Video - Fresh water fish coctail.

[Sharp]

I made my latest underwater video of fresh water fish cocktail: pike, perch, burbot and crayfish. I put the funky music and train again narration. :)

Here is Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/user/syvapurppura#p/a/u/0/3VauzPrfy4M)and here is WMV version 66Mb (http://www.pasilensu.com/video/valkiajarvi_summer_diving_narration_and_music.wmv) from my web site. Original MPEG version is 900Mb.

[sorvju-f]

I made my latest underwater video of fresh water fish cocktail: pike, perch, burbot and crayfish. I put the funky music and train again narration. :)

Here is Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/user/syvapurppura#p/a/u/0/3VauzPrfy4M)and here is WMV version 66Mb (http://www.pasilensu.com/video/valkiajarvi_summer_diving_narration_and_music.wmv) from my web site. Original MPEG version is 900Mb.

Lets have to this tread at least one comment:p

I would cut this episode to half of it's time ( 4 to 5 minutes max ). There are good shootings, but some of them are absolutely too long...they can easily kill the interest. Also I noticed that this other fish ( the name is made ) was placed in several places...better to have own sequence for it. When you are UW try to remember editing the story later on...I mean that you should have the RHYTM...wide angle, close up, panning, tilting, moving objects ( in, out, from left to right, from right to left, close, far ), objects in different part of the screen...moving and still. Try to do cutting with 2 to 4 second clips.
Underwater wrecks with different angles, close to far, with diver far and close. That makes good editing much easier later on.

With this all I absolutely do not mean that you have failed...I am just saying that the interest of audience can be lost very easily...RHYTM, cutting, story and of course sound and narration are the ways to keep on the interest.

To get comments to video needs really something to comment...you can have a look how many comment are given to Jonathan's Blue world videos...and they have been seen by millions of "views"!

Jukka

[Sharp]

Lets have to this tread at least one comment:p

I would cut this episode to half of it's time ( 4 to 5 minutes max ). There are good shootings, but some of them are absolutely too long...they can easily kill the interest. Also I noticed that his other fish ( the name is made ) was placed in several places...better to have own sequence for it. When you are UW try to remember editing the story later on...I mean that you should have the RHYTM...wide angle, close up, panning, tilting, moving objects ( in, out, from left to right, from right to left, close, far ), objects in different part of the screen...moving and still. Try to do cutting with 2 to 4 second clips.
Underwater wrecks with different angles, close to far, with diver far and close. That makes good editing much easier later on.

With this all I absolutely do not mean that you have failed...I am just saying that the interest of audience can be lost very easily...RHYTM, cutting, story and of course sound and narration are the ways to keep on the interest.

To get comments to video needs really something to comment...you can have a look how many comment are given to Jonathan's Blue world videos...and they have been seen by millions of "views"!

Jukka

Thank you for you feedback Jukka! I knew you that you will comment sooner or later.:)

Yes, video is too long. It should be much shorter. Cutting the video is like cutting your own heart. I can get that kind of video only from Valkiajärvi lake. If I try to shoot video near my home town Savonlinna it would be un possible, because the water is so brown. Or at least I could get short videos.;)

Sometimes it would be good that some other person would do the cutting. Like we have mentioned earlier that it is much more easy to make one cood picture than one good video.

[Jonathan Bird]

Nice and short with your best shots will always be more interesting to the viewer than too long and not all your best shots!

I edited a video for my wife of our wedding. Out of two hours of raw footage, I made the entire finished video 4 minutes long. It shows all the important stuff, is entertaining to watch, and nobody has ever not made it to the end.

[Andrew]

Hi Sharp,

I do not know why I did not see this video earlier as this was posted more than 6 months ago!

Anyway... I really enjoyed it... well the start :D I am sorry to say (as Jukka and Jonathan have already said) it is a bit long and looses interest after a while... that is from from someone with a real interest in the underwater world. I am not sure how polite non-divers or photographer/videographers would be :rolleyes:

If you take some of Jukka's Red Sea trip videos as an example they are nice and short which just gives you a taste of what we saw and shows the best bits but without having to switch off and even a non-diver would enjoy them, not because the filming or editing is better but the attention span of people is very short. Jukka's video camera was in overdrive in the Red Sea and if he was not filming with it someone else was, so it shows how much footage he took for how little video he produced on each subject.

Just my 2c but good job!
Andrew

[Sharp]

Hi Sharp,

I do not know why I did not see this video earlier as this was posted more than 6 months ago!

Anyway... I really enjoyed it... well the start :D I am sorry to say (as Jukka and Jonathan have already said) it is a bit long and looses interest after a while... that is from from someone with a real interest in the underwater world. I am not sure how polite non-divers or photographer/videographers would be :rolleyes:

If you take some of Jukka's Red Sea trip videos as an example they are nice and short which just gives you a taste of what we saw and shows the best bits but without having to switch off and even a non-diver would enjoy them, not because the filming or editing is better but the attention span of people is very short. Jukka's video camera was in overdrive in the Red Sea and if he was not filming with it someone else was, so it shows how much footage he took for how little video he produced on each subject.

Just my 2c but good job!
Andrew

Thank you Andrew for you feedback!