Video on youtube. split screen. with/ man at dinner table with others and one asserting/interrupting the speaker and disappearing Youtube: video Second Life
Youtube video as work of art on a wall
Response online needs to have content to continue
Set it up with explanation of traditional space-time based contexts, roles, and hierarchies (Goffman) and how the asynchronous and space unlimited aspects of YouTube challenge that? Central vlogger suffers an identity crisis (spoken as if "in his/her head" - see beginning of I Heart Huckabees for an example):Who am I talking to? Anybody I guess, Everybody? maybe nobody? I don't know. My friends? Oh God I hope not. Well, my YouTube friends? Are they really my friends? My parents? etc. etc. I might even see this ...- Storyboard: center person (vlogger) with group around them, other people freeze and that center person changes clothes/identity, change background (pull in green screen) Transformation --> frozen people are unfroze with comments that note the changes (you sold out, man!)
- Side panel with related people/other vloggers (represent the related videos box on youtube) that can be clicked and the main video changes
Time delay illustration: members meet and have conversation with time filler (someone going uh) then rejoin and continue OR girl and guy in union: "what are you doing this weekend?" both immediately walk away Next day " nothing, want to hang out"
- Vlog-voyeurism - scene - Union cafeteria/one of the campus dining halls. Various students sitting quietly by themselves at tables; cafeteria is silent (perhaps some background music). "User" walks into room, sits next to one of the lone students. Student is “activated”/"clicked on", and begins sharing their day’s experiences/vlogging with/towards the "user". The "user" then writes a response on a notepad at the table (which could be a quick cut-away shot) of the “vlogging” student, and then moves on to another student. Camera pulls back - the process is being repeated throughout the room (soundtrack is filled with murmuring/white noise of the discourse).
- The above works a quick metaphor/analogy that conveys the social gravity/reality of vlog-voyeurism
- This example could be taken further; two story lines could be used, one following the activities, interests, and comments of the average troll/hater, the other following the routine of a more constructive YouTube member. Their interactions and experiences could then be juxtopposed - which would arguably be not only amusing, but likely insightful in what I would assume would be a highly accessible analogy.