Vidding Thoughts of the Day
I have been thinking quite a lot lately about context in vidding. Specifically, how much should you rely on context when making a vid?
( In which I blab on and on and on for, like, EVER, possibly without saying anything of value )
( In which I blab on and on and on for, like, EVER, possibly without saying anything of value )
Heh, yes, exactly. And I am actually having this problem right now in my current vid. (clip #1:) "ooooh, check out the CONTEXT! do you remember this scene? do ya? oh, the pain!" (clip #2:) "okay, now I need you to completely forget about the context! seriously!" I guess it's just a matter of deciding how much (if any) of that flip-flopping is acceptable, and to what degree.
The sublime is when you are able to make a vid that people who do not watch the show get and that only improves when viewed with context in mind.
These are my favorite types of vids. I LOVE it when I can watch something that rewards fans of the show with a deeper understanding, and yet I can show it to my non-fannish friends and have them go "whoa, cool!" (I consider "Cowboy" to be one of these vids.) Unfortunately, although they are fun to watch, they are also hella difficult to make.
And I love both the Dru clip and the soul-in-a-jar clip. The first because, well, Dru = pretty. :) The second because (a) I know enough about the show to get the soul=key connection, and it's clever and very character-relevant, and (b) even though non-fans won't get the full context, it's pretty easy to figure out that the glowing jar is important to Angel - it's his "key" - so it's not completely unintelligible. It's actually a great example of the situation you mentioned, where the uninitiated get a basic, visually entertaining version while the fans can dig deeper and find a whole new layer.
the masses will accept things they don't get - they know they are watching a vid about someone they don't know.
That's true. And I tend to forget that sometimes. My instinct is to "dumb everything down" and try to make every single clip completely understandable to everyone, when in fact no one really expects that to happen in the first place; so a little subtlety isn't going to lose me as many viewers as I often fear it will. Thanks for the reminder.
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