Often if I sit down and try to justify my clip choices (which I do occasionally or retrospectively if someone asks me about them, especially during betaing), I'll be able to explain why I chose them and offer rational reasons, but when I actually choose them it's a more...instinctive "what needs to be on this line?" sort of thing?
Me too! Well, sometimes. In general, my vids are still literal enough that it's probably obvious, but for the more obscure-ish interpretations (basically only in Cathedrals really), if I try to justify a clip choice, I can come up with a whole list of reasons, but when I put it there, often I did so just because it "worked." So yay for instinctual vidding?
I tend to go for songs whose lyrics shouldn't work but do and therefore when I make fairly obvious lyrical connections, it comes across as more interesting than daft?
I think this is totally true. I never watch your vids and think your interpretations were obvious or even literal, I end up thinking what interesting connections you made, things I would not have thought of but work almost strangely well. Something like that anyway!
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Me too! Well, sometimes. In general, my vids are still literal enough that it's probably obvious, but for the more obscure-ish interpretations (basically only in Cathedrals really), if I try to justify a clip choice, I can come up with a whole list of reasons, but when I put it there, often I did so just because it "worked." So yay for instinctual vidding?
I tend to go for songs whose lyrics shouldn't work but do and therefore when I make fairly obvious lyrical connections, it comes across as more interesting than daft?
I think this is totally true. I never watch your vids and think your interpretations were obvious or even literal, I end up thinking what interesting connections you made, things I would not have thought of but work almost strangely well. Something like that anyway!