Sunday, October 21, 2007

WEB VIDEO AND THE WRITER

Check out the New York Times' new coverage, The Medium With television and the Internet converging at last, who's going to watch all this here-goes-nothing online video? Everything from political propaganda videos to pseudo-candid celebrity rants seems to expect an audience. "The Medium" will find, review and make sense of all those senseless new images: web video, viral video, user-driven video, custom interactive video, embedded video ads, web-based VOD, broadband television, diavlogs, vcasts, vlogs, video podcasts, mobisodes, webisodes, mashups and more.

Web video is an increasingly viable venue for professional writers. Writers can create voiceover scripts for web video produced by media companies, corporations or institutions. Or aggregate user-generated video and add editorial commentary. Or buy a videocamera and produce your own vlog or video podcast or webisodes...

Resources:
Slatev – new “online video magazine” from the ezine slate.com
web video conference info
Wine Library TV
Mario Unclogged A blog by chef Mario Batalli with serial video spots
Sample Real estate company using online video to enhance customer connection

Enjoy this music video about Writer's Block.

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