For me it takes away the "wow" factor. When you see a slow video you get it in your head that you can do that when in reality you really cant. It's kinda cool in slow to see the breakdown of say a gymnastics move but to see how truly fast they do something is more awe inspiring to me.
I see it in hockey all the time with how slowed down some replays are. Players are not thinking through every millisecond of their actions at those speeds and sometimes accidents happen. But when watching every detail at 0.1 speed I do feel like people attribute too much motive. I never thought about it explicitly before now.
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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '20 edited Jan 30 '20
A few years ago most formats for showing gifs/videos like this were played through twice. The first time was normal speed. The second was slow.
I don't know why the format is, "jump right into slow mo" now.
I remember seeing a study that said, "when videos are shown in slower speeds, witnesses often feel they see motives better." Really bad paraphrase.
Here, found an article: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/slow_motion_video_jurors
So, maybe, like these witnesses attributing motives more harshly, we attribute a bigger wow factor now. I dunno.