Wow......
I have been dealing with all these thoughts lately. I was kind of
bummed since I rarelly have a comment to my posts.
So, ok, bare with me for a moment.
I started this because I love new media, I love film, moving images
and telling stories. There is not doubt a big pleasure in the creative
process, I enjoy experimenting and learning along the way. This is a
great payback for the time I put on my postings... but I have to be
honest, I want to communicate and I want people to respond. I want
people to like what I do and I want them to let me know.
Shit,... am I beeing egocentric, narcissistic? I've been doing art all
my life and always found difficult my two sides. For one I want to do
my art just because I love it, because is a theraphy, because I go to
another world while I am doing it, because I need it to survive... but
on the other side that is not enough. I want people to see it, I want
to share it with them, I want to know what they think... is that wrong?.
So, often lately I discover myself thinking of what kind of vlogs
should I do to get into the "list" of most watched, "the in crowd",
the "known guys" instead of just what do i want to tell that day...
and that makes me sad, and I feel bad, like I am not being honest with
my art... it feels rotten.
I read your comment jadelr21. I am a fun of "Chassing windmills".
Remember I sent you an email. I have your videos in my iPod, so I
guess that should mean I really like them, and it dazzles me what you
say about not having too many comments... I think what you are doing
is awesome... so what's going on?
What kind of people are watching videos?
What kind of content is succesfull?
Should I just concentrate on doing my stuff instead of worring about hits?
Where am I going with all this?
Boy... am I a mess!!!!
Sorry about the long post. Ey, how do I know how many people download
my videos?
Thanks.
Escorial
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Randolfe Wicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Comments aren't too much of a guide since many people get only one
comment per 500 views. That is a figure that gives me the shivers.
>
> One of the problems with getting "connected" to viewers is getting
them to watch in the first place. I put up a vlog that was an
exquisite mixture of people lighting each others candles in church
while classical flute music played. I'm not even a classical music
fan and I've always considered that footage to be among the best I
ever shot. (It was filmed in 1991.)
>
> I labeled it "Candlelight, Music and Lost Love". The text didn't
help since I described it as "a mass funeral music video". It got
only 11 views in three or four days.
>
> Other footage from the same memorial service for people with AIDS
"Every Balloon is A person. Lost Traditions of mourning" got about 50
views the first day. That kept it around #6 on Blip's most watched
list all day Friday, World AIDS Day. Then, for reasons I don't
understand, it got over a hundred hits the next day and quickly hit
200 views.
>
> I think some of these videos get passed around to "interested
groups". My "Waging War on Death" featured the founder of The
Immortality Institute just giving the introductory address at the
first Immortalist Conference in Atlanta. It got over a hundred hits a
day and now has gotten 600 or 700 hits which makes it my most
successful video. I know that was passed around in Longevity
Newsletters, Transhumanist discussion lists, etc.
>
> I think you slowly build name recognition through your vlogs.
People come to know what your stuff is like. Then they either watch
or just skip you when they see you have a new vlog.
>
> Having a consistent theme helps also. "Drinking With Bob" comes to
mind. You see that title and his subject. You know you're going to
get a minute and half rant on the subject. He is very widely watched.
He has a perfect formula.
>
> I have forty or fifty hours of great video material I filmed all
summer at street fairs. Before I got into vlogging, I thought I would
do a documentary on street fairs and people who set up booths to sell
art, merchandise or ideas. The subject matter is very varied.
However, I'm thinking about starting a series of vlogs with the
subject matter ("Selling Sunglass") followed with the line "Street
Fair Project". After about ten or twelve vlogs, I should be able to
tell if the theme "street fair project" has gathered a following.
>
>
> Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
>
> Videographer, Writer, Activist
> Advisor: The Immortality Institute
> Hoboken, NJ
> http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/
> 201-656-3280
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jadelr21
> To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:15 PM
> Subject: [videoblogging] Re: That perfect moment...
>
>
> I know exactly what you mean.
> I find that the episodes of our show ("Chasing Windmills") that we are
> in love with rarely get the attention that our lesser episodes get.
> This always produces a strange feeling. The night before we post we
> look at the finished episode and every once in a while, when
> everything just seems to fall into place, we are in awe of ourselves.
> The episode is cool, it has many levels to it, the soundtrack really
> adds another diomension to it, the shots are interesting, etc... We
> post, and the next day we barely get a comment. Yet other episodes,
> which we never totally fall in love with (this is most of them)
> because we don't feel that what we wanted to communicate really came
> across, or the angles and the images just seem flat, those really
> resonate with people.
> You just never know.
>
> jadelr
> http://chasingmills.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Randolfe Wicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I have had that experience. I had it twice, two times in a
> row. The amazing thing was one of those vlogs got 11 views while the
> other racked up 200 views in a couple days.
> >
> > Now, that means that two "magical" vlogs got wildly different
> receptions.
> >
> > That is really somewhat of a bummer. I would have said that the
> more popular one might have been "twice" as popular. I never expected
> it to be twenty times as popular.
> >
> >
> > Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
> >
> > Videographer, Writer, Activist
> > Advisor: The Immortality Institute
> > Hoboken, NJ
> > http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/
> > 201-656-3280
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Tim D
> > To: Videoblogging Group
> > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 9:22 PM
> > Subject: [videoblogging] That perfect moment...
> >
> >
> > I want to turn the page for a minute. Move away from the
technical
> > aspects of software and cameras and celebrity. Talk about the
> > organics of vlogging. Stick with me. Listen while I flow.
Have you
> > experienced that moment? You know the one I mean...when you've
> > finished editing a video, and it's perfect. You can just feel
that
> > it's exactly the way it needs to be. You don't want to touch
one more
> > millisecond of footage. Maybe you're editing film of an event
that
> > meant a great deal to you. Maybe you're making it for someone
else so
> > that they can experience what you did. Or maybe you're just
> > documenting a memory that you can watch whenever you need a
laugh...or
> > a cry. A smile curves your lips. You find yourself watching
it over
> > and over again. The sound track is right, the cuts are right.
> > Everything is right. Everything comes together, like vlog
Nirvana.
> > How does it feel for you? Is it Physical? Emotional? Both?
Have
> > you experienced it?
> >
> > I have. It rocks.
> >
> > Tim
> > --
> > realitysandwich.typepad.com
> > wearethemedia.com
> >
> >
> >
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