By this, are you saying you think she did lose the thread of the vid in LTID?
no, I was saying, from personal experience in doing "Why" and "The Fragile" and "Gravity", that if you (general "you") concentrate on doing too many things at once you'd start loosing contact with the reason for your vid, I tend to be detail-oriented in a vid and this is dangerous and I sometimes need to take a step back and look at the vid as a whole.
Emotionally, I'm not sure that I could say a complete thread was carried through all of this, so that there's emotional arcs in the vid.
I think there was a complete and ongoing thread of longing for something more, but being willing to enjoy life until that comes along, if it does.
Exactly. but emotionally, *I* didn't feel (using the definition of 'feel' from this post) that there was any change, no thread-of-change. There was a thread of joy and longing, but emotionally, for *me*, there wasn't any.
I think this is great standard advice, but I'm having trouble seeing what prompted it in *this* vid. Yes, there are some literal clips, but I don't find any of them to be *solely* literal -- they also show another layer of correspondence, or great movement or context, which is one of the things that's key in using literalism well, something done to great effect in good comedy vids.
whoa. y'know, I think you just helped me figure out that I'm way more narrative-ly orientated than I always figured myself.
I'm just afraid that such a choice would have left the viewer thinking that it was *overly* literal, since it's about living till you die, and boy, Iolaus sure does die a lot.
::wry grin:: well, the entire vid was very literal and I kept expecting to see him die more (or at least die, once, *concetely*). It felt a bit like a tease.
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Re: Comments, part two
no, I was saying, from personal experience in doing "Why" and "The Fragile" and "Gravity", that if you (general "you") concentrate on doing too many things at once you'd start loosing contact with the reason for your vid, I tend to be detail-oriented in a vid and this is dangerous and I sometimes need to take a step back and look at the vid as a whole.
Emotionally, I'm not sure that I could say a complete thread was carried through all of this, so that there's emotional arcs in the vid.
I think there was a complete and ongoing thread of longing for something more, but being willing to enjoy life until that comes along, if it does.
Exactly. but emotionally, *I* didn't feel (using the definition of 'feel' from this post) that there was any change, no thread-of-change. There was a thread of joy and longing, but emotionally, for *me*, there wasn't any.
I think this is great standard advice, but I'm having trouble seeing what prompted it in *this* vid. Yes, there are some literal clips, but I don't find any of them to be *solely* literal -- they also show another layer of correspondence, or great movement or context, which is one of the things that's key in using literalism well, something done to great effect in good comedy vids.
whoa. y'know, I think you just helped me figure out that I'm way more narrative-ly orientated than I always figured myself.
I'm just afraid that such a choice would have left the viewer thinking that it was *overly* literal, since it's about living till you die, and boy, Iolaus sure does die a lot.
::wry grin:: well, the entire vid was very literal and I kept expecting to see him die more (or at least die, once, *concetely*). It felt a bit like a tease.