Murf

“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!