Now what’s so special about Vlogging?
Never before it was that easy to express oneself through audiovisual media and to be able to address an audience worldwide:
- It is direct and it is personal. It’s fascinating to follow a maker in the process of making, especially when that maker is a strong personality. It can be very addictive indeed to follow the developments of a particular vlogger.
- There’s the ultimate freedom of expression – you can say what you want, the way you want it to be told and if it’s good people will subscribe and ‘stay’ with you.
- People can comment directly to what you’ve made (all vlogs have comment functions) – there’s a lot of interaction between the content maker and his audience.
- People deeplink to vlogs, they place tags, they place trackbacks etc. Vlogs can go viral – suddenly a vlogger becomes hot.
- All files are there to stay, people can watch on demand, whenever they want, wherever they are.
- The laws of TV making do not necessarily apply to the art of vlogging: The freedom of expression, the independence of the content makers, the personal driven approach; all this leads us towards new forms and narratives.
- Technical advantages: Producing costs are low (cheap camera’s, cheap editing programs and computers etc.), bandwidth is growing rapidly (with decreasing costs), there’s free hosting on many sites, free adjustable weblog templates, there’s the ability of RSS subscriptions with enclosures (viewers receive the actual movie files on their desktop / iPod or any other device) etc.
- The Vlogosphere; A thriving, productive and pioneering community of content-makers, software developers and theoreticians are working together in harmony to make this revolution come true.
- In addition to these profound trends and technical developments a substantial portion of the media consumers are tired of television as it is today; shallow talk shows, infantile games and low humour. Television is often not genuine any more, television became fake.
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Source: www.unitedvloggers.com