Car vlogging notes

Yes­ter­day I did a vlog test. The post was in dan­ish as I laid out a local vlog con­cept and vis­ited the local air­port. Future posts (if I decide to do more — it was mostly a proof of con­cept) might be in eng­lish although I found it a lot more com­fort­able to do it in danish.

I got some nice com­ments for which I’m grate­ful. How­ever, I shouldn’t be made a poster­boy for any­thing else than poor hair groom­ing and bad ligt­ning. Kick­start­ing dan­ish vlog­ging were done by — among oth­ers — these guys: Andreas Haugstrup of solitude.dk and Krist­jans­son of kristjansson.dk. Andreas has done some inter­est­ing research and I was lucky enough to catch a lec­ture he gave a few weeks back intro­duc­ing the world of video blog­gin to a bunch of peo­ple that didn’t know much about blogs. Krist­jans­son has removed a lot of good stuff from his site, but posted some really con­vinc­ing videos some months back.

Notes:

Ozlak found a good link describ­ing the burger joint I vis­ited (in dan­ish): http://www.highways.dk/danmark/kobenhavn/flyvergrillen.php.

The video was made using a (recently phased out) Sony DCR-PC350E which cost me about DKR 8000 incl. VAT. It makes some pretty decent video for its size which I’ve prob­a­bly messed up good with com­pres­sion. (If any­one knows how to com­press for vlog­ging, please let me know).

A related con­cept I thought about is being done over at Drive Time [via Steve Garfield]; on his daily com­mute, Ravi offers to pick up fel­low trav­ellers who then make a vlog post with him. I don’t have my own car and walk to work, so that ended there for me…

Update: Andreas com­ments on my post lead­ing us to nor­dark and a list of dan­ish video blog­gers (Vlogmap). Accord­ing to Andreas I’m the first one doing it in dan­ish. Which I find strange. Rumor has it Andreas is going to post some advice on com­pres­sion etc. Yay! Oh, and Andreas hints that I make shorter posts. He’s soooo right about that.