Vimeo represents another side of web video compared to its Google funded counterpart YouTube. With a focus more on high quality video made by filmmakers and artists, the website contains some of the best looking video production on the Internet with footage of crazy people screaming into webcams kept very much on the down-low.

It’s not all serious though and this weekend Vimeo ran a competition for community members to send in their best fake trailers. As you may know, creating a full-length video production can be a long and tiring process but if you have an amazing idea for a film or TV show, creating your own trailer for it can be a great way to exorcise those filmmaking demons and, depending on which route you go down, have a lot of fun.

The Big Dog Trailer from Eric Appel on Vimeo.

The contest ends tomorrow so if you have time today or this evening to knock out a 1 to 2 minute fake trailer you could still be in the running to win the prize of a free Vimeo Plus account and an extra 2.5gb of space online; Plenty of room to upload more brilliant web video in the future.

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A greater web marketing success than a real-terms financial one, at least as far as its critics are concerned, Groupon has nonetheless built a big reputation in a relatively short space of time. However that reputation is coming under new scrutiny in the UK, as the Advertising Standards Authority has referred the web-firm to the Office of Fair Trading for repeated breaches of the advertising code.  

The ASA has upheld 11 complaints against Groupon in 2011, and has also informally settled a further 37. The most recent bout of censure came last week, when Groupon was ticked off for a web marketing email offering cosmetic surgery if customers booked within 24 hours.

According to the ASA, the ‘very limited time in which consumers had to buy the voucher pressured consumers into making a decision to purchase cosmetic surgery.’ And with complaints having also been received about Groupon exaggerating savings from deals and failing to conduct promotions fairly, the ASA has decided the time is right to take action.

Said the ASA in a statement: ‘It is in the public interest that we refer the matter to the OFT, the OFT being better placed to address any underlying issues concerning Groupon’s trading practices generally.’

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The first feature film production shot entirely on a smartphone will have its theatrical premiere in Los Angeles on 16 December.

Olive, which is written-up as a movie involving "a little girl who transforms the lives of three people without speaking one word", was filmed on a Nokia N8. This was then double-taped to a set of traditional film-camera lenses.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the filmmaker Hooman Khalili described how he had to hack the phone to turn off its auto-zoom. "The camera thinks it knows what you want to focus on," he said. "But it doesn't know."

The rest of the film's production was a tad more traditional. Khalili hired a casting director, location scouts, make-up artists and a Hollywood star (two-time Oscar nominee Gena Rowlands), bringing the total budget up to $500,000. The money was supplied by Chris Kelly, former chief privacy officer at Facebook, when Nokia turned down Khalili's request for funding.

Olive will be screened at the Laemmle Fallbrook 7 cinema in West Hills, LA, making it eligible for consideration in the Oscars race. The first five minutes of the film are available to watch below.

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For all those who thought cats were the go-to creatures for web video cuteness, the sheep from the latest Brooks Brothers viral video are definitely going to give the feline video stars a run for their money.

Awwww or possible Baaaaa [sorry]. The video currently only has 41,000 views which may be due to some poor YouTube titling, but surely as the barrage of Christmas web videos begins to engulf the internet it will pick up the hits.

Although it is shamelessly cute and silly it would be great to have a few more viral videos like this if only to draw attention away from the utterly ridiculous John Lewis advert that has Mothers emptying their tear ducts across the country and Smiths fans tearing their hair out.

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A hugely-acclaimed TV production of recent years, Deadwood was a snarling, swearing take on the western genre. It also represented a creatively successful marriage between HBO and writer-producer David Milch, and that pairing is set to be renewed on a new project – a project which will see the entire output of American literary legend William Faulkner brought to the screen.

Well, okay, so it perhaps does seem a bit unlikely that the HBO-Milch axis will deliver either a movie or TV production of every single one of Faulkner’s 19 novels and 125 short stories. But the rights to all the great man’s works have indeed been signed up, so Milch is free to create a filmed interpretation of whichever one he chooses.

For the record, Milch’s own favourite of is Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner’s 1936 opus all about a kindly talking purple dinosaur whose best friend is a bespectacled boy wizard (no, I’ve not read it). But fair to say, the Deadwood creator is a big fan of all Faulkner’s work:

“They are superb, and compelling, and absolutely authentic. They’re so contemporary… there are so many different kinds of pleasure one gets from encountering those materials.”

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