Which parts are real and which are faked? When you go about producing the video, do you already know how it will go / look? Do you storyboard? How do you decide which parts you will "real" and which you will fake?

On Wednesday, November 18, 2015, Bret Victor wrote:

I came up with this today; it's an "illustration" for the climate change essay that I'll be publishing next week.  I wanted to share it on its own because, well, I had forgotten how thrilling I find this kind of thing.  I guess it's been a while.

For context, this is a (mockup of a) word processor designed for typing in facts, not just words.  (It's got a bit of Dictionary-of-Numbers-in-reverse flavor.)

[autocompleting-facts.mov]

What you see is maybe 25% real, 75% faked.  I hope I didn't leave a boom mike in the shot.

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