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I made a ppt about Vloggers: https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=ddq9b76s_35ddcc6wfr&pli=1
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Powerpoint notes
Vlogging
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Video blogging (or vlogging) is a form of expressing yourself online through a video. Like a blog it is totally based upon a person’s need to share certain things with other people. It always consists of a video either with or without text, images, music or other date to support the message that is being transferred to the watchers.
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In the late 90s digital videos made it very easy for people to edit their video footage on their computers at home. The idea of blogging is somewhat based on keeping an online journal. This journal does not necessarily have to be about someone’s personal feelings but it can be about everything. Online you can find numerous of travel blogs but also blogs in which people just want to share their creativity or their opinion about a certain subject. With the development of technology concerning editing video’s and the already existing idea of keeping blogs it makes sense that eventually someone had to come up with the idea of making a video blog.
In 2000 Adam Kontras, an individual that had a blog about his experiences moving from Ohio to Los Angeles to pursue a career in show business, posted a video alongside his blog. From 2000 until 2004 the number of vloggers slightly increased and some of the first vloggers like Adrian Miles and Steve Garfield joined forces with their colleagues to create a group on Yahoo Groups that revolved around video blogging and video bloggers. The group of these active vloggers grew not as fast as they hoped. In 2005 they still only had a group of 1000 members. When YouTube was founded in 2005 and gained popularity the number of vloggers exploded and with the increasing quality of video’s recorded by smart phones more and more people started to follow vloggers or became vloggers themselves. Youtube is now THE online platform and all the extremely popular vloggers can be followed via their YouTube channels.
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You can vlog in all kinds of ways. You can upload your videos and share them with a select group of people covering several topics in which all of you are really interested but you can also just share your videos on YouTube. The Social Times a website that describes itself as THE social media source published a top 5 of Youtube vloggers in 2010. To give you an idea about what these people do and talk about I will tell you something about them.
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The fifth place is for Fred’s Channel with 2.3 million subscribers. Lucas Cruikshank impersonates Fred a 6 year old with a crazy life; he has angermanagement issues and an impossible family. Fred Figglehorn vlogs about teenstuff and even appeared in the Nickelodeon serie iCarly.
Slide 7: The fourth place with over 2.8 million subscribers is for Shane Dawson. He uses several characters that he came up with for his sketches. He mostly talks about his feelings but also uploads new video material every Saturday with in which he usually makes fun of celebrities, movies and trends.
Slide 8: The third place is for Smosh with nearly 3.5 million subscribers. This duo consisting of Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox make sketches and spoofs of famous movies. They use a lot of customes and for the sketches they sometimes go outside and record their material there.
Slide 9:On the second place we can find Ryan Higa aka Nigahiga with 4.6 million subscribers. He vlogs sketches, rants and music videos. He has his sketch videos but also shares his views in Skitzo a show in which he plays different characters and their stereotypes. Besides these videos there is also a serie that he calls ‘Off the Pill’ the name of the serie comes from the fact that he is off his ADHD medication when he records them. Off the Pill mostly consists of rants about random stuff.
Slide 10: And on the first place with more than 2 million subscribers we find Equals 3 with over 4.9 million subscribers. This vlog is from RayWilliam Johnson who hosts a review of the most watched Youtube video’s at the moment. He uploads new material every Monday and Thursday. It is popular because of the fact that it gives you a compact overview of the best videos and he adds a little extra to them by commenting on these popular videos.
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In march 2011 a UCLA student named Alexandra Wallace uploaded a rant on Youtube in which she complains about Asian students. Only a day after her rant she received a lot of complaints from Asians and other people saying that her rant is a hate speech and that she needs to be expelled from UCLA. It even made the USA Chancellor Gene Block to release a video response in which he states that it is ‘a sad day for UCLA’ and that he is appalled by the video. This is a good example on how you always have to take caution on what you post online. The video was probably not even a rant and the girl probably isn’t a die-hard racist however, this video will hunt her for the rest of her life. Her personal information was posted online and she had to face a bunch of angry students on campus and this might even effect her career. If she wants to apply for a job it might be that her future employer is a person who saw this rant. Online she had to face a lot of negative reactions and some video reactions. Some of them aggressive other ones funny and sarcastic. As a vlogger you will mostly like have to face people who do not like your videos but like Alexandra Wallace you don’t want to let the decisions you took have a negative impact on your career or personal life.
