I know what you mean when you say : > > I'm interested in accessing examples of engagement with web video > that suggests a new way of seeing the world of everyday political > and social reality without necessarily being a skilled end product. > but I would argue with the word 'skilled' - the first of your examples, David Kessler's Shadow World, is a very skilled end product. The camerawork and editing is very carefully done - particularly when shooting & cutting the non-speaking sections - and plays with the idea of verité. Maybe 'slick' would be a better word than 'skilled' to describe what these are not.
Some projects by people in this group that focus on subjects outside the personal in a low budget but skilled way: Human-Dog's American King: http://human-dog.com/category/american-king/ Ryan Is Hungry as a whole: http://ryanishungry.com Stan Hirson's Dairy Farm multi-clip film on Pine Plains Views: http://www.pineplainsviews.com/video-stories/the-dairy-farm Lo Fi Saint Louis appears to be a music vlog, but also covers local art & street scenes - see his latest, for instance: http://lofistl.com/2009/09/21/240-street-boxers-at-lemp-and-arsenal/ Am sure there are more I've left out - these are those that came to mind before breakfast. And another project with more funding that reminds me of Shadow World in some ways is David Lynch's Interview Project: http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/ Thanks for the link to albatv - sound great! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 6-Oct-09, at 4:05 AM, ratbagradio wrote: > I'm looking for online documentary recommendation but stuff that > keeps within the 10 minute format.I'm not after news shows per se -- > but POV internet video > > There are two internet video streams I really appreciate that are > hallmarks for me: > > # Shadow World by David S. Kessler > http://dskessler.com/shadowworld/ > http://shadowworld.blip.tv/ > which is an extraordinary exercise in cinema verite . Does anyone > know sites as good as Kessler's that work a similar focus? > > Kessler writes:"The process is fairly straightforward. I walk the > streets under the El tracks, and tripod in hand, mostly > concentrating on the play and power that the El structure has on the > buildings and streets below. I stop at points where I feel that its > impact is the strongest, allowing the trains and the tracks to be > the one reoccurring character that forces itself into each moment. > The people I talk to are all strangers. I try to let them steer the > conversation. There isn't much (if any) prying to get them to tell > me their stories. The intent is to appreciate that moment of > interaction - whether something is revealed to me, a stranger, or > not...The moments I capture are boiled down to three to four minute > episodes. " > > # Albatv > http://albatv.blip.tv/ > which is a product of the mass scale push in Venezuela to > democratize the media.I like AlbaTV because its in mixes amongst it > all and doesn't have 'journalistic' pretensions.It's very plebeian > video -- in Spanish. > > AlbaTV shoots a lot of the activist stuff like I'm engaged with but > it does it much better than I have done as it works much closer to > its subjects whereas I'm hampered by journalese. > > As the Venezuelans say, it's Video communication without > intermediaries:"Alba TV plans to construct a different communication > model, antagonistic to the dominant model of social communication, a > task that can not be delegated but must be undertaken directly... > because in this model of communication there can be no > intermediaries." > > I'm interested in accessing examples of engagement with web video > that suggests a new way of seeing the world of everyday political > and social reality without necessarily being a skilled end product. > > There's a lot of videoblogging personalised stuff but I was > interested in material that was more outward looking but wasn't just > 'news'. > > I'm unaware of resources that monitor web video by genre and report > on trends, review and make recommendations. The scale of the video > universe is so large now you really need a guide book that can see > beyond each online aggregator. > > However, the potential power of the short online video grab packaged > in a series, as Kessler has done, seems very large indeed. There's a > difference about shooting for the web -- which is not about trying > to ape television or play film schools. > > dave riley > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
