Hey All! :D Hope everyone's well and in good spirits. I haven't been around the email group, but I've been on the scene this whole time. Actually, recently, I had the pleasure of running into Jay Dedman unexpectedly @ Burp Castle haha, Great bonus to my day. :D
Anyway.. I recently bought a camera that connects to your computer via USB and fits in your pocket. I already had an HD camera, but I wanted something for run-n-gun. My goal was to achieve daily video output via filming at least 5 upload-worthy segments each week, or at least in one day, so I could release them during the week. What I found was that depending on what your style is, those cameras can hold a ton of footage. If your style is to run the camera and hope something happens, you won't get much. If your style is to recognize potential moments and be prepared, what you end up with is a bunch of snippets that amount to more footage than you needed for that week. Actually, I should back up here. Video is how I express myself. It's my hobby as well as what I do for money. When I'm not creating video for a client, I'm creating video for myself.. because this is what I do. If this were a business application, it wouldn't matter how much I shoot, because it would all be funneled into the allocated release date and TRT of the production and anything that's "excess" would be discarded... Except, I don't shoot video to discard it. I shoot video to express it. I shoot to share, because I was already there. I know what happened. I experienced it already. I've been putting video online for the last three years because I want other people to be able to experience (as much as they're able to) what I've experienced, vicariously. So my goal is to release the material that I shoot... not shoot enough for coverage so that I can make my minimum requirement for my show(s). The 'problem' is that my run-n-gun camera has made me "too efficient" in creating videos that I'd like to release. My goal of having a daily video output has been far surpassed, and now I'm considering what I want to do with my "excess" footage. The solution I've arrived at with the help of brainstorming with friends that follow my feed(s) is to dump all my footage to a host (in my case, blip.tv) and only release special episodes and/or compilation/explanatory videos to my blog with links to my blip shows for the people that actually feel interested in watching the "raw material". The reason I think this is the way to go is that I've become bogged down in releasing episodes of video that I shot two weeks (14 days) ago. The way around this backlog, IMO is to shoot as much video as I want, dump it to my host, figure out some sort of representative video that I want to create for my blog's RSS feed, give people an idea of what's going on over at the host and link them in case they're interested in checking it out. Does this make sense? :) I'm going to read back through the group and find out if people are even still talking about issues like this. Y'all might not be, haha In which case, disregard this note. :) Technology has improved to the point where we can effortlessly output as much material as we like or as much as we are able to produce. I think we're facing a new issue of "How much SHOULD I output?". I've seen too much footage hit the cutting room floor and eventually the tape erasure bins from when I used to edit NYC news to throw away footage that I've shot that might mean something to myself or someone else. At the same time, I don't want to harp on one topic that I filmed two weeks ago for an entire month, because I'm trying to output only 1-3 episodes per day. If anybody has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. I'll read back to see if there are any recent threads I can contribute to. Cheers! :D ~ Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com/
