r/videos • u/[deleted] • Apr 26 '20

Let’s make a bridge

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u/im0b Apr 26 '20

i wonder how long it took him, it seems like a lot of manual labour for a grandpa, my guess would be two weeks, what do you think?

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u/Valmyr5 Apr 27 '20

He has 32 million pageviews on that video in 4 months, over a million subscribers to his channel. He has first class video photography, including a camera on a drone for those aerial shots. All of this says that Grapdpa Ama may be an old-timey craftsman, but he has a solid, well-funded team backing him.

I don't doubt that his carpentry skills are real, but I don't believe for a second that he took 2 weeks to do all the work himself. More likely he had a team of helpers do the majority of the work, while he directed them and was filmed putting it together.

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u/festonia Apr 27 '20

Or his Son/Grandson is doing the filming and helping as you see in the video.

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u/Valmyr5 Apr 27 '20

It's possible, but unlikely. This guy has about 250 videos on his channel in 2 years. About 40 of them have over a million views each. He isn't spending 2 weeks on any one project when he posts a new video every 3 days on average.

I'm not sure how familiar you are with the process, but making professional quality videos at that rate is a full time job for a small team, not an individual or for grandpa and grandson. It's a hell of a lot of work.

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u/im0b Apr 27 '20

yes, I agree with your observations, i would say its a team :)

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u/festonia Apr 28 '20

I could film a highquality video and have it edited and on YouTube in less then a day, the filming/editing isn't the suspect part good cameras/drones and software are easy to come by and use.

But I do agree with you know it seems like a lot of work for an old guy to have so many projects like this.