Archives for July 2005
The Echo Chamber Project
Kent Bye is masterminding The Echo Chamber Project documenting the media buildup to the war in Iraq. He’s interviewed a lot of big media players and using a grassroots media approach to share this story. Go download it and stay tuned to his vlog.
Via [Eric Rice]
Published by Bre Pettis on July 29 .
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Reverse Motion Inspiration
If you’ve never thought of doing snazzy tricks in reverse videography, check out Sensei Studio’s work, and you will find your snazzy reverse videography trick inspiration.
Watch movie 5.4 min 22.7 MB
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Published by Bre Pettis on July 29 .
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Interview with Bre on We Are The Media
The folks over at Heads Off recently interviewed Bre Pettis to find out more about We Are The Media. Check it out and then go visit Serra and Mike’s creations at Heads Off.
via [Heads Off]
Published by Jennifer Rundle on July 28 .
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Moving Pictures: looking out / looking in
Moving Pictures: looking out / looking in "is a robust, tangible, multi-user system that invites young users to create, explore, manipulate and share video content with others. " It looks amazing and will be on display next month at Siggraph. Somebody get these kids a vlog!
Moving Pictures: looking out / looking in
(Via We Make Money Not Art)
Published by Joe Eastham on July 28 .
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Channel 102 - Teen Homicide
Today I discovered Channel 102, which is actually more like an online video station than a vlog. Channel 102 started in February and features several five-minute shows that are screened before a live audience each month. Audience members vote on their faves and the least popular videos are abandoned for more popular vids.
My favorite is Teen Homicide, which shows a lot of promise as a kitchy and low-fi dark comedy about teen detectives.
You can submit your own pilot episode to Channel 102 by sending them a MiniDV.
Please Note: This video and others at Channel 102 contain mature content.
Published by Jennifer Rundle on July 28 .
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Minnesota Stories: Local E-Democracy
Chuck Olsen at Minnesota Stories featured Steven Clift today, who hosted an International Symposium on Local E-Democracy.
The Symposium was designed to illustrate the importance of media, including vlogging, to Democracy. Ravi Singh, a guest speaker at this symposium, points out that 75 million people get their news online, and politicians that aren’t yet on the online bandwagon are in trouble. Although there is likely to be controversy around the topics of “Broadcasting” vs “Narrowcasting,” this is the start of an important discussion.
Tune in and expect to see dare-I-say-it Republicans joining in on the vlogging campaign trail. Kudos to John Edwards for being the first.
Via [Minnesota Stories]
Published by Jennifer Rundle on July 28 .
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Internet Archive Chages Video URL’s
Video blogs across the internet are suffering from many-a dead link. It looks like the Internet Archive (and obviously Ourmedia) has been doing some reconfiguration with some stuff, which has recently been causing problems for Vloggers trying to upload videos. But this new problem effects videos that have already been uploaded and linked on your video blog.
If when you posted your video, you linked to the URL that started with something that looks like this:
http://ia108026.us.archive.org/3/items/Your Name/Title.mov
then you probably wind up with a nice error message.
So, now all those people who have dead links need to go back into the Archive or Ourmedia and link to the URL that looks like this:
http://www.archive.org/download/Title_of_Post/Title.mov
I guess we all have learned our lesson as to which URL to link to from now on. Either way, it would have been nice to know that this was going to happen, or exactly which URL’s to link to
Steve Watkins does a nice job of explaining the situation in his post to the Video Blogging Yahoo Group
Published by Josh Leo on July 28 .
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Mailbox Movie-Making
The new edition of Make Magazine came out yesterday and they always have an article on media making. I made the $14 steadicam a few months ago and it works great! This month, Michael W. Dean writes an article on mailbox movie-making.
Here’s how it works:
-Script a movie: The best format for mailbox movies are interview documentaries.
-Troll the internet for folks with dv cameras who are willing to go shoot your movie.
-Give them cameraperson releases for them to sign and actor’s releases for the actors.
-Spend a lot of time on the phone being clear about what you want.
Michael W. Dean also gives a good tip on microphones. He recommends the Audio-Technica ATR-35S lavalier mic which can be had for about $30 on ebay.
So who’s going to be the first video-blogger to step up and make a mailbox movie?
Published by Bre Pettis on July 28 .
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Videobloggers Virtual Meetup
The videoblogging video conference for 2005.07.27 covered a wide range of topics including videoblogging tools and services, new features and issues with Quicktime 7, upcoming videoblogger events, more low-budget lighting solutions, videoblogging reviews and more.
A great new feature of the FlashMeeting video conferencing system shows the geographical location of each participant on a map. There is also a listing of the backchannel chat, participant list and shared urls.
Some highlights of the meeting include Eric Rice during one of the more passionate moments on videoblogging critics and Chris Ritke of 49Media translating a German language videoblogging article for the group.
These virtual meetups are a regular event on Saturday’s at noon PST and Tuesdays at 5pm PST. Special events are also broadcast, such as the upcoming Meet The Vloogers presentation on July 31st from the downtown San Francsco Apple store.
via [Apperceptions]
Published by Markus Sandy on July 27 .
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DV Guru - The place for all things DV
It looks like Weblogs Inc. is taking a bite out of the digital video pie and doing a pretty good job with it. DV Guru is a blog that covers all things that have to do with digital video. They have interviews with HD experts, reviews of new video software, news on newly released hardware, and even a Friday feature where they hilight a new film every week.
It still looks like they are slowly getting into the swing of things, but they do offer some great tips for making your video projects even better (we video bloggers take any free advice we can get!) If you are interested in the DV, this blog seems to be a great place to keep up to date with things. Maybe they will give a shout-out to video blogging one of these days.
Published by Josh Leo on July 27 .
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