Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Pre-Video Assignment, Fontelieu

Good video:


This video was very entertaining and kept my interest the whole time. It portrayed an interesting unison of two things that don't often overlap: queerness and "gangster" rap. It follows the life and career of "Deadlee" as he finds that he's unable to fit well into the queer community because he doesn't produce the typical type of music they like. His narration is very seamlessly interwoven into the video, in a way, where by the end of the 3-minute segment you feel familiar with him and want to root for him. There are a lot of shots of his face, but from a wide variety of angles and distances to keep it interesting.

Bad video: 


This video was about a hot air balloon festival in Sonoma, and it was honestly just very dull. The shots felt like things I'd already seen before; not a lot of creativity was put into the angles used. I also never got the point of why the festival was important or why I should care about it. The narration was from a man whose name flashed across the screen but of who no other information was revealed. He just talked about the mechanics of how hot air balloons worked for most of the clip, which felt odd for the subject of a news segment. If this video was framed around, a certain family's trip to the festival, it would have been much more interesting. 

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