So you never plan a vid in your head with, say, a clip of Lex walking down stairs, and then when you go to the source you find there is no such clip? Or that it exists, but it doesn't look at all like you thought?
If it's not in the source, it doesn't go into my vid. And I feel deeply uncomfortable with tinkering with anything from the source in case someone notices how 'untrue' it is.
It's funny, I've never felt that way about visual source, but I used to be that way about the music. I couldn't bear to alter it in any way. The song felt somehow holy to me, and it was my duty to use every note and word of it, no matter how challenging: part of my job as a vidder. As you say, I felt it was cheating to mess with the music. I'm not really sure what changed my mind about that, but I've been cutting songs for a few years now.
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So you never plan a vid in your head with, say, a clip of Lex walking down stairs, and then when you go to the source you find there is no such clip? Or that it exists, but it doesn't look at all like you thought?
If it's not in the source, it doesn't go into my vid. And I feel deeply uncomfortable with tinkering with anything from the source in case someone notices how 'untrue' it is.
It's funny, I've never felt that way about visual source, but I used to be that way about the music. I couldn't bear to alter it in any way. The song felt somehow holy to me, and it was my duty to use every note and word of it, no matter how challenging: part of my job as a vidder. As you say, I felt it was cheating to mess with the music. I'm not really sure what changed my mind about that, but I've been cutting songs for a few years now.