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
