Okay - you guys are totally overthinking this, okay?
Yes - what the audience brings to the table is important. But that has nothing to do with what you put on that table to begin with. You have to have intent when you vid - you have to know what is going on.
Now - I don't mean that you have to always *know* what you are doing while you are vidding and be able to articulate it with *words* - of course not. If we could *say* it we wouldn't *vid* it.
But somewhere - you know. You do have an organizing concept and *that* is your POV. Trust me - this is not complicated. POV *is* the delivery mechanism. I don't mean you can't have a fluid POV that starts out very narrow and then widens, this is not meant to limit you. But without a point of view, you are just throwing random clips at the timeline.
So yeah - an audience might be able to eke out a meaning from those random clips but much like a Rorschach ink blot - people can do that for anything.
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Date: 2005-07-09 03:48 am (UTC)Okay - you guys are totally overthinking this, okay?
Yes - what the audience brings to the table is important. But that has nothing to do with what you put on that table to begin with. You have to have intent when you vid - you have to know what is going on.
Now - I don't mean that you have to always *know* what you are doing while you are vidding and be able to articulate it with *words* - of course not. If we could *say* it we wouldn't *vid* it.
But somewhere - you know. You do have an organizing concept and *that* is your POV. Trust me - this is not complicated. POV *is* the delivery mechanism. I don't mean you can't have a fluid POV that starts out very narrow and then widens, this is not meant to limit you. But without a point of view, you are just throwing random clips at the timeline.
So yeah - an audience might be able to eke out a meaning from those random clips but much like a Rorschach ink blot - people can do that for anything.