vid update
Feb. 11th, 2005 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lierdumoaI don't know what it is about vidding that I keep developing new slang. Hell, whole new ways of speaking.
In all my vid watching last week I suddenly started referring to all the good vids I saw as "fab." Every time something goes wrong with my vid I yell "poo" (and it sounds just as retarded out loud as it looks in type). I've gone from screaming "OBEY ME!" at Premiere to screaming "DO MY BIDDING!" Neither phrase seems particularly effective, as my vid still, as I like to say, "looks like ass."
Pacing. Pacing doesn't like me. The song is the same pace the whole way through. It doesn't really have a climax, like many folk songs. This vid has more complex cutting/fading patterns than any of my previous vids. My cutting style keeps changing. I'm kind of out of control. What I'm trying to do is make sure the style changes in a way that doesn't seem completely random, and that doesn't change the pace. It was too sped up in one part and two slow in another. I think I evened it out.
Now what I'm basically trying to do is identify all the parts that sound similar in the song and cut them the same way. I've said before I vid like I'm doing choreography. The more I vid, the more accurate this description seems to become. Thing is, I'm not changing my cutting style consciously. At least, not all the time. I just realized that in my Simon!vid the intro is all jump cuts, and the beginning verse is a combo of jump cuts and fades, and the first instrumental is all fades -- very specific fades, that will be somewhat difficult to imitate when I get to the next similar sounding instrumental. There's yet another type of cutting during the bridge with very short fade transitions that aren't really supposed to be recognized as fades so much as amplify the movement pattern of the bridge and agh. I feel like I'm not even speaking English anymore. What was my point? I know I had one.
...maybe I didn't have one.
::shrug::
Anyway, so there are two places in the song, the intro and the bridge, that aren't repeated, and these each have independent cutting styles. The verses and the instrumentals (aside from the bridge), are all repeated at least twice, and that's where I have to worry about my cutting being consistent so my vid doesn't look like, well, like ass. Moreso than it does already.
Poo.
This vid is slowly killing me, one braincell at a time.
In all my vid watching last week I suddenly started referring to all the good vids I saw as "fab." Every time something goes wrong with my vid I yell "poo" (and it sounds just as retarded out loud as it looks in type). I've gone from screaming "OBEY ME!" at Premiere to screaming "DO MY BIDDING!" Neither phrase seems particularly effective, as my vid still, as I like to say, "looks like ass."
Pacing. Pacing doesn't like me. The song is the same pace the whole way through. It doesn't really have a climax, like many folk songs. This vid has more complex cutting/fading patterns than any of my previous vids. My cutting style keeps changing. I'm kind of out of control. What I'm trying to do is make sure the style changes in a way that doesn't seem completely random, and that doesn't change the pace. It was too sped up in one part and two slow in another. I think I evened it out.
Now what I'm basically trying to do is identify all the parts that sound similar in the song and cut them the same way. I've said before I vid like I'm doing choreography. The more I vid, the more accurate this description seems to become. Thing is, I'm not changing my cutting style consciously. At least, not all the time. I just realized that in my Simon!vid the intro is all jump cuts, and the beginning verse is a combo of jump cuts and fades, and the first instrumental is all fades -- very specific fades, that will be somewhat difficult to imitate when I get to the next similar sounding instrumental. There's yet another type of cutting during the bridge with very short fade transitions that aren't really supposed to be recognized as fades so much as amplify the movement pattern of the bridge and agh. I feel like I'm not even speaking English anymore. What was my point? I know I had one.
...maybe I didn't have one.
::shrug::
Anyway, so there are two places in the song, the intro and the bridge, that aren't repeated, and these each have independent cutting styles. The verses and the instrumentals (aside from the bridge), are all repeated at least twice, and that's where I have to worry about my cutting being consistent so my vid doesn't look like, well, like ass. Moreso than it does already.
Poo.
This vid is slowly killing me, one braincell at a time.
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Date: 2005-02-12 06:39 am (UTC)Anyway, so there are two places in the song, the intro and the bridge, that aren't repeated, and these each have independent cutting styles. The verses and the instrumentals (aside from the bridge), are all repeated at least twice, and that's where I have to worry about my cutting being consistent so my vid doesn't look like, well, like ass. Moreso than it does already.
As long as all of the cutting styles either get along in harmony - or if there is one cutting style they all shun (I vid like the Amish) then make sure the shunned style is used specifically to jar the viewer - you will be okay and your vid will not look like ass. Or, it will look like a very nice ass.
he song is the same pace the whole way through. It doesn't really have a climax, like many folk songs.
I bet it does - although it might be more of an intuitive, emotional climax. You might not recognize it consciously, but it sounds like you are subconsciously attempting to find the variation in the song and create a climax or just highlight where it is hidden. Songs can be subtle little fuckers. You have to just kinda throttle them until they let you see what they do.
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Date: 2005-02-12 10:07 am (UTC)You? Are lovely. And I'm a little embarassed. I'm so used to writing these long whiny posts while I'm in complaining mode (it's all part of vid-farr for me) I forget I have vidders on my friends list now who actually read them. I absolutely love having someone comment who gets what I'm saying and doesn't just roll their eyes at me being a nitpicky freak. I should warn you though, that I tend to blow every little problem out of proportion because vidding turns me into a big spaz. A big spaz armed with a livejournal client.
As long as all of the cutting styles either get along in harmony...you will be okay and your vid will not look like ass.
I'm fairly sure that the different vidding styles I have at this point flow fairly naturally into each other. ::crosses fingers:: If anything ends up really off, I'm sure my beta's will catch it.
Or, it will look like a very nice ass.
::giggles like an 8th grade boy::
I bet it does - although it might be more of an intuitive, emotional climax.
Ah, I misspoke. It does have a sort of a climax. Nothing as apparent as in most other songs. The last verse is slightly louder, with a slightly different instrumental background than the previous verses, and the repetition at the end of the last verse is where the emotional climax lies. At least, the way I'm hearing it. It's nothing so obvious as the musical culmination for the song in my last big vid project.
Songs can be subtle little fuckers. You have to just kinda throttle them until they let you see what they do.
I think that's one reason I love vidding so much. I love music. I love everything about music, and I understand the music more when I immerse myself in it like this.
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Date: 2005-02-12 02:32 pm (UTC)Vidding turns me into an irrational creature who ponders my motivation in doing everything. Ain't it great?
Ah, I misspoke. It does have a sort of a climax. Nothing as apparent as in most other songs. The last verse is slightly louder, with a slightly different instrumental background than the previous verses, and the repetition at the end of the last verse is where the emotional climax lies.
I hear ya. My latest vid in progress is a very hushed, hymn-like song that is miles away from what I normally do. The climax for me happens at a particular moment -- I knew the music wanted somethng to happen there and I didn't know why and then Killa told me there was a key change.
One of the reasons I love vidding so much is that oftentimes I do not have the vocabulary to discuss a song. I can show what it means to me, though.
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Date: 2005-02-14 03:23 am (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/fey_puck/209542.html