Earth Wars Anticipation

That's the Earth Wars poster, we plan to put it up around school after the final episode is released.

You might wonder, "What is Earth Wars?" Well for the most part it is a spoof of Star Wars. The story takes place on the planet Earth instead of space. "Well why are you so excited?" Because this is an amazing video....we have been working on it for many months now, finally filmed and the trailer for it just came out, with the first part scheduled for this Friday!
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But that really doesn't explain it fully....Not only is this an amazing video series, it is the first series we have done. It is not a long one but it is not a short series either. And from all the work we have all put into making it...we do expect some magnificent results.

Oh and here is the trailer.....


The nice thing about a series is that there is no real effort put into the creation of videos for the next couple of weeks, which in my case is nice as I have loads of homework.

Make It Good:
   So one thing I learned while and before the making of the Earth Wars Trailer was that to make a video good it took something special, a key component.
   One day my good friend Ethan, he plays Luke, pointed something out to me. "Did you ever notice that really good videos have lots of cuts in them." He pointed out something I had never really payed much attention to. We got to talking about it and discovered that even are first really nice video, Jeromy & the Cookies, was also filled with lots of cuts.
   We pondered this idea for awhile, and figured that if you want to make a video better you need to add more of a snappy action to the clips. So in the trailer we decided not to play any clip for more than a few seconds. One thing that would have been better, but would have detracted from the Star Wars theme, was if we had made the scrolling titles a bit faster.
   But why is it that a video must have lots of cutting? Well after some time I think we figured it out. It is a semi well known statistic that YouTubers have an attention span of less than 10 seconds. So you ask yourself, Self how does this show with the statistics of my videos? Well because of this a video with an intro longer than 10 seconds has little chance of being passed on to someone else, which is what you really, REALLY, want to happen. It also means less popularity & views for your video.
   For example, say I am your average youtuber I start watching a video, it take 10 seconds to get through the intro....I have already left. I can see where an interesting introduction, might keep their attention, but still.
   How do you get their attention? I don't know if you ever watch Fluffee Talks, but what he does is pretty basic, he has an introduction then a 3 second animation. He first says something about what he is going to talk about to get your attention, then shows the intro, which seems weird on paper but in the working of YouTube he has achieved greatly! Is there another way? Sure, You might have to make one up on your own but don't forget to grab their attention and do it well!

Thanks For Reading

The Director,