I can haz youtube video? June 17, 2009
Posted by Ian in Miscellaneous.Tags: History, youtube
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Given the growing trend of educational and otherwise interesting videos on youtube I figured I’d have a go at it to see what I could do after I discovered Windows Movie Maker was included with windows.
I was curious how easy it was to make a video and upload it to youtube and have had this idea floating around my mind based on a song by Pain of Salvation called Deus Nova where they count up human population since 10,000 BC.
There is no particular point to this video other than to make a video but what is the point of a blog if you can’t show off your creations? Actually I think it came out quite well in the end given how little effort it took but anyway here it is:
That’s cool Ian. Quite possibly the best combination of metal and graphs I’ve seen.
One criticism though: you’ve clearly got your figures wrong. The chart should start at 4000BC with two people.
Is that the result of viewing lots of videos combining metal and graphs?
I’ve already thought of two improvements (how do proper video makers ever get happy with their products?) I should have made the date appear separately from the data point so it matched the song better and also the music/image should pause longer on the final graph (for impact).
And dammit, I knew something about the numbers appeared wrong. There isn’t a big dip for the flood either…
(shameless dig)
…great video Ian! (that’s the honest bit)
…but it’s a bit anthropocentric, don’t you think? Why not measure the growth of the number of trees?
Find me a song covering the growth in tree numbers and I’m all over it