Revised vid and documentary rec

[icepixie]

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 aspects I hadn't considered, particularly about editing for emotional effect. One day I'll write up some further thoughts on it (this day will likely be after graduation), but for now I just wanted to recommend it to anyone who's interested in vid-making or vid-watching.

Watching that documentary also inspired me to spend a couple hours revising one of my Fred and Ginger vids (A Love that Won't Sit Still). I fixed some pervasive (though subtle) timing issues in the first two thirds that had been bugging me for the past six weeks or so, and I swapped out two clips for better ones. I'm not sure how noticeable the changes are to people not living in my head--I'm going to guess "not at all"--so I wouldn't suggest running over to watch it again, but the new version is streaming and downloadable at the link above if you're so inclined.

In RL news, there's a 90% chance that my 20-30-minute presentation on 2/18 is going to be moved to 2/23, to which I can only say, "HOORAY."

Comments

[eldivinomarques.livejournal.com]

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.