Monday, February 19, 2007
Review of 'YouTubers'
'YouTubers' is a compilation video of various YouTube users videos. I think it's trying to give a background on YouTube users and show what an extensive range of people they are. In honesty, I don't know how to review it. It made me feel sad. The music was very delicate and depressing. The videos themselves showed people either ranting at others, or explaining why they used YouTube (the main reason being they lacked confidence to talk to people face to face). The clips that didn't fall into the above categories were miscellaneous activities, or people filming their children or friends, or 'humourous' activities. The clips of people teaching their children and spending time with them I thought were sweet, the other clips just made me feel sad, especially the youth pretending (?) to try to cut his wrists and being unable to bring himself to do it.
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I guess it's a difficult thing to review - which is why I set it as an exercise. One thing you could talk about is why people put videos of themselves up on YouTube. What do they get out of it? What do we get out of it from watching it.
I think the person who made the compilation is trying to say something with the choice of music, which is rather melancholy... How would this have looked with a different soundtrack...
Another angle might have been to think about why the video was made - it's a response to another video, and there are now lots of responses to YouTubers... But well done for having a go.
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