The Secret to Good TV: High Energy Levels, Energy Packaging
I don't watch TV Shows for their stories. Those normally are cliche and not very good. Mediocre at best. I watch shows for their energy levels. Some shows and commercials simply have insane levels of energy and excitement that are so high. The 90s Saturday Morning Level of energy. Adult Swim understands this, and they tap into that level of energy packaging. Part of it is the editing, known as "Whiz bang editing" meaning it's designed to go bang like dynamite and just explode on the screen into your brain always to be remembered. Most Adult TV outside of FX, Adult Swim, and Toonami lacks the on screen energy levels of Saturday Morning Cartoons and late night anime. That's why one way to get v iewers, be hyper and energetic as hell. It's the Editing. It's fast Close Pacing. It's the Camera Shots. It's Rhythm. It's choreography. It's the Music and Sound Editing. It's the Color composition and Camera Shot Composition. It just tries harder. More hyper TV with hyper energy levels is beneficial on many levels. Excitement and high energy levels are contagious. Also, not just TV can have higher energy levels. So can Marketing, Commercials, Books, Comics, Websites, Online Video, Streaming Video, Radio, Video Games, Anime, Manga, and Music can have higher energy levels too.
If you're going into media, please don't be braindead and have no life or energy when you're on the spot. Energetic people remind us we're alive. They're full of life. They get us laughing, they make us laugh hysterically, get us excited and captivate our focus and attention, and most importantly, they don't bore us or depress us.
The 90s wasn't just better than the 2000s. It had a higher concentration of energy and fast motion in general.
But most modern TV doesn't try to have energy. It prefers to have a pulse that's clinically dead. The narrator sounds like a nasal nerd who wants to kill himself or something. This is what passes for voice over now? Being braindead and castrated? Fuck that shit. Be fast, intense, and energetic. Don't be a turd.
Nasally voices, and Slow and low energy levels feel like a turd on a plate.
So fuck that. Let's start some shit.
And furthermore, I've always had higher energy levels, but I've never shared these secrets before, that I feel having a higher energy level, to my writing, to my filmmaking, to my choreography, to my editing, to my art and drawing, is one of my trade secrets. Higher energy compositions just attract more goodwill and attention.
This applies to art and comics, too. A drawing can be crude, but if it's Tim Burton or Jhonen Vasquez level energy, then it doesn't matter. It's more compelling, it's more focused.
Energy, Focus, Intensity, Speed, Rhythm (both fast and slow).
These are important!
But not all energy is created equal. Raw energy and intensity is just noise. It's important to be poetic and musical in our expression of raw energy. Like a well choreographed dance.
I've been all about the poetic expression of movement, rhythm, intensity and energy for a long time now. Chi and whatnot.
