A video essay on the duffle coat, and how it's used in storytelling. Toggle-able subtitles are included. Note: Some countries alternatively spell duffle as duffel. --- Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Katy133 Follow me on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/katy_133 Twitter: twitter.com/jkaty133 Tumblr: www.katy-133.tumblr.com Itchio: www.katy133.itch.io --- Things I learned/need to work on for my next video: - Audio: Unplug the refrigerator before recording. - Audio: Turn the music down even lower (current level used was 20%). - Use a different video editor: OpenShot lags and crashes way too much. (It seems to render audio is an odd way too?)
I'd like to comment and say that this is a very phenominal video and truly something that has great potential as a series! This just so happen to pop up in my recommended and im absolutely in love with the idea of this series. I know this video is like five years old and youre probably doing more important stuff nowadays haha, but maybe consider making more!
I'm a french viewer and I think that this video is well-made from thé beginning to the end. You use a vocabulary that is simple to understand and you use adequate pictures. This is well explained and spoken with a confident voice. I'm glad to discover your channel.
Have two of these coasts 😊. A 'Leidse Zeeduffel' (Dutch made) and a vintage British Navy Duffle (40's/50's, tho the label is gone). Both thrift store finds.
Excellent video. I like the look of a duffle coat and want to buy one. Not to sound rude but I would like to see another installment where you talk about the peacoat. I have a vintage black one & it be nice to see a video about it.
Thank you so much! I'm happy to hear you'd like to see more videos on clothing, but as I said in an update video (titled, "an important update"), I have stopped making video essays as of 2018 (details as to why are in that update video).
Katy133 - just finish watching the video and I am sorry that UA-cam is in a bad state for its creators & especially smaller ones. I hope if UA-cam ever get fix I would love to see another essay video.
A Belgian origine (inspired by the polish coats and "barrowed/stolen" by the Brits) who has conquered the world💞. The same thing happened with the peace sign and our cricket... The coat has not changed from his humble beginnings in Belgium. There is also a duffelbag. I still wear one made in Duffel. Great quality jacket!
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Damn, did I just find a gold mine in the making? I'm curious about other longer coats now - a lot of their use in popular media is quite the contrast to what was explained here.
Thank you! I'll add long coats to the list. I also have plans for making video essays on other types of coats such as pea coats and Mandarin collar lab coats.
Might be a "follow the leader" effect where characters who first wore it were characterised like that, and other creators followed the trend. Also, the duffle coat came in small sizes for children and could be bought inexpensively second-hand, so that may be the reason too.
Hi there! I have stopped making YT video essays as of 2018 (the reasons for why I explain in my video titled, "an update"). Some of the subjects I wanted to cover as essays were re-worked for my podcast, Halcyon Cafe, which can be found on my Patreon.
I really enjoyed this video! :) Though I've seen your love of duffel coats quite a few times before, it was very insightful to see it in a video format. I really liked learning the history and seeing the different clips. Also, you have a lovely voice. C: This will be a detailed critique comment to hopefully help you improve. I'll be specific as possible when laying out my positives and negatives on multiple aspects of the video. Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to clarify. For your first video essay, you did quite a lot right. The topic is very interesting, and while it could be considered rather niche, your coverage of the duffel coat is mostly well done. It also helps that the video is short (unlike my videos HA! X] ), which makes it rather digestable for most viewers. The basic ideas in the script are good, and the subtopics as well. But the script dances all over the place, talking about the subtopics and then switching to discussing a duffel-coated character/movie, and then back again. It's clear you enjoy the topic, which is absolutely wonderful! But while the video is clearly made with passion, it lacks some focus, which could have given it more punch. There are also parts of the script that are in different parts of the video than expected--you discuss quite a bit of the duffel coat's history with Japan and the working class in the "Symbolism" section. Perhaps the video could have been broken up into "History", "Symbolism" and "Examples", or something like that. The text on screen is well done in multiple ways: the choice of font, the way it's edited in (the fade-ins for each clip's title are non-obtrusive and mostly not easy to miss--the only one I somehow didn't catch until my 3rd viewing of this video was Kanon), and the consistancy of sans serif choices. The clip title did get a bit confusing, since every bit of media you used was grouped under it--from the way it was framed, I'd have assumed that the Gentleman's Gazette was a show of some sort, but I don't believe that is the case. Also, "A Teensy Bit Of History" is an adorable way of phrasing that heading. :3 (Btw, you called "No. 6" "No. 9" during this video. It's an easy mistake to make, and I just wanted to let you know. Also, I haven't watched No. 6 in quite a long time. . . I've only seen it once, around 6 years ago, though I do vaguely remember flipping through the manga ~2 years ago and thinking it was quite terrible.) The audio is . . . ok. You yourself note in the description that there are some issues. I listened to this video with headphones, as to be able to hear the audio as best I can to give good feedback. Now I will give feedback for first the voiceover, and