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It’s a “get off my lawn” take from someone who has worked in video and film for well over a decade. I have almost never watched a video tutorial an any subject
by fetzu 2y ago
It’s a “get off my lawn” take from someone who has worked in video and film for well over a decade. I have almost never watched a video tutorial an any subject and thought “that was informative and a good use of my time”. As others have pointed out, there is absolutely a way to show step by step how to do something with “static” media. Take the example of an IKEA assembly manual: think about how they are well conceived, and now imagine the absolute hell of having a video showing you the same instructions. Think of all the pauses, rewinds and fast forwards that would be necessary.
And since we are doing half-assed attacks, yours is a very naive take. Setting aside that most “short form video” on social media is not even used to actually convey information (as in the “productivity/office” sense of the original article), the reason video is dominating social media is because 1) advertisers pay way more to have ads shown before a video than among static content and 2) it is much more complicated to do Ad Blocking on video than on static content.
- uuddlrlrbaba 2y agoHah, well it wasn't an attack. But nice job digging in the heels in and flashing those senior credentials. That's impressive or something. At any rate... We can have both written text and video media. And we will have both. It's pointless trying to present one as better than the other. They will exist in parallel. There are troves of information in short form. Information spreads among young people who own phones more rapidly than ever before. Not sure what to tell you. Maybe scroll some tiktok videos about programming and find out.
- uuddlrlrbaba 2y agoAlso, the IKEA manual is a step by step visual guide that contains essentially no text. There are few to no written words in their instructions so no translation is needed between languages. Only numeric quantities and part identifiers. It basically already is a slide show. Add some chapters and it'd be fine as a video. Pause and unpause as you progress.
- jdgoesmarching 2y ago> I have almost never watched a video tutorial an any subject and thought “that was informative and a good use of my time”. I’ve use video tutorials for everything from home renovations to cloud certifications, Minecraft builds, woodworking projects, software dev, and my graduate degree. This is kind of absolutism towards video is absolutely a get off my lawn take, regardless of your industry ties. I think it’s especially ridiculous to pretend that the current state of most written media on the web is dramatically superior. I wish people ITT could just accept that they have a bias towards the medium they’re more comfortable with instead of pretending there’s some objective fault in things other people prefer.