Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
by EvanAnderson on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:52PM
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Watching older movies and television shows today I'm struck by how much longer shots are and how there are so many fewer cuts. I'm sure that, to some extent, pacing in movies was dictated by the practicality of technology. Modern-day non-linear editing and digital production allows for more frequent cuts at a much lower expense. I wonder, however, to what extent there is a feedback loop occurring between audiences and directors that drives shorter shots and more cuts.
Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
by allcentury on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @10:47PM
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Here's a leading early childhood development pediatrician commenting on this exact point https://youtu.be/BoT7qH_uVNo
Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:13PM
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In this context, I should note that my "3 seconds" number was from the 1970s. Does anybody have a more up-to-date number?
Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
by EvanAnderson on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:59PM
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WIRED did an article in 2014 that pegs the number at 2.5 seconds. Amusingly, the professor cited in the article has the last name of "Cutting", which makes the article a little jarring to read to me (since I keep seeing the verb "cutting" and thinking about "cutting together" a movie).
Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
by icelancer on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:40PM
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>> That's not what life was like when I grew up; it's not what life was like for any generation before mine.
Sure it was. I am in my mid-30s and that describes every single anime or cartoon I watched.
Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:42PM
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In addition to what Alex3917 said: I grew up 20 years before you. That's not what life was like for me growing up. For the generation before mine, well, they were growing up in the 1940s and 50s. Not many kids in the 50s were watching tons of video before the age of 2.
In much video, a cut[1] happens every three seconds (I don't know if this is true for specifically children's video). This tunes their sense of time - if you don't like what you're looking at, in three seconds it will be completely different. That's not what life was like when I grew up; it's not what life was like for any generation before mine. It seems to me that there has to be some effects from this...
[1] A "cut" in video is an instantaneous change of viewpoint (so called because, back in the film days, the only way you could get it was by physically cutting and splicing the film).