Edli, I agree with you. Keep it simple and short. People want a video to move right along without delay. Lot of editing involved when you record an event. It seems that our lives are so involved now days that people don't have time or don't want to take time to watch a lengthy "home made" video anymore. Actually most never did like watching "home movies" and only did it out of respect for the person that shot it. It's critical to make your video move along quickly, changing (transistion ) to new scenes every few seconds.
Chronological order is important but it all depends on how you are presenting your video. If you are presenting events then I don't see any reason for using a chronological order. I think it's more important using an order that will keep peoples attention and build their interest to want to watch more as the video moves on. Thirty minutes is a long time to keep someones attention span now days, so you want to draw them in and keep their interest going. I don't know about where you live but I'll tell you living here in the Philippines for the last 4 years peoples attention span, are terrible. Even speakers have trouble keeping peoples attention I notice. It's the norm here for people to have on going discussions with the person sitting next to them while a speaker is talking away. Very disrespectful I think (old fashion school I guess) but it's done all the time. Now I'm the most novice in this group but I'll tell you when your video's get long, unless you are Hollywood quality, peoples interest drifts in a hurry. The only ones that won't drift are those watching that are in the video, or your mom.lol. If that's your audience then perhaps length doesn't matter. If you are trying to reach a broader audience they won't be with you at the end of the video. I'm as guilty as the next making my video's tooooooo long, and as hard as I work at it I still look at them and say, "damn I should have reduced some of those scenes or eliminated them". I remember reading somewhere, keep a scene under the count of 4, (easier said then done) Now when I get depressed about it I look back at my first video I ever took in San Francisco (2003) riding around in a car and I say to myself, "you've come a long ways". Perhaps Jerry Lames www.youtube.com/Islandjerry edli adi wrote: > > Hi Michelle, > > Still struggling with with tons of still ? :) > > I have made an annual video once at my graduation. > There's so many events (but not much as you have). I made it in > chronological order. Because i'm sure people usually want to see what > happen in the last year in series, not randomly. Chronological order > makes us can see "the growth" of our community, our activity program, > etc. > > I'm not doing with all the events, i only took a few, only the big > one. Because in that time, we don't wanna get boring with a long long > duration of video. We want it simple, only about 30 min. But We made > it with full effects and transition. It makes people keep stay to > watch it until the end of video. > > But some people want the video shows all the events, no matter how > long the video will be. They don't want to miss a thing. > > Now it's all up to you Michelle, you want to make it all done or only > use some events. If you want to work with all the events, don't make > it hard, use the only the best of three or four still footage from > each events. And you can make it looks fun and attractive with various > transitions and filters. > > Hope it's help. > > > :: Edli :: > www.youtube.com/edliadi > > > > > > Michelle Van Gent <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:pcmom%40charter.net>> wrote: > I'm making an annual video for our Cub Scout Pack and need your opinion on > which type of video/slide show is most appealing. > > Here are some details: > > This is comprised of primarily still images and will have 1- 3 very short > video clips. > Started with 6000 photos pared down to 650 so far. > 95 different events in 1 year > > Questions: > 1. Should I try to keep it in chronological order with only 2-4 photos per > event with the exception of camp where there would be up to 15 per event > or > 2. Should I make it hodgepodge - random order of all photos - use less > photos but be able to do a few special effects/transitions > > I've made our annual video for many years but this year I am just > struggling > with putting it together. I think it is because there were so many > different events this time. For our 2006 year, I only had photos from 50 > different events. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Michelle > > Send instant messages to your online friends > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com <http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
