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fan_eunice) wrote2008-01-15 10:03 am
fan_eunice) wrote2008-01-15 10:03 am
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Is Torchwood tonight or tomorrow? And, yay Sarah Connor Chronicles (are we calling it SCC yet so I can stop typing it out? ETA: and it's Sarah Connor not Sarah Jane, my worlds they collide) still has me making squee based flaily hands at it. I appear to be pretty much set with new TV to watch until summer. That is awesome. Right, today's distraction.
Effects in vidding. I need help. Explanations mostly because I still don't get it and it's a bit frustrating not to, especially since the tech available to us is advancing at the speed that it is. My aesthetic preference, both in watching and making vids, has always been for the straight cut and 'invisible' effects (shifting the speed to hit timing marks, adjusting the color, that sort of thing). Really shiny effects might make me go 'ooooh, pretty', but it's a series of well executed and elegant edits that really punch my clock. I've noticed that even in effects heavy vids that blow me away, the thing blowing me away tends to be the underlying edits with the effects giving those a bit of extra oomph. And I can't even figure out how to do that much on vids of my own. So, I'm turning to my peoples with better eyes than me. Explain? What makes an effect work, and what kind of effects tend to best reflect different emotions or purposes or emphasis? I mean, even if I can't yet do it, I can work out how an intercut or a jumpcut communicates it's purpose, where fast or slow cuts can be used to build tension, or how motion should be tied to beats to provoke different reactions. I can at least attempt to manipulate those to directly affect my audience. Effects? I don't know what they do, not in the sense that "I can make the Doctor glow here using these settings", but "What does making the Doctor glow there communicate?"
Halp? Or is this one of those instinctive things that can't really be learned? Also, any recs for good books on learning graphic design, because it's about time I stopped picking up things piecemeal and really made an effort to actually learn that stuff too.
Effects in vidding. I need help. Explanations mostly because I still don't get it and it's a bit frustrating not to, especially since the tech available to us is advancing at the speed that it is. My aesthetic preference, both in watching and making vids, has always been for the straight cut and 'invisible' effects (shifting the speed to hit timing marks, adjusting the color, that sort of thing). Really shiny effects might make me go 'ooooh, pretty', but it's a series of well executed and elegant edits that really punch my clock. I've noticed that even in effects heavy vids that blow me away, the thing blowing me away tends to be the underlying edits with the effects giving those a bit of extra oomph. And I can't even figure out how to do that much on vids of my own. So, I'm turning to my peoples with better eyes than me. Explain? What makes an effect work, and what kind of effects tend to best reflect different emotions or purposes or emphasis? I mean, even if I can't yet do it, I can work out how an intercut or a jumpcut communicates it's purpose, where fast or slow cuts can be used to build tension, or how motion should be tied to beats to provoke different reactions. I can at least attempt to manipulate those to directly affect my audience. Effects? I don't know what they do, not in the sense that "I can make the Doctor glow here using these settings", but "What does making the Doctor glow there communicate?"
Halp? Or is this one of those instinctive things that can't really be learned? Also, any recs for good books on learning graphic design, because it's about time I stopped picking up things piecemeal and really made an effort to actually learn that stuff too.