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BB's Video Press is a model website, built as Creative Community Building, a concept fashioned after larger models
such as Youtube, that bring together video ideas of commonality, for building a successful and future-thinking community.
By the creative efforts to record on video, the work, the ideas, and the action of a group with an agenda, are solified and ratified.
Democracy requires constant re-appraisal of all aspects in cultural evolution. This means people learn to record, edit, compress, and upload video to
a site like this, to centralize learning and teaching. Others in the community can then see the video, and learn from it, and, reflect-on and reinforce
their identification and belief in an agenda.
By participation in creating video statements, a community can enlarge the understanding within the community, as well as, offering it to
others for consideration. BB's Video Press The advent of broadband has enabled online video to become ubiquitous on the world wide web, giving access to a much richer content than ever before, in the short life span of the World Wide Web. The early nineties saw a simple scripting of words, suddenly made stylistic, when the Apple Macintosh arrived on the scene. In the intervening 20 years, the writing of words has been gradually embellished with pictures, delivered in many ways, like FlashÈ and FlickrÈ. Now the age of digital pictures has turned-into a tidal wave of imagery of every kind. People are pouring images into massive memory systems and using access and dispense software. (http://www.bbvpress.com/1006.html) In Centre Rockport Maine, BB's Video Press is another visual format for ease of viewing online video. The software is set-up so a community can gather video that relates information about the interests and agenda of the community, that is, like a library shelf on a specific topic, members of a community can easily see relevant and essential videos created by members of the community to express an important point-of-view. Currently, we have written words, arguments, advertisements, expositions, and queries, all aimed as means of communication. Recent developments in computer video are forcing the assorted thought patterns of writing to move over and accept the new visual communications. It is not the common man's hands but his face that can express a familiarity and urgency of idea through access to many people. Because of mass media computer systems, the shooting and editing of ideas and expositions are no longer expensive production concepts. DV cameras, and software packaged with computer systems that edit, now are capable of producing online media of feature film length (though of different quality than wide screen cinema), accessible to the surfing public, because of broadband, and, at any hour of inquiry. BB's Video Press has two addresses online, one is an html formatted presentation of videos, for communities such as schools, businesses, .orgs or groups; the other, is a wordpress blog to publish information about the videos. This outputs for the web search engines. These two tools can consolidate, and generate more growing interest for communities, in attracting prospective membership and informing AND utilizing the creative efforts of the members. As well, answering the call of fundraising need, giving event highlights, explaining future prospects, and reinforcing training. The key is, people in their communities can now do it themselves, as the people learn basic technique, in editing and compressing, they can focus on topical questions and answers. No matter what you produce, as long as it centers on the key interests of the community, and is made by the members, it will provide more depth and insight within the community by nature of, video's RICH CONTENT. More is seen, heard, and learned by this method of presentation. People have a familiarity and basic knowledge of programming, because of years of television we are a nation of watchers, and now, to do it ourselves, the process becomes learning/teaching, in short, convincing. The power of media has been brought into the hands of the people, and the communities have the potential to grow, -but not as physical development, rather mental development. The best kind of growth. Look at BB's Video Press, as a demonstration of access that might be useful to informing and changing your community by dynamics unimagined in the days of website development, and by encouraging all ages, it makes it more interesting for young people to participate with their growing insights, and, as a medium for binding ourselves together as all of our communities overlap and influence all others. http://www.bbvpress.com |
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