written by Charmz
[For title context it requires awareness of the film analysis Youtube channel Every Frame A Painting. If you have never watched any of their content, I highly recommend checking out a few videos once you finish this article.]
In contrast to that YouTube channel, 24Frames has a different ideology. Once you strip down a piece of motion media to its individual frames; a lot of those frames are going to look quite similar, and a lot of those frames are not going to be perfectly composed. Could they all still be called paintings? Hell yeah they can, but they might not all be the most appealing paintings.
The 24Frames approach of fractionalization could be restrictive if strictly adhered to the abstraction and transcoding at a 24 frames/second parameter. However, 24Frames adheres closer to Gestalt Theory, and allows the Creator to abstract at different frame measures (such as 2 frames/second or 12 frames/second) and arbitrarily remove or add frames in sequence. The final piece always remains the same, but the sum of its parts (“Frames”) can differ.
With a 24Frames Collection, the meta is a bit different than a traditional NFT project. The perceived quality of a jpeg has less importance over the intrinsic quality of the metadata. When minting or purchasing a Frame NFT from a collection, it unlocks the full piece of media that was fractionalized.
The Frame is a moment, much like a photograph —
[Photo of Chicagohenge, an event that occurs only twice a year.]
I’m sure some of you probably experience this more than I, but I hear this from IRL friends and family when I bring up crypto:
“What is an NFT and why should I spend the time to learn what they are?”
The short answer in my opinion is that- they shouldn’t; the average person does not need to understand the technical backend of crypto and blockchain. The vast majority don’t know C++ or any other coding language, but that doesn’t keep them from using the internet multiple hours a day. I feel that, eventually, most industries will be using blockchain tech in some capacity without most even realizing it, like real estate contracts becoming zkNFTs or Helium hotspots for IoT interconnectivity.
24Frames is more like an Open Beta version of what could be implemented with media fractionalization. The initial goal is to make the most intuitive editing tool for fragmentation (will be known as The Gestalt Editor), so that motion media artists don’t have to spend the extra time technically learning how to mint their work into NFTs. I want both crypto peeps and non-blockchain artists to not be obstructed by a clunky UI in order to promote experimentation right out the gate!
metadata > jpeg
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