Case Study 9: VLog

YouTube: Fettes boys

(You must watch their videos, they are very very funny)

A Vlog is a blog for videos. Sites such as YouTube allow people to set up their own vlog accounts, where they upload various videos of themselves or other clips which they find funny or important to them. Again an online community can be made through sites like these, other people can comment your videos and you can make friends with people within your network.

Youtube is free and easy to access. Millions have a youtube account, and thousands of new videos are uploaded everyday.

Youtube is mainly used by amateurs. People posting their home made videos or just uploading short clips from films or television programmes. They upload their videos to make their friends laugh, or so they can link them onto other personal webpages. In many cases, people want to be noticed for their video-making talents; for example, some people post their fanfilms on sites like youtube, so directors will notice them, or they can be entered into short film awards.

My example of a vlog is by a group of boys from Fettes private school in Scotland. Their profile name is GL2786, and they have posted 8 videos. They have 22 subscribers to their space, 218 bulletins, 9 comments, and have also posted 16 of their favourite videos (which they haven’t made). All of their video posts have been made by them at school in their spare time, most of which are lip-syncing to funny songs. There are many options of how to contact the boys, such as send message, send a link, add comment, add as friend etc.



Personalisation: people can do what they want and when to their own web pages.
Democratisation: VLogging is encouraging people to get hands on with media, and make their own videos with their own cameras and equipment.
Regulation: People can in effect upload whatever they want. Whole television shows and movies can be uploaded, but this hasn't yet breached the copyright laws.