Video Blogging
Monday, July 26th, 2010Increasingly bloggers are moving to video based blogs (vLogs) and leaving the text based blogs behind
As a videomakers, you have a tremendous advantage. As the scripted word spirals round the bloghole, The access to HD camcorders recording devices means that this is a medium that could be used effectively in an educational setting or for marketing or as many do diary of every day life
Video on the Internet does two things it puts people on equal footing versus the top-down communication of broadcast media and it allows for direct talkback from the audience.Start with a punchy script-every line should make a point, or at the very least set the tone for the point to come a line later, Trim your script to remove redundancies it’s better to write a two minute script that people watch than a ten minute one that gets turned oft two minutes in, When you print your script, use a large, double-line spaced layout with the right margin set about two thirds of the way across the page.
This is almost unobtrusive when you’re reading a book, but incredibly distracting when you’re trying to read lines of dialogue aloud. (more…)