I’ve spent the last year sheddding my hangups about production values, too. Even though I’ve been videoblogging since 2005, and absolutely love things that people were making with the simplest tools, my film/tv preconceptions would haunt me.

So I started shooting, cutting and posting all using my N93 phone. It left very little room for worries about fancy stuff between what I was filming and me.

Here’s one I made with it which complements yours – a ride in a tuk tuk in London! – during the Navlopomo month of daily videoblogging in November:
http://twittervlog.tv/?p=218

I actually think that little still cameras are often better for shooting a lot of stuff – yours captured the colours and atmosphere of the Indian streets better than a ‘high quality’ DV or HD camera. The colours were rich, and so were the blacks. And it has a kind of warm Super 8 feel without the loss of detail. Looks fantastic.

I’ve had Kodak and Canon digital still cameras that have made *beautiful* little films, were easy and unobtrusive to use – and recorded great sound, too!

See what Jay Dedman & Ryanne Hodson do with their little camera – sometimes Jay sets his films to music, sometimes they just cut moments together with live sound. Just using simple cameras and basic editing.
The rhythm of the cuts accompanied by the changing background atmos sound is amazing. I find it totally inspirational. So personal, so immediate, so direct. No need for patronising TV presenter voiceovers to tell us what we’re looking at or why we’re looking at it.
He and Ryanne have made a bunch of films in India, Cambodia, Thailand as well as in the US. Check them out at http://momentshowing.net/ and http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/

Really looking forward to seeing more of your films, especially now that you’re in for doing it weekly

Have joined the group.

we’re always talking about this stuff on this group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging

it’s what we make it. I say it’s just people telling stories.

Oso, I used iMovieHD to edit this one. I cut the next one, which I’ll upload to blip.tv as soon as my internet connection allows, using FCE.

And to answer your last question: I’m not sure how I got the video to say “Georgia” (which is my blip.tv account name) but one possible reason may be that I’m using the player “for most blogs and web sites”, not the Legacy player.

Did you use iMovie or FCE for the India movie? The scenes that were slowed down really went well with the tempo of the song. And last question, how’d you get it to say “Georgia” instead of “blip.tv” in your video player?

Like Geoffrey, I can’t wait to see more.