Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

Yesterday I saw a cop walk into a Dunkin' Donuts and the lady next to me on the train was reading about cloth diapers. Today she wore purple nail polish and read Lolita.

I just dropped my camera on the floor, but even such a seemingly random act isn't. I made these choices (among others):

• When to drop the camera
• The orientation of the camera when dropped
• The height from which to drop the camera
• When to start recording and when to stop
• I chose not to edit my raw footage

Making video requires just as many choices as writing, but I have a feeling many make these choices unconsciously. Videobloggers should sit down more often and think through all the choices they made for their newest video — conscious and unconscious. If more of the unconscious choices becomes conscious I think the videos will become better.

I wrote something else about possibilities for intervention in video before.