Absolutely! immediately followed up with a full 8 hour viewing of Warhol’s cinematic masterpiece “Empire”
(this is a 10 minute clip that really doesn’t do justice but gives you a small taste)
I agre not practical but what I ad envisioned was music in the background setting a theme and changing the speed of posts popping up according to relevance. Just a passing thought.
Depends on how creative it was - Quite possibly. God knows, I’ve quite literally consumed popcorn whilst watching a melt-down or trainwreck thread happening.
It seems to me, done right, it could be quite compelling.
ISTM post #20 describes the main obstacle.
I have a preferred pace for reading and absorbing info. So do you. The difference between what works for the fastest and slowest audience member is probably 5x. You’re not going to be able to make a conventional movie that both extremes can watch together.
I listen to audio podcasts while driving. Typically at 1.5x or 1.8x normal speed. On rare occasion I’ll turn them down to normal speed. Wherein they A) sound like normal people conversing and B) bore me to tears by the third sentence.
I’m sure there are people who’d listen to the same dialog and want it slowed down from 1.0x normal so they could keep up. Heck, my preferred speed depends a bunch on how much they’re telling me novel stuff or rehashing something I already know a bit about.
I think your idea *could *work as long as it was something people watched as individuals (e.g. YouTube), and there was a variable speed control.
Absent that it’ll be epic fail.
I don’t think it would work (but what do I know)?
There are several plays that consist of letters written back and forth between two or more people; they’re often staged with actors reading the letters their characters have written. But those often don’t work as movies because we’re willing to accept the limitations of a theater and understand why we can’t see the characters do the things they’re writing about, but in a movie there’s no reason that it couldn’t be filmed.
Why do you think it should be a movie rather than some other media?
A novel is the first choice. The silent movie thing was more of a passing thought
Regarding FFing.
I can often FF thru a movie with subtitles at double speed on my DVR. I’m not sure about higher speeds since the progress bar obscures them. (No, I don’t know why it goes away at 2x and doesn’t at higher speeds.)
FFing via other devices is usually more problematical. E.g., they only do the small thumbnail thing, or it’s herky-jerky and skipping stuff, etc.
Yeah, if the text is on screen long enough for slower readers to parse, then it’s on screen long enough for faster readers to zip thru. If the viewer can’t adjust the speed you’re going to annoy at least one group.