YouTube research documentary; ‘YouTube: what’s the fascination?’

Here you will find my final documentary.

Now, I had a little bit of trouble with this, as when I came to upload my final version of it, my laptop died on me and so I could not access any of my work and I did not make any back-up copies at all – BIG MISTAKE.

Therefore, I had literally one day, well less, but the time I had before midnight tonight to create this video. So this is what I created. I had no content this morning, no bare bones editing done, I had to start from scratch.

The focus of my documentary was on the idea of YouTube becoming a fascination; the idea that people are so fascinated with the site that they choose to participate and get involved. I have featured user opinions throughout the documentary because rather than just having all theory, I wanted the ideas and opinions of actual users to be heard and so this is why I chose to do it this way.

Also, you will note that there is no narration on my documentary, and this is because I find narration off-putting as a viewer; also, it gets done far too often, everybody uses narration and I wanted to convey my message in a different way. This is why I chose to use quotes coupled with videos because the audience could identify who was saying what rather than it being just a voice over the top of some irrelevant moving image – the voice, most probably would have been me.

Bibliography

Videos

BIGBROTHERUKFAN. (2007). Big Brother UK Opening Titles – All Series’ (Merged). [Online video]. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWQhKx0xkWk&feature=PlayList&p=BC6A88337FD252A1&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=15. [Accessed on: 7/04/10].

CHELSEIBABY17. (2008). “Swing” By Savage Feat. Soulja Boy(ChelSei & KenDra Dancing). [Online video]. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwEzEqRthK4. [Accessed on: 7/04/10].

KZHINES. (2009). Anonymity Project: The PostSecret Effect. [Online video]. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWt5oswXarE. [Accessed on 7/04/10].

NELSONNATHANIELJR. (2008). Nelson dancing to Single. [Online video]. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Vccik-wkM&feature=related. [Accessed on: 7/04/10].

ZELDAXLOVE64. (2009). Me Singing “One Time” by Justin Bieber. [Online video].  Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsO8EvME8q4. [Accessed on: 7/04/10].

99GUITARGIRL99. (2007). Hey There Delilah (cover) – Plain White T’s. [Online video]. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfzW7w5D8uY&feature=PlayList&p=CA8DE48F191DE519&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=1. [Accessed on: 7/04/10].

99GUITARGIRL99. (2008). Rihanna – Umbrella (cover). [Online video]. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1qwwmAoHws. [Acessed on: 7/04/10].

Music

Pianio Music – Jon Ernst

Secondary Research

JOHN C. DVORAK. (2006). Missing the point about YouTube. MarketWatch. Weblog. 10th Aug. Available from: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-people-are-missing-the-point-about-youtube. [Accessed on: 18/11/09].

JOHN HARTLEY. Youtube, Digital Literacy and the Growth of Knowledge. [Online]. Available from: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/Conference/Conference_Papers_Keep_them_here/media@lseHartleyconferencepaper2008.pdf. [Accessed on 07/11/09].

JOHN HARTLEY. Youtube, Digital Literacy and the Growth of Knowledge. [Online]. Available from: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/Conference/Conference_Papers_Keep_them_here/media@lseHartleyconferencepaper2008.pdf. [Accessed on 07/11/09].

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