u/matigekunst

My audience retention sucks and I'm trying to figure out why. For most videos it's about 35%. I showed my videos to a friend who works in TV, and he said I need to immediately show what's going to happen. My videos mostly follow the same idea: I recreate something from the real world using algorithms. His suggestion was to show the end result in the first 3 seconds. My marketing friend said the same thing. Personally, I hate videos that do this. It feels like bad American daytime/TLC television you watch when you're sick. Maybe it's just me, but trailers or cutting to an out-of-context later part of the video feels cheap, tacky, and a bit insulting to the viewer's intelligence. I much prefer cold openings. I have [one video](https://youtu.be/LEOO2a56Iew) where a cold opening worked and people stuck around even though I don't really show anything upfront. I've been trying to figure out what I did right there. In my last video I partially followed the advice and immediately showed the physical analogue of what I was going to recreate digitally, but it completely flopped (though there are probably other reasons for that too). So my question is: how do you retain attention without giving away the plot at the start? I'm especially interested in hearing from people with a slow storytelling style, or people who explain scientific topics.

I have a 6 hour VJ gig this weekend in the old chemistry building at my old University. Needed something that keeps changing. Always wanted to try multi-scale Turing patterns

Study I did as part of this video about DLA and space colonisation

For an upcoming YouTube video. Inspired by the Emergence album

I made a video about how JFA works. One of my most used tools

Force-based space colonisation with Gooch shading

More experiments on Instagram