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I think I've done more fannish stuff in the past 48 hours than in the previous 2 months. Go figure. Anyhow, a revised version of Commercial for Lex is up, newly compressed to an almost reasonable size (9 MB), and another experiment wherein I overuse effects but enjoy the result is here (19 MB, sorry). If I had to pick whose voice Brian Molko ought to represent, it wouldn't be Clark, but there you go.
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Also I like the new one - RedClark wants to be Lex, so badly it hurts! Nice paralleling of the club scenes. You've got in here friendship, betrayal, secrets, anger, pain, woe ... and the song choice is excellent. You did some fantastic visuals here too - I don't know why you keep telling yourself you aren't a vidder because baby, you're kicking some serious butt.
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Is SV very different for vidding from other shows because it's so obsessed with color, do you think? It seems like a lot of times I reject clips not because the content is wrong, but because the color is. It means you have to stick in Metropolis for a while (blue), or Lex's office (muted red/yellow), etc.
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And the Clark one is *great*! The end gave me goosebumps. :)
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keep vidding!
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I find that dynamic songs -- songs that change pace -- make better vids. This is not to say that you cannot use a song that never varies beat/instensity -- ex. a high energy song or a low smooth ballad. It means that the vidder needs to work harder to create the "story" (open - middle - climax - end) with the edits/images.
In this vid -- I felt wanted more tension (think about how that constant thrumming builds and builds in the listeners mind). I either needed musical release (ahem :-)) or a visual release. You almost had the visual release -- it would have been more powerful if the song had built at the same time.
And then there are vids that do everything we think we shouldn't do -- and still work, so this is all very subjective.
Take a look at Lum's "Other Side" Spike vid. The song is very deceptively simple. And look at how she works the music. I fthink this is one of Lum's strenghts.
What I've done (and this has worked for me) is to grab vids that moved me and absorb how they are put together.
Bottom line: you had a great story to tell. So keep vidding. Storytelling -- those are my kinda vids.
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That was worth the time it took for my evil dial up, lol!
I really loved the effects and everything you did on it, and just the way its put together, its very very good.
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fucking hell, but that *worked* for me. Excellent song choice, I loved the relentnessness of it, and what I got from it was a sense that even if there was a switch it would still be messed up. painful, powerful, and just. relentless and I think it needed that matrix of evenness that helped with drawing the parallels. Very nice.
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OH for songs I would love song hard rock of some kind, Like "I'm only happy when it rains" or the 3 doors down song "Kryiponite" with some action seq. I find I often see to many head shots and not enough movement plot shots in vids, oh BTW I did get your Lex one to load the other day but the pic so so small and when I tried to make it go full screen it was big a$$ blurry. Have you tried using media player or quick time? I find this download well and show up well. Maybe it's just me.
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ohhh. See, I didn't get that feeling because you've juxaposed images of Lex hurting with the "swap our places" line, especially with how happy Clark looks in comparison to Lex in some of those scenes. I sometimes got the feeling from the vid that Clark wanted to be Lex to order to help Lex, in a kinda "let me help shoulder your burdens" kinda way. Part of it's probably because I haven't seen the source images (despite keeping up with the plotline), I dunno.
Oh, reading some of the other comments, where the song changes pace and hit's it's climax is at the lines ""C'mon, baby, c'mon darling, / Let me steal this moment from you now." I think if you aim the plot of your story to that point for emotional impact you might lend more tension to the vid, if you want.
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Did you give the band/song credits somewhere? If so, I missed them. That singer is familiar - isn't that band on the Cruel Intentions soundtrack? Can't remember where I've heard them.
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:)