Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Vloggercon Day 2 Session 2

Vloggercon Day 2 Session 2

Vloggercon Day 2 Session 2 Character Building

Erik Nelson (bottomunion.com/blog)
Kent Nichols (askaninja.com, hopeisemo.com)
Tim Street (frenchmaidtv.com)
Chris Weagle (human-dog.com)

Creating Shows Using Strong Characters and RSS
Beatbox Giant - successful with Ask A Ninja Podcast.
Presenters talked about creating shows for characters using a strong point of view.
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Chris Weagel is Chairman of Hallways and Floors at Human Dog Productions. Human Dog creates comedy, documentary, and meat-based video blogs, podcasts, vidcasts and first generation Game Boys. He knows about the rituals performed at the Bohemian Grove Club. Chris is also a contributor to ThePan.org.

Raised an Alleghenian on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, PA, Erik Nelson’s entire life has been dictated by a composite leather orange ball. It took him to Vermont for 4 years, and made him an ex-pat in the Netherlands for 8, where he currently resides. Along with his wife, Priscilla Nelson, he runs the Bottom Union, and harvests Carp Caviar, which is an ongoing collaborative international audio-visual variety experiment. He’s also a member of the PAN, Public Address Network, which is farming and producing daily video stimulants.

Tim Street - Creator/Executive of the “How To” Video Podcast FRENCH MAID TV and the Digital Yarn(r) fortheloveofjulie.com. Before being forced to work with beautiful voluptuous women Tim produced traditional television for Spike TV, Game Show Network, Warner Bros. and other Cable Networks and Movie Studios.

Chris Weagle (human-dog.com)
HopeisEmo.com - just going live this weekend
AskaNinja?.com
Building characters that are emotionally engaging

Tim Street - frenchmaidtv.com
start with spectacle but to really engage people, need to have characters
character is story and story is character --
Frenchmaidtv.com

Erik Nelson - Carp Caviar - makes new episodes every week based on life experiences

bullemhead.com - woodchuck category --
http://www.bullemhead.com/category/woodchuck/

Answers to audience questions --
Don't have control over the audience so you have to keep everything within one episode - has to stand on its own.
Use email feedback from audience in AskaNinja? to develop next episode and plan to do this with HopeisEmo.com - have a theme song and an opening and a tag line at the end. Think clearly about the 3 points they want to make in this episode. Presume everyone is going to be bored and have ADD and make it fast and engaging.
If you're doing a video blog, focus on what makes you special.
If you're doing your own personal blog, you are your own character.
Be true to who you are and what you want to do.
Adam - woodchuck, squirrel, small animal

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