Revised vid and documentary rec

[icepixie]

Some time ago, thuviaptarth recommended a documentary about film editing (The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing) in a post about background knowledge for vidding. I finally got around to watching it this week and found it tremendously helpful for putting words to what I'm intuitively thinking when I vid, as well as for pointing out certain other

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[icepixie]

Right at the start you added a scene from Top Hat that I think improves the beginning as it helps to make the Guy Divorcee part shorter and helps to give to those first seconds more speed and make that part for fluid.

Yeah, I was pleased with that addition. I had thought the original opening was sort of blah; this gives it more life.

Other thing that I liked is that you didn't touch the 'climax' moments of this video.

Thanks! I actually did recut some "climax" parts because the timing was just the slightest bit off. 0:55 through 1:08 all got readjusted by a few frames because I was originally cutting on the drum beats rather than at the end of Vienna Teng's phrasing (you'd think that would actually look better, but oddly, it looks better now that it's cut to coincide with her vocals). 2:27 to 2:50 actually had most of the clips adjusted by as many as eight frames. (Now the tapping at 2:40 and 2:49 actually coincides with a drumbeat, which makes me inordinately happy. :D)

The Never Gonna Dance bit at 1:55 is one of those moments that make you gasp. That's what I like of this video, the way you chose the right scenes for the right parts of the song.

Thanks. That's actually another part I adjusted for this one; I sped it up by 10% so that their heads would actually turn on "with" and "this," rather than whatever weird in-between moment I had them at before.

Other part that I find particulary well done, is the moment when you listen the violins around 2:45 to 2:59 and you use all the clips where they spin through the dance floor. Wonderful!

Heh. Violins and spinning seem to be forever mentally linked for me. I'm glad you like that part; it might just be my favorite sequence in this vid.

And the end is just perfect, the climax of the whole movie represented by a kiss, a very short one that doesn't break the rhythm of the song and the video. I think a longer one would have spoil the whole thing.

Yeah, it was hard to figure out what to end it with. I like that one because, as you say, it's short. My goal for that part of the song, since the last "am" has such a strong beat followed almost immediately by an even stronger drumbeat, was to find a clip that would have something visually interesting to put at the "am" but wouldn't look odd if I cut to black barely a second later. That it was that kiss, which allowed me to sort of come to a narrative conclusion, was just the proverbial cherry on top. :)

Thanks so much for your detailed comment! I'm so glad you like the video.

[eldivinomarques]

As a said before, a fanvideo, a good fanvideo, must tell you a story, must get the viewer to feel the feelings and emotions the author tried to recreate through it... and you get it. Just look at the whole reply telling all the details, changes and subtle adjustments you did, when I read it, I see an artist that spend a lot of time to create a visual story, an author that pay attention to details and that thinks that subtle adjust of just a few seconds are important... because they are! That's makes the difference between an artist and a fan, and I highly appreciate it.