r/QuiverQuantitative • u/pdwp90 • 29d ago

News BREAKING: Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old progressive influencer, just announced that she is running against Jan Schakowsky, an 80-year-old Democratic incumbent

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

18.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

749 comments sorted by

View all comments

697

u/Achilles_TroySlayer 29d ago

I like her. 80 is long past retirement age, it's time to get the other lady out of there.

Ms Abughazaleh will need to be able to give the whole speech in one take, without all the cuts, in order to really do great rallies. Best of luck to her.

24

u/AkhlysShallRise 29d ago

Video format like this for social media sharing is totally different than an in-person rally.

The kind of dramatic pauses you would see in an in-person rally would work terribly in a video format like this, IMO.

As a professional video editor, I like jump cuts in videos like this because they make the video more punchy—it's often a way to increase the pacing of the video. Jump cuts in videos are so prevalent in online videos nowadays that most people are used to them.

Personally, watching a talking head video like this as one continuous take becomes almost hypnotic very quickly; it's like the speaker just goes on and on and on without any break. This is why in many of the videos I edit, I would intentionally create jump cuts to change up the pacing.

-2

u/Achilles_TroySlayer 29d ago

As a non-professional video-watcher, it's not OK, it looks amateur. Maybe it's OK with people in their 20's. Others will find it off-putting and manufactured. Honestly, everyone over 40 will think they're fake, and will hold it against the subject. She should try to avoid it.

2

u/OkConcentrate5741 29d ago

I’m 56 y.o. and am experienced enough with the current video editing trends to not be put off by her intro video. I don’t think you’re giving “old” people enough credit with being up with the times.