Home-Brewed Media
My answer to Pajama’s Media, is what I’ll call “Home-Brewed Media.” Basically the concept is instead of linking to the Daily Show, you actually create your own video. BrewTube, perhaps?
My first masterpiece (you’re on warning Scorcese) is the introduction to a microdocumentary on the new media. You can download it here.
Update: I’ve renamed the file to *.mov, though it’s really an *.mp4 file, and it now downloads. Some video players might be upset by this bit of bogusness, however.
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December 1st, 2006 at 4:32 pm
There is something wrong with your link.
I have a similar idea, that until a strong progressive contender for President in 2008, that people make fictitious YouTube commercials and documentaries for the candidate espousing policies and dreams that they would have their eventual candidate support, if one ever emerges.
This dream candidate is, of course, Cash Flanners who seduces an army of door knockers and phonebankers with his charm and reputed sexual prowess, and the campaign theme song Kiss by he artist formerly known as Prince. Here in the Minneapolis area, the grassroots/Wellstone model, and Prince are sacred, so this should play well in my area, but your version of Cash might be entirely different and localized for your community.
She might be a cowgirl. I have no idea. Cash Flanners is going to be the early front runner, and is going to be the candidate you make him or her out to be… but earlyinvolvement in the Cash Flanners campaign, like early involvement in any campaign, is going to get you more mileage when it comes to forming policy, framing, and tenor ofthe campaign…
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Political mocumentary, particularly in the form of political ads, is an unmilked goldmine (a mixed metaphor, but you get the idea). I’d love to find some other bloggers who like doing this kind of thing, and promote the crap out of it.
In my previous life I did a lot of comedy shorts including a fake political ad with Joe Huang, a comic up in Boston. The hook was that he was the first only citizen from a Communist regime running for Congress. Sample scene: Joe discusses trickle-down economics while reading from a book clearly labelled “Science Fiction.”
I’ve talked with a few bloggers who see making their own video shorts as too time-consuming, and so don’t consider it. I really believe that if you can write a blog post, then you can write the script for a short.
On the link, I’ve run into this before, and I’ll try to sort it out on Monday. Windows doesn’t like it when you link to a .mp4 file. In the past, I changed the format to .mov and everything worked fine. That may be what I end up doing here.