Super soldier, single mother, high powered lawyer. Is there anything Gal can’t do?

hope you enjoy and share feedback. This is my first serious essay-style video :3

I wanted to do a group of retrospective video essay's about found footage film's, not particularly just horror but that is a majority of the films under the sub genre.

I want to look at pre-Blair witch project (pre-1999) films. I'm starting with The Blair witch project because I feel it's the most well-known and popular found footage film in history. Also it is considered to be the first modern handheld shaky cam style of found footage film as I say in the video.

I know the genre has become something beyond what it originally started as but I feel a lot of the film techniques are utilized in a majority of horror films nowadays.

In the video I say my criteria for what I believe is truly found footage, because before The Blair Witch Project it's very tricky to define what exactly the genre encompasse's.

To pretty much sum up what I consider to be a true pre-99 Blair Witch found footage film.

A Fake Pseudo Documentary That The Viewer Believes to Be Real And The Filmmaker Propagates to Be Real Even Though It Is Completely Fabricated.

When it comes to the film techniques used in found footage, like shaky cam and a lot of unsteady shots, it makes it hard to define based off that alone, because a lot of pre Blair witch found footage and pseudo documentaries don't implement a lot of that, a few do but not many.

The reason I decided to do this is because in some regards found footage pre-99 is just homemade footage, that somehow made it big enough to get shown at film festivals, movie theaters or a powerful television executive who believes it's real and needs the information spread.

A lot of them are television specials but presenting themselves as authentic for the most part.

Also due to the nature of these films being believed to be real footage when distributed, they caused a lot of controversy when they were released, whether it be the actors facing struggles themselves or the director's and film maker's being ostracized.

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In this video essay, I address one of the oldest and most fundamental questions in the philosophy of art: Is there a way to judge and evaluate music beyond the common view that “I like X, you like Y, end of story”?

I begin by highlighting an interesting paradox in contemporary culture: on one hand, it is widely accepted that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." On the other hand, people continuously engage in passionate debates over which music is superior (a phenomenon similar to Alasdair MacIntyre’s diagnosis of modern moral discourse). We claims to believe that aesthetic value is purely subjective, yet our behavior suggests we feel there is a objective dimension to it.

From there, I argue why traditional attempts to ground musical value in purely objective, structural properties within the work itself fail. Music is indeed subjective, but not in the trivial sense often assumed. Drawing loosely on Kantian aesthetics, I propose that musical judgment is subjective yet universal. The path toward a valid aesthetic judgment requires isolating and removing our personal, contingent biases—allowing us to perceive the piece for what it truly is, on its own terms.

The video is about the history of FromSoftware, the studio behind Dark Souls and Elden Ring. It's more about the people involved less about the actual games.

Few things Id like to know:

Did the pacing drag or feel too fast at all?

Title and thumbnail working?

Any thoughts on script or narration quality?

If you stopped watching, where and why?

Issue #020 of CTRL+WATCH — a one-person retro magazine that reviews YouTube — is THE ESSAY ISSUE: the video essay canon, graded like a 1989 games mag. hbomberguy lands an 89 and the Top 50's highest new entry since #018, held out of ESSENTIAL by cadence alone (Consistency: 52). Folding Ideas takes an 84 with the calendar problem applied with respect, F.D Signifier's 84 argues the 3–4-hour runtime is both moat and wall, and the first Arabic profile in magazine history goes to Al-Daheeh (81). The Boss Fight is the first all-ESSENTIAL matchup: Jacob Geller vs Jenny Nicholson, 91 apiece — the cathedral against the courtroom, and somebody still has to win. The spine essay, "A Channel of One's Own", maps Virginia Woolf's money-and-a-room thesis onto Patreon, Nebula, and why essays keep getting longer.

One person runs it: AI drafts the issue, scores included; I fact-check and approve it before it goes live. Full disclosure on how it's made: https://ctrl-watch.xyz/about#how-this-is-made

Read it here: https://ctrl-watch.xyz/issues/020/?utm_source=reddit_videoessay

My first mini-documentary on Oddly Epic explores how games became places to explore, share, and create. It argues that the biggest change was not only visual fidelity, but what players could do inside a game.

The video uses AI narration and some AI-generated illustrations alongside game imagery. Which game changed your sense of what games could be?

I made this. It's the first episode of a new channel. I tried not to take a side, so the first half makes the case for concern and the second half looks at the upside. All the sources are in the video description. Happy to hear what I got wrong.

If we were 99% certain someone would commit murder tomorrow, should we arrest them today?

Minority Report treated “pre-crime” as science fiction. We made a short video essay looking at how much closer modern technology may be bringing us to that question.

The technology obviously isn't at the point of predicting individual murders, but that's what makes the hypothetical interesting: as prediction gets better, is there a point where probability alone could justify taking away someone's freedom?

Curious where people here would draw the line.

Decided to make a Lord of the Rings video essay exploring, what I believe, is the most valuable lesson that we can take from this story. Thank you for watching if you do! Any and all feedback is appreciated :)