How to Shoot Vacation Video that Won't Bore People to Death
When I was a kid, the Armbrusters had a slide projector. Which meant that after every vacation they took, we’d troop dutifully to their house for endless carousels of badly-shot Kodachrome slides, narrated live. The slide show always seemed longer than the vacation itself. Washed-out, badly composed views of Disneyland or Paris—dotted here and there with the back of the head of someone we knew.
Today people record hours and hours of vacation video on a single chip. Instead of making you visit their living rooms, they trap you at parties, work, on the train-- anywhere-- and make you watch.
Who would do such a thing? Anyone with a smartphone. We have met the Armbrusters and they are us.
