It seems like it’s very common–maybe almost universal?–for video blogs to contain jump cuts every five seconds or so. It may just be a person sitting in front of the camera talking, but still, you’re going to see constant jumps throughout the video.
Nothing wrong with this, it’s just something I noticed.
It solves some problems of course–a single take may have too many mistakes in it, and it keeps the thing visually interesting to a degree.
My questions are:
Is this style of video blog editing known to have originated or evolved from any particular source? Or is it just an obvious solution that several people have independently arrived at?
Do people who do these things really sit there and do like ten takes or more? I’m so amazed by this. Why waste their time on this instead of wasting their time on Starcraft II and reading useless articles about trivial topics?
Also, how do neighborhoods manage to have mostly mown lawns? Being profoundly lazy, this is hard for me to comprehend.
Well, maybe they just reshoot the part they screwed up - they go along fine for a minute or so - blotch some line - realize their error, and then just start up a little before that line and reshoot. I don’t know, I generally watch only tutorial-type personal 'tubes (scale model painting & weathering, home & auto repair, furniture making and such), where the presenter is usually just doing voice-overs, and if they muff it…well, they correct themselves and move on.
If it’s just a talking-head video (as opposed to a ‘Talking Heads’ video), I usually take a pass on watching it…
Well, you (the home owner) will mow it or have a service mow it, or the landlord (if you are a renter) will mow it or have a service mow it, or the co-op association/REIT/whatever (if a co-op/condo/apartment complex) may have staff to mow it, or contact with a service to mow it.
In most cases in built up areas, if the lawn is NOT mown, but instead grows out of control, then the muncipality will eventually mow it and charge the homeowner quite a bit for fees and fines - not a good deal at all for the homeowner. This is very easy to comprehend…:dubious:
What’s also very easy to comprehend is the distinction between the comprehension of available information, and on the other hand the actual availability of information.
Indeed, it’s extremely easy for me to comprehend the words “If people don’t mow their lawns, people come around and charge them a lot of money.” And now that you have made the information expressed by those words available to me, I have accordingly comprehended it.
Well it’s not like it’s something that happens quickly or easily, and they don’t do a stellar job. If it ever got to that point the yard would be totally overgrown and all the municipality would do would be to cut it back to reveal any safety hazards and keep the growth from getting high. It’d be a pretty lousy looking yard even afterward.
So if you see a bunch of nice yards, it’s very unlikely that it was forcibly mowed. And one further, people who mow their own yards are very unlikely to be doing it out of fear of having the service forced on them. It’s just either a social pressure people conform to, or they get personal satisfaction from the mowed lawn. So SirRay bit about municipalities clearing overgrown yards is accurate but explains a very slim minority of cases.