And now, something different

Andrew Raff
June 9, 2005

Lately, I have been looking through FCC rulings on broadcast indecency. One recent ruling concerned the television program Arrested Development, which I recently picked up on DVD. Combine the two and you get something that is almost edutainment (except for, well, the education and the entertainment): the first IPTAblog videoblog, or, is it a videocast? Podvideo?

IPTAblog Multimedia Extravaganza: Arrested Development, Indecency and the FCC (Quicktime, 18.8 MB, 5 minutes).

Update (Jun. 14): By popular demand (see the comments below), I've posted an updated version of the vblog entry that mixes the music at a lower volume. Considering that I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to video, any amateurish results are the direct result of that lack of knowledge.

Posted by Andrew Raff on June 9, 2005 12:02 AM |

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Comments

Cool! Loved this piece. You need to get enclosures setup on your RSS2.0 feed so that I can subscribe to you in FireANT. Check out Freevlog.org for instructions on how to get that setup. Hope there's more where this came from.

Posted by: Clint Sharp | June 13, 2005 4:44 PM

Hey, nice job. Really makes a point about the current situation with the FCC and shows how videoblogs/podcasts can be used educationally. Keep up the good work! :)

Posted by: Anthony | June 14, 2005 2:36 AM

Nice little entry there, but I think you need to turn the background music down a little, I was having trouble hearing what you were saying.

Posted by: Danno | June 14, 2005 7:47 AM

I've gotta say this way well done and I appreciated the choice of content but there were two elements that need to be changed. First, the choice in background music was grating and way too loud. I had a hard time making out your voice.

Secondly, the flashy text effects don't add a professional tone when they are easily done by anyone with iMovie. Stick to plane text without flashy little effects.

Other than those two points an amazing video. Thanks for the info.

Posted by: Michael | June 14, 2005 8:06 AM

Thanks for the comments, all. I'm not too familiar working with video, so I don't really know what I'm doing in terms of the presentation. I'll clean up the audio mix on this later today.

As far as the text effects being "easily done by anyone with iMovie," I am that anyone with iMovie-- this is my first experiment with both iMovie and videoblogging. :)

Posted by: Andrew | June 14, 2005 8:27 AM

Your video was almost good enough to be an excerpt from AD itself.

Posted by: John | June 14, 2005 8:38 AM

Nice video...

But for the love of Ned Beatty, please turn down the Banjos !

Posted by: Shawn Levasseur | June 14, 2005 4:13 PM

I teach media law at Miami University and I thought you did a great job in creatively presenting the indecency issue.

Posted by: Howard Kleiman | June 23, 2005 3:24 PM

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