Aye, this week we look at the wide world of video online. Again, it’s an introduction to ideas, rather than a comprehensive exploration, aimed to get you thinking about how you could approach or incorporate video with your work.
Understanding Video
Hopefully you covered decent ground about video in weeks 1-3. Here are a few links especially relevant to the online world:
- codecs and compression
- deinterlacing video from DV cameras ( http://www.100fps.com/ )
- subscription ( itunes, fireAnt, Miro )
- blogging / video blogging ( what can online videomakers learn from bloggers? )
( Video blogging manifesto? )
- La Jetee as example of how writing and photographs can make a great film. What does this mean for how you present text and image online? What could it mean? ( youtube version )
Using the Network
For Research:
- blogs about video / editing / the latest software / hardware
http://mograph.net/board/index.php
http://ticklebooth.com
http://motionographer.com
http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog
http://www.selfreliantfilm.com
http://dekku.nofatclips.com
http://xplsv.tv
http://dvblog.org
http://www.askaninja.com
The del.icio.us.com social bookmarking service : and the tags video, editing, cinematography, video camera etc
TASK 1 : Find 3 video related blogs of relevance to your work, and create a link to a specific post from within each blog.
( ie not just a link to their blog overall )
For Collaboration And Feedback:
- Open Source Cinema
- video blogging examples
- ABC Pool
- communities and networks – eg harnessing audiences within youtube / vimeo / blip.tv / videoblogging
For Production:
- skype interviews ( See http://bloggingheads.tv/ and also David Lynch’s Interview Project )
- remix?
See Illegal Art for a collection of curated videos which celebrate remixing and collage, and challenge notions of copyright
( see also DJ Food’s mammoth ‘Raiding the 20th century‘ audio mix which aims to catalogue the history of cut-up audio )
- second life interview series
- harnessing the audience ( eg star wars remake )
- data? Radiohead’s Data Melancholy
( other visualisations ) http://infosthetics.com/
- database art?Lev Manovich’s Soft Cinema
“Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees”
- Machinima?
( eg Make Love Not Warcraft )
- Interviews within games?
This Spartan Life
Talkbot.tv
Distribution
- mobile media
Economics
- bandwidth costs money
- bit torrent shares the bandwidth costs amongst those downloading, enabling independent producers to scale up to suit really large audiences, without needing very expensive bandwidth.
- Disney’s CEO, YouTube’s Founder, and Wired’s Editor Debate the Future of Monetizing Content
Technology
- custom embedding files to better control context ( using Quicktime code )
Task 2: Your blip.tv accounts
- update description / photo / links to blog. ( See ‘My Show’ eg http://blip.tv/prefs/details/ )
- Make image for blog sidebar, which advertises your blip.tv page. ( Insert image using text widget + HTML code for placing an image, and making an image a link )
- Enter Twitter details, so your Twitter account auto-updates when you publish a video or mp3. ( http://blip.tv/prefs/twitter/ ) ( Same is available for myspace and facebook etc in the distribution section )
- register blip account @ itunes if have an itunes account, which enables your ‘video podcast’ to be detected by itunes
( http://blip.tv/prefs/itunes/ )
Imagination?
Task 3 : Blog post – what are 5 possible video blogs you could create?
How might some of these take advantage of :
- portable recording devices, and easy spontaneous recording?
- production work you are already doing?
- your specialty areas of interest?
- your audience / networks / fans / friends
October 13, 2009 at 10:17 am |
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