Hey, ladies and gents. I have some ideas for short videos I want to make and put up on YouTube, but I’ve realized I don’t know shit about making videos. So I thought it might be fun to put out a call for possible collaborators to produce an on-going series of videos. I think it would actually be really cool to have ones by several different people in different styles and different skill levels.
My idea is basically this: I have been making up all these fun/dumb new words and have been rather enjoying myself with it. Who the hell knows if anybody else is getting a kick out of it, but I sure am. Anyway, I want to make a series of sort of faux-educational instructional type videos to “explain” what all these different terms mean and how they fit together and stuff. And the reason “explain” is in quotes is because I actually don’t want to “explain” anything. I more just want to play with the words and definitions and have some cool visuals and audio to accompany them. More than anything, I guess I just want them to be really puzzling so that random people will find them on YouTube and be like, “What the fuck is this?” And of course, I also want to post them here in this site in various relevant and non-relevant posts to sort of beef up the impact of the language games I have been playing.
If this sounds like fun to anybody, let me know. I’m pretty much totally open to how this could all work. I could do little short paragraph write-ups of various words and concepts and then you could just interpret that however you want into a video format. I could also possibly provide audio tracks of either me or a computerized voice talking and then you could do the visuals. Whatever, I’m sure there are lots of ways this could work and be really cool.
I guess the only thing I’m *not* looking for is simple video slideshows, cause in my experience those my shitty YouTube videos which aren’t that fun to watch. But it wouldn’t need to be much more elaborate than that either: just have some kind of engaging movement and interpretive visual activity which fits in - even if only a very abstract or textural way - with the stuff being talked about. Could be a cool way for people to show off their art and their “mad skillz” with the video shit.
Okay, so yeah, if this sounds like fun to anybody, lemme know. Oh and it would also be cool to have various people double up on the same words/concepts to see how different people interpret all this shit differently. That’s been kind of the whole point of the exercise so far.
Oh and below is one sample audio file I created for the purposes of illustrating what I am talking about. Feel free to start with that as a reference point and then build or distort on top however you see fit! Post your videos to YouTube and drop a link in the comments here or email me. I will start putting together other sample audio files as well. Would love to keep all these videos a minute or two at the longest. The shorter the better, in my opinion. Feel free to add in cool music and stuff too. This video is in my eyes, a great example of one of many crazy ways you could take this type of project. Oh, and if you don’t include actual words in your video, at least make sure to convey the ideas visually…
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Awesome idea sir…
I have a camera but not much computing power…
well…
Fill me in a little more.
How do I participate?
I truly enjoy what you’ve been doing so far.
wordplay on video…
I’m in if you’ll have me.
Okay, I will work up some vocabulary descriptions which you can then interpret however you like, I guess. Actually I have one audio file I already created which people can download and either use directly or use as a basis to interpret from however they see fit
Okay, I added in an mp3 file of the video I started making before I got too frustrated to continue into the body of this post at the end. That should give people a nice starting reference point. This should be hilarious to see what people come up with! Just post your videos to YouTube when you’re done and email me a link or drop it into the comments here!
other really good example videos to get those creative juices going:
Love the blackboard effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6CDNDSOkW8
Awesome use of simple moving photos and music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3JCESdFNyw
All of that guys videos are amazing
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=cyriak
Will find some more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46eaeAfeqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5HmE299Ktk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_4VZOjKRxA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQcMr4CJp4
Oh and I’m also ALL about mashup videos featuring other movies, popular songs, etc. There are a million and one examples of this out there, many featuring Harry Potter for some reason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l3ezVYPXIY
I have no idea how you’d make a Harry Potter/Smarticles mashup, but hey - who knows…
Awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynu7lpkTkGM
Very close to what I was trying to do myself…
Cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yhd-dpC_7o
Very nice…
I couldn’t do any better
so I’ll sit this one out.
But, very nice nonetheless…
Actually to be completely honest
I have nothing to say verbally or visually
that hasn’t already been said…
I like what everyone else has to say.
besides I lack the computer skillz
keep up the good work.
Tim you are truly a class act…
(no sarcasm)
good luck in all future endeavors
I am retiring from commenting on your page.
Love, respect and all the rest…
the Scale
you know im in
Nice timing… I ordered a firewire port for my computer last week, should be here any day now. The first of my projects on deck is actually heavily influenced by your slew of posts on identity (etc) from a few months back. I’m pretty excited to pop my youtube cherry… gotta keep the media skills on par with the middle school generation…
Exactly, otherwise those bastards are going to be running the show before we even know what hit us!
This is a fantastic idea, Tim! Like a media virus outbreak!
I may know a talented video-person interested in this. I’ll check with him and see if he’s up for it. I think I can maybe make a decent media-mashup, but I also think I may be horribly mistaken. We’ll see. I’ll give it a go, but if the results are too horrific they’ll need to be put down for the good of the world.
Did you want these to be all under one profile/place, or scattered randomly about? I think I like the idea of the videos being scattered, producing that “I’ve Found Something!” feeling when soon-to-be-Exceptionologists stumble upon them.
Oh, and by the way, your audio sample is great. Unemotive-computer-voice really…adds something to your words.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2-xay1ETV8
Scattered! Sweet beautiful cloud chaos