My video is about the inspiration and underlying themes in Dr. Seuss's children books. My video is meant to display how Dr. Seuss was a politically minded man and wrote entertaining stories about serious social issues. I integrated clips and pictures from Dr. Seuss's books along with actual film and photographs of the issues his books reflect. I added little text to leave most of the interpretation up to the viewer because I feel this is what Dr. Seuss did. I wrote just enough to start an idea that the whimsical nature of his books was hiding a serious issue. I also used a fun song that talked about social and political issues in the same manner as Dr. Seuss books. If you have any comments, contributions or questions please let me know.
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This is a very interesting topic. My only issue with it is the text because it is very difficult to read it at sometimes because of the color choices. I also think some of the clips may be too long. Besides that I think the video is overall done very well. You did a very good job approaching a difficult topic.
I like the topic of this.
I like the topic of this. It's something I never thought of before and you did a good job showing the connection. Something You might want to change is the text on some of the pictures is hard to read, a different color perhaps. I also though it was a little bit long. I agree that it would be better to choose just the clips you feel portray your topic best.
Love the Creativity
First of all, I would like to point out the creativity that went into your video. I would have never thought of a concept such as this. So great job with that :) However, it was a bit long. Maybe you should cut some of the clips short because I don't think it would alter your concept much, since there's no audio to clips. You should also be aware of the mouse when recording because most of the clips had the arrow right in the center (this is just a minor detail, no need to stress over it). Your transitions were pretty good, but there was moment between the two audio clips where it seemed like you recorded your movement. And, you might want to consider varying the music, because after a couple of minutes, I just got the sense of deja'vu.
This is a very comprehensive
This is a very comprehensive look at the messages in the books. Nice work putting all of it together. I had some problems reading the text, so you'll want to make adjustments there. The other thing might be to think about ways of distilling it to make the points more forcefully and improve the flow. The musical background is nice, but you can probably get a way with fewer of the Seuss clips to make the points--the other images seem to flow along but overall changing the pacing and trimming a bit should make it stronger. You'll also want to add your sources.