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
>
>
>
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