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vidding thoughts
Because I'm still all afterglowy.
Vidding's a weird medium for me - my breed of creativity seems to be one that deals better with more static media, like language or html or pixels on a screen. Until I figured out a few tricks of the program(s) I use to vid, I used to be endlessly frustrated by the temporality of vidding - the inability to stop, freeze, divide up into portions that I can focus on and work on individually. Like pixels or layers in an icon. Like words or sentences or paragraphs in a fic.
Sure, there's the peaks and troughs of the visual representation of sound, but even that's difficult to interpret (though I'm getting better at it), but yeah, the temporality - even if I'm listening to the same half-second of song over and over to get the visual right, it's already over before I can get a hold of it. On top of that, I have a great deal of difficulty absorbing/computing the sound and the picture at once... Which makes it tricky to drop clips into the right place. On the super-quick cuts of the vid I posted yesterday, god, I had to play the sound over and over to try and recognise the beats I wanted in the sound visual, and then over and over each time I dropped a clip in, then microscopic changes in thesize length of each to fit each unique beat, and and and...
Yeah. It fulfills my finicky nature, but it's not easy. The more I do it the more I like it, though, mastering a new skill and all. I think the Sweetest Perfection one turned out so well because of the 'narrative' structure of it, so to speak; not just that it pretty much appealed to everyone because it was "yay, show is awesome!" instead of exploring a particular idea/slant/opinion of the show, as vids tend to be all about. But also because the structure was essentially "each episode in chronological order; rinse & repeat faster; season arc", it's not like I was looking for footage on a particular theme, then using it all up in the first half of the vid and grabbing at straws in the second half.
But anyway. Enough of rambling on that for a while. Except for this, because yeah, I'm a static person more than a temporal person, and I think this looks kickass. Here's what the vid looks on the cutting-room table:
Needless to say, I was zoomed in on the action a whole lot more than that while I was working on it, in order to grab and drag and cut and resize. Like:
ANYWAY. Thus ends the self-indulgence for today.
Vidding's a weird medium for me - my breed of creativity seems to be one that deals better with more static media, like language or html or pixels on a screen. Until I figured out a few tricks of the program(s) I use to vid, I used to be endlessly frustrated by the temporality of vidding - the inability to stop, freeze, divide up into portions that I can focus on and work on individually. Like pixels or layers in an icon. Like words or sentences or paragraphs in a fic.
Sure, there's the peaks and troughs of the visual representation of sound, but even that's difficult to interpret (though I'm getting better at it), but yeah, the temporality - even if I'm listening to the same half-second of song over and over to get the visual right, it's already over before I can get a hold of it. On top of that, I have a great deal of difficulty absorbing/computing the sound and the picture at once... Which makes it tricky to drop clips into the right place. On the super-quick cuts of the vid I posted yesterday, god, I had to play the sound over and over to try and recognise the beats I wanted in the sound visual, and then over and over each time I dropped a clip in, then microscopic changes in the
Yeah. It fulfills my finicky nature, but it's not easy. The more I do it the more I like it, though, mastering a new skill and all. I think the Sweetest Perfection one turned out so well because of the 'narrative' structure of it, so to speak; not just that it pretty much appealed to everyone because it was "yay, show is awesome!" instead of exploring a particular idea/slant/opinion of the show, as vids tend to be all about. But also because the structure was essentially "each episode in chronological order; rinse & repeat faster; season arc", it's not like I was looking for footage on a particular theme, then using it all up in the first half of the vid and grabbing at straws in the second half.
But anyway. Enough of rambling on that for a while. Except for this, because yeah, I'm a static person more than a temporal person, and I think this looks kickass. Here's what the vid looks on the cutting-room table:
Needless to say, I was zoomed in on the action a whole lot more than that while I was working on it, in order to grab and drag and cut and resize. Like:
ANYWAY. Thus ends the self-indulgence for today.