welcome back today we're gonna be talking about pacing
pacing is basically the speed at which the plot or the story moves along now there's different
types of things that can define this it could be camera shots how quick the cuts can be it could
be camera movements let's say they're panning into a scene isn't that moving in that direction
how quickly are they going are they panning out let's say they want to track a shot are
they moving quickly when they're tracking it or are they just gently moving along it
can also be determined by dialogue if there is dialogue in that media so is the person pausing
for dramatic effect so generally speaking pacing can be defined in two different ways there's fast
paced and then there's slow paced obviously the words are self-explanatory but let's take
a deep dive into what those two actually mean i'm gonna be using movies primarily to describe these
two concepts of fast paced and slow paced but it can be applied in any form of media
fast pacing is usually reserved for action movies thrillers things that need to give you
the information or be as you know boom boom boom as possible i don't know what boom boom boom means
but generally speaking action movies move at a quicker pace than let's say a rom-com because they
want to keep you enticed and make the action seem more punchy as they punch each other i guess you
can see this with like you know camera movements in like a fight scene there'll be a lot of cuts
there's a lot of camera movements i mean there's no dialogue but if he dies he dies
i guess and a perfect example of a fast-paced movie to me in any case is and here we go
this city deserves a better glass of criminal
i'm gonna give it to her but this movie is 2 hours and 35 minutes yes two hours and 35 minutes but
you forget that it's that long because so many things are happening within that time frame and
that's what a good fast-paced movie does it's not too overwhelming contrasts that with a very
slow paced movie a slow paced movie obviously is a movie that takes its time with things
it moves slower than a fast-paced movie just to linger on things or to emphasize on things or
it doesn't want to overwhelm you with its plot or story this is usually reserved for you know horror
movies suspense movies rom-coms but my favorite slow-paced movie is there is an order to things
that's what we do here
we keep order blade runner 2049 which was released in 2017
as a sequel to a movie that was released in 1982
i hope i got those numbers correct this movie was directed by denis villenueve and he spoke
on this he said that he got a bit of pushback in the cinema because people were saying that
the movie was very very very slow paced but he's a great director and when great's directing meets
up with great storytelling you get a movie that even if it does go a very long time it pays it off
later on now i'm not saying it's all about payoffs because the journey to the payoff is as important
now he's also directed movies like sicario, dune and you might have to be patient you know
but i think if you watch them you might actually really like those movies now i just talked about
pacing and how it relates to movies i want to now touch on social media because that's where i
upload my stuff or i show off my content i hate that word i really hate that word
so i want to talk about three platforms and because i have been on these three platforms
and posted on these three platforms i can i think i can i think i can speak on it i
think i can touch on it you know just touch on it these three platforms are instagram
youtube and tick tock i'm still gonna go to facebook but my day's broke
let's start off with tick tock tick tock is very addictive and i think it's primarily addictive
because it is so fast paced it never gives you a chance to actually escape its platform and because
it's just a video platform it forces the creators to be very fast paced so that they capture you
as well now let's talk about youtube youtube has been the king of long formatted videos very very
very long time it has no time limit it has no aspect ratio limits it's very versatile because
recently they introduced shorts so you can do vertical videos like i'm doing right now i mean
where are we going people are going to be watching this on their phones primarily however what i've
seen also on youtube is that because people are generally not having the patience i'm seeing
youtubers actually having to cut a lot classic cases mr beast mr beast has got a chokehold in the
youtube community because he has figured out that hey i need to keep your attention i have to give
you a good story and i have to give it to you in the fastest way possible i recreated every single
set from squid game in real life in whichever one of these 456 people survives the longest wins 456
grand he'll be putting in text he'll be cutting he'll be giving different angles he will be
telling you the story in the quickest way in the finest way and i mean it's very hard for you to
click away because you're always engaged within that story and then finally we have instagram
i don't i don't know what to say about instagram like instagram is my least favorite platform to
post videos and i'll tell you for a simple simple reason it's not about reach it's
not about engagement it's not about likes it's not about all those things it's simply because
instagram compresses the living daylights out of my videos if i could capture zuckerberg and give
and say my guy can you compress my things better because i am uploading things that are crystal
clear on my screen 4k it looks so delicious but zaka zaka decides to compress my things
in if you compare the compression between youtube instagram and tick tock instagram fails all the
time and i think this is because instagram is trying to shift into the video format because
again tick tock has been a problem to them but here's a cool thing that you might have known
but didn't know instagram is actually the king of short content of the fastest
paced content in the world do you know what that content is pause for dramatic effect pictures
one second there are 20 pictures within that in sequence that are shot while the subject is moving
and that creates what a video 24 frames per second 30 frames per second 60 frames per second
120 frames per second it goes on and on they've been cameras that can do like a thousand frames
per second that is super slow motion so a video is a bunch of pictures so if you're complaining
that tick tock is too fast paced because you're just getting cuts and cuts and cuts and it's so
quick it's like 15 seconds instagram is one frame for infinity now you can choose that pace you can
look at a picture and not be excited by it scroll up quickly that was very fast paced
you can linger on it look at the detail and mark it that's very slow paced and i don't understand
why instagram is insisting on pushing videos and reels and compressing them in ungodly manners
i mean instagram is just uh i don't like it i really don't like it so what am i trying to say i
really don't like it am i trying to say that fast paced is good slow paced is bad no that's not what
i'm saying i'm saying if you're a content creator i hate the word if you create stuff it's up to
you what you want to do so i'd advise anyone who wants to do like long-term content to keep doing
it because the shorter form is very limiting and if you want to do long formats go to youtube open
your youtube and just experiment instead of being forced to be like here's 90 seconds be creative
really really 90 seconds but i want to hear from you do you like fast paced media do you
like slow paced media are you sick and tired of your timeline being filled with like punch
punch punch punch media i don't know you can comment down below and as always you can like
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