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i made it just about as interesting as i could possibly make it as a challenge of sorts to myself to see if i could really edit a video that's nothing but still images in a way that keeps the viewer's attention it's not my fault if the subject matter is gonna be uninteresting by default to most people that's just the way things are!!! lol 6 comments
like you don't wanna fatigue your audience with too much motion you wanna give em room to breathe with some still images but not so much room that they grow bored you also gotta keep shit moving enough to keep their attention it's like walking a tightrope and it has to be varied motion too you can't do nothing but zoom-ins, for example or your audience is gonna get fatigued pretty quickly too you need a nice healthy mix of zooms in, zooms out, pans across, etc. and it can't all be to the same percentage, either it has to be sometimes a little bit, sometimes a medium bit, sometimes a lot maybe you really gotta try your hardest to keep shit from getting stale starting with a zoomed-in shot of the hermitage in the 90's, pulling out, then having it switch to the abandoned version from ten years later the moment the music hits is pretty much the only way i could've possibly started this video i was obligated to open it that way lol the closest thing you're gonna get to spoilers from this video is the thought that "huh wow they sure do revisit a lot of areas from the past that end up abandoned later on, wonder what all that's about" and also maybe a bit of mood whiplash when it goes from the beautiful mundane suburban/academic scenery to full-on cyberpunk in the final third lol |
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i feel like it takes a really seasoned video editor to strike that perfect balance between too much motion and not enough in a video like this
i hope i was able to get it right lol