Video overdose
Last week, I talked about CCTV, the video systems that the British seem happy to live with if it helps reduce crime. I am getting tired of getting filmed wherever I go. I am not necessarily talking about these cameras doing surveillance on parking lots or in public places. I am also talking about the tendency of people totting video cameras everywhere. In the street while you listen to musicians playing “Georgia on my mind” or at the school show. Recently, I have been to several professionals events where as journalists watching demos or talking to company spokespeople we were being both photographed and filmed.
At a recent event (the one in England as a matter of fact), there was a sign on the door encouraging anybody who did not want to be filmed to get in touch with someone. That was an exception. Usually there are many cameras filming in all directions and it would be difficult to make sure you appear in none of the shots. So what is the solution? Hiding in my home office? Going to those events with a bag on my head? Always being aware of the cameras and turning my back on them? Accepting that I will show up in somebody’s footage sometime? Making a scene about it? I am not quite fed up enough yet, but the trend is definitely bothering me.
Clearly, I don't quite belong to the YouTube generation. See, I am even an old-fashioned blogger and not a trendy vblogger. I am what my friend Dominique Piotet in his book L'Alchimie des multitudes calls a digital immigrant (as opposed to a native). But hey, I am happy to be an immigrant. Hopefully it means that there are certain things I don't take for granted the way a native does. Like being filmed everywhere I go and finding it normal. Ooops, got to go. I have to post some video of Gabriel on DailyMotion for his grandparents to see.
Clearly, I don't quite belong to the YouTube generation. See, I am even an old-fashioned blogger and not a trendy vblogger. I am what my friend Dominique Piotet in his book L'Alchimie des multitudes calls a digital immigrant (as opposed to a native). But hey, I am happy to be an immigrant. Hopefully it means that there are certain things I don't take for granted the way a native does. Like being filmed everywhere I go and finding it normal. Ooops, got to go. I have to post some video of Gabriel on DailyMotion for his grandparents to see.
kelloucq
le 12.06.08 à 13:27
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