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I'm kinda put off by the production of these videos. It feels like some artsy vlog or artisan type video, but instead it's highres slowmo shots of someone's she
by inamberclad 7y ago
I'm kinda put off by the production of these videos. It feels like some artsy vlog or artisan type video, but instead it's highres slowmo shots of someone's sheet metal hut and the sunlight coming through smoke and dirt while they slog through another day with nearly nothing to show for it.
I feel like the videographers missed the point by trying to make it pretty.
- azinman2 7y agoThey’re trying to capture the story in a compelling, accessible way. I feel like the production quality helps honor the people and their stories, adding credibility.
- tobr 7y agoMaybe not surprising when you go to the world’s 2nd richest person, a person whose net worth keeps increasing by billions per year, to learn what it’s like to live on nothing.
- dgellow 7y agoBill Gates didn’t produce the videos himself ...
- MuffinFlavored 7y agoWhat percentage of his time and net worth has Bill Gates given to those in poverty over the years?
- hos234 7y agoThey do. Its a robotic form of expression you see everywhere these days. People are trained how to do one thing well for one context. They take that blindly and apply it to everything they see whether it fits or not. They do it blindly because thats what all the other "educated" folk are doing. Jaron Larnier has a nice term for it - digital maoism. You see it in how Journalists and news orgs behave when you visit poorer countries. They are all trying to be CNN in fancy suits and surrounded by flashy graphics covering a cancer ward with no electricity. You see it in the Entrepreneurs and Engineers who want to emulate Apple or Google, more worried about the smoothness of GUI and the typography and icons than thinking about why an uneducated poor person needs it. While this cognitive dissonant prettification style is all pervasive, whats really interesting is not everyone falls for it. Somehow nature has ensured populations will always have people who go the other way. And thank god for them.