Apologies
@Cymruflyer for the late reply! With school starting next week, I have been more than busy and I left this open to reply to you and then it slipped my mind!
Exactly that, the body ages, but the mind is still all there.
I see your point. I will revert back to more cinematic videos and storytelling, as I used to do before. This was a test to see if this new "fast-paced", "action-packed" video format would attract and please, but as you pointed out, I don't think the young people are even interested in castles and such, as proven by my asking my kids if they would click on it and none of them saying yes
I made a new video and I will post it here tomorrow as soon as it is online in YouTube and I will ask you and
@DougMcC to comment on it. I guess I need to stick to just doing what I like and not trying to be trendy (and failing miserably). It's not like this is a side hustle or my future source of income or anything like that. I will go back to doing what I like so I like what I am doing!
Cheers!
Not to worry, we all have busy lives filled with all sorts. As for your film, think of it this way. We have all seen these action-packed movies like the fast racing cars or Spider Man etc. Now we have also seen the trailers for these movies. They are fast action clips, short and full of action clips with fast paced editing and quick captions. The music is very dynamic and pounding. Together, it is well suited and keeps us watching.
These movies also have some slower clips in them, maybe a distant scene of something, or a panning shot of a building or interior shot of a restaurant or people sat at a table talking etc. Now, image if the editor chose the same editing techniques, caption styles and music, but instead, used these slow-paced clips of film that I just described. The trailer would have absolutely no appeal and would look disjointed because the scenes chosen just did not fit the music, editing style and caption types used. That is sort of what you recently produced; no disrespect meant.
Therefore, the scenes must dictate the editing style and music choice and title use, not to mention the Font choice. All of these things are extremely important to the end result of an edited piece of film. When you go back and redo your film of slow-paced filming of the castles, don't forget that the music is going to play an equal role in making it a good, finished piece.
Slower paced music alone will not help, if that music choice is not a pleasing piece of music. Be sure to choose carefully or better said, match carefully, your music to your film clips. It is not an easy task to choose perfect music for perfect scenes. Nor is it easy to cut the film to best suit the change in beats or transitions of the music. Be mindful of these points when re-editing your film clips.
I have been collecting music for years and have, still just a small collection that I go to, just for my photography, when I want to put something together. Sometimes I hear music and visions come into my head for what I want to put to that music, and I might go out to try and find those scenes and photograph them. Other times I see scenes and think, these visions would be great with this type of music. I then go searching for something in that style/genre and then put the two together.
I am fine with still image editing and creating slide shows however, I have just started editing video, so I'm rather poor at it, at the moment anyway. I do know what I want to achieve though, I just don't yet possess the expertise to arrive at a properly finished film yet. I could sit with a good editor and direct them to do what I want, where and how, plus give them the music to string it all together. I just don't yet have the full knowledge to create the finished piece, all on my own with a video editing programme. But I'm slowly getting there.
One more point to help you. Find a film you like and pay particular attention to how the music is fitting with what you are watching. Turn off the sound and play different music through a headset as you watch the same scenes again and notice how that music changes everything, as you rewatch the scene. Another tip for you to help with editing, is to watch a movie that you like but turn the sound completely off and just watch it in silence, just for the visuals. Pay close attention to when a cut was made and how long each duration of a film clip was shown, before the editor chose to go to the next scene. Plus, pay attention to how those scenes were often linked back and forth and what the camera angle and focal length of the lens was, as the clip was filmed.
By watching a film with no sound, you can see far more clearly, how and possibly why the editor did what he did and when. You are not distracted by the music and can focus solely on the editing. It will also make you understand how important the choice of music is for a scene, when you turn it all on again.
Good luck with that re-edit.
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