then the music selection. The script is well spoken, no problems there. Throughout the video, the voice-over volume does fluxuate up and down slightly, and--more importantly--there is a strange tapping sound in the background, like a typewriter. I'm not at all sure how/why it's there (could be because of how the audio was rendered in OpenShot), but it seems to come in at the start of each syllable, though I can't be sure. On a related note, I don't know if you cleaned the audio or not, but I'd recommend using Audacity if you don't already. The music is quite an odd selection, at least in my opinion. It is mostly quite gentle tracks, perhaps to reflect the unassuming nature of duffel coated characters? The music doesn't seem to reflect the British or Japanese nature of the coats, or the working class, but maybe I'm missing something. My main qualms with the music lie in the cuts: tracks are stopped suddenly when a new section begins, making each new section feel more sudden than it should be. Other miscilanous things: --The photo shoot from 1:19-1:25 is certainly interesting, but has nothing to do with what's being discussed in the script, and the camera sounds are rather distracting (mainly because this is the only time in the video you use sound effects). --I don't understand why you cut to Submarine at 3:21 while you're still dicsussing Jonathan Creek? --Why did you cut to Let It Die at 2:50? I'm slightly confused by this, especially since you don't mention the game again until later, and the clip (to me) doesn't show how a protagonist is willing to "get their hands dirty"--for all I know it's just a random dude on a skateboard. --I really like the Jonathan Creek section and the music paired with it. --The kind of sudden transition to Let It Die would have been smoother, I think, with a "Speaking of which," at 3:36. --For the most part, the video editing is quite good--nice job! There are a few cuts I don't think work, but I believe you'll only improve with time. If you'd like to know what they are, let me know. --Most of the comics you show are in French, but some of them were in English. Not sure if that was a mistake, or perhaps because some of the comics weren't translated, or what. --My favorite edit is at 4:48, where you fade in the Paddington cover directly over the Paddington on the screen--that's a wonderful fade-in! As for video editing programs, I recently downloaded the free version of DaVinci Resolve, and though I've been using it for a VERY short amount of time, it looks to be a good program that will likely give you what you're looking for (from what you said on Twitter)--check it out. For your first video, you're off to a good start. I eagerly look forward to the next Clothes In Storytelling video. :) Also, if you'd ever want to collaborate on a video essay sometime, I'd very much welcome it. Keep up the awesomeness, Katy!
I'll check out DaVinci Resolve, thank you very much! I've been doing research on software, and so far I've found Kdenlive beta and Shotcut, but DaVinci Resolve looks really polished. :) I actually haven't seen No. 6 (I had to read up on it and the characters for the video). Ack, I can't believe I mistitled No. 6 as No. 9, those kinds of misprints annoy the heck out of me. >o< I'm sorry to hear it's not a good manga. Jonathan Creek is a fun detective series, and I recommend it. (It's basically about a magician's set designer solving "impossible crimes" using his knowledge of illusions). The song I used during that scene is "Danse Macabre," and it's the series' opening theme music (though I used a Kevin MacLeod cover of it to dodge YT's auto ContentIDSystem). I've written some notes I need to keep in mind for my next video, from your critique: - Add better flow in the writing. This reminds me of Every Frame a Painting's advice on avoiding "And Then" transitions and to use "Therefore" transitions instead. I think I used too many "And Then"s and not enough "Therefore"s. - Use more "Speaking of which" and music fade transitions. (Hopefully this was just an issue from using OpenShot, since I hand to cut the video up into six sections to avoid OpenShot crashing). Editing the video as a single file should make transitioning scenes and music way smoother (hopefully!). - Use sound effects sparingly and consistently. - Double-check audio levels for the narration to keep it consistent. To answer your questions: - The cut at 2:50 shows Death fall off his skateboard, in reference to "characters willing to make mistakes." I'll need to consider making my cuts clearer. - Some of the Gaston comics do not have English translations (publisher Cinebook announced in 2017 that they plan on releasing English translations, but the English versions I used were fan-translated), and some of the English versions I found were too low-res quality to use compared to the French versions. - The cut to Submarine at 3:21 is used as another example of duffle coats used in a modern setting (as Submarine came out after Jonathan Creek and I wanted to use multiple examples). - I'm pretty sure the audio is from rendering. At first, I thought it was a refrigerator in the background, but I can't hear the clicking sound in the raw audio (I used the Noise Removal filter in Audacity). The clicking's only in the rendered version. The good news there is that it hopefully won't be a problem in the next video since I won't use OpenShot again. Thank you so much for all your feedback. Listing the video's strengths and weaknesses is incredibly useful to me for future videos. And like I've said before, your videos really inspired me to make this. :)
Some more modern duffle coats have added a different cut for women (to fit the form more), but generally, the coat is agender, originally for men in the elements, like on a sea voyage. For example, Gloverall's, one of the most reputable places to buy duffle coats, appears to have "women's swing" duffle coats that create a waist, and drop the hem of coat lower and wider, with a wavy cut, like a dress. This markedly changes the look of the coat.
