I tend to be just-under-the-surface literal a lot. Like if the lyrics are "lost in the rain" I would probably show someone who is experiencing too many bad things at once and is "lost" as far as what to do about them... so yes, metaphorical, but my vids are a series of these all in a row so it's basically vidding to the lyrics.
One time I do like extreme literalism is when it's silly comedy. That's not really serious vidding but it can be pretty entertaining. I don't *always* like to think hard; sometimes I just want to laugh at something. Like you said, with literal interpretation it might not stand up to multiple viewings but then again, that is one of the challenges -- making it just *that* funny. Like puppet!Angel... he's not entertaining because he provokes deep thought... he just IS A PUPPET OMG.
Anyway it's interesting to try to make an argument within a vid. I'm hoping that's what my current vid will be...
I have this tendency to like vidsong with a lot of lyrics, and somehow I think that the more lyrics the song has, the more it limits what you can say in your argument. Flo's vidsong right now has very few lyrics so she has more free reign on the content of her argument. But it's scary (and difficult) not to have that structure to work from. Does that make sense?
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I tend to be just-under-the-surface literal a lot. Like if the lyrics are "lost in the rain" I would probably show someone who is experiencing too many bad things at once and is "lost" as far as what to do about them... so yes, metaphorical, but my vids are a series of these all in a row so it's basically vidding to the lyrics.
One time I do like extreme literalism is when it's silly comedy. That's not really serious vidding but it can be pretty entertaining. I don't *always* like to think hard; sometimes I just want to laugh at something. Like you said, with literal interpretation it might not stand up to multiple viewings but then again, that is one of the challenges -- making it just *that* funny. Like puppet!Angel... he's not entertaining because he provokes deep thought... he just IS A PUPPET OMG.
Anyway it's interesting to try to make an argument within a vid. I'm hoping that's what my current vid will be...
I have this tendency to like vidsong with a lot of lyrics, and somehow I think that the more lyrics the song has, the more it limits what you can say in your argument. Flo's vidsong right now has very few lyrics so she has more free reign on the content of her argument. But it's scary (and difficult) not to have that structure to work from. Does that make sense?