I got so much help from the usual suspects and vidding slack and I tried really hard to not be subtle but I don't think the concept came through in the end. At some point you might just be asking way too much of your audience - it's a discussion I would love to have.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. I know you were hammering hard at VVC on the idea of not being subtle. But I like being subtle! I like slipping in little clues and hoping that over the course of the vid the viewer will be able to put together clues that originally didn't make sense into the full whole that is my theme/message/idea/narrative. I like puzzles and I like making vids that are like puzzles. I like to do that in my writing and I like to do it in my vidding, but it doesn't usually work in vidding, and I constantly get feedback on my ambitious vids from my betas that they don't understand what I'm trying to say and I need to hit my themes much more clearly and obviously.
So I now have a whole toolkit of things I can do to unsubtle my vids upon beta feedback, but I guess the whole thing hinges on whether betas are a viable proxy for audience, or if I'm happy if just one very keyed in viewer gets what I'm doing, or if it's okay to make vids that only work if you explain the whole premise of the vid beforehand or what.
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Date: 2018-12-13 03:58 pm (UTC)I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. I know you were hammering hard at VVC on the idea of not being subtle. But I like being subtle! I like slipping in little clues and hoping that over the course of the vid the viewer will be able to put together clues that originally didn't make sense into the full whole that is my theme/message/idea/narrative. I like puzzles and I like making vids that are like puzzles. I like to do that in my writing and I like to do it in my vidding, but it doesn't usually work in vidding, and I constantly get feedback on my ambitious vids from my betas that they don't understand what I'm trying to say and I need to hit my themes much more clearly and obviously.
So I now have a whole toolkit of things I can do to unsubtle my vids upon beta feedback, but I guess the whole thing hinges on whether betas are a viable proxy for audience, or if I'm happy if just one very keyed in viewer gets what I'm doing, or if it's okay to make vids that only work if you explain the whole premise of the vid beforehand or what.