@@Katy133 thank you so much! Thinking of buying a second hand gloverall with a bit of ware, or a second hand burberry in better condition but twice the price. What's your opinion
@@epicmadnesss I think whichever you'd prefer. This is a coat you'll be using, so the one you can most imagine yourself wearing sounds like the right call to me.
A video essay on the duffle coat, and how it's used in storytelling.
Toggle-able subtitles are included.
Note: Some countries alternatively spell duffle as duffel.
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Things I learned/need to work on for my next video:
- Audio: Unplug the refrigerator before recording.
- Audio: Turn the music down even lower (current level used was 20%).
- Use a different video editor: OpenShot lags and crashes way too much. (It seems to render audio is an odd way too?)
My brother and I had matching navy blue duffle coats when we were boys. Sixty years on, we are both still wearing duffle coats.
Fascinating & deep ❤
just bought myself a duffel coat on ebay for the winter, and this video made me even more chuffed. thank you katy133 great video!
I made a comment on this video before but this video inspired me to get one and now I finally got my vintage duffle coat today!
I always like to wear a duffle coat but I didn't know its history until now. Thank you very much
I'd like to comment and say that this is a very phenominal video and truly something that has great potential as a series! This just so happen to pop up in my recommended and im absolutely in love with the idea of this series. I know this video is like five years old and youre probably doing more important stuff nowadays haha, but maybe consider making more!
You have a serene voice.
Weird, i liked this video so much that i ended up buying a duffle coat of my own. Great video! Love it!
That's wonderful! :D Glad you liked the vid.
I'm a french viewer and I think that this video is well-made from thé beginning to the end. You use a vocabulary that is simple to understand and you use adequate pictures. This is well explained and spoken with a confident voice. I'm glad to discover your channel.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
This video convinced me to buy a duffle coat.
Have two of these coasts 😊. A 'Leidse Zeeduffel' (Dutch made) and a vintage British Navy Duffle (40's/50's, tho the label is gone). Both thrift store finds.
Wool duffle coats rule
Learnt a lot, about duffle coat,Thanks for this awesome video. I hope to see more history of clothes.
I have a three duffle coats. One is green. Another is tan. And my favorite has an earthly houndstooth pattern.
Beautiful! Mine is a dusty dark grey with black toggles. I love it very much.
Nicely done for a first video essay, and an interesting topic. I learned a few things from it!
Very interesting essay and good video editing! Subbed ;)
Thank you!
This video is well done, fantastic explanations, great work. Thanks for sharing! ;)
Excellent video. I like the look of a duffle coat and want to buy one. Not to sound rude but I would like to see another installment where you talk about the peacoat. I have a vintage black one & it be nice to see a video about it.
Thank you so much! I'm happy to hear you'd like to see more videos on clothing, but as I said in an update video (titled, "an important update"), I have stopped making video essays as of 2018 (details as to why are in that update video).
Katy133 - just finish watching the video and I am sorry that UA-cam is in a bad state for its creators & especially smaller ones. I hope if UA-cam ever get fix I would love to see another essay video.
@@QV1010 I hope so too. Thanks again!
I love this video. Thank you.
This was awesome!
I love the gaston comics!!!
This is such an underrated video! Love it!
This is excellent.
A Belgian origine (inspired by the polish coats and "barrowed/stolen" by the Brits) who has conquered the world💞. The same thing happened with the peace sign and our cricket... The coat has not changed from his humble beginnings in Belgium. There is also a duffelbag. I still wear one made in Duffel. Great quality jacket!
The british really can't stop stealing from other countries.
Fantastic 110%
Reconstitution : "This is an episode of a serie that will analyze the link between clothing and characterization in fiction" *click the subscribe button histerically*
Damn, did I just find a gold mine in the making? I'm curious about other longer coats now - a lot of their use in popular media is quite the contrast to what was explained here.
