On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> This year, we have prepared three short films about why the visitors should > contribute to Wikipedia (roughly a minute each) that we will show > continuously over the four days of the fair. But before we show them for the > public, I'd like to show them to you. I'm a bit late replying and, even worse, I'm going to commit a cardinal sin. But here goes. Positives: I thought the videos looked very professional. And I can see that you went to some effort to make the videos make sense without sound, as you have people pointing at things in a very direct manner. Unfortunately, though (and I know it's frowned upon to be critical of others hard work) I still don't think they quite work as non-sound videos. I put myself in the position of the intended audience: someone at a busy fair. I will see on the videos lips moving without sound. I will assume there *should be* sound. Lips are moving = "where is the sound?" for me. With us on this mailing list you have told us not to expect it, but you surely aren't telling everyone at the fair that there isn't any to be heard. I would merely glance at the screen, see people talking and think "oh, no sound" and walk away or look elsewhere. Nevertheless, the first two would work on me if I had someone telling me "just watch". The third one (with the grandchildren) failed for me. With the first two I could understand what they were trying to convey to a large degree. The third one I found totally obscure. Again, I know what was intended because you told us and the sign at the end seals the deal, but with the third one I didn't think the images really added anything to the end message. Again, sorry to be largely negative about them. They look professional in image quality and there's no hammy performances or stuff to make you go "ugh!" and I would certainly be glad to see you make more films... although I might suggest someone else had directorial control... With best intentions, Bodnotbod _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
