Vidding Chatter

[colls]

Hello vidders!!
Welcome to the monthly(-ish) chatter post. Feel free to talk about any vidding topic at all, it doesn't need to be related to your bingo card - although it can be!

Recently a lot of my DW and twitter feed have been discussing the Plotters vs. Pantsers approach to writing and it made me think about how I approach vidding. Sometimes I plan things out and sometimes I fly by the seat of my pants.

There are some discussion and examples of storyboards on this LJ post (from 2010... wow) Workshop: I Make Images Move With The Music

Are you a vidding plotter or a pantser?
If you use storyboards, how do you approach them? Are they vague or detailed, handwritten or a google doc?

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

It depends on the vid, tbh. Like I plotted stuff out for God’s Gonna Cut You Down, but Get Free mostly involved me throwing stuff on the timeline and seeking what worked.

I tend to mainly do storyboard stuff when I’ve got a bunch of episodes to keep track of.

[colls]

I can relate with the bunch of episodes thing. With movies I can usually to the pantser thing and throw stuff on the timeline and play around with it. When there's a lot of source material, I try to organize it just a bit so I don't get overwhelmed. I tend to have this irrational fear of missing some good footage or something (IDK) if I'm not somewhat methodical about it.