Right?! I’m thinking it could solve so many of the questions on this forum.
Even simple steps like cutting the pieces off the sprue can lead to questions, like when you’re dealing with tiny pieces, for example (“How do I cut something so small without breaking it?”)
An uncut build video would be hard to watch. With proper camera angles decent script and good editing, a short video showing the important stuff would be better. If I did an uncut video, the run time could span years! And who would want that?
I can’t say I would. For some things it would become tedious to watch to a certain point for example road wheels once you see one sanded and put together is there much of a reason to see the other nineteen?
Guys (and girls?)! You’re not getting it. Maybe I’m at fault for not wording the title properly.
I’m not asking “Who would enjoy sitting and watching a 20-hour long video, Stanley Kubrick-style?”
I’m asking, “Who thinks we could do with a few of these-type videos on YouTube?”
Think about it: what’s one of the purposes of these forums? To ask questions about detailed things. Why not have a video in which you could skip to the part where the professional modeler him/herself shows you practically & visually how they do it?
If you don’t need it, it would only be another one of millions of videos on YouTube you don’t need, but I know for me, when I was starting out, I would’ve loved something like this: to be able to skip and forward AT MY PACE, not at the pace of the video creator, purely for reference.
I completely expected people to dismiss the idea, but as a thought experiment, would NO ONE ELSE be interested in this? It would be like being in a workshop, only this workshop can be accessed at any time.
Here, but only a couple a year. Check out “Grafting a Forrestal hull…” in ships.
Your idea has a lot of merit and it’s been done in various ways, but it is a good suggestion.
I’d rather watch something like that as opposed to the endless vids where you spend 15 minutes watching some one you can’t see take all of the parts of a kit out of a box.
If it’s something you want to do, go for it and let the viewers decide. Would I watch something that long? Depends on the subject and how entertaining the presentation is. I don’t know if YouTube will let you upload a video of that length without having to break it up.
As soon as i open a build thread and see its a video, i click straight off. I would rather just see photo’s and an explantion with detailed pics of any images.
Not sure whether it’s advancing age (and the curmudgeonliness that goes along with it) or the hyper-saturation of video ‘content’ these days…but my patience and attention span for any but the best you-tube type videos these days is about a minute.
Hearing some guy fumble for words to improvise as he opens a box and counts sprues for the camera is most often just excruciating. Having worked in media advertising for some years…where the dictum is, “figure out your message and get it across as quickly and concisely as you can”…watching some well-meaning eight-ball with (apparently) all the time in the world sharing his modeling ‘wisdom’ is something akin to root-canal.
(End of old-guy rant. Can I have my pudding-cup now? [::DD0])
To be a little more on-topic…the previously-mentioned idea of splitting up a long-process video into sequence steps – clearly-labled and described – would be the reasonable way to go. Even fast-forwarding through the vid…stopping, reversing, and hitting ‘play’ when something might be useful…is an exercise in frustration much of the time.
Editing (and some idea of real well-thought-out step-by-step presentation) can be a very good thing.
Depends on the background music. I’m still looking for the YourTube requirement that your video must have annoying background music, because videos like this seem to have that. Also, don’t forget that the voice has to be in a digitized, strange accent that will put you to sleep in ten minutes.
Every video will need the cute dog, cat, or child in the background. Its good drama seeing a tail, nose, ears, or a paw coming up over the edge of the workbench.