Video documentary
February 21, 2010
What do I want to achieve?
- I’d like to convey my research findings to people
- I’d like to create a documentary that informs people about the growing popularity of YouTube as a site of participatory media and to convey what actual YouTube users think of the sites success and reasons why they use YouTube in the way they do
How will I achieve what I want to?
- By interacting with users through YouTube, I am able to ask them questions about their content on YouTube and what their reasons are for participating through YouTube
- By adapting users feedback in an interesting way, be it through screen capture or through video responses they send me*
* (asking users to send me video responses to my questions provides an interesting way to convey my intended message, rather than just seeing a message on a screen)
- By using extracts from other YouTube videos it will enable me to convey what I mean through words as well as visual effects as I can edit them as I wish to engage the audience
How will I set my video documentary out?
Introduction – this is where I will set out what I have tried to find out and what the documentary is going to be about
- Background – YouTube videos all layered together
- Audio – voice-over to introduce the documentary
Content will be responses to what I want to find out, mainly video responses form YouTube users about their own experiences and their own reasons for using YouTube.
Getting them to send their video responses so that I can use them in my own video enables a better use of audio-visual tools for the audience.
I will have user responses contrasted against theorists points of view on YouTube as a site of participatory culture and why people are using the site.
I like the idea of getting video responses – hope you can get the right stuff in time though.
Yeah, it’s quite a nice idea I feel.
Like you say though, this all depends on getting the right stuff and content to use. If not, I can always use the e-mail replies I have along with the users videos so that the audience know who is saying what in the documentary, and maybe have users’ points of views contrasted with that of theorists’ points of views, and maybe use a split screen effect?