Vidding as metaphor, metaphors for vidding
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viddingToday I am thinking about metaphors, how they help and how they constrict.
What are your metaphors for vidding or vid watching? Do you have any? Do you frame it in terms of other creative crafts and endeavours--writing, cooking, knitting, dancing, choreographing, composing, playing music, listening to music, painting, sculpting, etc.--or other activities--sports, finances, programming, cleaning, exercises, etc.--or something else? How does the rest of your life shape the way you conceive of vidding or watching vids?
How does vidding shape the way you perceive other parts of your life? Do you end up using skills and techniques you've learned from vidding or analyzing vids to improve or better understand other activities?
What are your metaphors for vidding or vid watching? Do you have any? Do you frame it in terms of other creative crafts and endeavours--writing, cooking, knitting, dancing, choreographing, composing, playing music, listening to music, painting, sculpting, etc.--or other activities--sports, finances, programming, cleaning, exercises, etc.--or something else? How does the rest of your life shape the way you conceive of vidding or watching vids?
How does vidding shape the way you perceive other parts of your life? Do you end up using skills and techniques you've learned from vidding or analyzing vids to improve or better understand other activities?
Re: LOL
Date: 2010-04-04 07:10 pm (UTC)Re: LOL
Date: 2010-04-04 07:28 pm (UTC)lol
I dont think they quite know how to respond.
Friend: "Oh, did you SEE that? That was an awesome fight scene!"
Me: "Well, it had potential, but when they switched to the long shot from the reaction shots, it lost a lot of oomph. Who cares what those side characters (who never had a line and will probably die in the next 5 seconds) can see or not? That whole shot was unimportant, and distracting. And did you see how the light blur off the sword was going in the wrong direction for the sun shot directly beforehand?"
Friend:" Um....*sigh*
rofl
Re: LOL
Date: 2010-04-04 07:33 pm (UTC)Theres so much MORE to see! *grin*
And we are basically training our brains to see mini-moments that usually are only studied by pathologists, criminologists and human interaction specialists.
With the added bonus of really being able to see and agree or disagree (from a more objective standpoint) with a director's/production company's use of arsenal to tell a story.
Im pretty sure that some of the movies I remember loving wouldnt live up to the "vidder's eye" now. *shrug* Will I stop loving those movies? Maybe.
lol
But I'll still LIKE them enough to make watching them a treat, even if I torture anyone in earshot about trivial minutae.
Nice payoff.
Re: LOL
Date: 2010-04-04 08:10 pm (UTC)