Right. You kind of have to optimize for one or the other medium.
Plenty of Youtube channels I watch have ~10 minute-ish overviews of some particular thing. Sabine Hossenfelder for science news, @nprofile1q... for urbanist content, etc.
They tend to flip between camera shots of themselves at a desk "waist-up", I.e. news-anchor style, and then other screen-filling content like graphics, maps, etc. This is good, and works particularly well for TV presentation. It would NOT work as a podcast.
But most video podcasts, it's just Zoom in on someone's face, where you can see the ring light reflected in their pupils. Blow that up onto a 70-inch TV and you've got a GIANT TALKING HEAD staring you in the eyes for 2 hours. No variation, just the head.
It's jarring... do people actually do that?
Plenty of Youtube channels I watch have ~10 minute-ish overviews of some particular thing. Sabine Hossenfelder for science news, @nprofile1q... for urbanist content, etc.
They tend to flip between camera shots of themselves at a desk "waist-up", I.e. news-anchor style, and then other screen-filling content like graphics, maps, etc. This is good, and works particularly well for TV presentation. It would NOT work as a podcast.
But most video podcasts, it's just Zoom in on someone's face, where you can see the ring light reflected in their pupils. Blow that up onto a 70-inch TV and you've got a GIANT TALKING HEAD staring you in the eyes for 2 hours. No variation, just the head.
It's jarring... do people actually do that?