What are the qualities of an amazing video?
We tend to forget when we're analyzing this, we just think of video, of IC, of the visual.
But it's also the sound, what we hear.
I am talking to you right now, or maybe it's music, or just a noise, a sound, whether it's
music, sound, or the talking head, it has to be coordinated and working with the visual
so that it becomes a unified whole that catches us not just by the eyes, but also by the ears.
We need to be aware so that like she said, we'll want to watch it again, or share it
with someone else.
What category am I most excited about?
And why?
That would have to be the lyrical category.
I'm most excited because it's the one I entered my video in.
And I entered it in because as a poet, lyrical is what my whole life is about.
How do I portray things like the night sky and the rain in California?
How do I show you what it's like to be wet and poetic?
That's what lyrical is, and that's why I'm so excited by this new category.
And why when I saw it, I knew I had to enter this contest.
Why do I think it's important to reward video creators?
Well, it could be obvious and say everybody loves to get the licks, you know, and get told
you're good, and that's what a competition is good for.
But it's not just the contest, no, this whole concept of a meeting, of a great get-together
of a festival, where not just the winners win, but everyone who comes to the festival
wins by participating in the community.
And that's so important, because the business is rough, really rough.
And now at last, we can make this art for pennies.
I mean, I spent $5, $10 maybe to make a short movie.
And when I was 19 years old, it would have been hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
Real film and cutting and actually pasting the film together.
Oh, man, it's so important to have, to reward, to encourage, especially the young video makers
who haven't been around the bush like old guys like me, and to participate, to reward
not just with a prize, but with participation in community events.
And that's why this festival and this blog and just talking are so important to us.
