crimson vessel
Hi guys, I'm looking for some people to look at my video and give me feedback on what's boring or not well done. It's hard for me to see things in a third person perspective and I get really nervous to post, I'm just being honest. Whenever I see myself I think, nobody is gonna want to watch this. https://youtu.be/KEGTNtfLEKw?si=mBkvyn2R5GlnKCz5
Let me know what you guys honestly think. I can make videos like this every 2 weeks...
I'm not afraid of any criticism.
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hexed radish
Hi guys, I'm looking for some people to look at my video and give me feedback on...
You went to film school right? The shot composition, color grading, pacing, sound design, and the equipment you have access to are above the level of most youtubers. Most of us here are running on free tutorials and our iphones, so if anything I feel like you have a lot to teach us!
Your video is objectively high quality and im not qualified to comment on it, so the next trick is figuring out how to get people to check it out. Your content relies a lot on people caring about you, your life, and your thoughts on it. I think you're an interesting person at least, but I only found out after watching your video. So how do you get more people find out? Personally I think this challenge is going to be on how smartly you design your thumbnail & titles.
You can A/B 3 different title & thumbnails and I encourage you to take advantage of this every video so you can gather data on what works and what doesn't overtime, and I personally think at least 2 of them should be focused on vague ideas you mention in your videos. Something that sparks curiosity like "just start over."
Hope it works out for you!
wheat pendant
I will be honest. I’ve never seen a video with so much good quality that if you break into parts it’s good, but put together is messy.
Here is what I mean. Your intro hook is killer. What a poignant view on what content creation is, and learning overall. Very emotional. Hits a cord and then…
Rock music and playing in the snow. It changes the vibe of the video and I almost felt click baited. The hook sets a journey of learning, which I THINK you may have aimed it how a relationship may feel like that, but it’s like starting to talk about how exciting is to drive a car and then you switch to a wheelbarrow and the video is about gardening. Just because those thing have wheels doesn’t mean they mesh.
The hook didn't properly set the tone of the rest of the video. It'd be better if it had been the same idea but you and your fiance in the kitchen table, and she is talking about how she sees relationships. Same idea as before, but this time it sets the proper expectation.
Then after you go into again an emotional but happy journey with your finance, you cut back to your friend editing. It left me wondering what your video is even about. Mastering a new skill? Marriage? Professional success?
The end is just…a montage of music and shots that was aimed to wrap things up, but you can take it out and changes nothing IMO.
I know I sounds like a meanie, but outside of that the QUALITY each individual thing is so damn high. That’s great.
I think what is missing is a CLEAR journey, and that’s why things feel disjointed. If the video is about relationships, then the hook must set that, and there needs to be a climax and wrap up. The climax here is “leave it to god”, and that’s okay but it leaves me as the viewer wondering “okay, so should I leave things to god too?” It needs just a bit more of you, the human living life, giving a message to the viewer to provide value as they watched your journey. What is the value to them? Just to see your life?
Then you can wrap up with lessons learned or stating the challenges you need to work on, a bit like you finished, and personally I connected with that A LOT. Then you can end it with the montage for maybe 5 seconds of you and your fiancé. IF that was what this video is about. I am still not sure.
Again, I apologize if it sounds like I am being mean. I am not trying to, but you have a lot of good raw material that just needs a bit of polish and you’ll end with something amazing.
hoary lava
Hey Elijah, I’m going to be very honest with you. This is not a boring video. At all.
From a technical standpoint, you clearly know what you’re doing. The editing, the pacing, the music choices, the sound design; it all feels intentional. This doesn’t feel like a “first nervous upload.” It feels like someone who understands filmmaking.
The energy is there. The musicality especially stood out to me, the way you used sound to support moments was really well done. Now, if I had to give one piece of constructive feedback, it would be about clarity of direction.
While watching, I sometimes felt like I wasn’t fully sure what the main thread or “plot” was supposed to be. The first part felt like it was building toward something meaningful (maybe metaphorical), and the second part kind of supported that, but by the third section, I wasn’t entirely sure how everything connected.
That doesn’t make it bad. The shots are great. The quality is high. It just felt slightly scattered in terms of narrative cohesion. If you tighten the central idea and make the through line clearer, I honestly think your videos could hit even harder.
But genuinely, this is not a “nobody’s going to watch this” type of video. That thought sounds more like nerves than reality haha. So don't worry, you’ve got skill. Now it’s just about sharpening the message.
My two cents, hope this helps :)
crimson vessel
Thank you guys, you're right, it does feel disjointed, I was going for a vlog/film combo. What I think would help is honestly making the videos longer so that I have clips and thoughts that transition the different parts of the video. I do want to bring people on a visual journey, but I'm starting to see that not everyone understands the context like I do. I'm going to post this video and move on to the next one and hopefully my narratives improve as I get practice. Thank you for the criticism it helps me know where to focus on.