Overview of video in virtual China
In a recent post, 56minus1 offers a great overview of some of the ways people in China have been using video:
“Paike” (拍客) refers to content that can largely be described as “citizen journalism”… The videos themselves are often entirely netizen-shot and edited: one Sina Paike video is a classic case of a netizen practicing journalism by pointing a camera out an apartment window to capture a grandfather kicking and beating his four-year-old granddaughter… Often, however, these videos are repurposed footage set to background music, although the result still tends to reflect or comment on contemporary society in an original, user-generated way…
17173.com, a major gaming portal, has an entire sub-site devoted to videos about video games. Some of these are promotional videos released by game companies, but others are in-game / live-game recordings made by players themselves…
Professional music videos (both mainstream and indie) can be found all over China’s major VSS ; also served up on these sites is concert videos and bootlegs…
Another category of user-generated video content is “original work” (原创). Creative Tube is a website devoted to original short films. These include live-action DV shorts and animation… Neocha has artsy original videos as well, ranging from dramatic shorts like this video by “yhoney” of a young woman dealing with a difficult emotional situation, to more eclectic fare like a graphically enhanced video created by user Yufei [the image at the top of this post].