The Internet is SO not TV
A little over a week ago, in honor of television's summer vacation, I promised to scour YouTube for videos that are better than the useless crap your co-workers email you. I started my search with a few simple rules:
- Some care must be shown in the lighting and composition of the video. This is easy to spot from the screenshots and disqualifies 99% of the videos on YouTube.
- No single-person-talking-to-the-camera stuff. This overlaps with #1 a lot and is clearly the most popular genre on YouTube. Even Zach Fucking Braff is doing it.
- The credit sequence cannot take up more than 1/3 of the running time. This is a common problem among amateur filmmakers. They love that "presented by in association with stuff" and fancy animated logos.
- It can't be pirated TV or movies.
- Gotta be in English. The reason for this is not just my preference for the language I speak, nor is it my current exile in a foreign country, it's mainly so I can avoid posting something that turns out to be a pirated copy of last week's number one film in Japan. My filters aren't as good when it's not English and I could be tricked.
- If I don't like the first 30 seconds I'm going on to the next thing. Sorry kids, I'm working with a limited amount of time and a seemingly infinite number of videos.
So far the only one I've found is this:
Which is really not fair because I'd already seen it.
I haven't given up though. I think I'm just searching for the wrong things. I haven't cracked the "tagging" code yet. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a question I'd like to .
Add comment June 18th, 2006