Common genres of videoblogs

Different uses (and users) to consider in our design brief development (from wikipedia):

• Personal - Vlogs documenting the author's life, the recounting of daily experiences, stories from their past, or the airing of their opinions on various topics.


• News - Vlogs covering news events.


• Collaborative (also collective or group) - Vlogs with a collaborative nature.


• Citizen journalism - Vlogs "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information"


• Conflict (aka. war vlog) - Vlogs covering an armed conflict 1st hand.


• Digital divide (aka. bridge vlog) - Vlogs covering a culture, usually a developing world, not for people within that culture but to give people outside that culture insight. As such many bridge vlogs are in English or another common language.


• Screencast - Vlogs demonstrating software or webservices through the recording of onscreen actions, usually presented with voiceover naration


• Political - Vlogs discussing political issues.


• Environmental - Vlogs discussing environmental issues, nature, and natural history.


• Exquisite corpse - Vlogs where each concurrent part in a narative is shot by a different author


• Media - Vlogs analyzing television, documentaries and other mass media.


• Entertainment - Vlogs producing "shows" or short films.


• Re-vlog - Vlogs promoting videos from other videoblogs or third parties.


• Movlog (aka. mobile video blog) - Vlogs updated via mobile video phone


• Educational - Schools and universities using vlogs as a teaching and creative medium.


• Behind the scenes - Vlogs showcasing backstage activities of film production or other arts and skills.


• Tutorial - Vlogs offering advice, demonstrations, how-to's, and tutorials.


• Travel - Vlogs serving as a travelogue, exploring different places around the world.


• Religious - Vlogs discussing religious topics.


• Magazine type or lifestyles - Vlogs discussing lifestyles and hobbies in a television magazine format.


• Assignment-based - Vlogs consisting of assignments.


• Vlog Anarchy - Vlogs covering all or multiple genres.


• Business - Vlogs created by businesses for external marketing or internal business communications.


• Deaf vlogs - Vlogs used by members of the Deaf community to be able to blog in their native or preferred sign languages, as opposed to spoken/written languages. Issues are usually related to some aspect of deafness from a cultural, social and pathological view. These Vlogs use the medium of video to be able to communicate messages, posts, and other ideas through a sign language.