Main example of vlog website YouTube
They are short video diaries and homemade reality shows
Vlogs can be anything from something serious to comedy and these vloggers are using the power of cheap online technology to show their videos to the world. The internet provides this perfect environment for vloggers as the internet reach is extremeley large. Ammature filmmakers can use vlogs as a way to get their films on show in the hope some professional filmmaker may watch their work and like it. People you make these vlogs can comments from viewers which can help to know if their work is a success. This can also be done by looking at the number of views you have had.
Vlogging has become popular because of cheap:
Cameras
Editing programs
Simple software
Fast broadband connections
People are interested in watching vlogs as they are realistic and down to earth made by everyday people. The vlog website provides interactivity and proliferation.
Vlogging is the convergence of the internet and television
Insitutions are now using vlogs as a way to find quality filmmakers to help them make real films. YouTube along with 20th Century Fox were offering for the winner and friend to travel to Philadelphia, USA to shoot a big budegt Rocky montage, to enter you had to make your own budget Rocky Balboa tribute. This meant that wannabe filmmakers had a chance to get a taste of filming a high budget short movie and 20th Century Fox could advertsie Rocky Balboa further.
A Vlog from YouTube
‘Charles Has a Licking Problem’
It is a 55 second video of a selection of clips of this dog called Charles who has a licking problem and can’t stop licking the air around him with his big tongue. The person who made this vlog also made a song with lyrics and a beat especially for the vlog. This vlog accommodates dog lovers, comedy and music. This vlog is a good example of how random and fun vlogs can be yet with some personal aspect- his dog.
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