Video Redux?
As anyone who reads here knows, almost a year ago, I stopped uploading the home-made Dymersion Video episodes. Thereafter, I uploaded a couple editorials I did for my college’s newscast. Then I stopped doing it altogether.
I made no excuses for my actions. I stopped doing it mainly because I was lazy, and also it was a bit difficult to set it up week after week, and sometimes I had no tapes. But, no excuses. I was committed to it, and I didn’t carry it on.
Well, what I did carry on doing was the editorials. I did one roughly every couple weeks until I graduated in May. Doing them, in combination with a speech class I took, gave me a lot of experience. When I first started Dymersion Video, I rarely had a topic that wasn’t decided the same say, or maybe the day before. Sometimes, I did the videos only after seeing something of interest. Doing the editorials taught me it needed more planning. I had known this kind of thing from doing news packages for several years prior to DV, but I thought it’d be easy to do it impromptu.
Well, I don’t do so well speaking impromptu. I’m just not that kind of guy. I need some kind of structure as to what I’m going to say before I say it. So, the new Dymersion Video episodes will be based on what’s happened during the week. I’ll look at some of the important issues of the week, and make an agenda. I also learned during the editorials that I also don’t do well speaking off a teleprompter (though I started to get the hang of it), so the episodes will only be planned, not scripted. If there’s something going on that day that’s important enough, it’ll get added, but mostly, it’ll be things going on that week.
I’m excited to begin doing it again, because to be frank, Dymersion’s gotten a little blah since I started at Poligazette. Most of my meaty work is there now, and since it can often take a long time to research those posts, I don’t end up having much energy to do it here. So, I think the video show, along with a possible radio show I have planned, can bring in some new meaty content to replace what’s now mainly at Poligazette.
There will always, of course, be a place for good ‘ol writing at this site. Since my fanboying of the Libertarian Party and other third parties probably isn’t that interesting to those besides me, a lot of that will stay here. I’d also like the chance to get going with some old Dymersion Creative materials I’ve kind of left by the wayside, including “The Regime”.
So, I look forward to really reinvigorating this place. Since, while it’s still primarily for my health and sanity, I hope to have people come here to enjoy it as well.
