Nice try, but didn't do anything for me.
Felt bit dark and depressing (until the discolights gave me an epileptic attack) rather than motivational and inspiring. No hype, no emotion no nothing.

Thank you for the input. I feel as if it wasn't depressing. But of course, that thought process is rather biased. And there wasn't any 'disco lights'. Just cutting of film. But I do understand how it may be too much.

I wanna see the pain, the agony, the torn muscles, the balls to the wall, the blood, the girls, the money, the bling-bling

I actually couldn't agree with these points more. Ladsy is onto something.

And that epileptic shock at the end. RIP users at home dying to this vid.

average joe doing average stuff with light weight


to recap and elaborate ...

The black and white was a bit of a downer.

Try dynamic camera angles like mentioned before. Movement while focusing away from it, etc.

Intensity, show the grit

This post was edited by Deathbv on Aug 16 2016 07:32am

I don't think categorizing it as an 'epileptic shock' would be accurate. And I have mentioned that if I had to do it over again, I would approach that effect with more care. Because as it is, it is too harsh. Black and white perhaps missed with you -- and some of the other viewers -- but it was intended to bring a more dramatic feel to it. I'm curious to what you would define as "dynamic camera angles." There were shot's that did just that, a zoom in while simultaneously focusing in on the subject. If you could perhaps elaborate on that with examples or clearer explanations that would be welcomed.

Perhaps I could have portrayed more grit and tenacity though. I do understand that point very well and will do better with that on these types of videos in the future.

One gripe I would say is to say that the subject is in fact average, or does average weight training. Strength is relative to the person. And to throw a blanket sweep out there and say that what he was doing in the video is average...is very inaccurate.

Ehhh, video didn't do much for me. The whole "average stops here" really irks me when the guy looks average af.

when you take into consideration the fact that a LOT of people who exercise don't do it for superficial reasons, a fact you might have forgotten judging by your post, then anybody who exercises is above average.

Judging by your post (along with all your other trash posts) you probably look like shit and use that excuse for why you go to the gym and have nothing to show for it

damn. why the rage? i look great after 7 years of exercise/boxing and you cannot insult me. work on being less miserable.

anyways, a great example of this post is a lady i know who turned 91 in May, she does 100 pushups and situps every day, and every single day on my way to work i see her out for a morning walk. she's definitely above average and i don't think she's trying to impress anyone

OP is the person in the video

Thats why he is butthurt that a bunch of nerds on a gaming forum are calling him below average (which he is)