Once upon a time I read, for the first time, about video shooting and editing. The first thing the book said was that a video is nothing but a series of still photos, or frames, as it called them. I felt cheated. I had thought that I was capturing motion. That I was capturing not a moment in time, but an incident. A video had to be more superior than a still photo. Then I learned about flip books and how cartoons were made back in the day: one page at a time. Strange, but it was disturbing. Every video I watched now was like a conspiracy, as if it was a secret to the common folk that videos are simply a series of photographs.
But now that I can make documentaries and can record full-length videos I do realise that a video can be in fact more powerful than a photo. A photograph is just one frame; a video is 120 frames per second. That’s pretty wild, in comparison. A video obviously passes along more information than a photograph, especially in fields such as journalism. But in some situations a photo can have far more impact than a video, perhaps because of its mobility and independence once printed. Also, a picture is far more tangible than a moving entity of pictures.
Now when I look at old cartoons I can make out the frames, the little changes and movements that make it obvious that they were created one page at a time! I love it!
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