Add another vote for wanting to read the rest of it!
Well, but - it's looooooooong. I don't want people to fall asleep at the keyboard! There could be face injuries.
Also, I was planning to spend tomorrow working on a (very bad, probably) vid
Oh, awesome! How did it work out? (Since I am shamefully late at replying to your comment.) I admit to being fascinated by the idea of a vid set to It's a Small World, although of course it would induce traumatic flashbacks in those of us who spent a lot of time with those dolls in childhood. (Which includes me. But I would watch anyway. I am that kind.)
The one-note joke vids, constructed reality vids, and 'shipper vids, fine, but the not the *good* ones.
See? They are indeed awesome places to start! *pleased that that, at any rate, holds true*
And I would totally argue that these can be good vids, too. (Plus, wow - it took me a long time even to grasp the *concept* of constructed reality vids. You got them right away? *impressed*)
Like, all the vids here that you talked about as "emotional" vids - where you turned your brain off and went squee? Those are the ones that I think about and overanalyze if I want to enjoy them.
Fascinating! I would love to hear specific examples of vids that hit you emotionally v. intellectually, since clearly we are at opposite ends of the spectrum there and I'd love to know why.
I *think* this might be because of the way I learned to watch vids - I learned (and I have no idea where, but probably on some "how to vid" tutorial) that if you're starting to lose your focus in a vid, you need to pick a POV character and put the vid in their POV.
I actually talked about this in the parts I cut. There's a definite tight-PoV school of vidding, and looking for the PoV when you're floundering is still definitely a good idea. For me, In Exchange for Your Tomorrows contains a lot of cues that suggest that I should not be looking for a character PoV, but if you were, I can see why you'd pick Snape. That makes sense to me.
I do think that vidders are getting more experimental in terms of PoV, which is good, because for some vids it really works, but there are lots of vids that you just can't make that way. But I also think it's still an excellent question to ask yourself when you're lost in a vid. (Which I frequently am, so I have a whole list of these questions.)
Do you know that people have been posting vids lately with convenient pop-up labels?
Re: pardon my meta.
Add another vote for wanting to read the rest of it!
Well, but - it's looooooooong. I don't want people to fall asleep at the keyboard! There could be face injuries.
Also, I was planning to spend tomorrow working on a (very bad, probably) vid
Oh, awesome! How did it work out? (Since I am shamefully late at replying to your comment.) I admit to being fascinated by the idea of a vid set to It's a Small World, although of course it would induce traumatic flashbacks in those of us who spent a lot of time with those dolls in childhood. (Which includes me. But I would watch anyway. I am that kind.)
The one-note joke vids, constructed reality vids, and 'shipper vids, fine, but the not the *good* ones.
See? They are indeed awesome places to start! *pleased that that, at any rate, holds true*
And I would totally argue that these can be good vids, too. (Plus, wow - it took me a long time even to grasp the *concept* of constructed reality vids. You got them right away? *impressed*)
Like, all the vids here that you talked about as "emotional" vids - where you turned your brain off and went squee? Those are the ones that I think about and overanalyze if I want to enjoy them.
Fascinating! I would love to hear specific examples of vids that hit you emotionally v. intellectually, since clearly we are at opposite ends of the spectrum there and I'd love to know why.
I *think* this might be because of the way I learned to watch vids - I learned (and I have no idea where, but probably on some "how to vid" tutorial) that if you're starting to lose your focus in a vid, you need to pick a POV character and put the vid in their POV.
I actually talked about this in the parts I cut. There's a definite tight-PoV school of vidding, and looking for the PoV when you're floundering is still definitely a good idea. For me, In Exchange for Your Tomorrows contains a lot of cues that suggest that I should not be looking for a character PoV, but if you were, I can see why you'd pick Snape. That makes sense to me.
I do think that vidders are getting more experimental in terms of PoV, which is good, because for some vids it really works, but there are lots of vids that you just can't make that way. But I also think it's still an excellent question to ask yourself when you're lost in a vid. (Which I frequently am, so I have a whole list of these questions.)
Do you know that people have been posting vids lately with convenient pop-up labels?
AWESOME. *goes to watch*