Saturday, February 2, 2008

Week 4: What makes a good video podcast? A Review of My Fav.

Video podcasting is one of the areas which Web 2.0 is heading. This trend is growing faster and faster than we imagine. One of the exmaple must be, Youtube. From now on, you might find many different kinds of video you want on the web. It has comedy, news and storys. How does it attract audiences keep watching those podcasts everydays? There are many different perspectives of the quality of the video podcast. I would like to introduce one kind of video podcast which is magic video podcasting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tScm-eZInBE

From the above video, it is not a great story of a people, it is not an important news of somewhere, it is not a popular comedy, it is just a short magic show. Why do i choose it? First of all, I really love magic which I actually don't know how to play. I think this kind of video podcast must have a silence background music. So that we can hear what the magician is playing on the show. The angle of the video is not really special but that's enough for me. It should be clear and close to the magician and the object he is playing with. The kind of magic video podcast is successful. Why is it successful? It is because when we finish to watch the video, the first time we probably don't know what's going on. And so, we will eventually to replay it again and again, untill we giveup the 'secret' of the magic.

This magic is very simple and the tool is easy to get. So I think most of the audiences are curiously to try it at home. The show actually bring us into it. We will pretend to be the magician and we believe that we can do it and we probably can't. The magic video also brings amny confusion to us that we believe the illusion on the first time we watch. Therefore, I think it is successful to bring me into it.

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