What is vlog?

Video blog

Vlog (video weblog or video blog, referred to as vlog), derived from a variant of blog, meaning video blog, also known as video web log, belongs to blog One is that Vlog authors use images instead of text or photos to write their personal blogs and upload them to share with netizens.

Vlog is a video blog, a type of blog. The duration of a vlog is generally about 10 to 15 minutes. The mainstream group of people who shoot vlogs are young people. Vlog entries are usually embedded with videos (or video links) and text. , images and other data. Works can be recorded at once or divided into multiple parts. Vlogs are very popular on the video sharing platform YouTube.

Historical origin

In October 2006, a piece of news from Italy stated that MyVideoBlog, an innovative mobile video blogging service launched by mobile operator Italy 3 in cooperation with Mobaila, Already a successful new application in Italy. At the same time, on the Internet, a new form of blogging has begun to gradually replace the traditional text blog, and it has quickly become popular among netizens. It is the video blog vLOG.

In 2009, vlog was included in Webster's Dictionary.

In 2012, the first vlog appeared on YouTube. As of January 19, 2018, 2,000 vlog works are produced on the YouTube platform every hour.

Vlog definition

Vlog is a form of video, which can be defined in two ways: one is video log - video log, and the other is defined as video of log - video log. The difference is that the former definition focuses on the log, which is essentially the same form as the text diary. The picture diary is a form that carries the content of the log in the form of video; while the latter definition pays more attention to the video, and the log content serves the video, vlog It is just one form of many styles of videos, videos with daily records as the content.

Mainstream people

For the post-95s and even post-00s generations around the world, vlogging has gradually become the most important way for them to record their lives and express their personalities. This is the historical evolution of personal blogs, from personal web pages to blogs, from 8-meter experimental films to Hi-8, BT sharing, Web2.0, and Youtube (Youtube).

Vlog video standards

Fast-paced editing

The main purpose of fast-paced editing is to fill in new moments in time before the audience’s excitement fades. content, the fast pace here does not refer to simple fast forwarding; slow versus fast, still fixed-focus lenses combined with fragmented close-up shots of Zoom in; uniform-speed moving pictures, combined with slow and accelerated pictures; long shots Cooperate with broken lenses, etc.

Image quality

High-quality image quality is mainly reflected in three aspects: clarity, lighting, and color matching.

Clear logos

Logo can help the audience better identify the content and is a potential threshold to distinguish it from the videos of passers-by.