Michelle Cummings at PodCamp Boston

Michelle Cummings


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UPDATE:
Michelle Cummings has a beautiful voice. Check out her site, buy her music, tell her Steve sent you.

It was a unique experience to take a break and site back and listen to some beautiful music in the middle of the day. Great job on the sound system too.

Comments

[Michael Meiser]

Hrmm... again, love the experimentation. Really enjoying this series. Hope you don't mind my really digging my heals into it and writing so many comments.

While I don't think the quality to poorly affects the close up interviews I don't think this experiment was as successful. Nothing can be seen... no action.

The audio is suprisingly good... and I think it works.

So... I don't think I've heard of this Michelle Cummings... she's onviously a musician, so tell me ONE great thing about here... and also... does she have any mp3's I can listen too, or especially a podcast I can subscribe too?

When you're in the long tail of media you need a tiny something to latch onto.

I'm actually going to google here... but I still want to know what YOU think. :)

It would be cool if you could turn that camera around on yourself and give an outtro... a sort of that was podcaster/musician Michell Cummings, best known for.... at the Podcamp boston expo... giving a presentation on.... I don't know her url off hand but it should be easily googleable.

I realized a long time ago that simply revlogging video clips from others wasn't as interesting or effective as I thought it might be. Clips need an introduction... some sort of transition.... in short you have to be a personality and step in front of the screen. Two great examples of this are your Vlog soup and Miller's (blanking on his first name) Bicycle Sidewalk... on life in tokyo japan.

As one of my old profs put it the NARATIVE is fundamental. And I'd like to add to that YOU are the narative when you vlog... so what matters is... and this is *key* how the clips you show relate to YOU. You have to tie the clips into your narative. Comedian's, storytellers and other improvisational stage speakers ALL do this... "so I was walking down the steet the other day outside my house in yonkers..."

To get right back to the point... So What does Michelle Cummings mean to you... why do YOU care about her... why do you find her interesting.

You need not even ask yourself... why WE your audience thing she's interesting... that you find her interesting and what you find interesting is enough for us. Otherwise we wouldn't subscribe. :)

It's the logical extention of something I heard somewhere once... "People are channels". I prefer to say "people are naratives". In the world of videoblogging, we're not only the narators of the life around us... but since the "video clips" :) are ussually short... the context of the clips before and after each single video and the text around it becomes more important. In short the narative is externalized from the individual video and becomes the whole of ALL videos in your vlog... the narrative is abstracted or exploded, and as such YOU as the primary character and element of continuity become that much more important.

Or... put as simply as possible.

Strong charasmatic personalities make GREAY vlogs.

Especially when they have funny boston accents. :)

LOL.

keep rocking.

[Steve Garfield]

I hear you.

Here's her URL:

http://www.michellecummingsmusic.com/

Michelle had an amazing voice and I was happy to be interoduced to her music at PodCamp Boston.

I thought it was a really unique idea to bring bands into the PodCamp experience. I love new music and having bands participate also gets them into podcasting.

I'd like to see a lot more musicians partipating in the next PodCamp.

I think it would be cool to have a session with the band and a bunch of podcasters and vloggers collaborating to shoot a music video, or a podcast.

Like I said in another post, it was really busy and some of these posts are just moments showing.

I'll update the entry with her URL.