Essay on Vidding

[bigmamag]

Well, I did end up writing, though not fiction.  I wrote an essay on what makes a good vid and what makes a bad vid with a good dosing of thoughts on vidding itself.  It's mainly focused in the Harry Potter fandom, but I think every fandom can be included as well.  This must be the first essay I've written for fun and not for an assignment, though

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[bigmamag]

Oh, I most definitely meant when people linger on clips of them talking forever, like you see Harry, Ron and Hermione talking at a table and we watch them for a whole ten or fifteen seconds. You know, this one goes right along with the extended clip one. Hmm, maybe I should edit that one because it DOES sound like I'm dismissing all talking. I just hate it when you watch a vid and it's not even an important scene but you have the characters having an all out conversation that has no meaning to song or even conveys emotion. I manipulate talking all the time in a vid, not the 'slow it down to make it look like Harry is singing with the lyrics' way, but having a scene where there maybe IS high tension and Harry shouting or something like it.

Ooh, good luck on the instrumental song. You may do what I did, which was wonder 'why the hell am I doing this' to being really glad you did because it's so FREEING to do instrumental. I think you have the capability, though, so I'm not nervous for you. :)

I only put the essay on Envision because I mod on there and feel sort of safe doing so own community. I don't like pimping myself, I feel like I'm being egotistical and preaching in the first place. 0_o But I let others pimp freely because it's someone being egotistical FOR me.