16 April 2008 Comments

My Video Challenge

Sometimes at work or at home, somebody is sent a link to an outrageously funny video on Youtube, Vimeo and the like. These videos are on the most part silly pranks or people disfiguring themselves for the sake of internet notoriety.

I have set myself a challenge. It is to make an video, upload it to my favourite video site and then set myself the high standard of getting over 100,000 video views. There are quite a few (self imposed) criteria to this submission which are as follows:

  • The video must be something made by myself and filmed using my own equipment.
  • It must not have any “reckless” content, i.e. throwing myself off a bridge or happy slapping someone, artistic merit is the name of the game.
  • It must have more geniunely supportive comments than; “that was fake and your mum smells” type comments.
  • The views have to be solely counted for the site I submit them to, I can’t add views from Vimeo to the ones I got on Youtube.
  • The closing date for counting the views will be September 30th 2008.

I think it’s going to be an interesting challenge and one that I think other people should get onto aswell. I may even set up a little badge and get people to link back here with their submissions before the deadline.

Anyone up for it? I will let you know my progress as I work my way through the project.

  • Dan
    Not seedy?
    WHY would anyone watch it?? Everyone knows sex sells ;)
  • @honest_ape Typical :P

    It's going to be something good, not seedy!
  • I vote for a naughty honeymoon film.
    Hubba-Hubba
    ;)
  • Yes, of course. Any ideas are welcome.
  • Sam
    I notice it's not in your criteria, so I take it your open to ideas?
  • No idea yet mate, I want to do something quirky.
  • Good luck, man.Any ideas yet what you're going to film?
  • Sam
    Good luck with it mate! I've often thought about trying to reach a high number of views on Youtube, even after reading an article about it, but it's another one of those things I've never got round to...God it's becoming a long list!
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