The piece of media I
have selected to analyze is actually a movie review from a little while ago. This video has been taken from a long catalog
of reviews, but has been selected based on the running time of the video, which
goes over 4 minutes. The reviewer
himself is Bob Chipman better known by his online persona as Movie Bob. Movie Bob used to write, edit, and narrate, reviews
on his own YouTube channel, but now he creates content for the
"escapistmagazine" website at "escapistmagazine.com." The film he is reviewing in the video is the
James Bond film "Skyfall" which came out in 2012. In his videos, Bob reviews films by reading
from a script he has written and dubbing a collection of screen shots and video
clips. not only does he use clips from
the film he is talking about, but he also takes images and clips from other
films, movies, and sometimes even video games, to help better illustrate the
points he is trying to make. one can
tell from watching his videos that he has had a lot of practice, because each
clip and image lead into each other so well.
This style of editing captures the viewers attention by switching from
image to image in such a quick succession that the viewer is paying even closer
attention in order not to miss the next image.
The sound quality of the narration and video clips is also top notch as
no interference or distortion can be heard, this is a sign that Bob is using
high quality equipment to record and edit.
Bob opens and finishes every video with and intro and outro credit
sequence, and credits all the people that have helped him work on the video, as
well as citing and crediting every image and clip taken from a copyrighted
property. It's this type of
craftsmanship and love for the form that makes me excited to join the world of
media. Hopefully one day I will be able
to put out a quality product like this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZiJsxR336w
