Apr 26, 2007
vlogumentary
What is a vlogumentary? I see it as an audiovisual (AV) documentary that uses a blog structure or (CMS) Content Management System. It has the following properties:
1. The predominating medium is video and audio in varying forms.
2. The blog is created for the duration of the documentary production and is therefore set up around a particular intent with a completion date.
3. The concept of a blog being chronological and set around the latest post is important but also the blog as an archive is crucial. This means the access to the rest of the content through (searching, categories and archives) needs to be considered.
4. The posted AV content needs to be short in duration with a degree of self-containment, along with being part of a larger whole (the blog).
5. Possibly there could be links from one post to another to direct user engagement.
6. The blog is open to two-way conversation (via comments) with the participants in the documentary and others outside of the project.
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[...] I am underway with a prototype vlogumentary that begins to explore the first lot of criteria that emerged out of the first v-defunct prototype. The objective is to follow my nose a bit. The video clips are explorations of the theme ‘train travel’ and are influenced by a poetic approach. The poetic angle provides plenty of room to explore a number of varying types of form that utilise spatial montage and interactivity. I am not sure where it is all going but overall the aim is to create a broader sense or experience of train travel through a series of small video responses. Initially the links across these clip is mostly about making connections to other permalinks or posts. [...]