--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/17/05, Randolfe Wicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't understand the need to "strictly define" videoblogging except to > > separate individually (or collectively) produced "independent" video from > > advertising trailers promoting a commercial product (movie trailers, etc.) > > The independence of unfettered personal expression is key to defining > > vlogging in my mind. > > > > And that is where it should stay, in your mind.
Untested in peer review, not competing against other models, evolving slowly if at all. Disapearing should Randolfe not reach immortality. -- Enric > There are videoblogs that do not rely on personal expression. > MediaMatters. Crooks and Liars. ScienCentral. > There are many genres of videoblogs. > > By the way, Sciencentral is great. I'm not sure if it's been mentioned > before here. > http://www.sciencentral.com/ > http://www.sciencentral.com/feed.rss (no enclosures, just excerpts) > > AQ > google.com > > > Randolfe (Randy) Wicker > > http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > *From:* Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > *To:* videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > *Sent:* Saturday, December 17, 2005 7:57 AM > > *Subject:* [videoblogging] Define Videoblogging > > > > There's been a idea that has been promoted to not define > > Videoblogging. That it is too soon, that defining it will lock it > > down and constrain it, and so on. The error is that a model, > > definition, thesis is required to test if something is viable. You > > don't discover something by not applying a model to it, but by testing > > if a proposed model accurately describes the item in question. > > > > The video projects that are interesting and successful whether the > > highly structured Rocket Boom or loosely structured Carp Caviar, have > > a understandable structure. Experimental films have existed since > > Edison and others invented the technology of filmmaking. But it > > became a vibrant media once Griffith found and clearly displayed the > > 60-120 minute, three act model in "Birth of a Nation". Within that > > clear models of genres and forms -- the science fiction, crime (with > > subgenre of noire), romance (subgenres of romantic-comedy, etc.), > > comedy, etc. sub-models --- resolved into modes of film expression. > > > > It is a mistake to narrowly define an art form. To say that > > videoblogging is just personal diaries or citizen journalism or > > another type of genre expression. This is like saying film is > > adventure. It may be that adventure (or romantic or crime) films are > > the most prevalent genres, but they are not the only genres that can > > exist and are interesting. It is the form of a duration around 90 > > minutes with three acts that does define the cinematic form. And it > > is a video with blogging capability that may be the correct model that > > different genres of videoblogging exist in. That model may be > > incomplete or innacurate, but it should be proposed and tested against > > competing models until the correct model is determined. Saying that > > no model should be tested is quite possibly a recipe for floundering > > and stagnation. > > > > -- Enric > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > > > - Visit your group "videoblogging<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging>" > > on the web. > > > > - To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > - Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2jUsvC/tzNLAA/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/
