I'm not sure how noticeable the changes are to people not living in my head
It'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.
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. Other thing that I liked is that you didn't touch the 'climax' moments of this video. The whole part that goes from 0:39 to 0:44 is a beauty. The Never Gonna Dance bit at 1:55 is one of those moments that make you gasp. That's what I like of this video, the way you chose the right scenes for the right parts of the song. Other part that I find particulary well done, is the moment when you listen the violins around 2:45 to 2:59 and you use all the clips where they spin through the dance floor. Wonderful! And the end is just perfect, the climax of the whole movie represented by a kiss, a very short one that doesn't break the rhythm of the song and the video. I think a longer one would have spoil the whole thing.
Well, sorry for the long post, but I think the video deserved it. It's not easy to find someone that knows how to mix a song and clip well and make it work. It's not about putting song and scenes together, it's about telling a story and both, music and movement, must complement each other in order to achieve that goal, and I think you did with this video.
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Date: 2010-02-05 10:25 am (UTC)It'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.
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.
Other thing that I liked is that you didn't touch the 'climax' moments of this video. The whole part that goes from 0:39 to 0:44 is a beauty. The Never Gonna Dance bit at 1:55 is one of those moments that make you gasp. That's what I like of this video, the way you chose the right scenes for the right parts of the song. Other part that I find particulary well done, is the moment when you listen the violins around 2:45 to 2:59 and you use all the clips where they spin through the dance floor. Wonderful! And the end is just perfect, the climax of the whole movie represented by a kiss, a very short one that doesn't break the rhythm of the song and the video. I think a longer one would have spoil the whole thing.
Well, sorry for the long post, but I think the video deserved it. It's not easy to find someone that knows how to mix a song and clip well and make it work. It's not about putting song and scenes together, it's about telling a story and both, music and movement, must complement each other in order to achieve that goal, and I think you did with this video.