> I see a ton of passion too, and sometimes you get "paid" in other > ways, like for me I am making some internal commercials for where I > work. Now, they are not cutting me a check, but....I have filmed on > the clock and I am going to get comp time for the time at home > editing (that was my choice I could have taken money, hour for hour) > so in effect, I DID get paid. Now it wasn't for vlogging but it was > because I started vlogging that I knew how to edit, film, etc and > that paid off with this. Now I would love to maybe do some more > work, who knows. I just know I won't get paid for "Batman Geek" and > that's cool with me....but maybe because of batman geek, I will get > paid to do other stuff....who knows....
Heath, this is a perfect example of how being creative by making a videoblogs opens opportunities. Before I start sounding like a EST instructor, i point to what jeffrey just said in this thread: "The problem we are encountering right now is that the culture of business that sponsors and finances video on the web is completely linear and their concepts of what videos are are completely past-based. "They" need terminology that has content fit in boxes of a defined shape and size in order to survive and to justify the funding of projects, and this poses a problem for producers that don't want to be confined by those boxes. And we're seeing many well-intended agreements unravel and many wonderfully-conceived video projects lose their organic feel and charismatic nature because of this collision of the linear and non-linear." as videobloggers...as creative people making original work in a completely new media...we need to first ask ourselves what we want. Don't be so quick to take the couple of financial choices that the established system are comfortable offering. Remember, the house always wins because they make the rules. Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
