--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, jean_poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > here's a piece I wrote for a street press mag recently, trying to > encourage some more cross-over and/or dialogue between the quite > vibrant VJ & videoblogging scenes... am sending to both the eyecandy > & videoblogging lists too, as well as posting at a few forum sites, > and up@ www.skynoise.net so we'll see if it generates some more cross- > fertilising? > jp > > Open Call to Video Bloggers & VJs : Get Jiggy > Despite all the creative aspirations and technical skills they share, > there's surprisingly little overlap between the huge populations of > VJs & video bloggers. > > Nurturing mutual status as pixel underdogs, both VJs & video bloggers > are adept at dealing with low or non-existent budgets, and both > champion storytelling and/or aesthetics and visual ideas over > production values. That's not to say production values are ignored - > in fact, production values probably tie up more than their fair share > of discussion time in either community, but a key defining aspect of > being a VJ or videoblogger is the joy of just of being able to get > those pixels out there. > > While all this pre-supposes you have compelling video / stories / > pixels to begin with, at least the current state of video play helps > level the media playing field to some degree. And the current > expansion of mobile video ( phones, PSP, video iPods & many other > handhelds ), continues this window of opportunity for bedroom > pixelists. And to think of a hybrid army of these pixelists, loaded > up with the combined skillsets of the VJ & VideoBlogging massive, is > to imagine a continually more diverse and decentralised media. So > let's bring it on. > > What can Video Bloggers learn from VJs? > VJs know how to move pixels in real-time. Whether responding to > music, or creating live audiovisual pieces, VJs are at home using > real-time editing tools, allowing easy compositing, layering, > sequencing and effects on the fly. Aside from live performance > though, the 'instrumentness' of these real-time tools means they are > also very effective and flexible video production tools. Creativity > can be given a new leash when freed from the constraints of the > rendering timeline, and levels of complexity can be explored > spontaneously that would take a long time to build up to with > traditional video editing software. And VJ software is especially > suited to online video publishers, because both VJs & VideoBloggers > tend to use 320 x 240 sized clips ( the bloggers because it's a > default multimedia size compromise for bandwidth concerns, the VJs > because it's a compromise between resolution and allowing the > speediest real-time triggering and manipulation). > > VJs also have extensive knowledge about how to get projections > happening, whether on a screen in a club, theatre, projecting from a > rooftop, mobile van, shopping trolley, or even the side of a train. > This is a very useful amount of technical knowledge to tap into, but > should also encourage online publishers to think more about where > their work can be shown offline - where can video be seen? Be shown? > Where can stories be told? Where can your colours be projected? > > VJs also know a lot about codecs, and the ways video is compressed to > create the best combination of image quality and speed of playback > and 'scrubbing' ( moving a file backwards and forwards on a timeline > smoothly ). And a thing or two about transitions, visual > storytelling, the power of the image, the use by date of the image, > effects ( and their ever shrinking use by dates), automated processes > ( such as visual manipulation by audio analysis ), video signal > routing, capturing, sampling and much much more. > > Key VJ community resources & forums : > www.vjforums.com, www.audiovisualizers.com & www.vjcentral.com > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eyecandy ( mailing list with thousands > of VJs ) > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/0xff ( another good > mailing list ) > > What can VJs learn from Video Bloggers? > Videobloggers ( also known as vloggers) know the online networks > inside out, and know the values and pleasures of automated publishing > - getting your work out there in appropriate formats, having it > automatically archived and linked to from a main page, having it > easily cross referenced or quoted and having interested audiences > automatically notified when it is published. All of which help make > any particularly worthy video rise on it's merits rather than > marketing budget ( netheads love > calling this a 'meritocracy' ). VideoBloggers also know a lot about > compression codecs ( though more focussed on image quality and > shrinking file size than clip triggering speed), about getting work > out to as many different platforms as possible, about storytelling, > about audiences, about online promotion, about embedding hyperlinks > and much much more. > > Of course, many VJs are already posting videos online, but few are > harnessing the benefits and play available with networked publishing. > VJ Falk ( Berlin ) (www.prototypen.com/blog/falk ) continues to clock > sporadic VJ created pieces, vjtorrents.com provides 'BitTorrent and > RSS feeds to showcase high quality videos of live video mixing from > around the world' and VJ Bertranol ( France ) http://mjukma.free.fr > posts occasional live mixes and has also created (free) software > allowing easy publishing of video within a blog / web-publishing > system. Hollywood is catching on though - Clerks Director Kevin Smith > has a videoblog ( www.clerks2.com) and Peter Jackson provides a King > Kong video diary ( www.kongisking.net/kong2005/proddiary ) - but > there is still time to define your niche. Time to carve out a global > audience auto-downloading your every (bedroom produced ) episode to > their computers, handhelds or mobile phones. > > Key VideoBlogger community resources & forums : > www.videoblogging.info > www.freevlog.org ( step-by-step guide to setting up a free videoblog) > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ ( mailing list with a > thousand Videobloggers ) > > > > jean poole > www.skynoise.net >
VJ Falk gives a thoughtful response to Jean Poole's "Open Call for Collaboration between VJ&Videobloggers" ( http://www.skynoise.net/2005/10/27/open-call-to-video-bloggers-vjs-ge... ) on the need for content in vjblogging to challenge TV and Cinema: http://www.prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/001356.html -- Enric ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
