which, why would you be making them if you weren't emotionally invested? Exactly!! I'm sorry you received harsh feedback. Now I know what that is like! I think I'm reasonably gentle in my betaing anyway, but it definitely gave me new insight into the need to treat creators tenderly! It's fabulous that you've bounced back.
It's so interesting that we have opposite problems! As soon as I tried a big-scale vid, using footage across five seasons, it all felt out of my control. It may partly have been song choice--the song in question has a very marked change of pace halfway through AND it was a comedy vid. Really, I don't know why I didn't realise it was going to be hard to pull off!
I think I also didn't cope well with vidding characters I was very invested in, ironically. My other two vids have been of Tyra (who I like but not obsessively) and Kara/Leoben (who, again, I like, but they are not my primary viewing interest in BSG). Weird, huh?! I'm terrified to vid Lee, for example, because if I got it 'wrong' I don't think I could live with myself, and the same with the Clex.
60% instrumental sounds daunting! But I love instrumental work and hopefully you'll find that you can do interesting new things with it--instrumentals can be useful for pushing the storytelling along, for sure. Good luck with it!
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Date: 2007-02-04 10:53 pm (UTC)Exactly!! I'm sorry you received harsh feedback. Now I know what that is like! I think I'm reasonably gentle in my betaing anyway, but it definitely gave me new insight into the need to treat creators tenderly! It's fabulous that you've bounced back.
It's so interesting that we have opposite problems! As soon as I tried a big-scale vid, using footage across five seasons, it all felt out of my control. It may partly have been song choice--the song in question has a very marked change of pace halfway through AND it was a comedy vid. Really, I don't know why I didn't realise it was going to be hard to pull off!
I think I also didn't cope well with vidding characters I was very invested in, ironically. My other two vids have been of Tyra (who I like but not obsessively) and Kara/Leoben (who, again, I like, but they are not my primary viewing interest in BSG). Weird, huh?! I'm terrified to vid Lee, for example, because if I got it 'wrong' I don't think I could live with myself, and the same with the Clex.
60% instrumental sounds daunting! But I love instrumental work and hopefully you'll find that you can do interesting new things with it--instrumentals can be useful for pushing the storytelling along, for sure. Good luck with it!