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This post presents the executive summary from Giving What We Can’s impact evaluation for 2025. At the end of this post we share links to more information, including the full report and...
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Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts:
* Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do
* NEST is an opinionated ideas-fi...
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Record room tone so that you don't get that choppy sound every time you cut to a new clip!
Room tone = Before (or during or after) you start shooting, record about a minute of silence in that location. When you lay that audio track underneath the rest of your audio, you'll have a consistent ambient hum instead of one that changes each time you cut.
In terms of content, I thought there was a lot of material in here for this type of video. It was basically 20-30 bullet points in very quick succession, some of them with numbers and details that I, as a viewer, don't have enough time to process. I felt like there was so much information in such rapid fire fashion that I wasn't able to focus on what was being said. I'd recommend keeping the material simple and speaking more slowly.
I agree with Bitton, and think he has more experience on this than almost any of the rest of us.
That said, great job with the effort and I'm looking forward to seeing where you go from here.
Thanks for the feedback- I will be sure to simplify the script and use room tone in the next video!
Do you have any suggestions for blogs/guides I can read up on for other tips?
Cheers!
Gates foundation seem quite good at video content aimed at communicating similar types of things to popular audiences?
There's a guy on a movie message board I used to read that did a series of "30 Minute Film Schools" a while ago. Here's the one on audio and here's one on prosumer cameras. I think he has an especially fun way of teaching - his writing style reminds me of Slate Star Codex.