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I always keep a few old videos lying around on the Internet Archive. Here’s one from my November trip to Canberra.
While the evilvlog glitterati drop poo pies on unsuspecting commoners from their ivory towers, we the people are shooting video and putting it on the Internet.
My Every frame has its purpose post got me thinking about how to produce video without my head influencing my editing decisions, so that the resulting video is a real snap shot of life or at least me without my videoblogging persona.
I have a few personal rules by which I videoblog, and one is that I use the same MiniDV tape over and over until it wears out, which forces me to be strict with the amount of footage I shoot, and how long I leave it before I edit. I also try not to keep track of what is where on the tape, which also helps enforce the “edit now” edict.
So I wrote a program to generate 10 completely random edit points, which I then used to log clips from my 60 minute work tape. For reference, although they’re totally useless to you, the random edits were:
- 25:08:00 for 39 seconds
- 39:53:00 for 34 seconds
- 33:37:00 for 57 seconds
- 55:41:00 for 27 seconds
- 21:46:00 for 34 seconds
- 08:55:00 for 7 seconds
- 26:01:00 for 44 seconds
- 42:48:00 for 48 seconds
- 17:15:00 for 6 seconds
- 34:41:00 for 19 seconds
There’s some interesting selections, including some footage from projects outside of my videoblogging, and I’ve masked the faces of the police who I shot (read: videoed) on Christmas day. Apart from that, I accepted everything that was selected by the random number generator, including the passer by saying “Keep an eye on the fascists, dude!”, which I so wanted to include in a vlog, but didn’t know how.
If you’re using the same recycled tape technique, then why not post a video of your own, using the same edit points as above, and tag it in mefeedia as randomedits.
The enclosed video is what I assume is the world’s first completely random computer generated videoblog post. Read into it what you will, because there certainly aint no narrative.
While making the eleventh day of Christmas video, I discovered a haunted egg.
Over the Christmas/New Year week, the neighbour decided to play his bass for about 7 days straight. I don’t mind the odd bit of loud thumping bass, but when he started playing along to latin dance for a few days, it began to piss me off. So how pleased I was that he suddenly switched to the old Sex Pistols classic.
I’m not a big fan of Christmas and New Year’s, in case you couldn’t tell, so I spent time at home with Singleton. He wasn’t particularly happy about it.
This video is part of a backlog from stumbling into the twelve days of Christmas for the last… ooh, twelve days or so. I just put together the first day of Christmas one afternoon because I had some spare footage I couldn’t think how to use, specifically the police and the posters, which I shot on Christmas day while walking around my local deserted area. Stupidly, that meant coming up with a new one each day, without realising how difficult the higher numbers were going to be. Anyway, what’s done is done. The amusing thing is, amongst all the video I spit out, especially all the what I think is interesting stuff, it took a parody of the twelve days of Christmas to bring in the next bunch of viewers. Yum, just in time to piss them off!
This coming week I’m editing a non-Internet project anyway, so the backlog will help keep the vlog active at least. I also have a full version of the twelve days, which I’ll post next month, once everyone has forgotten about it, and a few other interesting surprises over the next few weeks.
…my true love gave to me.
Quite a few people have emailed me saying they’ve been skipping videos in this series, because of course the numbers go up, so the higher the number, the more you get, less time to wait… oh, you get what I mean. Anyway, you probably shouldn’t skip any, because they each have their own little gems contained within, just like a Christmas present. 🙂 Think of it as my Chrissy present to the videoblogging community of 2005.