Live art, getting an audience and getting feedback

[androidkiller]

I’m lucky enough to have a bunch of friends who are creative. Some draw brilliantly, others design and make costume, and some have an entertaining way with words that leads me to look forward to their next blog post. I, on the other hand, tend towards ‘live’ art, where by ‘live’ I mean art that takes basically the same time to consume as to create

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[mas90]

On the issue of people not watching recordings of shows due to the time commitment: the most-popular online video series tend to be those producing short videos often. (Anecdata: LoadingReadyRun have said that they make a point to keep their weekly videos under 5 minutes long.) This goes some way towards changing online video from a "live art" to something with a lower commitment required to consume (like a webcomic).

I'm not sure how much this applies to you if you're mostly putting up videos of real-life live shows though, but might be worth thinking about if/when you make videos primarily for the internet.

[androidkiller]

It is a useful data point, even though mostly what I put up comes from a live show. I am hoping to make a bunch more direct-to-internet videos though, and I'll be aiming for under five minutes there too.

Although interestingly, I spent a lot of time recently watching Strip Search, which was produced by the LoadingReadyRun team, and episodes there were 15-30 minutes long each, averaging just over 20. I did watch them in preference to putting a DVD on or similar, but would often end up watching several episodes back-to-back, so even though there was less of a time commitment per episode I ended up watching more.