vid rambling

Post-VVC thinking about the ideas of 'what do we want from vids' and 'where are vids going' and for me the answer to that question is and always has been simple. What I want is for a vid to provide an emotional connection between the song, the visuals, and the person watching it. That's it. I don't much care how it does it. Certain aesthetics tend to work better than others in doing that for me, so that's going to factor into the kind of vids I watch and/or make, but I'm not the center of the universe (dammit), so I get that I'm not the audience for every vid, and that not every audience is for my vids. That's okay. It's not an either/or thing, or at least it shouldn't be. What worries me sometimes about these conversations is that they can come across as 'the next thing' being only thing. Where are vids going? Does it make someone squee, cry, laugh, get angry, feel overwhelmed with love, think about something in a different way, did it connect? Then it's where it 'should' be, no matter how many or how few effects were used, or how simple or complicated the message. And if it didn't, it doesn't much matter how sophisticated the intent or advanced the tools were or weren't. I've seen vids with nothing but straight cuts and a simple message that made me weep like a baby, and complex arguments with advanced manipulation of the source that did the same. And I've seen both that made me do nothing but yawn or tilt my head to one side confused. I just...how a vid gets there is just not as important to me as that it does.

I'm not sure I'm making sense here.

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Coming on the heels of my most recent Joe Dick obsession (I went through this for months after seeing HCL the first time as well), vagabondage loaned me the original Hard Core Logo book the movie was based on to read, since I hadn't before. And it's interesting. It's different in many ways from the movie that was made from it. And I'm kind of pondering my reaction to it, because...okay, I actually like Joe as a person more in the book than I do in the movie. But I don't love him with the ferocity that I love movie Joe, who I don't very much like. I'm trying to figure out why, and I think it comes down to book!Joe being so much more...I dunno...resigned than movie!Joe. He's stopped being so angry, stopped being a whirling ball of pain and rage and need and just raw, um, whatever. And yeah, it's unhealthy and wrong and, god, do not try this at home, but something about it, and the way Hugh Dillon plays it, that makes me respond on some gut level of flailing...something...it's not even sympathy, I'm not sure what it is as much as I joke about wanting to give him a kitten and a cuddle. One of these days I'm going to figure it out, because if I go through the list of characters that hit me this hard, and why they do, seeing Joe Dick on that list is just begging for a round of "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn't the same."