Also, here is a video which many of you may have seen already documenting the protests going on at the capitol by a fellow student. It was uploaded conveniently to vimeo. http://vimeo.com/20089255
Monday, February 21, 2011
Practicum post 3
Hey again, so my video was uploaded successfully and is all the rage online these days. That's not true. I think it has like one view and I'm pretty sure that was me watching it from another computer. I wasn't really expecting many views anyway though, mainly because on a site like vimeo it takes a while to gain followers or contacts as they are known. For example, my cousin is a cinematographer who has had a vimeo account for years now and he only has ten subscribers to his videos. While vimeo is a site where various people may view and comment on your films, it is up to you how much they are spread across the community. For example, one can add a video to a group or share it with a fellow contact. In the interest of time I wasn't able to edit my video exactly the way I wanted to, so in the future I will be more inclined to market more fervently a film which I'm slightly more proud of. In the meantime however here is the link to my first upload on vimeo ( http://vimeo.com/20181402). if for some reason this doesn't work, search the word february in the search bar on vimeo's website and it should be on the first page (the one uploaded 1 day ago by bertkj). Also, here our some questions for tomorrows presentation. If this site eventual becomes more popular or just as frequented as youtube one day, will it fall victim to the same shortcomings? Does vimeo allow for enough conversation to be considered a community, or is it just a place for self promotion?
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I definitely think that Vimeo's greatest strength is the fact that is doesn't have all the kids and dolts on youtube. Vimeo seems to attempt to cater to a more mature audience and that allows them to keep out the rif raf. It seems vimeo is more of a place for developing filmmakers to publish their works, where as YT is just limited to America's funniest home videos type clips.
ReplyDeleteOn a technical note, Vimeo also has an advantage over YouTube. Because YT has so many visitors, they have to compress their videos more to save space. But this results in a lower quality video. Vimeo doesn't have as much traffic so they don't have this problem as much, which allows their quality of video to be much better!
I agree that getting you stuff out there is definitely more difficult than you think. It takes a certain amount of luck and creativity for a video to take off and become viral, but even if you work really hard on something it could still be buried under tons of other user-created video content. This is probably why Vimeo is such a good idea in that it works with people making videos who actually have aspirations and talent.
ReplyDeleteYouTube is a lot more difficult to get noticed on and, while I have never used Vimeo berore, it seems like a place for amateur people to put up their home movies more than a place for professional filmmakers to put up their hard work. Your practicum project sounds interesting and has me eager to check out Vimeo and what it has to offer!
I could also very well see Vimeo suffering from the same shortcomings as YouTube — if that happens. I'm not super familiar with Vimeo, but I also really like how so much of the stuff is high quality. In addition to watching videos on Vimeo for entertainment, it also seems like you could watch videos for inspiration for your own video projects.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion — again, based on my limited familiarity with Vimeo — I think it's more of a place for self-promotion. I don't see anything that would prevent it from being a community, but it just seems its advantages of higher quality videos and less "dolts" play into it being more for self-promotion.
very cool upload bert. to answer your question concerning communities, i would argue that vimeo is just as much a community as youtube is. you are able to join 'groups,' and can limit your search to specific categories - somewhat of a filtration system to unite people with similar interests.
ReplyDeletemy question, is how do they monitor the content that is put up?