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Post by thatyourefuse on Dec 10, 2011 16:19:29 GMT -5
No proper update at this time, alas (I am still frozen as fuck) but I am dodging a lot of schoolwork, so I am going to witter for a while about WHERE I'm frozen.
Basically, I have no idea if any of this works, and the only shots I really like are the last two, is the problem. (Oh, and the zoom in on the paperwork. And the water rushing on the first "push and push and push.")
I think I may need to rethink my entire concept for this verse, and I certainly do for the chorus, because... I planned it to be kind of James Bond violent and yeah no that's really not going to work, because I cannot get a SINGLE shot of the right kind of violence that's long enough to work with the beat.
What I'm thinking of is taking the sex/violence intercutting from the end of the first verse and moving it to the chorus, but that leaves me with a giant chunk of empty verse and no idea what to put on THAT.
And I'm really not sure if opening on Fiona's death is the right thing. I'm starting to think that my original idea of not actually showing her until around the 1:45 mark was a better one than I thought it was, but... again, I have no idea what I'm going to put there if I don't use it.
(confidential to voodoochild: when I say I envy your thinking-through, THIS IS WHAT I MEAN. You don't end up in situations like THIS.)
*face in hands*
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Post by voodoochild on Dec 10, 2011 22:51:22 GMT -5
Dear, knowing where you're frozen is half the battle. You've figured out this much, and you have an idea of where you need to be.
Is the problem with the James Bond-esque clips that they aren't long enough or is it more that they're too fast? If you can get a few decent clips, you can maybe splice them in as kind of a recurring theme? Like, reaction shot of Adam, violent clip, back to Adam/plot, violent clip, etc.
And really, I do end up in situations like that. The entire 1:20 opening of "America" has gone through five different narrative throughlines. I've changed POV at least a hundred times, and I'll probably have to do another revamp when someone beats it into my head that just because Charlie is v. pretty and Rothstein is my king does not mean I should shoehorn them into narratives they aren't in. I think this is completely normal, and I think that ultimately, this anxiety and these problems will result in a better vid.
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