{"id":852,"date":"2017-03-13T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/03\/13\/vimeo-curators-reveal-the-secret-to-getting-a-staff-pick\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T12:29:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:29:07","slug":"vimeo-curators-reveal-the-secret-to-getting-a-staff-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/03\/13\/vimeo-curators-reveal-the-secret-to-getting-a-staff-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Vimeo Curators Reveal the Secret to Getting a Staff Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/03\/vimeo-staff-picks-curators-how-get-staff-pick\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/screen_shot_2017-03-13_at_12.03.58_am_0.png?itok=JVGibglm\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nHere are six places where the Vimeo Staff Picks pickers find new videos to feature.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nSince Vimeo&#8217;s Staff Picks launched back in 2007, the program has become the stuff of legend for independent filmmakers, generating an average of 100,000 views on the chosen videos, and launching the careers of makers like DANIELS and Kirsten Lepore, whose latest short <em>Hi Stranger<\/em> is playing at SXSW this year.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nWhile it&#8217;s clear that a Staff Pick can be very meaningful for filmmakers, it&#8217;s been a little murkier to understand just how these picks are made\u2014until now. At SXSW, three of the five members of Vimeo&#8217;s curation team\u2014Sam Morrill, Meghan Oretsky, and Ian Durkin candidly shared some of their process.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe panelists said that, of the thousand or so videos featured as Staff Picks annually (out of tens of millions of uploads), each and every one is hand selected by curation team\u2014no algorithms in sight. One of the main takeaways of use to aspiring pick-ees was the list of places where the team actually goes to find new videos to feature. Here are the top six:&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/03\/vimeo-staff-picks-curators-how-get-staff-pick\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Here are six places where the Vimeo Staff Picks pickers find new videos to feature.&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; Since Vimeo&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-dK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}