Originally Posted By Mr X <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_922988" target="_blank">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=...t_922988</a> Is this put out by the Obama campaign, or is that something else they're working on. In any case, this old scandal is certainly new to many of us..and worth examining very closely given the fact that we're supposed to be paying close attention to who Obama associates with!
Originally Posted By mawnck See upper right corner of that webpage. It's straight from the Obama campaign, and was released with much hoohoo yesterday. My review: Lousy video. One of the hardest things about being a video editor for corporate clients (this is a first hand pontification here) is trying to convince the client that they're going to have to delete some of the stuff they like to get the video down to a reasonable length. Apparently political campaigns have the same problem. That was a 3 minute video stretched to 13 1/2 minutes - boring as all get-out. It meanders around without scoring any points. There is a really devastating video sloshing around in there, but they didn't find it. They could start by trimming about 90% of the pretty but pointless animation at the beginning. I can't believe how long that went on. BTW - other than the animation, I'm pretty sure they edited the whole video over the weekend. It looks like a rush job - basic edits, no effects and very little graphics work. PS - Why widescreen when they knew it was going on YouTube?
Originally Posted By dshyates "One of the hardest things about being a video editor for corporate clients (this is a first hand pontification here) is trying to convince the client that they're going to have to delete some of the stuff they like to get the video down to a reasonable length." Not just for length. Sometimes its also cultural. I was cutting a video for a chinese company called Smile Industries. It is the worlds largest toy manufacturer. they have a huge campus with 27,000 employees that live on site. I recieved the footage 2 days before the CEO showed up and I had a rough cut ready for viewing. I had cut in all the great shots of lotus blossom surrounded gazeebos and the work floor of the million sewing machines hard at work. I left out the Metropolis-like migration at the morning whistle, and the shots of the kitchen that had a dirt floor and cooking rice in car sized kettles over a fire. I also left out the jail cell like dormaories. When the CEO showed up and viewed the rough cut, he lost it. He wanted to show "his" workforce and his control and generosity by providing rice cooked in a dirt floor kitchen and jail-like living conditions. Considering the purpose of the video being a sales video it was hard to explain that while the video he wanted may play well in Russia and Southeast Asia, it would scare the crap out of American companies. He was sort of like Eisner in that to him watching slave-like labor toiling away is a BEAUTIFUL thing. But in America, in general, sweat-shops are looked down upon. He didn't get it. So I cut the video he wanted. It ended up looking like a Metropolis remake done in Hong Kong. He loved it.
