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I don't understand the need to "strictly define"
videoblogging except to separate individually (or collectively) produced
"independent" video from advertising trailers promoting a commercial
product (movie trailers, etc.) The independence of unfettered personal
_expression_ is key to defining vlogging in my mind.
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Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 7:57
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Subject: [videoblogging] Define
Videoblogging
There's been a idea that has been promoted to not
define
Videoblogging. That it is too soon, that defining it will lock
it
down and constrain it, and so on. The error is that a
model,
definition, thesis is required to test if something is viable.
You
don't discover something by not applying a model to it, but by
testing
if a proposed model accurately describes the item in
question.
The video projects that are interesting and successful
whether the
highly structured Rocket Boom or loosely structured Carp
Caviar, have
a understandable structure. Experimental films have
existed since
Edison and others invented the technology of
filmmaking. But it
became a vibrant media once Griffith found and
clearly displayed the
60-120 minute, three act model in "Birth of a
Nation". Within that
clear models of genres and forms -- the science
fiction, crime (with
subgenre of noire), romance (subgenres of
romantic-comedy, etc.),
comedy, etc. sub-models --- resolved into modes of
film _expression_.
It is a mistake to narrowly define an art
form. To say that
videoblogging is just personal diaries or citizen
journalism or
another type of genre _expression_. This is like saying
film is
adventure. It may be that adventure (or romantic or crime)
films are
the most prevalent genres, but they are not the only genres that
can
exist and are interesting. It is the form of a duration around
90
minutes with three acts that does define the cinematic form. And
it
is a video with blogging capability that may be the correct model
that
different genres of videoblogging exist in. That model may
be
incomplete or innacurate, but it should be proposed and tested
against
competing models until the correct model is determined.
Saying that
no model should be tested is quite possibly a recipe for
floundering
and stagnation.
-- Enric
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