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24 Nov 2013 09:40 am
30 days of vidding: days 17-19
Day 17: Titles: Do you try to use something different than the song? Why or why not?
I usually use the song title, unless it just doesn't work for me at all. Most notably, the song (or should I say "piece"? I don't get non-pop music.) used for "The Island" is called "Little Jonathan/The Wall". Not a good vid title. So I named it after a chapter in the book that the movie was adapted from (The Black Stallion). Because my vid was basically documenting the events over the course of that chapter.
Day 18: Where do you get the most inspiration for your vids from?
The songs. I know a lot of people will have a vid idea and look for a song, but sometimes I do the opposite: I have a song I really want to vid, and I look for an idea that'll work for it. "A Thousand Miles" and "Everywhere" are both examples of this.
The only time I've had an idea and looked for a song was for Festivids. And even then I wasn't so much looking for a song for a specific idea as a song that generally seemed to fit the source and the recipient's wishes. After I narrowed it down to a few songs I found I had pretty different ideas for all of them, and I chose partially based on which idea I liked best.
Most of the time, though, it's just listening to a song that gives me a vid bunny. Usually for a source that I'm actively excited about.
Of course, watching something that's really beautifully or interestingly filmed will make me want to vid it. But that doesn't lead to ideas, as my lack of Veronica Mars vids will attest. (Mars Investigations has got to be one of my favorite sets of all time, and I love love love the way they light it.)
Day 19: When you have vid ideas, do you sit down and start vidding right away, or do you write down the idea for further exploration later?
Ha! I most certainly do not start vidding right away. I'd say the turn-around between getting an idea and actually starting editing is at least 6 months on average. Because I'm usually working on another vid, and/or other things are happening in my life, and then I have to acquire source and sometimes I have to re-watch and then there's the little question of motivation. Again, Festivids is really the only exception.
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I usually use the song title, unless it just doesn't work for me at all. Most notably, the song (or should I say "piece"? I don't get non-pop music.) used for "The Island" is called "Little Jonathan/The Wall". Not a good vid title. So I named it after a chapter in the book that the movie was adapted from (The Black Stallion). Because my vid was basically documenting the events over the course of that chapter.
Day 18: Where do you get the most inspiration for your vids from?
The songs. I know a lot of people will have a vid idea and look for a song, but sometimes I do the opposite: I have a song I really want to vid, and I look for an idea that'll work for it. "A Thousand Miles" and "Everywhere" are both examples of this.
The only time I've had an idea and looked for a song was for Festivids. And even then I wasn't so much looking for a song for a specific idea as a song that generally seemed to fit the source and the recipient's wishes. After I narrowed it down to a few songs I found I had pretty different ideas for all of them, and I chose partially based on which idea I liked best.
Most of the time, though, it's just listening to a song that gives me a vid bunny. Usually for a source that I'm actively excited about.
Of course, watching something that's really beautifully or interestingly filmed will make me want to vid it. But that doesn't lead to ideas, as my lack of Veronica Mars vids will attest. (Mars Investigations has got to be one of my favorite sets of all time, and I love love love the way they light it.)
Day 19: When you have vid ideas, do you sit down and start vidding right away, or do you write down the idea for further exploration later?
Ha! I most certainly do not start vidding right away. I'd say the turn-around between getting an idea and actually starting editing is at least 6 months on average. Because I'm usually working on another vid, and/or other things are happening in my life, and then I have to acquire source and sometimes I have to re-watch and then there's the little question of motivation. Again, Festivids is really the only exception.
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