Video 51

Pelikan talk

Another video from the videoblogger meet-up

It was a great meet-up in Copenhagen, with many interesting discussions about videoblogging and media at large.

The second part of the meet-up was held in Café Pelikan.

Kristoffer Gansing described convincingly how the documenting style with hand-held cameras and unedited footage has gained a reputation of being more authentic than slick and edited productions. When slick people as politicians start to videoblog in the documentary style, it is quite possible that the reputation of authenticity of rough and unedited footage will become weakened.

The videopost was an attempt to elaborate Kristoffer's idea, but my arguments did soon take a different direction and turned into a discussion about how videoblogs of the "point-of-view" style decieve us to equate the footage with the perception of the videoblogger.

I tried to make a point in the film by directing my physical attention in a different direction compared to the camera. The camera moved around randomly.

Videoblogs mentioned in the video: Passage, Space2 : Patalab, Vorspiel