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kwaldo12
Jan. 26th, 2005 04:48 pmAs the rest of the vidders sit and chuckle with the supreme irony of me doing a rant on bad vids, let me just jump in.
1) A bad vid uses too many clips in too short a time. Folks, I don't see in 1 frame increments. I don't even see in one-second increments. It takes between 2 and 4 seconds for an image to register and process in my brain, and I am typical of the 30 something generation. For some vidders, that is an impossibly long time, and they hit the "bored now, new clip" stage every .75 seconds. Alternately, letting one clip run for 20-30 seconds had better have a darn good reason.
2) A bad vid uses music that sets my teeth on edge. Too loud, too dissonant, too much guitar screeching. Or alternately too intensive of harmonies. I can listen to one line of melody, and MAYBE a contrapuntal harmony. A clue: if the song is louder than a trainwreck or sounds like small animals being tortured, it's not necessarily a good choice for a tender, schmoopy romance vid. Of course, if your vid is about torturing small animals, please, go for it. Also, six minute piano/dulcimer interlude in mid-song is nobody's friend. Neither is rap.
3) There's metaphor and then there's random clip choice. Make sure your audience knows the difference. The average casual vid-viewer sometimes can't tell.
4) English major damage and talky-face both kill vids dead.
5) If your really, truly think you can get a laugh from a Jar-Jar/Yoda unrequited love vid to "Let's give them something to talk about," I say go for it. But please don't be surprised when folks point and mock.
1) A bad vid uses too many clips in too short a time. Folks, I don't see in 1 frame increments. I don't even see in one-second increments. It takes between 2 and 4 seconds for an image to register and process in my brain, and I am typical of the 30 something generation. For some vidders, that is an impossibly long time, and they hit the "bored now, new clip" stage every .75 seconds. Alternately, letting one clip run for 20-30 seconds had better have a darn good reason.
2) A bad vid uses music that sets my teeth on edge. Too loud, too dissonant, too much guitar screeching. Or alternately too intensive of harmonies. I can listen to one line of melody, and MAYBE a contrapuntal harmony. A clue: if the song is louder than a trainwreck or sounds like small animals being tortured, it's not necessarily a good choice for a tender, schmoopy romance vid. Of course, if your vid is about torturing small animals, please, go for it. Also, six minute piano/dulcimer interlude in mid-song is nobody's friend. Neither is rap.
3) There's metaphor and then there's random clip choice. Make sure your audience knows the difference. The average casual vid-viewer sometimes can't tell.
4) English major damage and talky-face both kill vids dead.
5) If your really, truly think you can get a laugh from a Jar-Jar/Yoda unrequited love vid to "Let's give them something to talk about," I say go for it. But please don't be surprised when folks point and mock.
