Super Dooper: CI Library goes Youtubing

Luisa Rossitto

Creative Industries Reference Librarian

QUT

Super dooper CI library goes YouTubing!

November 2007: Creative Industries Library YouTube

Tour video is born! I’ll tell you the what, where, who, how and

why!

Create friendly online

presence Promote spaces and resources

Available when we’re

not

Where?

Increased bandwidth

Cheaper digital capture

Declining mainstream media

Everyone else!

www.youtube.comWorld’s most popular

video sharing site

Rise of YouTube

Who Are CI?Fashion

Media + Communication

Music

Creative Writing + Cultural Studies

TheatreFilm+

Television

Journalism

Acting + Technical Production

Dance

Communication Design

Visual Arts

CI

50 % under 20 years (QUT wide = 38%)

AN Average Gen Y LifE…

5000 hours reading

10, 000 hours playing video games

20, 000 hours watching tv

Hmm maybe

learning can be fun? Text makes

me yawn…but pictures don’t!

Here we go…

The CI Library YouTube Video Tour

Use digital camera to

take photos

Edit together in Movie Maker

What about sound + music? Use Audacity

What text to add in Movie

Maker?

Add extras to images in Paint

What effects work in Movie

Maker?

HOW?

Wanna go YouTubing?

How about a CI library

tour?

Righto then… let’s get cracking!

…could be good for o-week…

Let’s do something a bit wacky and fun!

Behold… The Creative Industries Faculty Library Team!

A short re-enactment… based on a true story…

1

37

2

56 4

8

Audience + purpose

PlanningStoryboarding Take photos

Images Import into Movie Maker

Add to MM slides

Text Add info + feel

To enhance

EffectsMM + Paint? Where from?

SoundUse Audacity!

Feedback?

RefineChanges?

Upload

Youtube itMonitor

Link clip

Promote it Spread it!

Dodgy Content? Copyright? Trying too hard?

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marketin

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recruitment com

pet

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new

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tou

rs

prom

otio

nfundraising

store

house

Why Not?

Plus…it’s a top resource

Docos

Publiclectures

Short films

Classic Film

Cartoons

Film clips

Classic advertising

Historical newsreels

Breaking news

Interviews

Easy and appealing

Bang for your buck!

Meet your clients where

they already areExtend your

communications model Enhance current

operations

Challenge stereotypes