See, I was reading through this thinking "hmm, yeah I see your problem... hmm yeah, talking heads would be no good.. AHA" and came up with a solution which you would do if you were an amv creator.
See, because amvs arent in any way subtle, it is difficult to neatly use Intelligent Montage with anime *characters* because they only ever show extremities of emotion. It's also difficult to create feeling through motion because it's often so static. If what you want to say isnt said explicitly in the lyrics or isnt shown explicitly in the original source footage then you are screwed most of the time with anime. If there is any subtle emotion going on in the source then it generally happens in the voice acting. This makes this hard in the vidding sense but convenient in the amv sense because amvers generally just want to construct it all from nothing anyway. (I'm so going to recycle this example if I talk at a panel)
So, the amv approach would be to slap on some "Hello Look At Me I'm The Meaning Here" effect on the footage to represent this idea, such as distorting Clark's face, obscuring it until the point in the video where Chloe understands him and then - bingo, there he is clear as day. Even then, however, it would need some lyrical signpost or some obvious mention of this theme in the title because amv readers don't like videos without liner notes. In fact, even if the song said "You're a mystery that I want to solve" the amv maker would STILL obscure the face because it's not enough that the meaning is implied, it needs to be written on the video in big letters.
That's the amv approach - all problems can be fixed with a sledgehammer called after effects.
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Date: 2005-03-04 09:50 pm (UTC)See, I was reading through this thinking "hmm, yeah I see your problem... hmm yeah, talking heads would be no good.. AHA" and came up with a solution which you would do if you were an amv creator.
See, because amvs arent in any way subtle, it is difficult to neatly use Intelligent Montage with anime *characters* because they only ever show extremities of emotion. It's also difficult to create feeling through motion because it's often so static. If what you want to say isnt said explicitly in the lyrics or isnt shown explicitly in the original source footage then you are screwed most of the time with anime. If there is any subtle emotion going on in the source then it generally happens in the voice acting. This makes this hard in the vidding sense but convenient in the amv sense because amvers generally just want to construct it all from nothing anyway. (I'm so going to recycle this example if I talk at a panel)
So, the amv approach would be to slap on some "Hello Look At Me I'm The Meaning Here" effect on the footage to represent this idea, such as distorting Clark's face, obscuring it until the point in the video where Chloe understands him and then - bingo, there he is clear as day. Even then, however, it would need some lyrical signpost or some obvious mention of this theme in the title because amv readers don't like videos without liner notes. In fact, even if the song said "You're a mystery that I want to solve" the amv maker would STILL obscure the face because it's not enough that the meaning is implied, it needs to be written on the video in big letters.
That's the amv approach - all problems can be fixed with a sledgehammer called after effects.