October 16, 2006 2 Comments

Deval Patrick and his Just Words Speech

I am sitting in a hotel room getting ready to write something about the importance of new media, social media, citizen journalism (flavors of the same elephant), when I watch Steve Garfield’s coverage of Deval Patrick, a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, answer a criticism from an opponent. (Sorry Steve, I can’t figure out how to direct link with that Grazr page interface).

Just listen to the crowd ramp up. Listen to how he moves people. It’s not that I’m certain that this man will be the best candidate, but I can say that Steve Garfield’s footage of him made me feel very energized and inspired. That might just be enough. Nothing flashy, you know. It’s just a sidelong shot, with not much variation (flashes of snapshots of the audience, etc), so it’s not in the production values per se. It’s just being there, shooting, and posting what you see.

This is Steve Garfield’s masterful lesson to countless thousands at most events where he’s asked to speak, and probably hundreds of occurrences where Steve isn’t. If I were running for office, I’d hire Steve. If Deval Patrick is smart (and I know he’s Harvard educated and carries himself well), he should consider paying Steve to cover a few more events and assembling a campaign videoblog.

But for you, swing over to SteveGarfield.com and check out Deval Patrick’s “Just Words” speech. I promise you’ll feel the energy if you give it your attention.

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  • http://stevegarfield.com steve garfield

    Thanks Chris,

    Here’s the direct link:

    http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2006/10/deval_patrick_j.html

    If you click on the title you go to the blog entry in Grazr. they are working on the interface for videos.

    This video really captures an amazing moment that I wanted to share with people. That is what video blogging is all about.

    It’s also exciting for what it demonstrates. If you read this morning’s Boston Globe, you don’t get the sense of what was happening there.

    Last night on the news, you got a clip of Deval being interviewed after the speech in the middle of a package about waht both candidates were doing yesterday.

    I don’t want to hear what repoters said hapened, I want to see it myself. That’s why I felt it was important to get this specific clip up.

    Deval’s blog is sadly out of date with the last entry September 25, 2006. His Brightcove video page is better, but as of this morning there is no video of yesterday’s speech.

    The front page is blog like but has no permalinks to link to.

    Like Dave Winer says, blogging is like making dinner. We don’t get paid to make dinner. I didn’t get paid to shoot and post this video.

    It’s just something I do.

    The Deval Patrick campaign is already set up to shoot and post video. I hope to see more on their site real soon.

  • http://stevegarfield.com steve garfield

    Thanks Chris,

    Here’s the direct link:

    http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2006/10/deval_patrick_j.html

    If you click on the title you go to the blog entry in Grazr. they are working on the interface for videos.

    This video really captures an amazing moment that I wanted to share with people. That is what video blogging is all about.

    It’s also exciting for what it demonstrates. If you read this morning’s Boston Globe, you don’t get the sense of what was happening there.

    Last night on the news, you got a clip of Deval being interviewed after the speech in the middle of a package about waht both candidates were doing yesterday.

    I don’t want to hear what repoters said hapened, I want to see it myself. That’s why I felt it was important to get this specific clip up.

    Deval’s blog is sadly out of date with the last entry September 25, 2006. His Brightcove video page is better, but as of this morning there is no video of yesterday’s speech.

    The front page is blog like but has no permalinks to link to.

    Like Dave Winer says, blogging is like making dinner. We don’t get paid to make dinner. I didn’t get paid to shoot and post this video.

    It’s just something I do.

    The Deval Patrick campaign is already set up to shoot and post video. I hope to see more on their site real soon.