video, all the way from aerial shots, timelapses, futuristic illustrations, 3D animations and can be used for many purposes such as news reports and interviews' backgrounds, greenscreen, conference presentations, multiple screens at shows and expos and more.
Whether you’re aware of it or not, you’ve seen stock footage in all kinds of productions. News reports, blockbuster movies, television shows, even YouTube videos, everyone make use of it.
Some examples of stock footage which might be mostly used are timelapses of cities and landmarks, wildlife in their natural environments and historical footage since it becomes too expensive to shoot them.
Nowadays more and more Futuristic Stock Footage are being used in productions, corporate videos, science presentations and even mobile applications. This kind of work requires special talent and high skills from 3D Artists and VFX Professionals which may become very expensive to hire.
The use of stock footage has different benefits, which are listed below:
1. BUDGET
One big reason may be the budget: paying for an aerial shot of the sun rising over the Giza Pyramids with a couple of camels passing by, may result way much cheaper than renting a drone and flying all the way to Egypt to do it yourself. Even though the idea may sound pretty exiting. This is mainly used in short films and documentaries. But this isn’t exclusive to them. Even high budget Hollywood films and television shows use stock footage.
For instance, the "Star Trek" franchise kept a large collection of starships, planets, backgrounds and explosions which would appear on a regular basis throughout Star Trek's five series and ten films. Films like “Iron Man” and “Ex Machina” used 3D stock footage to place it on the screens of the laboratories of the characters to have a futuristic and technological environment.
But there are also films that use material from other productions, as for example, the Michael Bay “Transformers 3” movie used material from the film by the same director on "The Island", in which reuses a scene in which appear a few trucks on a bridge and both receive an impact.
2. AVAILABILITY
If you're short on time and money, or if you need some last minute pick up shots, you don't need to stress about searching out for specific Production Companies to sell you several clips. You can just find some stock footage online, download it, and use it.
3. ACCESIBILITY
If you need a shot of giraffes eating leaves in Africa, with stock footage it’s not necessary to book a flight to Africa and ask for permission to film in that zone, where certain locations require permits that are expensive or difficult to obtain.
Stock footage is a world trend and in Iokanan VFX we know it. Specially when we talk about Futuristic Stock Footage, Technology 3D Animations and Loopable Clips with tons of Visual Effects.
That's why we created:
VIDEORISTA
An amazing collection of stock footage, which offers direct download of amazing futuristic, technological, cybernetic and innovative videos, info graphics and 3D animations of high impact created by the best Visual Effects Artists, which can be downloaded with the best quality up to 4K resolution and used freely in any of your productions.
Go now to videorista.com and take your video productions to a Hollywood level.
