Home made video: formal and content criteria

Abstract

Current communication process, whom possibilities are exploded because of 2.0, plus the accesibility to diseases for catching images (nowadays in every person's pocket), make that audiovisual content emerge, created by amateurs, has gotten a progressive success and a care as genre. Bidirectionality on line offers publishing own records and consuming others by simple and free ways, working on a free videocreations fluxus way. However, that contents live with another professionals creations that, because of the quality of the cameras and new easy edition tools, misunderstand and confuse the researchers, producers and users. It's necessary to know which differences exists between amateurs video records and all others to identify them and to consider them as a genre by themselves, products of a technological evolution but also products of audiovisual learning by new creators.