You can't be responsible for the viewer's interpretation. You have to be responsible for yours.
yes! I talked about this more here, but in essence I'm saying that the being responsible for your interpretation should be called something less laden with arbitrary restrictions that could hinder vid-making. A non-narrative vid is no less valid than a narrative one, and vice versa; there just has been less people able to make a non-narrative vid, and it seems like from what I've seen of a couple people's vidding patterns that the people with the most potential of developing a *good* non-narrative style mostly started making narrative vids, which is saddening.
I've not seen any of your vids where I'd have to question the POV, so I wonder if we're not talking at cross purposes here
=D There you go! The POV is brought by the audience; the most and fastest progress I've made on my vids were either before I started worrying about POV (Why, The Fragile) or when I gave up on it all-together (Hero), every other vid stalled until I literally gave up on them; it's perhaps telling that the vids I was stalled longest on is After Midnight (my Saiyuki vid) and Gravity (my PotC vid), both fandoms which I cared the most about and was most loathe to give up on.
The vids I've seen where POV is too liquid--to the point of not being there at all really--may be pretty, may have pretty music, but they are not memorable
ah, no...see, those are just bad vids. They probably didn't have enough room for the audience to extrapolate in, or they didn't have intent.
And yes, I *am* arguing semantics, because words have power and defining things locks away some meaning. By calling authorial intent 'POV' restricts the vidder to thinking about the vid in strict narrative terms, which is at times inhibiting and non-condusive to creativity.
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yes! I talked about this more here, but in essence I'm saying that the being responsible for your interpretation should be called something less laden with arbitrary restrictions that could hinder vid-making. A non-narrative vid is no less valid than a narrative one, and vice versa; there just has been less people able to make a non-narrative vid, and it seems like from what I've seen of a couple people's vidding patterns that the people with the most potential of developing a *good* non-narrative style mostly started making narrative vids, which is saddening.
I've not seen any of your vids where I'd have to question the POV, so I wonder if we're not talking at cross purposes here
=D There you go! The POV is brought by the audience; the most and fastest progress I've made on my vids were either before I started worrying about POV (Why, The Fragile) or when I gave up on it all-together (Hero), every other vid stalled until I literally gave up on them; it's perhaps telling that the vids I was stalled longest on is After Midnight (my Saiyuki vid) and Gravity (my PotC vid), both fandoms which I cared the most about and was most loathe to give up on.
The vids I've seen where POV is too liquid--to the point of not being there at all really--may be pretty, may have pretty music, but they are not memorable
ah, no...see, those are just bad vids. They probably didn't have enough room for the audience to extrapolate in, or they didn't have intent.
And yes, I *am* arguing semantics, because words have power and defining things locks away some meaning. By calling authorial intent 'POV' restricts the vidder to thinking about the vid in strict narrative terms, which is at times inhibiting and non-condusive to creativity.