Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

You want to participate in the online conversation, join the discussion, and be a part of the community, but you haven't quit your full-time job to vlog and compress video all day. Between trying to provide for your family and keeping up with all of your Pownce/Twitter/Facebook friends, you have no time to write comments on videoblogs.

Over the weekend Brittany and I have been working hard to release our new tool for busy videobloggers. We are introducing the Vlog Comment Generator. This tool will automatically generate a comment for you to post on your favourite videoblog. You can generate comments from 4 different categories and even automatically add a 'thank you' and/or a smiley. We believe this lowers the barrier for entering the community.

To continue this week's focus on videos I'm linking to another one today. As I've mentioned before I worked with music videos this semester along with six other students. The video I'm linking to here is not our ideal result — it's the version we sent to the examinator and the censor for the exam. There are some things that should be changed like stronger light in some parts, and most importantly the part where the band moves really fast completely breaks the flow. It needs to go, but we were on a deadline when making this.

So go ahead and download the video. It's a 121 megabyte Quicktime movie. It'll take a while if you don't have a fast connection. The band is Bark and the song is The City. You can get mp3's on their sound page (I'm deeplinking since they're using frames).

I feel the need to point out that I didn't have a lot to do with the practical aspects of shooting this video. We were a seven man team and you can't all be directors. Rasmus and Ole from my group took a big load in that regard. Personally my work was focused on laying out the broader lines for the production. I've gotten more interested in market communication after working on this project. When shooting I mostly rolled out cables and moved equipment. That's also something that needs to be done.

Update

I got a nice letter from the university stating that I was using too much space on the server, and thus the video is no longer available for download.