, I am so story-oriented I will find a story where there is none! I, as viewer, make up my own story! *giggles* You are awesome. Thank you. I like that point very much... it makes me thinky about the fact that we (as humans) have a strong impulse towards narrative. It's how we make sense of our world and we are trained into it in all we read and absorb from an early age. So maybe vidders can rely on their viewers to find a story!
I wonder how vidders feel when someone (like me) has a different interpretation on their vid style or its story? I find it fascinating and love it. Some vidders may mind but I haven't run across that in my experience...
I enjoy watching but sometimes I feel puzzled. I don't want to offend someone and their hard work by missing the point, you know? I do know that feeling and worry about it too. Especially when I have a REALLY strong reaction to a vid in a certain way and drivel it all out in comments and then worry later that the vidder will read it and laugh. (Perhaps we should have a chat one day about feedback?) 90 per cent of my expreriences with that have been really positive though. I think that in most cases where a viewer connects emotionally with a vid (in whatever way) then they've tapped into something 'true' that the vidder is going to be pleased to hear about, even if it wasn't exactly what they set out to do.
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Date: 2008-10-11 11:06 pm (UTC)*giggles* You are awesome. Thank you. I like that point very much... it makes me thinky about the fact that we (as humans) have a strong impulse towards narrative. It's how we make sense of our world and we are trained into it in all we read and absorb from an early age. So maybe vidders can rely on their viewers to find a story!
I wonder how vidders feel when someone (like me) has a different interpretation on their vid style or its story?
I find it fascinating and love it. Some vidders may mind but I haven't run across that in my experience...
I enjoy watching but sometimes I feel puzzled. I don't want to offend someone and their hard work by missing the point, you know?
I do know that feeling and worry about it too. Especially when I have a REALLY strong reaction to a vid in a certain way and drivel it all out in comments and then worry later that the vidder will read it and laugh. (Perhaps we should have a chat one day about feedback?) 90 per cent of my expreriences with that have been really positive though. I think that in most cases where a viewer connects emotionally with a vid (in whatever way) then they've tapped into something 'true' that the vidder is going to be pleased to hear about, even if it wasn't exactly what they set out to do.