VVC09 Panel: Timing Is Everything

[thuviaptarth]

Timing Is Everything
Moderator: heresluck
This panel approaches timing on both a micro level (making the most of individual sounds in a piece of music) and a maco level (pacing a vid as a whole). Although it will be aimed primarily at vidders, the panel might also be of use to vidwatchers and betas seeking to understand how vidders create particular

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[bradcpu]

My biggest regret of the con was missing this panel, so thank you so much for posting this!!

[thuviaptarth]

I'm glad to be of help. :) 's report also has a lot of things I missed.

[sdwolfpup]

Thanks for writing up your notes on the panels, they've always got some excellent notes in them. :) I was curious about this panel especially since I am a vidder who vids to beats by feeling more than everything. This is interesting.

[balistik94]

Thanx for this report.

[nestra]

pointed out "New Frontier" is a more dynamic song; where "Atropine" is 2-2-2-2, "New Frontier" is 3-3-2, which creates a punchier sound.

Just to clarify, not all of "New Frontier" is subdivided that way. It's kind of a fiddly musical point, and the kind of thing that's probably not obvious unless one has had some musical training, but also the kind of thing that most vidders probably instinctively understand.

[thuviaptarth]

but also the kind of thing that most vidders probably instinctively understand.

Hahahahahaha. Except for those of us who are musically hopeless.

[heresluck]

Yeah, it's mostly the choruses that feel 3-3-2/8, while the verses are more straightforwardly 4/4. And there are a couple of places in the song where the fourth beat is actually DROPPED, so there's a measure of 3/4 in there, which FILLS ME WITH GLEE. Um. Not that I geek about time signatures or anything. No.

But yeah, part of why the song is so dynamic is precisely that it maintains the same tempo and (technically, mostly) time signature while using syncopation to vary the rhythmic effects. I love it so.

[serrico]

Thanks for the writeup! I always agonize about pace and timing, so this was not only an interesting read, but a helpful one. :)