Comments | icepixie: Revised vid and documentary rec

icepixie

Revised vid and documentary rec

Feb 04, 2010 21:56

Some time ago, thuviaptarth recommended a documentary about film editing (The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing) in a post about background knowledge for vidding. I finally got around to watching it this week and found it tremendously helpful for putting words to what I'm intuitively thinking when I vid, as well as for pointing out certain other ( Read more... )

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eldivinomarques February 5 2010, 10:25:41 UTC

I'm not sure how noticeable the changes are to people not living in my headIt's your creation. You had an idea, you made it real through a video format, you spent hours in its creation... so, yes, it would be quite difficult to appreciate the changes the way you may do but! let's try it ( ... )

icepixie February 6 2010, 01:07:58 UTC

Right at the start you added a scene from Top Hat that I think improves the beginning as it helps to make the Guy Divorcee part shorter and helps to give to those first seconds more speed and make that part for fluid.

Yeah, I was pleased with that addition. I had thought the original opening was sort of blah; this gives it more life.

Other thing that I liked is that you didn't touch the 'climax' moments of this video.

Thanks! I actually did recut some "climax" parts because the timing was just the slightest bit off. 0:55 through 1:08 all got readjusted by a few frames because I was originally cutting on the drum beats rather than at the end of Vienna Teng's phrasing (you'd think that would actually look better, but oddly, it looks better now that it's cut to coincide with her vocals). 2:27 to 2:50 actually had most of the clips adjusted by as many as eight frames. (Now the tapping at 2:40 and 2:49 actually coincides with a drumbeat, which makes me inordinately happy. :D)

The Never Gonna Dance bit at 1:55 is one of those ( ... )

eldivinomarques February 6 2010, 07:07:20 UTC

As a said before, a fanvideo, a good fanvideo, must tell you a story, must get the viewer to feel the feelings and emotions the author tried to recreate through it... and you get it. Just look at the whole reply telling all the details, changes and subtle adjustments you did, when I read it, I see an artist that spend a lot of time to create a visual story, an author that pay attention to details and that thinks that subtle adjust of just a few seconds are important... because they are! That's makes the difference between an artist and a fan, and I highly appreciate it.