Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

Note: Brittany and I have written a manifesto based on our experiences with these rules. We are also collecting lumiere videos at http://videoblogging.info/lumiere. Please link to one of those pages rather than this blogpost if you are writing about lumiere videos.

The rules are as follows:

• 60 seconds max.
• Fixed camera
• No audio
• No zoom
• No edit
• No effects

Aske Dam, a good friend, told me about these rules last summer when we were attached to the same research project. They mimic the conditions under which the Lumiere brothers made their movies in the late 1800s. All transfer seamlessly to web-video and videoblogs except the last one. On the web we are used to compress our videos because the raw files from our cameras are too big to be practical. But is the compression not an added effect? You can certainly tweak the compression settings to provide results that differ tremendously from the raw camera files.