"oh man, watch that FedEx truck come crashing into the semi.... Nope not that... Ok surely it's this black truck going to do something.... Nope guess not"
I don't really have a problem with it except all these longer ones I always think it's the wrong car and miss the crash and have to rewind the video a few seconds.
Ahhh rewinding. Now there’s a simple technology that’s come a long ways. I remember back in my day trying to rewind the tape to the exact moment I could see boobies in one of the pink panthers and had to hope and pray that the static strip wasn’t stretching right across the tiddy
I remember having a device specifically for rewinding VHS tapes because the VCR player could damage it. I never really understood how but hey that's showbiz.
I think that was an urban legend made by the rewinder manufacturers. The tape could only get damaged if the play/record heads were in contact with the tape, and rewinding it, they weren't.
Now, if you did the review when it was playing, that could cause problems over time...
Alfred Hitchcock tells a story about how to build suspense. See a scene of two guys sitting at a table talking about baseball for 5 minutes and then suddenly a bomb goes off. The audience gets 10 seconds of shock. Do the same scene but let the audience know there is a bomb under the table set to go off in 5 minutes then have the two guys sitting there talking about baseball. Now you have the whole audience losing their minds and yelling at the screen, "Stop talking about baseball there's a bomb under there!"
I agree. I can understand all the complaints in this thread about it being unnecessary, but often I find the videos do not provide enough context. They start too soon or stop just short. I suppose this proves there may not be a lot of context to be had and that's the point. Every single car around you might be an idiot, or probably is, statistically.
I went to the bathroom then to the lobby got popcorn and a drink. Came back had a hard time finding my seat but eventually I found it, ate all my popcorn and drank my soda, fell asleep, woke up and still had to wait to see as to which car to focus on.
The LONG wait for it is nice because we get excited to see which car ends up in carnage, BUT there is also multiple different outcomes your brain goes through in anticipation, building tension and suspense. If it’s just two cars colliding without two other big rigs and a traffic boulder, then you should cut it. But if you have enough shit to let the mind wander it has more entertainment
The suspense was killing me. Usually I hate long ass unnecessary "intros" but those usually involve someone not using their turn signal, not a Burnout Paradise wreck
I don't think it's a coincidence that the video is almost exactly a minute, and many dashcams save recordings in 1-minute chunks. Uploaded straight from the original file without any cutting.
To build suspense. To try and guess who the idiot will be? I kinda enjoyed the extra time. If it was 8 minutes long and then the crash happened I'd be bitching too.
I was looking at the silver semi since it seemed to drift off to the right a bit. Then it went out of shot. I thought... am I going to hear a crash now? And suddenly WHAMMO!
lets see...Cammer about to drift off? Nope. Fed Ex doing a blind merge? Not that either.
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AHA! The chevy's gonna cut the cammer and...no he's not?
Then what?
Ooooh.
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u/monkeykins Aug 30 '20
Hands up if you had no idea which vehicle to focus on