OVE Project One: What is Online Video
My video:
What is this video about: Quick short video and a new take on the selfie. This innovative selfie style by playing around with the phone camera in an attempt to create optical illusions.
- Why I like it: The content is not much it’s basically a selfie, but it’s a really clever way to “edit” scenes even though the video is a uninterrupted shot and you assume you know what’s coming, but anything can happen.
- What I like about it: It breaks up the video without actually editing the video. And it allows viewer to anticipate for the next scene that is coming up I.e.: the next Kardashian sister, the next location the girl is in.
- Duration: So Vine forces you a 6 sec format because it make it easy and so simple to post a video. Just like Twitter forces you to use a 140 characters message. It’s quick and everybody understand how it works ( vs/ why you should use it)
You don’ t need to choose among filters, length or anything that would make your user experience more complicated.
- Accessibility: Mobile accessibility as vine has an app and it is allowing people to access these micro video anywhere anytime.
- Why is it suited as an online video rather than for traditional video aka TV: Like I mention above, the duration of the video is not suited for tv. Content as well, you can’t show a 6 second video of a person doing a selfie as on tv, it cant even pull off as an Ad. It does not explain anything, except where they are and how they look like thats why online platforms like vine, youtube or snapchat is great for these type of content. During last week’s mind mapping my group discussed that online videos have no boundaries only the ones the streaming platform set. Hence, these type of videos are better suited for online.
- Production: All you need is your phone and yourself. No big budget, production crew etc.
- Quality: It’s short and sweet and it goes straight to the point. However it can’t compare to a well produced tutorial video or etc. as production value and skills are nil.
- Audience: Looking at the video, i would say the video is meant for a younger audience. Again, the duration really short and with all tech savvy youngsters like us, we all share videos over text message and if it was too long,we wouldn’t share it. These micro video have a social component – quick to share and view.
- Style of video: Breaking up scenes with significant visual pauses without having to cut it up.
Focus: Technique of content