Like a painting
This is my first video for Semanal, which is a site where the participants aim at making a video per week throughout the year:
I guess you already know Jay, Ryanne and Jeffrey who appear in the video. The woman speaking is Triny Prada, who is a columbian-french visual artist, working both with video and painting. I have not seen much of her work, but I am really intrigued by it, and I hope I can get to see more of it later on.
This video marks the beginning of my Semanal project, and I will explore Triny’s entry-point to the video further. Seeing the video as a painting, as material you can manipulate just like you manipulate colours, textures, brush techniques on the painting.
3 Days in Paris
In a few hours, I am taking the early flight from Copenhagen to Paris, where I will hang out with Jeffrey Taylor, Ryanne Hodson, Jay Dedman and others. I could not make it to Paris on Sunday for the vlog dinner, but I am sure that we will figure out things to do. Or - alternatively - not do.
I need this vacation, this time in a different environment. I have not wanted to bore you guys with the gory story of the last months, but there are some familiar issues that have taken their toll on me. I apologize for not posting more here, but this vlog has simply had a downgraded priority.
Now: Video evidence
The music is by Buckethead (Alektorophobia, from In Search Of The)
For these three days in paris (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) I will have three themes that will function as a framework::
Monday: Aesthetics
How important is the production value in videoblogging? How can we navigate through the different genres and standads?
How does the aesthetic point of view express itself in the Parisian way of life?
Tuesday: Ethics
With all these new tools within interactive media, do we not have a moral obligation to utilize these tools more? To “spread the word” and help ever more people to realize the power that they have?
What is the status of social consciousness in present Paris, present France?
Wednesday: Methods
What is the development of the methodology of videoblogging today? Do we have perhaps a wrong set of cases for best-practice?
Paris is a world city, on level with New York, London and Tokyo. How does this city cope with the ever evolving challenges? What methods do they use that maybe differ from these other mega-cities?
As expressed in the video, this trip is for me also a case of finding my passion for videoblogging again. It is not lost, but I need to renew it. Meeting other videobloggers will hopefully help. At least I know that Jay, Ryanne and Jeffrey, along with Loiez see videoblogging as much much more than yet another distribution channel for content formats that are already in existence.
A few rules for my filming these days:
* 10 second shots (inspired by Susans early videos)
* Notice the particulars.