For my YouTube review, after a quick scout I decided to take a look at this:
Now, I'm not entirely sure what to make of it and can only assume it is some sort of take on the recent dove commercials that have become some sort of fashion in the video editing world.
In basic terms, this video is 40 seconds showing 85 years of a person's life streamed together. Being interested in this sort of technology I appreciate the effort that must have gone into this.
Having said that, I am struggling to find a purpose to the video, aside from someone simply showing of their editing expertise, and so can only look at it in terms of personal talent as opposed to any wider meaning that perhaps was intended. The lack of option to comment with just the one, presumably from the maker telling us to visit a website confirms this view.
The soundtrack that runs alongside this video is, in my opinion distracting and probably un-necessary and without knowing any background of whoever made it cannot say why it was added. Taking a closer look also shows every few seconds a slight glitch in the shape of the face showing where a new image was added, picky maybe but this is a review.
With 40,000 plus views it is definitely popular, but again the lack of comment box doesn't allow feedback to the maker.
Although intriguing to watch, it seems this video is simply someone using YouTube to promote themselves or a website with cleverly edited videos and does in a way reflect how important such sites are in every day life.
