don't lose that Rupert, I enjoyed reading your post I remember when I studied psychology hearing something about how when you do something you enjoy, getting paid for it can take away that original motivation
but for me, Im getting old...and feel, if my vids are any good, there should be a market for them There comes a stage when you just get sick of being poor because of some stupid dream. I had a stint where I was homeless, living in a swag, making my vids, reading 'Down and Out in Paris and London'. Nice experiment for a while, but in the end, not terribly pleasant I think the internet is all smoke and mirrors. If you want to make connections, do business with people, you gotta meet face to face, look in their eyes, connect. It all goes back to the Alby Mangels method. Alby had some 16mm footage (no sound) knocked up a rough edit, and hit every small outback hall playing movies to the country masses on a small projector. He got out there, engaged the masses, visited schools, ran workshops. The internet is so impersonal, for me now, it is engage locally, then maybe globally. maybe one day vlogs will become monetized and professionalized...hopefully when that day comes, it will be individuals still making the content..not corporations --- In [email protected], Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I realise there are people making money from commercial shows - and > some of you are being funded by people like Podtech to produce a > certain number of shows per month in a certain genre. Probably not > enough to pay the rent by itself, but it's great. > > For me, I just don't see the numbers stacking up for videoblogging as > a rent paying gig. > > More than that, though - I don't want to poison it by making it What > I Do To Make Money. Let alone making it What I Do To Get Rich. > > To guarantee enough viewers, I'd have to abandon what I enjoy about > videoblogging and invent a commercial concept - a Show. And then > slave over selling that to as large an audience as possible. > > And I don't want to be restricted to only making one type of film in > order to make money, because it'd mean I wouldn't have time or energy > to make films for fun, or be inspired to create different things. > I'd have to choose a subject that guaranteed the maximum number of > viewers and advertising income. Suddenly, it'd be like making > commercial television. > > The freedom and lack of worry about numbers, accountability and other > pressures is what I love about videoblogging. And equally, I love > the people I've found who feel more or less the same way. That > amazing atmosphere of creativity and connection for its own sake that > hit me at Pixelodeon. I've been realising that it's like being back > at university again - where we created and shared things together > because we wanted to. > > Since university, I've watched all my friends and the people I used > to make shorts with come to London looking for jobs in things they > love - writing, TV, film, etc - and most of them succeeded. And that > was pretty much the end of any fun they had being creative. There > wasn't the time or the inclination to make things outside their job. > They just service their mortgages and make slick products for other > people. Great for them. But my idea of extreme boredom and > frustration. But that's just me. I don't like doing one thing for > long. > > Now, for rent and food money, I use my skills to make one-off little > corporate films and websites for individuals and small businesses. > And in my own time I take out my phone camera and muck about with it > and put stuff online. I don't make much money - just about enough to > get by - but there's a clear enough line between those things that > videoblogging is still just 100% fun. > > And I can stop making films with my phone tomorrow if I want without > any worry and, I don't know, spend a while making things on Super 8 - > or doing a small series of short stories. Whatever. I can > experiment without risk and enough people will watch and connect to > make it worthwhile. For me. But again, that's just me. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
