Took me a while to get around to articulating decent feedback for this vid, so the rec is a bit belated. Degausser by saltwatergirl, Mysterious Skin
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I'd wanted to say this piece for a while now, so I suppose this is as good as an avenue as any. I get why it happens - if you love the source (characters) and loving the vid, and you're staring at the timeline too closely to see the forest for the trees, it's hard to wrestle yourself out of your specific headspace to think about whether it's actually gonna come across even remotely the same way to your audience. But for me that's only a corner of the much larger Ultimate Problem of Vidding - how to make the audience see the vid exactly how you see it, how to make them understand exactly what you mean. Well, it's my Ultimate Problem, anyway. :D
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I stopped watching Smallville because all the constant closeups bothered my eye, and wore me out visually. Weird, but true. I have no idea if they kept doing that after the first season, but in season 1 I called it "Giant Lex head meets Giant Clark head." With some giant Lana head for variety.
ETA: Incidentally, I watched a new vid by talitha78 last night (her Escapade premiere) which was such an awesome example of how to make a vid that's a terrific character study, action vid, and 'shipper vid all in one. I LOVE when vids do that. It was really refreshing to see a vid that had such satisfying relationship moments, yet used face shots super-sparingly.
LOL, I tend to not have as much of a problem with it in shows as opposed to vids, but I do tend to watch TV on my 11 inch laptop, so it's never so much a GIANT HEAD problem I suppose.
(Incidentally, M doesn't think of SV as giant heads, but he does refer it to "primary colour face show".)
Stop taunting us with all these lovely Escapade premieres that we're not gonna be able to see for another month! :P
GONNA MAKE AN ENTIRE VID OF ONLY FACES. MEDIUMS AND CLOSEUPS ONLY!
Actually that would be a real interesting and experimental VVC vidshow. Commission all the good vidders to pick a rule you're not supposed to break and make a vid around breaking it.
I keep toying with ideas to rally a bunch of vidders around a challenge, like the Five Obstructions, or even Chacun son Cinéma, which would be AMAZING if we could round up a bunch of vidders like that, although the 3-minute rule would probably have to be changed since that's like a full-length vid.
A whole vidshow with nothing but faces, though. !!!!!! Eye fatigue much?
Yeah, man. There's nothing that makes me happier than when vids are seen for the little works of cinema that they are. I would definitely rally for such a challenge! (And for the record, it would be a vidshow of a bunch of different types of rule-breaking vids, not an entire vidshow of just faces! That would be eyeball suicide!)
I'm not sure to face shot or not to face shot is the point. When you make a vid with emotional content, the only real place to adequately draw from is your own feelings. If your feelings are realised through your connection with visible expressions of human emotion, then that will inevitably punctuate your vid. There will be closeups and they should be significant and used with intent and potency. Whether the viewer makes the same emotional connection is entirely up to the viewer and will depend a lot on what they bring to the vid and how they interpret, feel and connect with that. That a different approach works for you probably says less about this technique versus that and more about the what you respond to, about what emotional connections you make and how to align with the vidder
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I'm not sure to face shot or not to face shot is the point.
For me, it's a matter of variety in composition. It's a statistically proven fact that when we're presented with a lot of very similar images, we lose the ability to glean information from those images. That's what I'm responding to when I say "too many face shots." What I actually mean is "not enough variety in composition = perception fatigue."
Well if everything is the same how are you supposed to punctuate something. I guess that's the point, face shots can work perfectly well for this if they are used for that purpose. So can other things. Not all things will work for all people, however, just due to their connection with that emotion. (and it doesn't have to be a specific type of emotion, it can be comedy fear love hate etc etc)
As usual, comedy breaks all the rules. :) Or at least turns them upside-down. Now I am suddenly thinking of that t-shirt that has the "many faces of Angel."
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I've been feeling this, too, fwiw.
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ETA: Incidentally, I watched a new vid by talitha78 last night (her Escapade premiere) which was such an awesome example of how to make a vid that's a terrific character study, action vid, and 'shipper vid all in one. I LOVE when vids do that. It was really refreshing to see a vid that had such satisfying relationship moments, yet used face shots super-sparingly.
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(Incidentally, M doesn't think of SV as giant heads, but he does refer it to "primary colour face show".)
Stop taunting us with all these lovely Escapade premieres that we're not gonna be able to see for another month! :P
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Actually that would be a real interesting and experimental VVC vidshow. Commission all the good vidders to pick a rule you're not supposed to break and make a vid around breaking it.
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A whole vidshow with nothing but faces, though. !!!!!! Eye fatigue much?
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For me, it's a matter of variety in composition. It's a statistically proven fact that when we're presented with a lot of very similar images, we lose the ability to glean information from those images. That's what I'm responding to when I say "too many face shots." What I actually mean is "not enough variety in composition = perception fatigue."
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