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Video Blogs
- The new personal web video experience???.
by Mark
Shapiro
Is Internet
Video Magazine just a giant videoblog masquerading as a
magazine?
According to Jon Fortt of SJ
Mercury, videoblogs are on the way. "They're
new enough that the blogging community
hasn't settled on a good name yet -- they're
called vidblogs, vogs, vlogs. Sites like tim-hall.com,
solublefish.tv and
weblogs.media.mit.edu/ic are paving the
way. Expect video-capable cell phones to
lead the way as these become more popular.
Now we'll get to see the boring moments in
people's lives, instead of just reading
about them."
According
to the apply named vidblogs.com, "Vidblogs
are films. They usually are between one and
six minutes. They usually contain lots of
"real" footage from someone's
life. They usually feature music
prominently. They usually are shot on video
and edited digitally.
However, a Vidblog could be a 10 second
compilation of excerpts from commercials
taped by a camera aimed at a TV with the
sound turned all the way down. A vidblog
could be a 10-minute stretch of music with
footage of a baby eating at 3% opacity over
a white screen. A Vidblog is whatever you
call a Vidblog.
Most
Internet videos are driven by their concept,
whereas Vidblogs are driven by what you see
and hear. They can be personal documentaries
of trips, events and vacations - they can be
personal exclamations of beliefs and
affirmations.
You can
shoot with a video telephone - you can shoot
with home camcorder or pro video gear. Edit
or not to edit - it's your choice. The
underlying theme is self-expression - using
video to share your world experience with
others.
According
to Adrian
Miles -
- a vog respects bandwidth
- a vog is not streaming video (this is
not the reinvention of television)
- a vog uses performative video and/or
audio
- a vog is personal
- a vog uses available technology
- a vog experiments with writerly video
and audio
- a vog lies between writing and the
televisual
- a vog explores the proximate distance
of words and moving media
- a vog is dziga vertov with a mac and a
modem
- a vog is a video blog where video in a
blog must be more than video in a blog
The
Video Blog Experiment from InfoWorld
Magazine TechWatch
"Vidblog"
is short for "video blog". You can
make one."
Other great
videoblog sites
AvoidingLife
- a very well organized and laid out
vidblog - lots of well produced BIG personal
videos. Not just aimless raw footage, these
productions are well cut and edited, with
music and sound effects.
vidblogs.com
- video blogs from across the world - a wonderful site that serves as a central
linking sport for numerous videobloggers.
Go ahead and check
out http://www.tim-hall.com/vogner.
There's some cool "Vogner" films
on his site - using "borrowed TV
footage, you got to check out "Requiem
for Gone with the Attack of the Babe"
He is using Canon PowerShot A70 digital
camera and iMovie on an iBook. He's got some
great links to some wonderful sites like
those posted below....For more Tim Hall
stuff, check out his portfolio
VideoLinks
- Video Blogs from Japan
Onetrick.net
- videoblogs from Justin - the potato tattoo
vidblog is sorta cute
Blumpy.org
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