Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Post-Vlog Blog.

This was a typical video project like I have done a thousand times before interms of the shooting and Editing experience. With the exception that I was the director writer and cast it was pretty mundane. The difference with the Vlog is in the final conversion from the program file to the compressed version. What I had thought was that there was no degeneration from copying and recopying the media when working with digital. What I had learned was that there are many different compression types etc. that tremendously effect the final result. My picture quality with the effects I had prescribed took a huge spill almost into the unrecognisable but not quite that bad. If I ever do this again Final Cut will be my program of choice. I enjoyed the process emensely. It opened my eyes to the creation of home-grown video's possibilities.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Barrack Obama Blog/Blog

I chose the Presidential candidate Barrack Obama. He is really playing his audience quite well. I really had very little factual information about this particular candidate previous to this blog entry. Except for the fact that he was a senator from Illinois and was an African American. I really hate politicians personally. I am a registered Republican, so I thought maybe I should check out what the competition is up to. And to no surprise the left-wing liberals are up to their same tricks with this Obama guy. His blog is arranged quite nicely though, he utilizes a rich photographic format and text with relevant stories filled with ideas about helping the unfortunate victims of Katrina, and with pictures of cute little kids. He is really flexing the race card to it’s full potential. In the first blog entry on his page he goes as far as to speak of Katrina’s victims, and display an accompanying photo of a very collegic looking white man. But technically it is well thought out. With video’s etc., he completes the full array of the internet’s options. He is reaching out to just about every demographic possible. Black, white, elderly, young, they are all present and accounted for by his team of publicists I'm sure.Good blog, but I see through his Political correctness like a sheet of celephane, do we really want to elect this guy?

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Viacom/DMCA?/Youtube

The Youtube phenomenon has sparked the interest of billions worldwide. I completely understand the amazing qualities of that particular video page and I know the down side of it. Viacom is a media giant but so is google the new owners of YouTube. I just hope for the sake of Viacom that they wise up. Anything online now a days is articulated by Google, the recent owners of YouTube. The copyright infringements can only go so far for the available media on YouTube. The typical amount of the media available for viewing is between 1 and 2 minutes and can vary up to 9 minutes usually. Technically there are grounds for infringement but we are not talking about entire episodes or collections of shows or films on their site. I honestly think they are doing more for promotion for the industry than cutting into the profits of these media giants. I honestly think that Murdoch and his fellow “Mr. Burns” of media have been running the industry for so long it scares the panties off of them to have even a little competition to disrupt their multibillion dollar harmony and will stop at nothing to get their cake back. It is really sad. The DMCA is a good tool to combat the use of illegal media, but who really cares. Give me a break, make your money Viacom and give the experience and the rights back to the people. This syndication billions crap has got to go. The internet is just another transformer in the robot war to dissolve the father media. Just like with Hollywood and TV back in the day. This time it’s TV’s turn, burn baby, burn!