Welcome to the wide world of videocasting. There are some very unique frustrations that go along with creating a sequence of video for a videocast format. How to choose a topic, a subject, a point of view if you will that will be interesting, as well as somewhat cohesive. Our assignment is to create four videos that are to be videocasted.

Ideas anyone? Here is what I was thinking about:

Fustrated!

a graphic design student copiously checking and rechecking the dimensions for a perfect square. It takes forever it's agonizingly slow, the student messes up. a sigh, he must start over. again he messes up . . . throughout this clip there is no sound except for what is heard in the graphic design studio, rustling papers, hum of the lights, the occasional sniffle, scene ends with a black screen and some clever tag. Yeah we've all been there. It's short it's too the point and simple, we are taking a journey we are inviting the audience to be frustrated or at least to laugh at the frustrations felt by others.

other ideas for this series, two people trying to communicate in a language that is to both of them, foreign, waiting for dinner at the cheesecake factory (I'm not sure that this will be able to be filmed, I need the cooperation of the cheesecake factory) . . .

Different Strokes for Different Folks

This idea isn't as planned out but it would be interesting to film how the other half live or a mini commentary on the differences in lifestyles of people who are similar in age but are categorically different (college students vs. military, american university vs. george washington university, Northwest DC vs Southeast DC, tdr vs homeless shelter.)