Now I'm back, I'll briefly add... most video diaries are not the classic to-camera video diaries that you see characters on TV shows & films doing - those that are to-camera tend to be somewhere between being editorial opinions and stand up comedy. Personal video diaries online have tended to be more like classic home movies - people pointing the camera away from them, videoing the people and things around them, and then cutting them into simple sequences. Like Jay's video of his mother's last days, posted in November: http://momentshowing.net/2009/11/video-sure/
One of my favourite types of video diary has been the videoblog travelogue as mastered by Ryanne & Jay - just filming moments without commentary or music and stitching them together - the natural sounds forming a rhythm: http://tinyurl.com/ryanne I have taught videoblogging to teenagers, and most of them were quite bored by videoblogs and video diaries - even those that I thought were amazing or funny. I figured that this was because most video diaries and blogs are by adults, about adult lives. This is one of the reasons Anne Frank is so accessible to young people - she's young. And one of the reasons why the nightmarish fake video diary of Fred, which I linked to before, has been so phenomenally popular - he's a kid. Ditto the other fictional phenomenon, LonelyGirl15... Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 2 Feb 2010, at 08:48, Rupert Howe wrote: > I would recommend some of my own stuff: > http://twittervlog.tv/popular-videos/ > but i fear the language may be a little rich for 13 year olds. > > Ze Frank's The Show is a good place to start. Very creative to-camera > videoblogging - it ran from 2006-7. > > He defined the style that you can see a lot of on YouTube now - with > fake video diaries like Fred > http://www.youtube.com/user/Fred > > and videobloggers you see popping up in the Most Viewed section on > YouTube: > http://www.youtube.com/videos > > From this list, Mike Moon does a great regular video diary at the > moment: > http://vlog.mikemoon.net > > People like Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi did awesome video diary > work from 2004-6. > http://ryanedit.blogspot.com > http://michaelverdi.com > > I'll let others jump in with specific examples of videos because I > suddenly have to run to take my daughter to school! > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > On 2 Feb 2010, at 01:54, Christopher wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I got question. Just started a new WGBH Lab open call inspired by >> The Diary of Anne Frank. For this call for entries, we are asking >> for video diary entries, hence the connection to Anne Fank >> >> It's targeted to youth media makers 13 and up so I started a section >> called "video to inspire"...basically it's section for me share >> example videos of what we might be looking for but also so show >> methods that kids might be able to express themselves via video. >> >> can you all suggest some good examples out the video blogging >> community that I could link to or embed? >> >> Let me know. >> >> Chris >> The WGBH Lab >> e-mail: chris_hasti...@wgbh.org >> >> >> > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
