The Bad:
This informative video is designed to teach beginners about the basics of diabolo (also known as Chinese yoyo). While the content is decent (and I'm rather impressed with the fact that the video is composed of a single take), the greatest flaw is that the video is incredibly boring. The video could have benefited from incorporating various shots from different angles, both to provide some visual variety and to give the audience better angles from which to view the action. Furthermore, the audio and video eventually become desynchronized, distracting potential audiences and further detracting from the overall effect. Finally, creating a video from multiple clips could have actually cut down on the total video length while still delivering the same content in more concise and clear manner.
The Good:
This video is a great example of effectively combining photo, video, and interview audio to create a compelling multimedia project that tells a story. Introducing the concept of "UrbEx," Matthew Bate interviewed Vic Invades, an "UrbExer," to get the inside scoop on extreme urban exploration and photography. The resulting video is paced extremely well (balancing between dialogue for exposition and a mixture of raw video and still photos for effect) and uses first-person video very effectively to capture what it feels like to be an "UrbExer" for the audience.
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