The Important Ingredients of a Photography WebSite Website Video
KICKPICS Website - Professional Martial Arts Photography,(Video), found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjpI6u4Komo is an example of a photography website web video. A photography website web video needs two essential ingredients to work, both of which are well illustrated by this video. It needs a set of quality photographs to show off in the video, and it needs to enhance the display by setting the online gallery to appealing music. A third important factor is the spacing between photograph to photograph. This video uses a gap of about 4-5 seconds. This is enough time to see each photograph, but not too much time so that the viewer will get bored.
While many of the photographs in this are of amateur kick boxing, the video as a whole is immensely popular on You Tube, having racked up over 100,000 views. The essential ingredient that makes this video so appealing, is the effect generated by the interaction of the background music with the photographs. The background music consists of a male and female rap song. And the repartee between the male and female rapper contrasts very effectively with the martial arts photographs. As we view a photograph of a man with his foot pressed against the face of his fellow combatant, we hear the male and female rapper engaged in an even more primal warfare, the combat between the sexes.
The fun of watching this video is watching the boxers featured in the photographs seeking to break down the guard of their opponent, while listening to the male rapper trying to and ultimately succeeding in breaking through the defense of the female rapper. “I want you on my team,” he says, “So does everyone else,” she replies.
The photographic images enhance our appreciation of the rappers. As we examine a photo of a male boxer viciously kicking his opponent in the face, it reminds us of the vicious combat between the male rapper and the other men competing for the attention of the female rapper.
“Just let your guard down,” the male rapper says, “Don’t get mad, don’t be mean,” “Don’t get mad, don’t be mean,” she repeats. The musical combat reminds us that in this ultimate primal realm of combat there is a positive not a negative end. While kick boxing is me against you, the musical combat ultimately shifts from me against you to me with you. Once the male rapper can break through the female rapper’s defense, he can get to something soft and nice. And the female rapper who starts out as his combatant can become his friend.
The video also succeeds in awaking the viewers interest in martial arts, as it shows the important prize which awaits the successful combatant in life.A viewer might decide he should take some martial arts training, as well, as that will sharpen up his ability to be successful with women. At the same time, the video is definitely liable to interest viewers in seeing the photography website. There is a link at the bottom of the video and the webmaster reports getting an overall 7,000 hits per month to his website.
