I think that the hardest part of a crowdsourcing project is that no individual contributor knows how the full project will look in the end. I had an idea of what all the frames for "America 6.1" would look like together, but the end result was better than I had imagined. There was a blurring between frames that allowed each frame to bleed into the next, making the video more coherent. I thought cutting between frames would look choppy, as one person's artistic style probably wouldn't merge with the next person's. The audio also helped the video act as one piece-- as did seeing the Johnny Cash crowdsourced project and seeing how a similar project looked.
I thought it would be choppy because of some of the crowdsourced projects I've seen in the past. Star Wars Uncut can be jarring when it cuts from clip to clip, and the audio can be hard to follow sometimes. If someone watching it isn't familiar enough with Star Wars, they might not be able to keep track of the plot. (But who hasn't memorized Star Wars by this point?) Long-form crowdsourced projects like SWUncut are best done around movies with a huge fanbase-- that way the editor can ensure they'll have enough clips to use, and the majority of viewers can follow along without trying to get caught up in the logistics of the plot.
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