We would like to explore video reviews such that we put them in a different context – in this case, we have found interest in mixing both vlogs and reviews to create vlog reviews, potentially one that explores the subject of travel, and we hope to investigate the ways it can affect how it is communicated and how it can work via different tools/services.

1. Structure: Using short videos to explain the structure of a vlog review.
2. Technical aspects: How does using different gear (eg. GoPro/DSLR/smartphone) to film a vlog review change the feel it would give?
3. Narrative/non-narrative: Including human subjects (reviewers), versus..
4. … narrative-video-review (the reviewer & the character), versus…
5. … only background audio.
6. Hybrid: Incorporating interviews (with café owners), with inspiration from reality TV shows.
7. Consistency: Opening transition to indicate that it is a series.
8. Services/Tools: Using a different platform (interactive, perhaps) to review the café.
9. Services/Tools: Using a platform like Instagram to review a place.
10. Services/Tools: Try out Periscope, as it is instant and “in the moment”, as compared to uploading it as a video on YouTube.
11. Services/Tools: Using Snapchat as a way to promote or review the place we are in.
12. Techniques: Playing with different transitions when moving from one scene to the next. Filters or short cuts.

These are just a couple of ideas that we came up with. Not sure if we’ll be using all of them, but we will definitely have to brush them up.