Rupert, I agree that we are all filmmakers. Indeed, even some of the old 8mm and hi-8 cameras have created amazing films like "51 Birch Street" (and another documentary that someone used to tell the story of his life growing up). However, "filmmaker" is not specific enough. We're all (mostly) "Americans" also. "Filmmaker" really doesn't describe the "new" no-gatekeepers, even-copyrights-be-damned, relatively- uncensored, free-speech-stage we are using at this time. We are living in a special time, like the 1960s, which some day soon may well be only those warmly-remembered "good old days". In the 1960s & 1970s, friends and employees used to sit in front of my shop in Greenwich Village and smoke grass openly. Those days are long gone. There were wild strip & sex shows all over NYC. No more! You could set up tables on the street (as I did) and demand the local Police be investigated for refusing to investigate a murder or other crime. We are in the "Wild West Days" of Internet video. Wait and see! The "Status Quo" folks will soon have your videos deleted for having a few bars of copyrighted music 'intruding' on a scene and/or for your refusal/inability to produce signed (perhaps notraized) releases from people walking by in the background. I think we are media pioneers, people in the street documenting all kinds of things "without a permit". Is Josh Wolf just another 'media person'? If he was, he wouldn't be sitting in jail. "Loose Cameras" and/or "Unregulated Media-makers" and/or "Internet Video Agitators" describe us better than "filmmakers". Filmmakers have been around since the late 19th Century. We are the new media of the 21st Century. I'd embrace some new term like "vidist" before I'd embrace "filmmaker" as a description of myself. My friend said that anyone could create new words. All you have to do is simply "throw them out" and (sometimes) people will just pick them up and start using them. I think "fanvid" is an excellent example of that. Fanvids simply did not exist and were virtualloy impossible until videoblogging enabled everyone to participate in the world of Internet video. Vloggingly yours, Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, 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] >
