Do you have any favorite no-copyright music playlist or artist? Will you share it with me?
Preferably electronic without vocals (vocalization OK) + a little more energetic than lo-fi.
I'm looking for music to use with my travel video and I'd love to use something less known. I always end up on the same usual suspects like NCS / Epidemic Sound / Monstercat and I can recognize them without looking. I want to break the bubble.
@lukem I use Streambeats by Harris Heller. It’s free to use, copyright free, and available on all the major streaming platforms. Lots of genres to choose from as well.
I'm going to back off a wee bit on my general criticism of #YouTube "reaction videos", at least as far as Hitchcock's masterpiece "North by Northwest" (1959) is concerned.
The film blows away every reaction individual, pair, or group that I've come across watching it. In most cases, they've simply never seen a film like this before, and are staggered by it in pretty much every respect (including the fact that, of course, there's no CGI). But really everything about it impresses them, as it should. And they all are amazed at a complex plot and what is indeed a most remarkable transition at the very end, from hanging on a cliff to a berth on a train. Probably the only transition that beats it is the flying bone in "2001: A Space Odyssey."
And you also can see some of them noting with disdain that so much of what they've seen during their lives was obviously just copying of themes that originated in films like North by Northwest, and now excited to see other films from back then.
Which if nothing else, tells us how the film industry of recent decades has failed young people (yeah, and everyone else too) so dismally.
@arth Lawrence is arguably the finest overall film ever made. However, to watch it properly, it really needs to be viewed in a good theater with a fresh 70mm print and an excellent sound system. I viewed it once in such a venue with its editor Anne V. Coates in attendance. She noted there was only one process shot in the entire film (involving the sun at a very low angle, I believe). The one of a kind long lens made for the film to shoot the "arrival at the well in the desert" scene still resides, as far as I know, in the Panavision HQ lobby a short drive from where I'm sitting. It's important to remind people NO CGI in that film!
>Utrudniaj jak mozesz ogladanie filmow ludziom, ktorzy maja #AdBlock
>Miej w nosie, ze tworca spedzil dni, a nawet tygodnie na nagranie filmu, przenies widza do najciekawszych momentow
The classics keep popping on #YouTube Movies & TV. Another one (as before, free in the U.S.) has apparently just surfaced. And it's a biggie -- 1960's "Spartacus". Mostly directed by Stanley Kubrick, it's arguably Kirk Douglas' most important role. Running more than three hours, it's one of the uber-great historical dramas, about an escaped gladiator who takes on the entire Roman Empire, and is based on an actual slave immortalized in historical texts from the period. If you've never seen this wondrous film you should. And if you have, it's probably time to see it again.
My husband just uploaded a video he made sharing the plot of #SmashBrothers brawl! Give him some love in the comments, and constructive criticism is invited!
I have something over 8000 #YouTube videos on my Favorites lists. My YT viewing history is ... I don't know how long. Enormous. I've been watching YT since it began.
A standard refrain in YT videos these days is the voice over entreating you to "Like and Subscribe (and click the Bell!). Like and Subscribe. Like and Subscribe.
Last night, for the first time ever in memory, I saw a video that said,
"Please like or dislike, so we can improve."
I stopped dead staring at the screen. Did they really say "like or DISLIKE"? I must have misheard. Nobody mentions the possibility of disliking their video.
@lauren On a related note... My wife has a cousin who with his wife is raising two boys. Rather than engage them in play, the parents just hand them a mobile device to "calm them down." When one of the kids was two, one night they put him to bed and he said "like and subscribe."
I had to check the end of about a dozen #YouTube "reaction" videos of Generation [N] watching Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (1959) before I found one where they appeared to "get" the gag Hitch used as the very last shot in the film (the train into the tunnel). This is what comes of too much time on smartphones, one suspects.
@rdm More generally, it's almost impossible to find any stupid joke idea that hasn't been made into a YT video at some point. See: "Mr. Beast" for example.
Yesterday I noted here that the classic film "Alien" had appeared for free (U.S. only) on #YouTube Movies and TV. Today I noticed another classic SF film pop in also free on the same basis: "It! The Terror From Beyond Space" (1958). This is the story of a spaceship on Mars that unknowingly leaves with a creature before heading back to Earth -- a deadly creature that starts picking off the crew one by one ... Sound familiar? In fact, this film is generally considered to be a direct inspiration for "Alien". It's tightly scripted and claustrophobic (also unusually short, only an hour nine minutes), and very much a science fiction classic in its own right. Highly recommended! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhTlu7Ps0k
Personally, I find #YouTube Shorts to be utterly useless, and even annoying. You can't seek on them, you have to go through extra steps to even find out how old they are, they repeat endlessly like some sort of nightmare, and they're mostly created for a target I.Q. level of 50. So of course, big money for #Google to be had!
@jmorris You don't want to overly stress the battery. Of course with suitable design you can get quite a jolt out of a low voltage input generating a high frequency current.