I’m participating in a major Do It Yourself Video conference in early Feb (more info here: http://www.video24-7.org/.) The organizers want to make a quick and dirty film as an introduction to the conference, and so are asking for as many people as possible to submit video of themselves or others reading the following script. (Link and text below:)
I’m emailing you guys who have made Quick and Dirty movies or answered MFA weekly challenges to find out if any of you can/would film yourselves or someone else, either with a webcamera or a digital camera (you can record in quicktime with an Isight, for instance.)
The deadline is THIS Thursday, though, so it’s seriously quick and dirty! I just thought one of you guys might want to come play. Creativity is welcome–you can read or perform or do anything else with the script.
If you want to, you can upload the footage to sendspace (sendspace.com) and send me a link and I’ll send it on to DIY.
Cheers,
FC
LINK TO SCRIPT!
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dd96rf5x_0dstcznff
TEXT OF SCRIPT!
What is Do-It-Yourself Video?
DIY video surrounds us 24/7.
DIY video is a camera in your pocket.
DIY video doesn’t ask permission.
DIY video corrects the identities of the powers that be.
DIY video builds friendships and communities.
DIY video makes culture by appropriating culture.
DIY video is youth voice.
DIY video empowers the margins to shout out to the world.
DIY video tells our stories about the media we love.
DIY video doesn’t believe in gatekeepers.
DIY video is a desktop revolution for independent artists.
DIY video knocks down walls and builds bridges.
DIY video is the media we make on our own terms.
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Machinima is short for “machine cinema.” It uses video game graphics technology to make animation within a real time virtual 3D environment. Machinima takes many forms: makers can film what’s happening in game worlds, choreograph scenes using game players and sets, or hack game engines to make new visual effects.
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Anime Music Videos, or AMVs for short, remix Japanese animation with different soundtracks, usually popular Western music. AMVs are about overseas fans telling their own story using the visual material of Japanese popular culture.
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Vidding is grassroots filmmaking where found footage, usually television shows or movies, is edited to music. These “vids” or “songvids,” comment on, critique, or otherwise interpret the originals.
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Political Remix is a way for creators to change the meaning of mainstream videos to talk back to commercial media and power. Remixers repurpose messages and twist them back on themselves to challenge, transform or subvert the system that created them.
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Today’s activist media borrows from previous generations of film and video activism, but has been revitalized by the new possibilities of digital cameras, editing and distribution systems. Media activists can now compete with corporate news sources in telling their side of the story about issues, events and movements.
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Videoblogging or “vlogging” can be defined as publishing video on a blog, though some videobloggers would more broadly describe it as simply personal, diy, online video. In 2004, videoblogging broke down the barriers to traditional video distribution inspiring the widespread virus that is online video.
