I often hear people talk about video as though it is more realistic or compelling than other kinds of content. There is certainly some truth to that viewpoint. After all, much of what we experience of the real world involves people moving - walking, talking, singing and dancing.But there is another way in which video is less "real" than still pictures. As we move around in the real world, walking, rotating our heads, moving our eyes, the world itself appears to be stable. We could not navigate at all if our brains did not compensate for all this motion of our eyes. And our brains use a lot of other inputs and assumptions to still the world. It doesn't take too long on YouTube to figure out that we don't see the world from the point of view of a handheld camera. For the most part, we see, and remember, objects of interest, moving or not, against a stable background.
When it comes to explaining something to somebody, stability is essential. The person who is trying to learn from the explanation needs less, not more, moving parts. Step-by-step is best explained, well, step-by-step - not "watch me do this and see if you can figure out what was important".
Here's a link to a little Qlippit that hopefully will hold still long enough to explain this point.
- Chris
The original YouTube post is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFb4JsFbFo
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