Tuhat sanaa

2006 looks like a Year of the Videoblog in Finland. The newest to enter the finnish videoblog scene, Timo Poropudas of the news website Digitoday videoblogs his search of a digital China. His clips make enjoyable watching anywhere as he does not speak over the video.

Ad-libbing over your footage is one hell of a task - try and hold your videophone steady, pan ever so slowly and utter a coherent sentence or two. Try to end with a point. Ending the shot with any dignity at all is the most difficul task by far.

We will all be needing film narration crash courses before long.

Note to self: resume habit of packing a notepad and pen to scribble a manuscript just in case of a sudden urge to videoblog.

An interview situation is so much easier since you only have to worry about making a question and after that just shoot and listen.

I, as it happens, recorded have some seriously educational footage during a holiday week in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, in July 2004. Tuija TV proubly presents: Count from one to ten in mongolian! Take a bus ride in Ulan Bator! And - ta daa - learn what "Ikh bayarlalaa" and "Sain bain uu?" mean in Finnish and / or German.

(Warning: Video and post-production quality: bad. Shot with the Minolta DiMAGE F300)