And yet, many times, cutting to the strongest beats is really unsatisfying. I tend not to like vids that as a rule cut to the strongest beats, because they ignore a lot of the subtleties and actually make the vid *less* interesting for me. I prefer subtlety and complexity over predictability.
ahhhh, here's where we're getting mixed up. See, when I talk about cutting to the beat, I mean I'm timing something to *every* beat, in some way, shape, or form. The best and clearest example of this of my vids would be The Fragile. Everything in there is timed.
When I talk about timing things to the base beat however, I'm talking about matching intense meaning to intense sound, where the harmony and melody and base beat all crescendo to one point and explode...a good example of which is where the earth explodes in flummery's Haunted, which occurs at a point where lyrical beat and base beat and melody and harmony and all the instruments rise (at different rates) into that one perfect point, where the intensity of sound matches intensity of meaning and intensity of movement.
There is no reason why cutting to the strongest beats prevents one from timing things to other beats, there is no reason why predictibility cannot cause the greatest surprises, and no reason why it should prevent subtlety and complexity. If anything, predictibility increases subtlety and complexity because it acts as a negative space for the chaos to occur. ie. without darkness, light cannot be percieved.
aheh, sorry, that got long...but like, this statement that "vids that as a rule cut to the strongest beats, because they ignore a lot of the subtleties" kinda stings for me and totally raises my hackles 'cause I ALWAYS do that. I always *always* cut to the beat, and with that line you threw down the proverbial gauntlet, and I don't mean to completely ramble all over the topic, but that was a slap in the face pretty much.
Not that a slap in the face isn't necessary some of the time. ::wry grin::
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ahhhh, here's where we're getting mixed up. See, when I talk about cutting to the beat, I mean I'm timing something to *every* beat, in some way, shape, or form. The best and clearest example of this of my vids would be The Fragile. Everything in there is timed.
When I talk about timing things to the base beat however, I'm talking about matching intense meaning to intense sound, where the harmony and melody and base beat all crescendo to one point and explode...a good example of which is where the earth explodes in flummery's Haunted, which occurs at a point where lyrical beat and base beat and melody and harmony and all the instruments rise (at different rates) into that one perfect point, where the intensity of sound matches intensity of meaning and intensity of movement.
There is no reason why cutting to the strongest beats prevents one from timing things to other beats, there is no reason why predictibility cannot cause the greatest surprises, and no reason why it should prevent subtlety and complexity. If anything, predictibility increases subtlety and complexity because it acts as a negative space for the chaos to occur. ie. without darkness, light cannot be percieved.
aheh, sorry, that got long...but like, this statement that "vids that as a rule cut to the strongest beats, because they ignore a lot of the subtleties" kinda stings for me and totally raises my hackles 'cause I ALWAYS do that. I always *always* cut to the beat, and with that line you threw down the proverbial gauntlet, and I don't mean to completely ramble all over the topic, but that was a slap in the face pretty much.
Not that a slap in the face isn't necessary some of the time. ::wry grin::