An experiment in videoblogging

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My muse has been making vague rumblings about the possibilities of video-blogging (or something, my muse is pretty vague when she's working on a new idea), but part of me didn't want to think about it in case it all turned out to be Too Hard.

So I had a brief play around with the software to see what it was like. Not too hard, actually, and the file is pretty small. Thus: A brief and rather pointless video-blog entry (link to file, right-click save-as etc)

No cats were permanently harmed in the making of this video :)

Let me know if you have trouble downloading/watching etc.
(I was reminded to do this after mothwentbad expressed curiosity as to what my accent sounds like. So now you know)

Given how impossible I am to understand at the best of times, even without bad audio, a transcript (minus "um"s):
Hi, I wanted to try out this videoblogging thing, but I had no idea what to say, so I thought I'd just pick up the cat, and say "Hi I'm Sophie, this is Kira", say hello Kira, (Kira does not say hello) thus proving myself to be a complete cat lady. And that's all I have to say.

I'm sure any hearing impaired people reading this are SO glad not to have missed out on that scintillating dialogue :D

Comments

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, it doesn't even sound like an accent to me, relative to what I'm used to hearing. And I'm very disappointed that you don't drop the H in "how". Do you think that you could start?

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Your cat is rather cute. But so is mine, so that's okay.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Kira seemed Deeply Unimpressed.

You sound higher pitched than I recall, but that might have been either nervousness or audio compression. And your accent seems much less pronounced too. Less push on the R. Impressive upward inflection at the end :-)

All in all, a successful test.

EDIT: for typo

[kadeton.livejournal.com]

Now you just need to work on getting the video embedded in your blog post. :)

[flyingblogspot.livejournal.com]

OMGKITTAY :D

I've always looked wistfully at videoblogging and wanted to be the awesome sort of person who would do videoblogging, but am too shy. I salute you!

[sonictail.livejournal.com]

Ok, Looks good :) However you really need to go for embeds. Let me know if you would like some help with self hosting for that. I've learnt a fair few of the tricks.

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

my accent sounds like.

You have an accent?

?.?

Given how impossible I am to understand at the best of times,

Stuff and nonsense, I say! *harrumphs!*

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, it doesn't even sound like an accent to me, relative to what I'm used to hearing. And I'm very disappointed that you don't drop the H in "how". Do you think that you could start?

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Your cat is rather cute. But so is mine, so that's okay.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Kira seemed Deeply Unimpressed.

You sound higher pitched than I recall, but that might have been either nervousness or audio compression. And your accent seems much less pronounced too. Less push on the R. Impressive upward inflection at the end :-)

All in all, a successful test.

EDIT: for typo

[kadeton.livejournal.com]

Now you just need to work on getting the video embedded in your blog post. :)

[flyingblogspot.livejournal.com]

OMGKITTAY :D

I've always looked wistfully at videoblogging and wanted to be the awesome sort of person who would do videoblogging, but am too shy. I salute you!

[sonictail.livejournal.com]

Ok, Looks good :) However you really need to go for embeds. Let me know if you would like some help with self hosting for that. I've learnt a fair few of the tricks.

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

my accent sounds like.

You have an accent?

?.?

Given how impossible I am to understand at the best of times,

Stuff and nonsense, I say! *harrumphs!*