Thankful Thursday/Moment of Vanity
I so enjoy getting compliments on my editing.
My Rumplestiltskin video has been getting a few views and a few very nice compliments on my editing.
"I seriously am impressed with the editing of the video. Very well done!"
"THIS IS MY 50TH TIME PLAYING THIS VIDEO TODAY WITH NO END IN SIGHT! I REGRET NOTHING!!!!"
"HOW?! HOW IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY ARE THERE NO COMMENTS AND LESS THAN A MILLION VIEWS?! This is so spot on brilliant and perfect."
Those are all nice comments, but the one about the editing sort of just makes me smile and nod, because yes, I think I am very good with editing, probably almost better than I am at anything else. I consider myself to have a natural sense of good pacing and choice making, in editing. And that's not true for everyone.
But it's the same vain, self satisfied feeling I get when I go to karaoke with people who have never heard me sing, and after my first verse they go "Oh, DAMN, you can actually SING!" Then, too, I find myself giving a semi-smug, well-yes, nod of the head. I don't really know what else to say.
But going to karaoke and impressing people, and making fan videos and impressing people, is sort of cheating, isn't it? A 7th grader sitting in on a kindergarten class and answering all the questions.
Eventually I'm gonna need to take my editing to the big leagues.
My Rumplestiltskin video has been getting a few views and a few very nice compliments on my editing.
"I seriously am impressed with the editing of the video. Very well done!"
"THIS IS MY 50TH TIME PLAYING THIS VIDEO TODAY WITH NO END IN SIGHT! I REGRET NOTHING!!!!"
"HOW?! HOW IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY ARE THERE NO COMMENTS AND LESS THAN A MILLION VIEWS?! This is so spot on brilliant and perfect."
Those are all nice comments, but the one about the editing sort of just makes me smile and nod, because yes, I think I am very good with editing, probably almost better than I am at anything else. I consider myself to have a natural sense of good pacing and choice making, in editing. And that's not true for everyone.
But it's the same vain, self satisfied feeling I get when I go to karaoke with people who have never heard me sing, and after my first verse they go "Oh, DAMN, you can actually SING!" Then, too, I find myself giving a semi-smug, well-yes, nod of the head. I don't really know what else to say.
But going to karaoke and impressing people, and making fan videos and impressing people, is sort of cheating, isn't it? A 7th grader sitting in on a kindergarten class and answering all the questions.
Eventually I'm gonna need to take my editing to the big leagues.