This is good advise on an advertising driven normie platform like Twitter / Insta / TikTok etc.
On Nostr, be genuine, do what your heart wants. Attention is not the currency, authentic connection is.
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When I was in film school our professor told us that before you can break the rules you have to know what the rules are and why you are breaking them.
Everything you listed are rules that are a consequence of the advertising model, isn't it? Video as a medium is older than social networks, I would guess your professor was referring to rules about film making in general (FWIW, I've heard that quote as well).
Nostr is a fundamentally different kind of network. There are no central arbiters, or hidden incentives. No one makes money of off its users.
Not particularly. This kind of format is just a natural outcrop of the sheer amount of content available to people in the Information Age. There’s so many things the audience could watch, why your video? You have to make it easy and compelling for them. That said you always have free rein to do whatever the hell you want, I’m just suggesting you know what you’re doing before you do that. Like in film school I watched many films that were allegeldy “avant garde” which in reality were just a bad unwatchable mess.
People are attracted to clarity, and structure helps to bring clarity, and what you're suggesting is basically, bring structure (and quality).
Right. You don’t have to do it but just like in filmmaking we have all these rules which are a film language that have been developed over 100 years and if you break them without knowing you’ve broken them the audience will be confused. There’s a lot of freedom within that structure though. Basically the entire history of cinema has been largely within it.
This is probably because people in the industry over time noticed what worked and didn't work with people, and chose to respect it. In other words, they noticed the nature of the reality of people and how they receive information and submitted to it rather than trying to engage in some massive Pygmalion project.
I don't disagree with all your points, just some, 2 & 3 specifically. Both are related to attention, to some extent also the "bonus" remark. I don't think people need to rely on hooks or other unrelated elements in their content for people to be interested on a platform where the dynamics of advertising is absent. Here quality of the content is what matters most. So that should dictate length, detail, or style (which is also why I really liked your "ultra bonus" remark).
Maybe I should have led with that, and been more precise with my words in my original comment.
