When I saw your post at vidding, I had to come and find out more about your work-in-progress! I'm really impressed with what you've done with this so far...it's shaping up to be a very mature first video. The thing that strikes me most is that you have excellent instincts when it comes to using the motion already inherent in clips -- be it camera pans or action of actors/objects in the shot. This is something that I feel a lot of vidders don't fully exploit...it's already there, so make the most of it (the vid I'm working on now is largely a big motion whoring experiment, so I've been like a kid in a candy store playing with it)! You're doing that with great attention to the music.
I see you've already chosen to upgrade editing software, and I hope that eliminates a lot of the headaches you've had with WMM. Even an older version of Premiere (which I'm guessing is what you're using) will offer you much greater control when it comes to cutting and placing clips.
Re talking/shouting shots -- as far as I'm concerned, you can't avoid them all, and further, there ARE times when you will appropriately, intentionally use them. I agree with how you've used them here...the shouting clips work for me. I dunno...maybe some go the "never ever" route, but not me. The biggest problems with talking clips are when you have the repeated use of dialogue close-ups (tight, close head shots with no action or movement to distract from the very obvious talking head).
And to encourage you further, I had heard about Life On Mars, but sort of forgotten that I wanted to procure it...until I watched your draft, which re-focused my attention ;) Off to give it a whirl now...
OH! Time spent on vids. I am not the right person to be saying what's "normal," but it seems that (looking at your past posts) this has come together pretty darn quickly! This from the slowest of the slow.
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Date: 2006-04-22 03:24 am (UTC)I see you've already chosen to upgrade editing software, and I hope that eliminates a lot of the headaches you've had with WMM. Even an older version of Premiere (which I'm guessing is what you're using) will offer you much greater control when it comes to cutting and placing clips.
Re talking/shouting shots -- as far as I'm concerned, you can't avoid them all, and further, there ARE times when you will appropriately, intentionally use them. I agree with how you've used them here...the shouting clips work for me. I dunno...maybe some go the "never ever" route, but not me. The biggest problems with talking clips are when you have the repeated use of dialogue close-ups (tight, close head shots with no action or movement to distract from the very obvious talking head).
And to encourage you further, I had heard about Life On Mars, but sort of forgotten that I wanted to procure it...until I watched your draft, which re-focused my attention ;) Off to give it a whirl now...
OH! Time spent on vids. I am not the right person to be saying what's "normal," but it seems that (looking at your past posts) this has come together pretty darn quickly! This from the slowest of the slow.