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Vidvel Short Film

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First Vidvel Short

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Vidvel is the Video Novel. A visual medium shot and viewed in portrait format with a story told in chapters.

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Vidvel is the Video Novel. A visual medium shot and viewed in portrait format with a story told in chapters.

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Vidvel is the next step in the technological evolution of the novel. Early literature meticulously penned with ink was expensive and available only to the elite; the upper class became literate to engage with this new technology. As astonishing as it seems, being literate was not high on the priority list to anyone but a priest. No one wants to read a bible today, let alone learn an incredibly complex and alien concept to do so.  It’s akin to our students learning pure mathematics to read their tax form. You could, but you’d be considered strange.
The rise of the printing press resulted in the need for literation and redefined our understanding of the world and introduced a new programming language used to write new software for our flexible brains. To us, it seems like a logical step from scribing on cypress to the novel, and stories were recorded for many years as storage but to be read aloud, it would be for several 100 years that a catholic priest was noticed looking at pages of the book but no sound came from his mouth, they believed him insane.
As trivial as this may seem, this unimaginable transition from the public to internal space is the reason why book readers are now nerds and not shouting at facebook.
So, why would anyone suggest that video is an evolution when film has such an appalling track record at interpreting a novel effectively?
Firstly, asking this means you are Gen X or above, why, as youth you acquired the ease of reading out of necessity as it was the main and best form of personal entertainment. Television was in its infancy whilst literature is abundant and inexhaustible. Cinema is a producers/directors medium with keyboard monkeys hired and told what to write. To write a script on speculation and selling unsolicited was like signing at a karaoke bar in hopes of a recording contract. Times have change only as better writers move to cinema pushing out the mediocre, some of whom gamble writing on spec  as the lottery increases.
A writer of the 50s could brag their words in print and fail to mention selling out to script writing. Hemingway considered screen writing for hacks. Novelists may consider the same today, the only difference no one cares what a novelist thinks about as ebooks are the new self publishing and being in print on amazon means you own a credit card.
The rise of popularity of used book stores is the public saying I’m not interested or willing searching for the orchid in the forest.
Vidvel has a vision of a new format of personal story telling that is writer lead and controlled to tell a unique story told in chapters. Instead of the proven ineffective medium of film or the 7 year commitment to a successful television series.
It is Vidvels belief the new dual landscape platform in conjunction with the writer/editor collaboration style of the conventional  publishing house will attract the best and brightest who will understand why this platform is the best way to have their chapter narrative told with all the benefits of old and new story telling. Give the writers control and you’ll get the best writers. Then everything else will fall into place.