Ken Burns effect all day long on CNN

[zebonaut]

Sad to lose someone; and with all due respect; but CNN is doing the slow pan in/out "Ken Burns" effect of a deceased drug overdosed actor all day long. Expect More. RIP



Ken Burns Effect:

[monmouth3]

1. I guess I missed something, makes no sense to me at all...n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. That is what you do with still pictures to create motion.

You have to pan to make it look interesting. Due to short attention spans people won't look at a still picture.

They like fast cutting in movies and commercials, where you can't tell what's going on. That aggravates me terribly. They also have noisy sound tracks, and the dialogue is not clear. I can only think that they don't care if you understand the dialogue or not. If they wanted you to hear the dialogue, you would not have rumbly low-frequency music under it.

I'm no cinematographer. I have observed this panning in the Ken Burns/Ric Burns documentaries. But the words are clear and the pictures are clear. That makes them unhip and unfashionable.

[zebonaut]

3. The beef is with the hackneyed CNN reporting

zoom in zoom out.
fade back; zoom in slow
zoom out again

Since he was white; he was "struggling with addiction". Any other color and he'd just be an 'addict'.