Docoscope
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In effort not to unknowingly contradict myself, I acknowledge the fact that in a past entry I was basking in the glory of escaping tedious video editing for blog distribution. Let’s just say, I spoke too soon.
Indeed, it’s been great not having to cut footage of lengthy durations and making sure it all makes narrative sense, but I can assure you from what I am experiencing, that compressing and uploading the videos wholly compensate for that.
Consequently, I feel that my blog-doco doesn’t truly reflect all of the ideas and discoveries I’ve made throughout the process so far, because of how time-consuming preparing video content for upload has been. In a way, it defeats the purpose of ‘regularity’ in blogs, of which I have also mused over in the recent past.
Another problem? I don’t have much variation of footage. Cutaways and talking heads primarily. I know David suggested including poetic footage, but I just didn’t feel it was fitting. I couldn’t record anything observational, as the nature of my subject had the potential to lead to great ethical concerns.
What I now must do is strive harder to tell the story in other ways. Perhaps I should return to the innately textual nature of blogging. Perhaps I haven’t thought about using sound enough. Perhaps, now, I should.
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