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“Hey Everybody!”
“Hey, this is Jared with Pick This Car…”
“Hey Walllnuts!”
etc, etc…
Three fine examples of the many introductions we of the youtube community use in each of our videos. The way we start our videos and gain the interest of thousands of random people out there. It’s the way that we motivate you to actually sit and watch all 5 minutes or so of the wonderful ramblings and blather we classify as interesting.
Why I don’t have a unique personal introduction such as this? I really can only think of one answer…I’m extremely lazy.
But an intro is simply one tiny detail to the whole picture of a video blog.
Let’s focus on what’s become of the video blog, or as the very hip and happening kids call it, a <b>vlog</b>.
Take regular blogging for instance…the great varieties of opinions of MILLIONS of people across the planet who want to make a point. Then mix in a few special effects, some fun music in the background, and get rid of the writer’s cramp…then, my friend, you’ve created a video blog.
Vlogging has hit it HUGE in only the past year or so. A great majority of all videos on web services such as youtube consist mainly of vlogs.
But, really, what’s happened to the vlog since it’s hit its mainstream?
One believes it has changed. Whether it’s drastic or minimal, that is up to you, the viewers/watchers/subscribers, to decide.
People are beginning, if not, have gotten slightly fed up with the simple blathering in front of a camera. Video blogging has a great deal of similarities to the regular entertainment industry. We’ve in fact seen it interrelate no thanks to the ever wonderful Miley Cyrus and that no name girl Mandy she hangs around with. I may have to borrow part of a bit from Kathy Griffin here, but I see these two lovebirds perhaps as the next Oprah and Gayle. Only keeping my fingers crossed for Lindsay and Samantha.
(Goodness I’m getting off topic already)
The great amount of viewers out there, as we’ve seen with ALL of the mainstream entertainment industries out there, are demanding a new form of edge. How can us vloggers really push the limits of our videos and earning true admiration for what we do?
I’ve only seen a transformation, a blossoming of my fellow video bloggers out there. I can remember watching videos from youtuber Dudeneedaeaseonup long before he had subscribers in the four figure mark. I remember the certain beginnings of other vloggers too, like PickThisCar and WalllOfWeird. (How coincidental that I quoted their intros in the beginning of this blog…go figure)
They haven’t entirely changed their spark, however. It’s almost in the delivery of what these people are trying to convey. The message they’re trying to get across.
In the beginnings of video blogging, people weren’t exactly sure what to do or how to deliver their thoughts. I certainly can agree to that in the very beginning of my videos. But now since this idea of showing our faces to the world and telling things as we see them has become this cool new thing everyone is after, we youtubers actually have gained an understanding of how to deliver.
Delivery is VITAL to all forms of communicating thoughts. Even verbalizing in an informal conversation, we all have particular ways of delivering thoughts with great reception…at least if one is slightly social.
Viewers are tired of seeing what is clearly someone sitting in a chair for close to ten minutes (since that’s the max limit on youtube) rambling about the politics in Iraq and why Bush is bad. Viewers want to be deceived that we aren’t rambling to them, when in fact we are. It’s almost a subconscious effect…viewers can realize the fact that we are rambling on and on about our thoughts perhaps on certain popular societal issues, but they don’t want to. Viewers want to be amused and not in the idiotic nonintellectual level most people tend to assume.
Youtube has become such a tightly knit community, people actually want to relate on very unique…what’s the word…stuff. And when I say stuff, I mean quite intellectually stimulating stuff.
It’s a revolution, my friends…smart comedy is the hot thing nowadays. Though, I wouldn’t classify all of video blogging in just smart comedy. There’s quite a bit more to the genre of vlogs. Vlogs can be based around ANY mood one is in…so it doesn’t necessarily mean everything is positive.
Video blogging certainly hasn’t died yet, it’s only going through a metamorphosis. One can say without a shadow of a doubt that vlogging will only continue to grow, and we’ll see a great amount of change in the process. So sit along for the ride, it’s gonna get pretty doggone interesting!
Well, the first thing most everyone who’s seen my blog thus far read my “About me” as wordpress called it. Well, I truthfully call that my first post…that’s pretty much the only way I could start off an entire blog about the interesting stories of my life and the things that make people so curious as to who I am as a human being.
So…this is really hard to move on from there….but, I guess I have to!
I’ve come to the realization that I’m the most heartsick person out there today…okay, so maybe I can’t guarantee that, but trust me, I challenge plenty of other people out there for being a huge sap. For god’s sake, you’re reading the blog of a 15 year old guy who actually is a fan of movies like Catch and Release, Elizabethtown, Love Actually, and plenty of other “chick flicks” out there.
I find it entertaining though that most males now-a-days totally alienate themselves from movies and television shows like that. As if they were ever to say they liked watching films like that, they’d automatically be classified as gay (which is a stupid prejudgment set by the wonderful stereotypes of society today).
But moving on, the point is I’m a total heartsick sap…I’ve only had one “love” and it was in 5th grade (does that count as like a true relationship? hah, I’m not too sure) She and I are still very good friends though, but knew that obviously wouldn’t work out. But ever since then, I’ve never found love in anyone (love as in a serious relationship). I don’t know…I don’t think it’s a big deal, but then again, I wish I could feel like a romantic, someone who can be charming and kind and polite and not come off as some ugly weirdo (which I’ve been told that way too many times before). I guess that’s the problem. My own self-conscience is what’s holding me back…but truthfully, people don’t give a damn about your self-conscience anymore…it’s all about looking like the celebrities in magazines and working out like it’s a religion.
Well, I’m not into that…I’m into writing, I’m into creating things, I’m into taking photographs of the world around me, I’m not some jock…and I doubt I ever will be. I doubt I’ll ever be “muscular” or have any form of a good looking body shape. It’s just something that really kills me inside.
Looks don’t matter though, I guess…I just wish that I could have someone to trust…so many people trust me, but I only have few that I personally trust. Very few.
I guess that’s the part that really annoys me and which I grow jealous of, is just having someone I can share my problems too…I swear, I can barely sleep at night anymore on school nights…I’m lucky to get 6 hours of sleep (at most!). Everything runs through my mind, and I can barely sort it or control it. I really do plan on seeing a therapist about that, but the point is, I just wish there was someone who I could let all my problems out to. I am close with my family, but we never have time to just talk. I try and try to work out time…but it seems to never work out.
I guess that’s the one wish I have from this old heartsick sap…I guess that’s all I wish for now.
