BUILD-A-BLOG

It’s hard to find something new to do on YouTube. Collab vids. Check. Annotated interactive vids. Check. Vlogs. Uh, duh, check. So about a week ago I had an idea for something that I hadn’t seen on YouTube before. I wanted to provide dozens and dozens of phrases, half-sentences and other random clips that could be used to construct a video blog. I noticed while I was editing that I always ended up with all these slivers of phrases in my timeline, and I realized how much fun it was to rearrange them into non-sense.

I called the project: Build-A-Blog

With the help of WheezyWaiter, an up-and-coming, amazing vlogger, we were able to make that project happen. WheezyWaiter came to hang out for a day, and we spent the day writing and recording clips for the Build-A-Blog project. After Wheezy left, I spent a few hours editing and rendering out each of the individual clips to both wmv and mov files, so PC and Mac users could both work in native formats. Then posted the entire project to YouTube.com, offered the download for free, and encouraged viewers to mash-up the videos and post their results as video responses.

Hundreds have downloaded the project files already, and three dozen viewers had uploaded their own mashed-up video blogs overnight. The project is still young, if you’d like to have some fun with us, download the project files here, watch our instructional video, upload your resulting blog and leave it as a video response!

I’ve loved some of the entries so far, and I can’t wait to see what you can do with it.

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