Scratch Video
This vlog is posted by a female documentary filmmaker in New York City, who goes by the name scratch. Reading the written part of her posts make you think it is whiny and pretentious, and perhaps a few of them are. But most of the videos are very interesting and well done. "Tergiversation" is a post that at first didn't make any sense to me and reading her notes on it made it seem really stupid. However without using any audible dialogue she is able to make the turning of book pages very interesting. There is a strange piece of glass between the camera and the pages which magnify certain words. The lighting is very direct, and creates strange shadows with her fingernails.
Watching "Tergiversation" made me watch other posts on her vlog and there are a few that are traditional vlogs with her talking directly at the camera, but even these have either interesting locations (walking around New York) or presentations (out of focus, vignettes over the camera conceling certain areas) that make them different from the more reality show interview portion-style of most vlogs. The editting is also good. The films are either edited in camera, creating a very short film, or they are pieced together in more traditional sense. Even if it does get too abstract or whiny, their briefness and presentation makes most of them watchable.
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