🧠 5 Visuals for Your Next Video

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Rickie Ho
February 02, 2024

Happy Friday everyone,

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Enjoy today’s edition!

- Rickie

5 Visuals I Loved This Week

1. These Data Integrations

  • Came across this video from the Financial Times and I honestly didn’t know they made content like this.

  • This is an interesting attempt at integrating the charts into the overall theme of the video, but I think it falls flat.

    • I think the colors are a bit too punchy for my liking and the way that the data is displayed seems a little too ‘dressed up’ to me.

    • My belief is if you have to dress up the data this much, you should probably find new data or find another way to make it look interesting.

  • That being said, there is definitely value in integrating data into the theme of the video, but it probably doesn’t look much like this (just my opinion though).

2. My Computer Vision Animation

  • This was a well received animation that I made in my first-ever video!

  • I tried to come up with a visualization that showed how a camera would scan ingredients at a bakery to sniff out any spoiled ingredients and I think it turned out pretty well.

    • I debated adding a little conveyor belt at the bottom of the visual but I felt it looked cleaner without.

  • I’m a huge fan of using negative space to draw attention to the visual at hand, which is why all the visuals from this video are contained in a box.

  • I also like the more muted, tonal approach with small pops of color (as you can tell from my scathing review of the Financial Times earlier).

3. This Altitude Chart + Time Blocks

  • In previous editions, I rave about how Johnny Harris and Cleo Abram are exceptional at adding lower third graphics to frame visuals.

    • What’s special about this one is the effort that went into the lower third (which isn’t even the focus of the visual).

      • The people, the texture, the screens.

    • It adds to the video because its like we’re in the air traffic control room watching the altitude slowly descend.

  • Really cool graphic.

4. This Stop-Motion Graphic

  • Call me a sucker, but I love these stop-motion graphics!

  • They allow for so much flexibility and give the video a ‘hand-drawn’ feel to it.

    • Take note of the details here: the little unique movements of each asset, the contrast between the black-and-white hands vs. the full-color hands, the different fonts.

  • The look of this graphic is something that I’ve wanted to emulate ever since I watched Johnny Harris’ video on inflation here.

5. This Map Graphic

  • I included this visual because of how tedious I imagine making this was.

    • Each of the Ws or Ls had to be individually placed along with the transition in.

  • Aside from the tediousness, I really liked this concept because it’s something that I likely would not have been able to come up with.

  • Getting a sneak peek into how Sam Ellis comes up with concepts was really cool in his last video on the NFL (that I wrote about last week).

    • It’s something that I want to incorporate more in the videos that I make where I put in the time to come up with animations instead of coming up with them on the spot.

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