Vidding with Challenging Source

[wistful_fever]

You'll have to forgive me, I've been thinking about video editing at work again. You see, when I work the dayshift on the weekends the hours can drag on seemingly without end and it gets really quiet and really really boring. Envision the movie Clerks without all the interesting people. Interesting people only seem to visit our store during week

Comments

[bradcpu]

I love reading your thoughts about all of this!

I've seen some of the problems you're talking about (and the solutions) in action, and I think you're dead-on about how to approach this stuff.

When vidding with a repetitive source like a sitcom or House-like show, I find it helps to take advantage of all of the repetition by cutting back and forth between scenes with similar blocking to help illustrate the connections between similar characters, or just to spice up the visual flow. Also, nearly all shows of that sort have a few brief moments of really dramatic camerawork, and it always helps to sprinkle those throughout the vid to help hold the viewer's attention.

[obsessive24]

The simplicity of your initial statement might be what allows your audience through the front door to read deeper where no context actually exists.
Oooooh, yes. Just, YES. Fuck, I need to write that down and Blu-tack it to my wall or something. This is probably the most important thing, vidding-wise, that I've ever heard. First, that there is a statement, but second, that it be simple enough to be a door, or lead through a door, or whatever door-related thing you care to name.

My most difficult source has been as mentioned, talky and/or static. To which I say added motion cures all ills, for better or for worse. The zoomy distracts the audience, whee!!!

I haven't had the Doctor Who type problem of too much shiny source. I'm a glutton and there's never too much of a good thing.

[meltingconfetti]

Thank you for the rec. :) I do have a question for you... every time I try watching this video on Imeem, the sound is not matching up to the clips. Is this an issue with just my computer, or is it happening for you, too? It used to play just fine, so I don't get it...

[obsessive24]

Man, that's always an issue with me. I notice it most with my own vids because I can discern lags of one or two frames (whereas I probably can't tell so much with other people's vids), but Imeem definitely lags at least two frames for me. It's a bitch to watch cos I always wonder if other people are seeing the same shitty out-of-sync-ness as I am.

[meltingconfetti]

Oh, how annoying. I wonder why Imeem does that? (I've also noticed it will suddenly speed up the song, too, which definitely throws the entire vid off.) I'm rather tempted to just include downloadable links with every vid on my Imeem... saying something along the lines of 'This is the way it was meant to be seen.' And even though youtube is inferior quality, my vids play just fine there. Strange.

[emily_shore]

Nasa/Space Exploration (news reel/documentary focused correct?, can be distancing to the audience)

Just wanted to say that I'm very gratified to see this teeny-tiny corner of vidding being mentioned by someone other than me! It is indeed newsreel and documentary focused, although I suspect many Shuttle vidders get their source straight from NASA TV. You can also buy DVDs of the unedited historical source, although this is not much help if you're trying to vid a mission that landed a week ago.

The main problem with space vids, as I see it, is that there are inherently not many people in them. So it can be hard to tell a story, or at least a story with some complexity to it. The Challenger accident would be an epic topic for a vid, and I would kill for one that had the sort of fantastic critical metacommentary that the really good media fandom vids have, but I doubt I'll ever see one. It's hard to vid O-rings, you know

[kirsten_lynch]

I have a lot of love for NASA vids

[kate_simpleruse]

Thank you so much for the rec :) It made me feel a ton better after my crappy day.