I was actually rather caught off guard by the "chorus is too literal" on CtF because out of all the choruses there are only two clips that are there solely because they fit the lyrics (doctor and mountain on David's chorus because by that time I had kinda locked myself into a pattern.) I had actually been more worried about the Claire verse being too literal and not interesting enough. Shows what I know.
But yeah, the fact that you need to know the scenes of doctor, mountain, children, to get the other layers and reasons I chose them (the look to the children shot on the Claire chorus for example was her looking at the son she aborted from her trip/fantasy of visiting the afterlife, so it was symbolic of dealing with the abortion), does mean that for people who don't know the source or know how my brain works would only see the literal and not the meanings underneath or why those clips were chosen.
If I was remaking that vid today, I'd choose different clips for maybe four of the chorus lines (the two mentioned above, the children David chorus clip for one that hadn't aired at the time I made the vid and the first Nathan one for one that was less comical and more hard hitting (from his brain surgery, I think.) I'd still keep the others though because for me they do have layers and were examples of the characters searching for meaning. Though I would do so with more awareness that they're more context dependent than I realised when I started.
I do think the experience of making CTF and having it critiqued so gave me a lot to think about and made me more aware of a need for balance between literal and metaphor which may have made me sulky at times but ends up with better, more interesting vids or at least giving more awareness about why I make the choices of clips I do.
Of course I also got feedback for Winter, probably the most metaphoric vid I've had a hand in making, that that was too literal in places so it's obvious I'm always going to be too literal for some people. I've made my peace with that. There's worse things to be called. :)
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But yeah, the fact that you need to know the scenes of doctor, mountain, children, to get the other layers and reasons I chose them (the look to the children shot on the Claire chorus for example was her looking at the son she aborted from her trip/fantasy of visiting the afterlife, so it was symbolic of dealing with the abortion), does mean that for people who don't know the source or know how my brain works would only see the literal and not the meanings underneath or why those clips were chosen.
If I was remaking that vid today, I'd choose different clips for maybe four of the chorus lines (the two mentioned above, the children David chorus clip for one that hadn't aired at the time I made the vid and the first Nathan one for one that was less comical and more hard hitting (from his brain surgery, I think.) I'd still keep the others though because for me they do have layers and were examples of the characters searching for meaning. Though I would do so with more awareness that they're more context dependent than I realised when I started.
I do think the experience of making CTF and having it critiqued so gave me a lot to think about and made me more aware of a need for balance between literal and metaphor which may have made me sulky at times but ends up with better, more interesting vids or at least giving more awareness about why I make the choices of clips I do.
Of course I also got feedback for Winter, probably the most metaphoric vid I've had a hand in making, that that was too literal in places so it's obvious I'm always going to be too literal for some people. I've made my peace with that. There's worse things to be called. :)