I echo all these points put forth by Adrian and Brook and Rupert. I'm often approached by filmmakers in my department (I'm a grad student in film) who are curious and interested in videoblogging, but lack the skills and time to devote to getting one up and running, and then maintaining it, especially while working on films for theatrical or festival release. I'm certainly neglecting my vlog while I finish a longer-form film.
But there have certainly been some to make the leap--and I'll mention in particular one by fellow grad student Alexis Bravos here at the Univ. Of Iowa: http://www.postcardinwinter.blogspot.com/ Leighton Pierce, faculty in my department and a wonderful videomaker, has also created mobile versions of his work for iPod viewing on his website: http://leightonpierce.com (check these out!) But I'd like to add that for many filmmakers, especially of the experimental/fine art sort, the web still has an aura of lowbrow, opiate of the masses, low art type content, a space that television has occupied for a long time. As has been mentioned, I think many filmmakers fear losing respect or prestige or pride or whatever by placing in their work in the same venue as Jackass style YouTube videos and posts about kittens and puppies and whatnot (although I'm personally addicted to both). And there's always the concern that listing web video on your dossier simply doesn't hold the same weight as a festival screening or theatrical premiere. The professional/academic film worlds haven't quite caught up with the possibilities of the web, so festival and curated screenings generally still hold far more prestige than anything that can happen on the web. This is changing somewhat, now, but, like so many things outside of the web, the process is slow-going. That's my coupla cents. Jen --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, there are quite a few filmmakers putting video online - but many > more professional filmmakers don't use the web to distribute their work. > > i think what adrian said is true - but their rejection of it is more > through a lack of understanding of the web and lack of tech skills > than because of any preciousness, i think. > > In my experience, it's mostly because they don't use the web to watch > films themselves, so they don't know what the possibilities are, and > maybe most significantly they see a web audience as an unattractive > Other. They assume people who watch video online are weirdos, > techies, teenagers or bored office workers. They see what's on > YouTube - the football clips or talking heads and think "that's what > people watch online" and assume that they won't reach an audience who > will commit to their story or piece. Also, they see the comments on > YouTube and think, "I don't want to subject my work to that kind of > audience - they won't like/understand it". > > Then there are those who think "How MANY people actually watch things > online - apart from the odd lonelygirl15 or geriatric1927 who get > lots of views... is it worth prioritising a small audience over the > bigger theatrical audience I could get if i spent my evenings working > on that script/film instead of trying to learn a whole new set of > skills." And thus it's as much perceived technological barrier as an > attitude barrier which keeps them away. > > Rupert > http://www.fatgirlinohio.org > http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ > > > On 21 Mar 2007, at 03:05, Brook Hinton wrote: > > Delurking to point out just a FEW of the MANY Filmmaker/Video Artists > who > Videoblog or Videoblogged or use video in their blogs, some of whom are > right here in the videoblogging group: > > Aaron Valdez > Abe Linkoln > Matt McCormick > Jonas Mekas (OK, it's not free but still, one of the grandfathers of > experimental film for pete's sake!) > Jennifer Proctor > Miranda July > Caveh Zahedi > Charlene Rule > Joshua Kanies > Duncan Speakman > Me > > the list goes on and on. these are just the names that came > immediately to > mind (and I'm really sorry to any of my own filmmaker friends not listed > above - brain is sleep deprived at present). > > And there are dozens if not more who post what are absolutely works of > cinema for the web in many of their videoblog entries, including pionner > vloggers like Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson and Mica Scalin and others > who > may or may not call themselves filmmakers as well as videobloggers. > > Yes, there are HUGE HUGE HUGE and very real issues about posting your > work > online, esp. work that is intended for other venues, but after 30 > minutes of > trying to compose a post about all of that I realized it's not a > post, it's > an article, and I at least wanted to point out in light of the previous > comments that we do exist. > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
