Modern Forms of Capturing Reality in the Format of Video Hosting

Abstract

This study examines the impact of video hosting on the process
of creating a publicly available record of people's lives. The popular public
network Tik Tok is a platform for creating and publishing short videos. Users
communicate by creating and posting their own video material. It turns out to be
a difficult task to single out meaningful video content from the whole mass of a
very bizarre, and sometimes farcical spectacle that has filled the Internet space.
Nevertheless, from the total mass of video messages, we can crystallize single
authors, whose videos offer evidence of the creator’s interest in the lifestyle of
an ordinary man, his workdays, life events, videos which seem authentic and
sincere, deal with significant social issues. We observe the of convergence of
the creative and technical sides of the filming processes, when the authors of
the video, who also appear as characters, camera operators, editors all in one,
provide video content in the public network space.
The means of interactive communication with the audience contributes to the
emergence of a sense of empathy for the author, who presents reality through the
conceptualization of his own experience. The example of the videos by a teenage
girl who found herself in an orphanage and whose means of communication
with the outside world was a mobile phone camera, demonstrate the demand for
the Tik Tok video hosting platform by the younger generation. The author of the
video messages, capturing the reality in the form of a confessional monologue
with the viewer, finds strong support from the audience. At festival venues,
nominations in the category of videos by amateur users of video platforms are
becoming increasingly common, thus the video hosting platform is considered
as an accessible digital environment offering the possibility to present the issues
of concern for an author. The emergence of Internet platforms for the free
viewing of the accumulated cultural heritage of documentary films will make
it possible to popularize interest in the image of a real hero, whose spiritual and
moral values will contribute to the meaningful recording of reality.