Vidding Chatter

[colls]

Hello vidders!!
Welcome to the monthly(-ish) chatter post.


How're your vids going? --- the ones you can talk about at least, for anyone else participating in exchanges.


What was your vidding gateway?
Either the first vid you made or the first vid you saw that made you think "I want to do that".


P.S. Feel free to talk about other vidding things (or non-vidding things), make suggestions for future monthly discussion posts, etc.

Comments

[ljwrites]

4) I'd love to hear people's thoughts on how they use bridges/instrumental sections in songs.

Personally I think of them as a kind of counterpoint. If the song is generally fast/intense with clips going by at a fast pace I might make the bridge a breather with slower, more introspective sequences, for instance. One thing I loved was lowering the music volume during the bridge and putting in spoken lines, in part because voice work was a major thing I played around in the video. As someone said upthread, skipping/shortening is totally valid as well--most songs have to be edited down for vids anyway in my experience.

[nyctanthes]

I've been meaning to reply to these comments and am finally doing so...six weeks later! Better late than never?

I really like this idea of using the bridge as a counterpoint. Fast vs slow, adding in spoken lines. (I know that dialogue in vids generates strong feelings, but I don't mind it, esp. if the vid is set to a source few people are familiar with.) To date, I've used bridges literally - they're a way to get the viewer from one part of the story to the next. It's interesting to think how they might serve less literal, more thematic purposes.