But couldnt a text blog be considered a genre of writing? I mean if the context & delivery mechanism of the work affects the length, style & content of the work, then does that create new genre's?
Or maybe at least it has the capacity to create new genre's. I mean Id probably agree that videoblogs themselves are not one genre as there are so many diffeent types, and that possibly many of the types are not new genre's made possible only after vlogging came to exist. 'personal video, talk to the camera, filming self' stuff shown on tv many years before vlogging. But then again there were some people vlogging years before the term came to exist. Wasnt there a discussion here some weeks ago abut words like movie? I meant to reply at the time that maybe the word movide is not so used in everyday life by people in the UK compared to USA. We tend to use the words cinema and film more, although this may have diminished somwhat in the last decade as our main satellite provider's channels were named sky movies for years. I never learnt any Latin or anything at school, so I dint realise till the other day that video means 'to see'. So whatever else we can easily disagree on in terms of definition being correctly used, hopefully video is broad enough to stand the test of time. Same goes for television I guess, it seems to mean 'far sight' or something like that. Like I said Im a dunce on these languages so I might be all wrong. I decided the other day that the word multimedia is good for the sort of stuff Im interested in, and that I shouldnt refrain from usng it just cos its been around a while and has no buzz. Are there any lessons from history we can use to make guesstimates? eg are there any words that were heavily used on the internet in the past, that have met an early grave? In terms of the mass adoption of words into the common language, I still dont know many people in wider life that recognise the words blog or vlog, and indeed an amusingly refreshing number of people that have never heard of youtube! Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], sull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sure. except film is not part of it ;) maybe tape and hard drive cylinders, > but no film. > i hear you and its always been true. > thats why i have always disagreed with the whole 'vlog as genre' idea. > vlog is just blogging videos. nothing more than that. any video. > of course people will have many labels for themselves since many will tend > to always be applicable. > i dont think those who make video to communicate... for messaging or video > conversations.... consider themselves filmmakers though. > > sull > > On 3/15/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think we're all just film-makers. You don't have to be a > > 'professional' any more. You're making films. Like a writer > > writes. Or a musician musicianifizes. To classify according to the > > distribution method is almost irrelevant, now, because it's the norm. > > I've quoted it before, but here's Francis Ford Coppola in 87/88: > > "To me the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders > > and stuff have come out, some... just people who normally wouldn't > > make movies are going to be making them, and - you know - suddenly, > > one day, some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart - > > you know - and make a beautiful film with her little father's > > camera...corder - and for once the so-called professionalism about > > movies will be destroyed... Forever..." > > Well, forget the Mozart part - we didn't need a Messiah to change > > people's attitudes, we needed the distribution methods to change. > > And now it's the norm for films to be shown online, so ideas of > > labelling us according to blogging, vlogging, web, net or youtube > > have less meaning. and don't help you find types of content any > > more. We're just filmmakers. What TYPE of films you make... > > fiction, animation, documentary, magazine shows, autobiographical, > > confessional, reality TV, instructional... now that's another matter :-) > > > > Rupert > > http://www.fatgirlinohio.org > > http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ > > > > On 15 Mar 2007, at 17:54, humancloner1997 wrote: > > anyone have any thoughts and/or suggestions for new terms we might > > start using in this new world of videoblogging? > > > > Randolfe (Randy) Wicker > > Hoboken, NJ 07030 > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sull > http://vlogdir.com (a project) > http://SpreadTheMedia.org (my blog) > http://interdigitate.com (otherly) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
