The sound effects added a lot to this video. All the greenery was a pleasent change from the usual background. Transitions between scenes has improved as well. But I wonder if as a result you had to stage more of the lines? IMO mixing the formality of the jacket/shirt/bowtie and the jeans was not a good idea IMO.
You're absolutely right about the formality. Clothes are something I'm particularly bad at judging, so your feedback is especially appreciated in this domain. 🙏 You're right about the staging too. I wanted to experiment with better visuals, and the conversation took a hit for it, which shows. We did a conversation as usual, and then scripted the bridge and woods shots. I hope we can figure out a way to get both pretty framing and authentic conversation. The best way would be to add a specialized camera guy in addition to the two speakers; there were only two of us for this shoot. Another way is if I just did location scouting ahead of time. I'm glad the sound worked well, though. I'm particularly proud of the bird and water sound effects. The original audio had real birds and water, but it also had cars and other noise in the background. I use AI to isolate the conversation, but that removed the birds and water too. So I added stock recordings of them.
@@lsusr265 I did think the birds and rivers sounded unusually loud, but I don't recall guessing that they were stock recordings. My favourite sound-effect was of the "THWACK!" sound made by you hitting your unenlightened friend with a stick. It sounded like slapstick comedy, which was especially funny in a video about the difficulty of zen meditation. I assumed you had a specialized camera guy. I think the zoom-out when you were swinging around the trees at 3:45 was what made me think that. Was that editing? If so, you're clearly improving! This vdeio feels like a qualitative step up over your usual quality. And I only had a subtle feeling that your lines were staged. It felt pretty authentic. Admittedly, I know nothing about editing, so take my views with a lump of salt. Re the clothing: I can't say I'm much better. But I've been reading the menswear guy on Twitter a lot recently and now his takes are just living in my head: twitter.com/dieworkwear. If you ever do a session of Dharma Combat (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_combat), whether as student or teacher, I'd be interested in watching. Though it might be too esoteric for me, and too painful for the participants to share.
@@algongoku It's not obvious to me what works and doesn't, so this feedback is all really useful. My favorite video-makers use lots of sound effects. I want to do more of that. All the zooms all happened in the editing stage. I was worried the lower-resolution zoomed-in parts would give it away, but apparently not. This is useful to know. I hadn't considered about Dharma Combat at all. Certain stars need to align to make it work, but it would be a lot of fun. Thanks for the idea!
Great vid man
Thanks!
The sound effects added a lot to this video. All the greenery was a pleasent change from the usual background. Transitions between scenes has improved as well. But I wonder if as a result you had to stage more of the lines?
IMO mixing the formality of the jacket/shirt/bowtie and the jeans was not a good idea IMO.
You're absolutely right about the formality. Clothes are something I'm particularly bad at judging, so your feedback is especially appreciated in this domain. 🙏
You're right about the staging too. I wanted to experiment with better visuals, and the conversation took a hit for it, which shows. We did a conversation as usual, and then scripted the bridge and woods shots. I hope we can figure out a way to get both pretty framing and authentic conversation. The best way would be to add a specialized camera guy in addition to the two speakers; there were only two of us for this shoot. Another way is if I just did location scouting ahead of time.
I'm glad the sound worked well, though. I'm particularly proud of the bird and water sound effects. The original audio had real birds and water, but it also had cars and other noise in the background. I use AI to isolate the conversation, but that removed the birds and water too. So I added stock recordings of them.
@@lsusr265 I did think the birds and rivers sounded unusually loud, but I don't recall guessing that they were stock recordings. My favourite sound-effect was of the "THWACK!" sound made by you hitting your unenlightened friend with a stick. It sounded like slapstick comedy, which was especially funny in a video about the difficulty of zen meditation.
I assumed you had a specialized camera guy. I think the zoom-out when you were swinging around the trees at 3:45 was what made me think that. Was that editing? If so, you're clearly improving! This vdeio feels like a qualitative step up over your usual quality. And I only had a subtle feeling that your lines were staged. It felt pretty authentic. Admittedly, I know nothing about editing, so take my views with a lump of salt.
Re the clothing: I can't say I'm much better. But I've been reading the menswear guy on Twitter a lot recently and now his takes are just living in my head: twitter.com/dieworkwear.
If you ever do a session of Dharma Combat (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_combat), whether as student or teacher, I'd be interested in watching. Though it might be too esoteric for me, and too painful for the participants to share.
@@algongoku It's not obvious to me what works and doesn't, so this feedback is all really useful.
My favorite video-makers use lots of sound effects. I want to do more of that.
All the zooms all happened in the editing stage. I was worried the lower-resolution zoomed-in parts would give it away, but apparently not. This is useful to know.
I hadn't considered about Dharma Combat at all. Certain stars need to align to make it work, but it would be a lot of fun. Thanks for the idea!