TimFok

I am all for forgetting tech, immersing oneself into a video. Ignoring the 'they should have shot it like this' or 'how did they do that' voices circling in my head. With that said, and after reading the comments on here I really wanted to just enjoy this video for what it was, but I have to agree with others (at a somewhat less negative level) - I found this hard to watch. I appreciate the rough-around-the-edges effect, it works great in a lot of productions. But there's also a threshold, and a thin line between "rough around the edges" and bad camera work (for use of a better term). I think exploring a gimbal device may have worked well here, using it this intimate run and gun style it would have created the rough-around-the-edges effect whilst not distracting the viewer from the subject, which is what I felt - distracted. It was really hard to make out any of the cool DIY setups they'd gone to the effort in making, I found myself pausing the video a lot to grasp what I was viewing and avoid the camera shake.