[sllug-members]: OT: Ken Burns Effect

[Mike Bourgeous]

>From: Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org>
>Reply-To: Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions <sllug-members at sllug.org>
>To: sllug-members at sllug.org
>Subject: Re: [sllug-members]: OT: Ken Burns Effect
>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:25:06 -0600
>
>On Tuesday 17 April 2007 23:23, Mike Bourgeous wrote:
> > It seems hardly worthy of using a person's name to describe it, as it is 
>a
> > technique that would be obvious to anybody editing stills together to 
>make
> > video.
>
>Would it?  It certainly would be obvious to anyone who had seen lots of
>documentaries that use the technique -- which wasn't common before Ken 
>Burns'
>work.
>
>Obviousness is often difficult to judge accurately in hindsight.
>
>	Shawn.

Very true.  This is something I considered when writing my original post, 
but I deliberately took an aggressive tone to see if/how people would react. 
  In actuality, I don't know the history of the technique, and perhaps he 
does deserve credit for popularizing it.  I personally did not watch many 
documentaries before I began editing in high school, but I can't prove that 
I never saw a TV commercial, news report, or something with a photo being 
panned and zoomed.

In a larger context of intellectual property, my opinion (which I did not 
state in my original post) is that creative or inventive people deserve 
credit for their work, but that the balance between credit for ideas and 
outright ownership of human knowledge has been skewed for decades.  I also 
feel that credit is more rightly deserved when it is given by others, rather 
than aggressively taken by the original inventor/creator.

Mike

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