Manipulating Time (page 3)
[Sidebar: The Nature of Time]
As someone once said to me, "a second spent with your hand over an open flame is different than a second spent kissing someone you love." One you can't wait to get past, the other you might wish would linger forever. This speaks to our very perceptions of time - which are unique and individual. That long shot of Sally sewing shorts might delight the local sewing club, but bore me to distraction.
The point is that time is relative. So before you start speeding everything in your videos up to warp speed because you think they're dragging, remember -- you've probably seen every frame of your video a hundred times during editing. For the audience -- this is probably the very first time.
