Oh, thank you so much for responding and expanding on your 'telling deeper' idea! I think it's such a wonderful description.
I don't think of it as a genre unto itself, but as a method or style that can be applied in any genre -- even comedy vids. Oh, that makes a lot of sense!
A lot of the vids I've been watching for the past year or so are mood vids, which may play fast and loose with narrative or not contain narrative at all. I love them, I love that there's a whole community playing around with this kind of art. But my brain is very story-driven, and I find myself trying to tease out a narrative, or even impose one if I don't see one there. Me too. I love those completely non-linear vids and find them breathtaking. I aspire to vidding that way, but I find whenever I set out to vid I am so ridiculously bound by both narrative (often STILL! a linear story from canon) and canon in terms of mood and characterisation. Sigh. I guess this is where I come up against my creative limitations... and yet I know intellectually that mood vids are not necessarily 'better' than any other vids. But it still irks me that I can't vid that way! ;)
meta vids and vids that are purely celebratory of a relationship but don't make an argument. Oh, yes, those are good additions. Thank you!
always determined by the song's structure. I can't impose narrative structure on a song that's doing something different Yes, that's absolutely true for me too and I imagine is true for most vidders. Perhaps that means I need to pick different songs? ;)
, I'd love to talk about mood vids (what [info]heresluck calls lyric vids) and the recent trend toward them. Noted! I'd love to do that. Thanks!
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I don't think of it as a genre unto itself, but as a method or style that can be applied in any genre -- even comedy vids.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense!
A lot of the vids I've been watching for the past year or so are mood vids, which may play fast and loose with narrative or not contain narrative at all. I love them, I love that there's a whole community playing around with this kind of art. But my brain is very story-driven, and I find myself trying to tease out a narrative, or even impose one if I don't see one there.
Me too. I love those completely non-linear vids and find them breathtaking. I aspire to vidding that way, but I find whenever I set out to vid I am so ridiculously bound by both narrative (often STILL! a linear story from canon) and canon in terms of mood and characterisation. Sigh. I guess this is where I come up against my creative limitations... and yet I know intellectually that mood vids are not necessarily 'better' than any other vids. But it still irks me that I can't vid that way! ;)
meta vids and vids that are purely celebratory of a relationship but don't make an argument.
Oh, yes, those are good additions. Thank you!
always determined by the song's structure. I can't impose narrative structure on a song that's doing something different
Yes, that's absolutely true for me too and I imagine is true for most vidders. Perhaps that means I need to pick different songs? ;)
, I'd love to talk about mood vids (what [info]heresluck calls lyric vids) and the recent trend toward them.
Noted! I'd love to do that. Thanks!