Vidding Chatter
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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.
Welcome to the monthly(-ish) chatter post.
How're your vids going? --- the ones you can talk about at least,
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.
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Date: 2019-05-16 01:45 pm (UTC)To date I've done A (continue the narrative arc), which was a natural choice because the songs were lyrically dense.
But I'm interested in trying out B (explore theme, character, etc. in a new way.) The song I'm currently thinking about (I can't say working with since I've been so focused on writing over vidding this year, and have only started to clip), has minimal lyrics and a lot of instrumentals. Which works with the source in question, but presents challenges since I can't simply match images to words.
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Date: 2019-05-16 06:02 pm (UTC)I did a panel on vidding to jazz, mostly instrumentals, at VVC last year and I think my basic advice that came out of that for dealing with instrumental passages is to first understand the music theory as much as possible. What time signature is it in, what rhythms does it use, what is the overall musical structure, what harmonic structures are used, etc... Just as much as music with lyrics has narrative that you can use, instrumental music has narrative and music theory is the language that has been developed to talk about that narrative structure. I like to put markers on my timeline at key moments: with lyrics, I mark key lyrics that I want to make sure I hit properly... with music, I mark changes in the music, changes in rhythm or instrumentation or key signature.