That’s only accelerated in the age of TikTok, an app that offers more and easier editing tools for users than any that came before it. Online video is an inherently communal form it’s defined by thousands of people iterating on the same idea. Every video on this list represents an evolution in the form or exemplifies a particularly influential editing style - whether the creator was one of the first to attempt it, or just pulled off a jaw-dropping editing feat all their own.Įvery once in a while, though, there’s a leap forward. Lip-syncing is everywhere now, thanks to TikTok and its precursors Musical.ly and Dubsmash, which had special features to make creating a seamless lip-sync a hell of a lot easier. But this particular one, a shot-for-shot recreation of Beyoncé’s “Countdown” video, was made before all that. A masterpiece made by and starring then-16-year-old Ton Do-Nguyen, it combines his flawless lip-sync performance with key editing elements we still see over and over in modern viral content, achieved with a digital camera and the editing program Vegas. The bulk of the video is shot in landscape, but Do-Nguyen integrates vertical shots throughout the video - particularly innovative in a time when many hadn’t accepted that the typical way people hold their phones is the easiest way to film with one. There’s a shot panning across a half-dozen vertical frames of Do-Nguyen dancing that looks like it could have been made in 2021 (probably using Trio, the TikTok filter that gives you a cohort of backup dancers who are just duplicated versions of yourself). And then, of course, there’s the Snuggie Do-Nguyen wears throughout: One TikTok trend last year involved recreating album covers using household items. The “Countdown” Snuggie would have worked perfectly, nearly a decade later. Graphic: you just need a little emphasis. The extreme zoom is one of the easiest and most effective editing tricks and a fixture across content platforms.
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