Thank you! I'll add long coats to the list. I also have plans for making video essays on other types of coats such as pea coats and Mandarin collar lab coats.
thank you for the video!! by any chance, you have a guide on how to wash a Duffle Coat?
Thanks! Unfortunately, I do not have a guide on how to wash a duffle coat. I do have other video essays on storytelling, but not on duffle coats.
Dry clean only
Just found your channel. Really good video. You speak really well in the video. I will see what other videos you have made.
Very Cool Video : )
Great video!!
Any ideas/opinions on the reason duffle coats are releated whit childish and modest characters?
Might be a "follow the leader" effect where characters who first wore it were characterised like that, and other creators followed the trend. Also, the duffle coat came in small sizes for children and could be bought inexpensively second-hand, so that may be the reason too.
Hi Katy I love this video! Did you ever wind up doing other entries in this series?
Hi there! I have stopped making YT video essays as of 2018 (the reasons for why I explain in my video titled, "an update"). Some of the subjects I wanted to cover as essays were re-worked for my podcast, Halcyon Cafe, which can be found on my Patreon.
what movie is the thumbnail from? i watched it ages ago and remember liking it a lot
Submarine (2010) dir. Richard Ayoade
bless u@@Katy133
I really enjoyed this video! :) Though I've seen your love of duffel coats quite a few times before, it was very insightful to see it in a video format. I really liked learning the history and seeing the different clips. Also, you have a lovely voice. C:
This will be a detailed critique comment to hopefully help you improve. I'll be specific as possible when laying out my positives and negatives on multiple aspects of the video. Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to clarify.
For your first video essay, you did quite a lot right. The topic is very interesting, and while it could be considered rather niche, your coverage of the duffel coat is mostly well done. It also helps that the video is short (unlike my videos HA! X] ), which makes it rather digestable for most viewers.
The basic ideas in the script are good, and the subtopics as well. But the script dances all over the place, talking about the subtopics and then switching to discussing a duffel-coated character/movie, and then back again. It's clear you enjoy the topic, which is absolutely wonderful! But while the video is clearly made with passion, it lacks some focus, which could have given it more punch. There are also parts of the script that are in different parts of the video than expected--you discuss quite a bit of the duffel coat's history with Japan and the working class in the "Symbolism" section. Perhaps the video could have been broken up into "History", "Symbolism" and "Examples", or something like that.
The text on screen is well done in multiple ways: the choice of font, the way it's edited in (the fade-ins for each clip's title are non-obtrusive and mostly not easy to miss--the only one I somehow didn't catch until my 3rd viewing of this video was Kanon), and the consistancy of sans serif choices. The clip title did get a bit confusing, since every bit of media you used was grouped under it--from the way it was framed, I'd have assumed that the Gentleman's Gazette was a show of some sort, but I don't believe that is the case. Also, "A Teensy Bit Of History" is an adorable way of phrasing that heading. :3
(Btw, you called "No. 6" "No. 9" during this video. It's an easy mistake to make, and I just wanted to let you know. Also, I haven't watched No. 6 in quite a long time. . . I've only seen it once, around 6 years ago, though I do vaguely remember flipping through the manga ~2 years ago and thinking it was quite terrible.)
The audio is . . . ok. You yourself note in the description that there are some issues. I listened to this video with headphones, as to be able to hear the audio as best I can to give good feedback. Now I will give feedback for first the voiceover, and then the music selection.
The script is well spoken, no problems there. Throughout the video, the voice-over volume does fluxuate up and down slightly, and--more importantly--there is a strange tapping sound in the background, like a typewriter. I'm not at all sure how/why it's there (could be because of how the audio was rendered in OpenShot), but it seems to come in at the start of each syllable, though I can't be sure. On a related note, I don't know if you cleaned the audio or not, but I'd recommend using Audacity if you don't already.
The music is quite an odd selection, at least in my opinion. It is mostly quite gentle tracks, perhaps to reflect the unassuming nature of duffel coated characters? The music doesn't seem to reflect the British or Japanese nature of the coats, or the working class, but maybe I'm missing something. My main qualms with the music lie in the cuts: tracks are stopped suddenly when a new section begins, making each new section feel more sudden than it should be.
Other miscilanous things:
--The photo shoot from 1:19-1:25 is certainly interesting, but has nothing to do with what's being discussed in the script, and the camera sounds are rather distracting (mainly because this is the only time in the video you use sound effects).
--I don't understand why you cut to Submarine at 3:21 while you're still dicsussing Jonathan Creek?
