Week 9: MediaShift (2008). “Five videoblogs that do it right” at http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/02/best_use_of_the_medium5_videob.html
After checking out this reading the immediate thought was
‘Youtube’. Youtube contains a lot of peoples’ personal videos, seemingly
because they don’t know how to produce blogs/vblogs.
The MediaShift vblogs were very amusing and slightly. For
anyone who didn’t see this on Mobuzz TV, have a peep: http://www.mobuzz.tv/newsroom/eng/how_to_skip_a_class
Mobuzz TV and Rocket Boom were my favourites because they combined news and humour. For example, Rocket Boom mentioned these new sandwich bags that had green spots on them – when you put a sandwich in the bag made it look mouldy. (http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_sep_18/)
It makes the amateur videos made for Youtube look… well…
amateur. I suppose this is where the different definitions of video blogs or
vlogs comes in. For example, this video on Youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZOUXfhfdgM
– is done quite tastefully. It is more like what you see on MobuzzTV. It has a
beginning, a middle and an end.
Whereas this video on Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeBbaY8SSuk&feature=related,
is just a random film. I would like to pose the question, if the video doesn’t
have a particular point, what does that make it?
To quote the reading, ‘Are they blogs that incorporate
video? Or video accompanied by blogging? Are they video podcasts?’
If the video is a random clip on Youtube, does that make it
‘less’ a video than say Wine Library TV or Ask a Ninja because they are
regular? Maybe this is just the definition between online TV and a vlog.
