Dr. Newport, I enjoyed your video very much and the content is excellent and certainly worth a few minutes of my time sharing my thoughts on it. (I have some copy-editing/writing experience and am familiar with graphic design issues but not video.) I hope you find the comments below useful in some small way.
the essay is very well written, clear, concise, well-organized, has citations and interesting examples, well done
your voiceover is excellent, enunciation, tempo, evenness, and you have the added advantage of that authoritative British baritone so persua... (read more)
2Lawrence Newport2yThanks so much for these excellent comments. Really really appreciate all your
thoughts on this, it's incredibly helpful.
Timing is an absolute nightmare and so easy to get wrong when you spend so long
around the same footage. My first video had comments I was taking too short a
time on graphs and text and clearly that's still something I have to be better
on!
Re. time on screen, I'm very happy to reduce myself some more haha! One
restriction there, that I realised with this video, was it's actually something
mostly dictated in the quality of images/footage I can use in the piece - I had
a lot of extra "airplane" stuff footage but it got very boring. But a lot of
stuff I watch doesn't spend so long on individuals (bar some exceptions) so I
agree!
Honestly really appreciate you taking the time to give such extensive thoughts -
and to put together the bits you liked and thought worked well, as well as
improvements. I have a document with all feedback I've received and I look
through it and try to iteratively improve when editing my next one, so this
makes a massive difference, thanks again!
Dr. Newport, I enjoyed your video very much and the content is excellent and certainly worth a few minutes of my time sharing my thoughts on it. (I have some copy-editing/writing experience and am familiar with graphic design issues but not video.) I hope you find the comments below useful in some small way.
the essay is very well written, clear, concise, well-organized, has citations and interesting examples, well done
your voiceover is excellent, enunciation, tempo, evenness, and you have the added advantage of that authoritative British baritone so persua... (read more)