Vids for pretty movies are always nice to watch. :) I like the simplicity of this one actually. And while I liked the idea of the scrolling genetic code, it didn't add much for me. I wanted to see the movement compliment the beat I think. Something to make me feel like it was there because it was important. It just sort of made it hard for me to keep my eyes up on the other action, because they kept getting pulled down to the bottom of the frame. But like I said, I liked the idea of it. And that you went in that direction of experimentation. That's always cool. ;)
Seriously, I feel like I should be stressing the amount that I liked the addition of it, even if it didn't click for me. It may be that for other people it actually worked just fine. The song is of course now firmly stuck in my head. ;D And also a nice choice for the movie. One that could definitely go different ways with different characters.
I've also been having a blast reading the discussion you started.
Honestly, I don't believe we communicate as vidders, any differently than any other form of communication. Sometimes what we say is very calculated. Sometimes we just want to shock people and get a rise out of them. Sometimes we have something close to heart that we want other people to love with us.
I don't think that's the way you're asking it though. I get the impression you're more concerned with the nuts and bolts of how that desire to communicate "x" is brought across. Which is going to depend on what "x" is. You could certainly approach anything with a very calculated mindset. Using everything you know about how humans generally process visual cues, what feels comfortable to them, what throws them off, how most people react to specific colors and motions, you could assemble a visual composition that should hit the right buttons to create the reaction you want.
And even then, there are going to be some people that don't fit. The visual arts have been doing this for ages. And some people appreciate the intention behind certain artworks and some don't. And there are lots of people that sort of do. :)
I like the idea of keeping an audience in mind, but since I'm not actually selling them anything, and I have nothing to profit from how widespread or minute the reception for a vid I make is, my final decisions are very rarely concerned with what other people are going to think of them. I won't say never, because that's not true. But really, I'm making the vid, because I want to see it. That's my individual reason for vidding. One some share and some don't, would be my guess.
Just like literature and other visual and aural arts, people can be trained to appreciate nuance and intention. It really can be the difference between getting the foothold that leads to real love for something, and being repelled--thus passing the opportunity up. But that's something that's awfully hard to plan for. :) I suppose you could try to display your work in venues where the people who have already caught on to that, or just get it naturally, are more likely to be, but that could be unintentionally limiting if it got taken too far.
As you can probably tell from my own rambling, this is something that fascinates me too. Especially in respect to visual arts in general. I feel like it's a constant struggle to find the line, as an artist, between making something to communicate with other people, making something that purely communicates in your own unique language, and making something that other people would consider consuming/purchasing. The age-old issue of selling-out.
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I see your Ramble, and I raise you an even *bigger* one! ;D
Vids for pretty movies are always nice to watch. :) I like the simplicity of this one actually. And while I liked the idea of the scrolling genetic code, it didn't add much for me. I wanted to see the movement compliment the beat I think. Something to make me feel like it was there because it was important. It just sort of made it hard for me to keep my eyes up on the other action, because they kept getting pulled down to the bottom of the frame. But like I said, I liked the idea of it. And that you went in that direction of experimentation. That's always cool. ;)
Seriously, I feel like I should be stressing the amount that I liked the addition of it, even if it didn't click for me. It may be that for other people it actually worked just fine. The song is of course now firmly stuck in my head. ;D And also a nice choice for the movie. One that could definitely go different ways with different characters.
I've also been having a blast reading the discussion you started.
Honestly, I don't believe we communicate as vidders, any differently than any other form of communication. Sometimes what we say is very calculated. Sometimes we just want to shock people and get a rise out of them. Sometimes we have something close to heart that we want other people to love with us.
I don't think that's the way you're asking it though. I get the impression you're more concerned with the nuts and bolts of how that desire to communicate "x" is brought across. Which is going to depend on what "x" is. You could certainly approach anything with a very calculated mindset. Using everything you know about how humans generally process visual cues, what feels comfortable to them, what throws them off, how most people react to specific colors and motions, you could assemble a visual composition that should hit the right buttons to create the reaction you want.
And even then, there are going to be some people that don't fit. The visual arts have been doing this for ages. And some people appreciate the intention behind certain artworks and some don't. And there are lots of people that sort of do. :)
I like the idea of keeping an audience in mind, but since I'm not actually selling them anything, and I have nothing to profit from how widespread or minute the reception for a vid I make is, my final decisions are very rarely concerned with what other people are going to think of them. I won't say never, because that's not true. But really, I'm making the vid, because I want to see it. That's my individual reason for vidding. One some share and some don't, would be my guess.
Just like literature and other visual and aural arts, people can be trained to appreciate nuance and intention. It really can be the difference between getting the foothold that leads to real love for something, and being repelled--thus passing the opportunity up. But that's something that's awfully hard to plan for. :) I suppose you could try to display your work in venues where the people who have already caught on to that, or just get it naturally, are more likely to be, but that could be unintentionally limiting if it got taken too far.
As you can probably tell from my own rambling, this is something that fascinates me too. Especially in respect to visual arts in general. I feel like it's a constant struggle to find the line, as an artist, between making something to communicate with other people, making something that purely communicates in your own unique language, and making something that other people would consider consuming/purchasing. The age-old issue of selling-out.