Took me a while to get around to articulating decent feedback for this vid, so the rec is a bit belated. Degausser by saltwatergirl, Mysterious Skin
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I'm not sure to face shot or not to face shot is the point. When you make a vid with emotional content, the only real place to adequately draw from is your own feelings. If your feelings are realised through your connection with visible expressions of human emotion, then that will inevitably punctuate your vid. There will be closeups and they should be significant and used with intent and potency. Whether the viewer makes the same emotional connection is entirely up to the viewer and will depend a lot on what they bring to the vid and how they interpret, feel and connect with that. That a different approach works for you probably says less about this technique versus that and more about the what you respond to, about what emotional connections you make and how to align with the vidder
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I'm not sure to face shot or not to face shot is the point.
For me, it's a matter of variety in composition. It's a statistically proven fact that when we're presented with a lot of very similar images, we lose the ability to glean information from those images. That's what I'm responding to when I say "too many face shots." What I actually mean is "not enough variety in composition = perception fatigue."
Well if everything is the same how are you supposed to punctuate something. I guess that's the point, face shots can work perfectly well for this if they are used for that purpose. So can other things. Not all things will work for all people, however, just due to their connection with that emotion. (and it doesn't have to be a specific type of emotion, it can be comedy fear love hate etc etc)
As usual, comedy breaks all the rules. :) Or at least turns them upside-down. Now I am suddenly thinking of that t-shirt that has the "many faces of Angel."
Hmm, I totally agree that close-ups can and often are significant and used with intent and potency. I think what I was getting at was if a vid keeps using that one element over and over, effectively using this one thing as a crutch toward emotional engagement as opposed to exploring the entirety of - as you say - building, anticipating and delaying emotional release, that's when it gets problematic for me. I agree it's not just about whether there are only face shots, that it's dependent on all the other clip choices and music choice and how everything fits together, and I probably did it a disservice in framing the issue in a way that makes it seem like face shots are the sole problem when it's probably not so much the cause than the symptom when it feels like a vid isn't as emotionally engaging as the vidder expects it to be. I agree with Killa's "perception fatigue" comment except I'd also say it's an emotional fatigue. Coming back to your build-and-release point, it feels to me like a lot of woobie face shots often specifically go
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For me, it's a matter of variety in composition. It's a statistically proven fact that when we're presented with a lot of very similar images, we lose the ability to glean information from those images. That's what I'm responding to when I say "too many face shots." What I actually mean is "not enough variety in composition = perception fatigue."
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