Class assignment: humorous (?) video

Look, I was really feeling up the creek, not knowing what to do for this one. I mean, I know I have a sense of humor, but making a humorous video felt like it was way beyond my capabilities, so this is what I desperately put together--all done within the past 24 hours. Let's just say "I tried" and leave it at that--OK?

I had tremendous problems with some bits of sound clips coming out of nowhere. I think this may be due to the fact that I split clips up before extracting the audio--maybe if I had extracted the audio first it would have worked better.

At least for a beginner, these video clips--as short as they are--take a lot of time to make--a surprisingly large amount of time. How do people post these every day--or even every couple of days--and still have jobs/have lives?

And, please, won't somebody else in the class post one of their videos? I feel all alone out here!

Miles Adrian's essay on video blogs vs video in blogs

Did anyone else read this yet? If so, what did you think?

When I first signed up for this course, I imagined video blogs as perhaps being a forum where the blogger would post a video and the comments would consist of others responding to the posts with videos of their own--it was hard to imagine, I admit.

So this article struck a chord with me. I think that I am only at the point of making blogs with videos rather than making true video blogs--or, at least what Adrian would consider to be a video blog.

And I'd also LOVE to know how in the world he managed to put those links in that first video clip of his...

Class assignment: home video

This was also done using my "still" camera. The clip was taken in natural light in a Japanese restaurant on the lower East Side.

I've done a couple of other little videos for my vlog--one done with a regular digital video camera and yet another done with the still camera. The digital video camera certainly produces better quality videos but is not as convenient to carry around as my still camera. In these two other videos, I experimented with doing a sound track with Garage Band (my next job certainly won't be scoring soundtracks for movies) and with different ways of compressing the videos to show up best on the vlog. I couldn't get my iMovie to allow the expert settings Richard gave us in class, and after several experiments, I found that the default "web" settings produced the best video...

Class assignment: class video

This was made using my still camera--I had only one tiny little video clip of Richard and those classmates sitting closest to me at the end of class on Friday to work with. I took the picture of the clock in the lab the next day. I did the narration by talking into my PowerBook's built-in mic during the lunch break on Saturday.

getting the link working for videos

How can we get further instructions on how to link the uploaded videos to this blog? I will try using blip.tv but we were unable on Saturday to see the final linking process on blogger because the system was shut down. For now I have uploaded a test video to Archive.org but when the video is clicked on it goes to my ourmedia page without loading the video.
thanks!
alyson