Sunday, 16 October 2011

From Blog to Vlog (potentially for a limited period)

I've finally realised that to write about something, something has to have happened to make it at all interesting. This wouldn't be a problem for someone with an exciting life or for someone who has the ability to review various different media, but as it turns out i posses neither of these. So whilst i may be able to blog on the occasional event or thought (which i deem sane enough to post), i cannot blog about absolutely nothing
(and believe me, I've tried and it doesn't really work), and since i find myself in the predicament of being on half term with lots of work not to do, i know that blogging will help me keep whatever is left of my sanity.

So as you can see this is my problem, even a paradox if you will, for the next 2 weeks i have precious little to keep myself occupied with so blogging would be a way to quell this boredom, but because I've got nothing to do, i have nothing to blog about. So i got thinking and i came up with a solution, why not do a bit of vlogging? Whilst it may be hard to write about nothing, it's not hard babbling on about nothing, a perfect solution. Apart from one problem i don't own any sort of video capturing device, so my laptop's webcam would have to be used, of which it's quality is unknown.

The second problem is that i'm not sure whether i'm the right kind of person to vlog, blogging is one thing but vlogging is something entirely different, and after doing some research (i.e. google) and finding the following page: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Make_a_Vlog , my suspicions were confirmed. Whilst it could be argued that some of the points made are true and therefore vlogging an appropriate activity, i still am not convinced.

So this is what propose (is it still propose, if you have no say in it?). Over the next few days i will attempt to do some vlogging, well just recording at this stage, and then from the collected footage i will assess whether it should go public or get relegated to the depths of the recycle bin. If the prior option is picked then i will collect the feedback, either directly from people or through the medium of the grapevine, then i will know how well it has gone (or not, as the case may be), which could potentially lead to future vlogging in bleak boring situations.

So watch this space because frankly even if i don't vlog i will still try to find some random stuff to blog about (or at the very least scour the internet for reasonable material). In the meantime, if you find yourself in a similar situation to mine, then here's another blog for you: http://sec-c.blogspot.com/ . And if you don't like that, then go out and get a life, or failing that start your own blog.


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