Vidding the bridge

[frayadjacent]

I've heard a number of vidders say that the bridge is the hardest part to vid, and some even take it out of the song.  But when I get a vid idea, the bridge is almost always the clearest part of my vision.  It's a moment of transition, it connects whatever I'm trying to say in the introduction to the end.  It often builds toward a climactic moment in the song.  It's great for capturing change -- in the characters, in their relationships, in the story.  And it's gloriously free of any random awkward lyric that doesn't work and you hope people ignore.  It's almost always the thing that gets me excited to make a vid, and it's almost always the part where I see the clip choice most clearly when I'm first starting.

I'm interested if other vidders find this to be the case.

(Also, three posts in one day!  I think this is a personal record.)

Comments

[chaila]

I almost always start out by going "OMG all this free instrumental space, WHAT WILL I PUT THERE oh noes," and then by the end of the vidding process it's usually my favorite part of the vid. So, it's sort of intimidating because it's so open, but once I get going I like for exactly that same reason?

[frayadjacent]

Heh, for me it doesn't always end up being my favorite part of the vid! But it's the part I often am most excited to make. Though that's really mostly the case if some sort of transformation (in a very broad sense) is part of the point of the vid. If that's the not the case then it's a lot less clear to me what to do with the bridge.

I was just thinking, the song "Tightrope" -- which you have also vidded*! -- doesn't have an instrumental bridge. Big Boi's rap plays a similar role musically, but it plays a different role in a vid, I think. It feels more like an interlude to tell a different aspect of the story, rather than a "bridge" to thematically join the beginning and end of the vid? (Lol can you tell I'm talking out my ass!) If I remember correctly, you used it to showcase a different character (Burt instead of Mary), and I did a somewhat similar thing for it. I can see an instrumental bridge filling a similar purpose but it seems like it would be trickier than it is with an interlude with a different vocalist.

*I made a Club Vivid vid to "Tightrope", so it's finished but not posted yet.