--Why did you cut to Let It Die at 2:50? I'm slightly confused by this, especially since you don't mention the game again until later, and the clip (to me) doesn't show how a protagonist is willing to "get their hands dirty"--for all I know it's just a random dude on a skateboard.
--I really like the Jonathan Creek section and the music paired with it.
--The kind of sudden transition to Let It Die would have been smoother, I think, with a "Speaking of which," at 3:36.
--For the most part, the video editing is quite good--nice job! There are a few cuts I don't think work, but I believe you'll only improve with time. If you'd like to know what they are, let me know.
--Most of the comics you show are in French, but some of them were in English. Not sure if that was a mistake, or perhaps because some of the comics weren't translated, or what.
--My favorite edit is at 4:48, where you fade in the Paddington cover directly over the Paddington on the screen--that's a wonderful fade-in!
As for video editing programs, I recently downloaded the free version of DaVinci Resolve, and though I've been using it for a VERY short amount of time, it looks to be a good program that will likely give you what you're looking for (from what you said on Twitter)--check it out.
For your first video, you're off to a good start. I eagerly look forward to the next Clothes In Storytelling video. :) Also, if you'd ever want to collaborate on a video essay sometime, I'd very much welcome it. Keep up the awesomeness, Katy!
I'll check out DaVinci Resolve, thank you very much! I've been doing research on software, and so far I've found Kdenlive beta and Shotcut, but DaVinci Resolve looks really polished. :)
I actually haven't seen No. 6 (I had to read up on it and the characters for the video). Ack, I can't believe I mistitled No. 6 as No. 9, those kinds of misprints annoy the heck out of me. >o< I'm sorry to hear it's not a good manga. Jonathan Creek is a fun detective series, and I recommend it. (It's basically about a magician's set designer solving "impossible crimes" using his knowledge of illusions). The song I used during that scene is "Danse Macabre," and it's the series' opening theme music (though I used a Kevin MacLeod cover of it to dodge YT's auto ContentIDSystem).
I've written some notes I need to keep in mind for my next video, from your critique:
- Add better flow in the writing. This reminds me of Every Frame a Painting's advice on avoiding "And Then" transitions and to use "Therefore" transitions instead. I think I used too many "And Then"s and not enough "Therefore"s.
- Use more "Speaking of which" and music fade transitions. (Hopefully this was just an issue from using OpenShot, since I hand to cut the video up into six sections to avoid OpenShot crashing). Editing the video as a single file should make transitioning scenes and music way smoother (hopefully!).
- Use sound effects sparingly and consistently.
- Double-check audio levels for the narration to keep it consistent.
To answer your questions:
- The cut at 2:50 shows Death fall off his skateboard, in reference to "characters willing to make mistakes." I'll need to consider making my cuts clearer.
- Some of the Gaston comics do not have English translations (publisher Cinebook announced in 2017 that they plan on releasing English translations, but the English versions I used were fan-translated), and some of the English versions I found were too low-res quality to use compared to the French versions.
- The cut to Submarine at 3:21 is used as another example of duffle coats used in a modern setting (as Submarine came out after Jonathan Creek and I wanted to use multiple examples).
- I'm pretty sure the audio is from rendering. At first, I thought it was a refrigerator in the background, but I can't hear the clicking sound in the raw audio (I used the Noise Removal filter in Audacity). The clicking's only in the rendered version. The good news there is that it hopefully won't be a problem in the next video since I won't use OpenShot again.
Thank you so much for all your feedback. Listing the video's strengths and weaknesses is incredibly useful to me for future videos. And like I've said before, your videos really inspired me to make this. :)
I'm glad I could help, and that my work inspires you. :,) Hopefully my comment wasn't too overwhelming. ^^;
What's the difference between mens and women's
Some more modern duffle coats have added a different cut for women (to fit the form more), but generally, the coat is agender, originally for men in the elements, like on a sea voyage. For example, Gloverall's, one of the most reputable places to buy duffle coats, appears to have "women's swing" duffle coats that create a waist, and drop the hem of coat lower and wider, with a wavy cut, like a dress. This markedly changes the look of the coat.
@@Katy133 thank you so much! Thinking of buying a second hand gloverall with a bit of ware, or a second hand burberry in better condition but twice the price. What's your opinion
@@epicmadnesss I think whichever you'd prefer. This is a coat you'll be using, so the one you can most imagine yourself wearing sounds like the right call to me.
@@Katy133 good advice, I'm guessing there's not much difference between gloverall and burberry both 100% wool
freaking dragon maid anime
The kids these days could use a duffle coat.