On clipping and rhythm in vidding

Yesterday I was supposed to be writing RPS. But I got lazy. So instead I decided to read lots and lots of vid meta. I came across laurashapiro's notes on her Creating Mood Panel.

Timing Cuts
To the Beat - simple, direct, "punchy", makes the vid danceable, hard-hitting, rhythmically satisfying
To the Lyric - emphasizes the words, cuts will sometimes be on the beat and sometimes not, vid has less bounciness but may have more flow, or feel more organic
Other - cutting to a grace note or other musical accent will tend to emphasize that element in the music, so the mood of that guitar solo or drum break more concretely affects the mood of your vid in that moment

Now my gut instinct after reading this was to think -- you're wrong. You should always cut on beat. But here was someone disagreeing with me. So I had to think about why my opinion on this point was so strong. I had a conversation with permetaform last night. The both of us are total beat nazis (or maybe beat whores is a better term). Our chat helped me to develop my argument against this set of vidding guidelines. ( Read more... )

ETA: If you're reading this and you haven't seen my vid, but want to, you can download it here.

On a somewhat related note, I think it would be interesting for someone to try to vid Tori Amos with lyrical beats in mind. ( Read more... )

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