In a music vid, with its time constraints, you are limiting your reach/appeal by leaving or abandoning the narrative form.
Agreed. But my argument is that by maintaining the narrative form's supremacy is sometimes limiting. Both narrative and non-narrative forms are valid, but narrative form shouldn't be the only form of communication in a vid that is appreciated.
So rather than viewing this as an either/or or even as a discussion where the POV/narrative approach is somehow forced onto vidders & viewers, think of it as a descriptive discussion.
...but...that's not really why I started the discussion. I, in my original post, was talking about process and about conceptualizing that process. The way that process was being defined is sometimes too restrictive for what the process needed to do.
but without it, you leave a large portion of narratively focused viewers behind
Not necessarily. What I'm thinking of here is laurashapiro's vids, which she says in my initial post that she rarely considers POV during the construction of the vid. I believe that a good non-narrative vid has the flexibility to allow the audience to give it a POV should they want/need one.
Please bear in mind that unlike written media where the viewer/reader can go back over and over at their own pace, until they are satisfied with their level of understanding, a music video is bound to be communicated at 30 frames per second and is over within 4-5 minutes.
yeah, and thus because of that same time limitation, alot of the information of the vid is transmitted subconsciously, and sometimes the best way to communicate subconsciously isn't narratively.
Perception is reality. At least in quantum mechanics it is.
Hee! And when you percieve something, you sometimes change it, too.
Re: Perception is reality.
Agreed. But my argument is that by maintaining the narrative form's supremacy is sometimes limiting. Both narrative and non-narrative forms are valid, but narrative form shouldn't be the only form of communication in a vid that is appreciated.
So rather than viewing this as an either/or or even as a discussion where the POV/narrative approach is somehow forced onto vidders & viewers, think of it as a descriptive discussion.
...but...that's not really why I started the discussion. I, in my original post, was talking about process and about conceptualizing that process. The way that process was being defined is sometimes too restrictive for what the process needed to do.
but without it, you leave a large portion of narratively focused viewers behind
Not necessarily. What I'm thinking of here is
Please bear in mind that unlike written media where the viewer/reader can go back over and over at their own pace, until they are satisfied with their level of understanding, a music video is bound to be communicated at 30 frames per second and is over within 4-5 minutes.
yeah, and thus because of that same time limitation, alot of the information of the vid is transmitted subconsciously, and sometimes the best way to communicate subconsciously isn't narratively.
Perception is reality. At least in quantum mechanics it is.
Hee! And when you percieve something, you sometimes change it, too.