Good: The Art Assignment's Better Know: The Starry Night
Since this is a video about a painting, there is a good variety of media in it/how the media itself is presented. Transitions and zooms are smooth, coupled with a good sense of design in some of the animations. There are quotes overlayed on paintings, photos, video clips. Also when talking about specific aspects of the painting, it zooms and labels the specific section. The narrator has good inflection and the subject matter (although well known) is presented from a new perspective. Videos about paintings are often hard to make engaging as the paintings are static, but this video kept it visually interesting enough to watch.
Bad: WatchMojo's Top 10 Painters of All Time
I thought something similar in subject matter would make for a good comparison. This one is much less engaging. There's not much variation in transitions: a lot of the time it was consecutive panning (or a zoom). The voiceover and images are only tangentially related, so it feels more like a PowerPoint slideshow than an interesting video. As for audio, there's some royalty-free music over the voiceover, but doesn't really suit the informative nature of the video. Since I'm watching this because to learn more about the subject, it doesn't do a great job of that either as most of the paintings shown are unlabeled/undated. All in all, while it does the job of being a top 10 list, the information presented feels generic and quickly put together.
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