Apparently, I vid completely differently than everyone else

[switch842]

I ranted over in fanvidrants about the current trend I'm seeing of songs being all chopped down to less than two minutes. And how much I hate it. Apparently, no one agrees with me. And all the comments are making me think that I don't vid the same way everyone else apparently does.

I don't start with a story and try to find a song or part of a song that fits it. It all starts with the song and I vid the song. That's it. I'm not trying to shove things together that only work if I use this little bit here and that bit there.

Not that either way is necessarily right or wrong. It just seems odd that I seem to have such a fundamentally different view of creating a vid. It's weird...

Comments

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

In the community I hang out with, that's not really too prevalent, so maybe it's part of a particular fandom that does it? For me it all starts with the song, too. I hear a song that screams "vid XYZ to me!" and I do it. I have cut songs down but only when faced with something really long, like 6 minutes. I've reduced one to 3 minutes, but kept the structure intact. At the moment I want to edit a song to move the third verse after the bridge, because otherwise the narrative doesn't work, even though overall the song is perfect. But it will stay the same length. Anything cut down to a minute isn't a vid, it's a vidlet, which is a genre all of its own.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

It seems to be extremely prevalent with Supernatural fandom. It seems like every link I click on lately has every song chopped down to less than two minutes. It's completely ridiculous. Though I guess that's what allows people to churn out a new vid every week. Sorry, I'll take my time and make something I'm proud of.

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

*nod nod* I've seen some incredible vidlets, but there are a percentage that are just lazy vidding, to be sure. I'm with you in that I'd rather put the time in to create something I'm really happy with, and I don't think I'd get the same satisfaction out of popping out a vidlet a week.