While I'm working on my documentary project, I have also been thinking about my instructional video that has to be under 10 minutes long. Right now I am leaning towards making it on art, specifically working with oil pastels since I've heard a lot of negative criticism of them from professors at school. I have been watching and critiquing videos to see how others approach this topic.
Recently I found this video on youtube:
Though it was a somewhat decent tutorial, there were several things wrong with the video. One of the most distracting elements of the video for me was the setting. You can hear airplanes, birds and wind which all distract from the artist's voice. He also filmed under a tree, so the sun hitting the paper also causes a distraction since it is constantly moving around. Overall, I give the artist a lot of credit for having such smooth blending with cray-pas oil pastels which are cheaply made and hard to work with.
I think my documentary will be broken up into different sections and I will have more vocabulary words/descriptions on screen. I have a lot of different brands of oil pastel, so I might talk about differences between brands as well. I find that a lot of the time, teachers dismiss them because they think I will use a cheap, waxy pastel that will look terrible.
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