I’m no expert really (note lack of videos by me on this site!), but I am quite a good researcher and this post should serve as a decent sign-posting intro to good video blogging tips and tools 🙂
This is the best all round guide I know of:
https://makeinternettv.org/
Another useful resource is:
https://www.ourvideo.org/
Some free software projects worth investigating:
https://blog.plumi.org/ (plone)
https://plone4artists.org/ (plone)
https://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge (drupal)
https://showinabox.tv/ (wordpress)
Networks to get involved with/ places to find people to help:
https://transmission.cc/
https://shootingpeople.org/
https://www.talentcircle.org/
https://mandy.com/
Places to upload your videos:
https://www.vimeo.com/
https://blip.tv/
(those are the two most film maker people I know use)
(one of them lets you automatically add them to https://www.archive.org
which is a good idea)
(and, of course, you should upload to youtube too – where the biggest
audience is)
https://qik.com is cool because it always people to send video to the web straight from their phones https://bestbefore.tv/2008/11/videoboo-simple-video-upload/ does a similar thing to qik but is on your computer and lets people interview
themselves which is pretty nifty.
My two favourite online video shows:
https://peakmoment.tv/
https://submedia.tv/
A cross of those shows would be absolutely fantastic (i.e. the postive
content of Peak Moment in the edgy and funny style of SubMedia)
And my friend Vinay’s take on How Not To Do Video:
https://blip.tv/file/1685403
See also these docs:
how_to_make_good_activist_videos.pdf
video-activism-resources.rtf
And perhaps check out these books:
[amtap book:isbn=0745317707]
[amtap book:isbn=0470037881]
[amtap book:isbn=0745324126]
[amtap book:isbn=0240808312]
[amtap book:isbn=0240810295]
[amtap book:isbn=0321429176]
[amtap book:isbn=0471971774]
[amtap book:isbn=0240809351]
What have I missed?
PS thanks to Viv Gooding (who ran the build of Ben Law‘s house, incidentally) for asking me about this stuff whilst I was at Embercombe (the text above is basically an e-mail I sent him), and to tav too (his recent post on becoming a film maker prompted me to whack this info up here 🙂 )
Thanks Josef!!
makeinternettv.org in particular is really nicely produced!
What have you missed? Well, one really important thing is to make sure you have a nice and easy “download” link so that ordinary people can put your video on a USB stick, plug it into their USB-ready TV or set-top box and just watch it. It’s much nicer to watch videos on TV than on a monitor. It’s not too hard with blip.tv, but I think vimeo makes it a bit of a pain to find the download link.
The other thing is format conversion, I guess. I’m no expert either, so I guess there’s something nicer than ffmpeg2theora out there by now.
Hi United,
Hey we’re tickled to be on the list of your top two video sites — that is way cool. Given your comment on making Peak Moment more edgy like submedia, I glanced at the homepage default video on submedia.tv. I’m no video analyst, though I sure see influences of modern music and fast-change video clips (not to mention the ubiquitous violence, though I didn’t catch the humor in this brief piece).
My question to you, and I mean it seriously and hope you’ll give some thought to it: How would you suggest we might change Peak Moment videos in the direction you have in mind? What would help the content stick with viewers (i.e., my primary intent is not entertainment but serious stuff about our future, but I’m okay wrapping it with some entertainment if it helps the message get through and stick in peoples’ minds)? Said a more extreme way: If you had to deliver information that might save somebody’s life, how would you package it?
Let me add that the above assumes few constraints for producing the videos. Our real-life constraints are that we’re a two-person production team, the videographer is also the video editor, AND we produce them as half-hour shows for cableacasting on community access TV, AND we produce them every two weeks. AND we have no foundation or grant funding.
I don’t want your thoughts to be bound by these constraints, but wanted you to know anyway.
Looking forward~
Janaia
janaia@peakmoment.tv
This looks like a nice guide to Vimeo:
Part 1
https://practice.ie/blogs/heather/why-vimeo-best-place-artists-share-video-part-1
Part 2
https://practice.ie/blogs/heather/making-good-artist-video-vimeo-part-2