Vlogging vs Blogging

I'm starting to understand the draw to vlogging over standard blogging.

• It is more expressive emotionally. People get the emotions of your face and body language.
  
• It is easier to point a camera at something and describe it than just describe it. You can get away with a far less intense explanation for many things.
• You can easily include willing people and they don't have to do much beyond talking to you normally. Some people are just natural talkers and make for good conversation if not interviews.
  
• Less need to be a good speller. It still doesn't hurt.
  
• You can spend three minutes videoing and three hours editing, but that is part of the fun.
• You can show off other talents, not just describe them.
• People will watch a stupid video longer than read a stupid blog.
  

I do not know what is going to happen when YouTube starts charging. I fear it is inevitable because YouTube looses money on bandwidth. They will have to come up with a model that charges content providers via a straight up charge, or through advertising. People will not pay for YouTube to watch it. The number of vloggers is going up and the number of bloggers is going down. At the moment, YouTube makes a wonderful case for adding content beyond the written word to the internet. It is a fantastic time to be someone who uploads.

With videos it is so much easier to present a lot of information in a short amount of time about your surroundings. It is difficult to present lecture type information and keep an audience. A car wreck will go much further in gathering attention than me building a set of shelves. A pretty girl building a set of shelves would work too.

Some people can just talk in to a camera and it seems interesting. I guess that is charisma. There is a group of New Yorkers who all vlog and all know each other. I bet one got recognition and the others fell in to the game. The same is happening to some out of work actors in LA. Here we go again with the U. S. being boiled down to two out of three costs.

You can definitely stop and think about what your are writing much more than when you are shooting a video. You can shoot multiple takes and edit out the blanks and brain farts, but you can hone written word more. I think that is why books are just so much better than movies in so many cases. The experience of the written word is in your imagination. The reader pulls an idea off the page and then another, building a castle in your head. With movies, it takes much greater skill to leave things to the imagination and make the story stick. Then there is Avatar. I have still not seen it. I hear that it dominates the imagination and hammers the visual world down your throat until there is nothing left. This leaves some viewers in a state of 'duhhhy' for hours if not a lifetime after the movie.  Hitchcock was a master at putting just enough on the screen to make you dream the story.