Very interesting, I've always found it hard to stick to a script personally. Everything i've ever done while can be generally "Planned" and I have to follow routines I don't do scripts if you catch my drift? Every presentation I've ever done I've only ended up "winging" it and I've always been told I can present myself as knowing what I am talking about if in reality I'm just making up most of it up on the spot. Seeing you without your script is very interesting, obviously I've spoken to you outside of your videos so know how you generally speak so I know your Lite Rites Narration/Talky voice isn't your day to day way of speaking but taking the script away really shows the contrast :) Very interesting video 10/10 never really considered this before. Also I heard about Forced Entertainment before.. no idea where possibly from the media but it's a cool concept! It is its own cool form of performance art and challenges what the average viewer expects from performances.
Thank you for watching it and trying to see where I was at with this kind of thing. It's a weird style, and I think something that came out as a byproduct was something of an example that being a content creator you're expected to make material to a certain format or style because that's what resonates with the audience, it gets those emotional buttons pressed in order for better engagement to be had. I suppose going against that and seeing how wildly differing the responses has been, turned out to be one of the most interesting parts for me. I was initially nervous to release something that I feel is so incohesive or jarring to watch but... I'm also interested by how much I'm relying on that script so... yeah! Thank you for your thoughts!
Breaking down the art to get into what you actually enjoy about it... Really great point, and I hadn't thought of it that way before. This essay definitely inspired me :)
This was a really fascinating video to watch. I really enjoyed that you go out of your way to break down what you hope to achieve by telling stories and presenting analysis through this medium while also taking the risk of actively distancing yourself from the typical format of the medium. I thought that discussing your previous distaste for Forced Entertainment was a really good way of easing into the experimental style without it being a jarring or unpleasant shift. You're writing for an audience, but you're writing for an audience you assume will be interested enough in what you have to say to stay engaged, even while you do something very unconventional. Your video essay on Diane Nguyen and commercialised trauma was the first of your content that I saw, and watching it then I was immediately struck by how earnest you are in your telling of personal stories. You're bluntly honest in a way that, as you say here, is not crafted to bring in an audience. In the video on trauma you allude to your own traumas, as well as your struggling with various aspects of the creative process, but not in the typical "therapy is okay and you're not broken for seeking help" or "everybody has trouble writing sometimes, but just keep at it" way that content creators often will to present themselves as kind or as a role model. You don't do it for likeability, you do it to give context to why you've created the video you have and what it means to you. Now seeing this video on the subversion of format, this offers even more insight on how you create and why you choose to tell the stories you do. Thank you for sharing your work, it's incredibly refreshing to see these glimpses of your process and how they all come together in your video essays.
You are a brave soul. :) “Video essay” is a very broad term, but I do think it’s important to remember that it’s okay to break convention sometimes. “A video essay about a celebrity told only through their interviews” Dave Chapelle: Written by Dave Chapelle reference?
Yeah I think this was the result of me getting frustrated at the process of making video essays hahaha - and it was weirdly enough a Gabbie Hanna video with the quotes throughout thing!
Theatre seems to be really lacking in people engaging with it on RUclips, maybe since it deals with a different context that excludes technology we use like phones etc, so there's less of a link there, I'd love to see how we can use Theatre and this platform together though!
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Very interesting, I've always found it hard to stick to a script personally. Everything i've ever done while can be generally "Planned" and I have to follow routines I don't do scripts if you catch my drift? Every presentation I've ever done I've only ended up "winging" it and I've always been told I can present myself as knowing what I am talking about if in reality I'm just making up most of it up on the spot. Seeing you without your script is very interesting, obviously I've spoken to you outside of your videos so know how you generally speak so I know your Lite Rites Narration/Talky voice isn't your day to day way of speaking but taking the script away really shows the contrast :)
Very interesting video 10/10 never really considered this before. Also I heard about Forced Entertainment before.. no idea where possibly from the media but it's a cool concept! It is its own cool form of performance art and challenges what the average viewer expects from performances.
Thank you for watching it and trying to see where I was at with this kind of thing. It's a weird style, and I think something that came out as a byproduct was something of an example that being a content creator you're expected to make material to a certain format or style because that's what resonates with the audience, it gets those emotional buttons pressed in order for better engagement to be had. I suppose going against that and seeing how wildly differing the responses has been, turned out to be one of the most interesting parts for me. I was initially nervous to release something that I feel is so incohesive or jarring to watch but... I'm also interested by how much I'm relying on that script so... yeah! Thank you for your thoughts!
Breaking down the art to get into what you actually enjoy about it... Really great point, and I hadn't thought of it that way before. This essay definitely inspired me :)
This was a really fascinating video to watch. I really enjoyed that you go out of your way to break down what you hope to achieve by telling stories and presenting analysis through this medium while also taking the risk of actively distancing yourself from the typical format of the medium. I thought that discussing your previous distaste for Forced Entertainment was a really good way of easing into the experimental style without it being a jarring or unpleasant shift. You're writing for an audience, but you're writing for an audience you assume will be interested enough in what you have to say to stay engaged, even while you do something very unconventional.
Your video essay on Diane Nguyen and commercialised trauma was the first of your content that I saw, and watching it then I was immediately struck by how earnest you are in your telling of personal stories. You're bluntly honest in a way that, as you say here, is not crafted to bring in an audience. In the video on trauma you allude to your own traumas, as well as your struggling with various aspects of the creative process, but not in the typical "therapy is okay and you're not broken for seeking help" or "everybody has trouble writing sometimes, but just keep at it" way that content creators often will to present themselves as kind or as a role model. You don't do it for likeability, you do it to give context to why you've created the video you have and what it means to you. Now seeing this video on the subversion of format, this offers even more insight on how you create and why you choose to tell the stories you do. Thank you for sharing your work, it's incredibly refreshing to see these glimpses of your process and how they all come together in your video essays.
Thank you for slowly making your way through all of my content, I'm glad you seem to like my channel in general!
You are a brave soul. :)
“Video essay” is a very broad term, but I do think it’s important to remember that it’s okay to break convention sometimes.
“A video essay about a celebrity told only through their interviews”
Dave Chapelle: Written by Dave Chapelle reference?
Yeah I think this was the result of me getting frustrated at the process of making video essays hahaha - and it was weirdly enough a Gabbie Hanna video with the quotes throughout thing!
Amazing video, great subject. You breathe in character into your videos, I love that.
I learned about these plays in the one theater class I took at uni. I really like them and I’m happy to see them talked about!
Theatre seems to be really lacking in people engaging with it on RUclips, maybe since it deals with a different context that excludes technology we use like phones etc, so there's less of a link there, I'd love to see how we can use Theatre and this platform together though!
GREAT video!!!
This is so extremely cool
gut gemacht (: