vid commentary meme

[whereistheluv]

I've been terrible about posting in my lj for the last oh... I don't know year or so? But lately I'm on a vidding kick and really getting into reading people's vid posts so I thought I'd try this. (Plus my job = SO BORING!)

so here it is:
stolen from obsessive24 who got it from heresluck
If you want commentary on aspects of any vid I've made, post a comment. Let me

Comments

[bananainpyjamas]

I'm curious about Colorblind - how did you decide which clips (and which aspects of the clip) to apply the color shift to?

[whereistheluv]

Well, the vid was about Veronica and the color effects were meant to show how she was feeling so I knew that it was always going to be Veronica that was singled out. I wanted the color to represent Veronica's emotional state and the scenes when everything in color were to show the events that caused her to feel the way she does. In that sense, the times when Veronica is in color and the rest of the world is b/w were meant to show the times she was feeling very alone/like she stands out the way she was so hated in season 1, or very emotional/upset. The times when she's b/w and the rest of the world is in color is when she's sad or hurt

[whereistheluv]

I gave a better answer to this in response to Nicky's response to my first answer to you. I was on painkillers last night when I typed that one up. I hope the two of them combined tell you something you wanted to know!

[bananainpyjamas]

Yes the second response makes more sense, thanks. :D

[bradcpu]

How did the idea for Push come about? Was it mostly because of the song? And did the idea evolve as you went through the vidding process? What was the first, clearest image you had in your head for the vid... one that you just *had* to put on a timeline?

[whereistheluv]

I've loved the song Push & Pull for years but never thought about it for vidding purposes. Then one day it came up on itunes and the whole idea of it being a perfect song for Dean hit so hard that I literally stopped what I was doing right then and started ripping Supernatural. I thought the lyrics were that perfect. I would not likely have made a Supernatural vid any time soon if it hadn't been for the music

[bradcpu]

Then one day it came up on itunes and the whole idea of it being a perfect song for Dean hit so hard that I literally stopped what I was doing right then and started ripping Supernatural.
Ha! I've done that too! (Though not with SPN of course)

To me that image just sort of summed up the feel and color and overall theme of the vid.
Definitely. One of the most enduring, iconic images of any Supernatural vid I've ever seen. It's branded now. Anytime I see that shot in a vid from now on, it'll always be "The Push Shot."

[whereistheluv]

ugh, was on painkillers last night. sorry for the vague rambling answer.

I would add that I sort of saw the whole video at once when I heard the song. The other pieces that I knew for sure had to be in the timeline was the clip of Dean beating the car with the crowbar. To me that was a huge point in his development. I just didn't know where it was going to go. And I also knew that I was going to bookend the vid with car shots. I'm still not happy with the very end car shots but I couldn't find one that fit exactly what I was looking for. I think the vid also suffered for the fact that I spent so much time away from it. I've never had a vid sit for months like that and I think my vision for it changed some and I lost the thread a bit. I had the beginning and end from the start but the middle was hard and the show's storyline changed once Dean saw him mom again and Sam died. But I digress...

Anyways, that's so awesome that you think of it as the "Push shot" lol.

[obsessive24]

More on your answer to DC above:

In that sense, the times when Veronica is in color and the rest of the world is b/w were meant to show the times she was feeling very alone/like she stands out the way she was so hated in season 1, or very emotional/upset. The times when she's b/w and the rest of the world is in color is when she's sad or hurt.
Before I read your passage, I was particularly interested about asking the distinction between these two effects, because I think conceivably they can be taken as trying to mean diametrically opposite things thematically. But I see that you suggested in your answer that both effects seem to apply to when V is upset or sad, etc; what made you decide when to apply one effect instead of the other?

[whereistheluv]

I think I did a very poor job of answering this last night. I was on painkillers, lol, and didn't really get my point across. So here goes attempt number two.

I was particularly interested about asking the distinction between these two effects, because I think conceivably they can be taken as trying to mean diametrically opposite things thematically.To me they are very different things thematically. Aside from the opening of the vid, which I'm not happy with, and I think doesn't really fit with the rest of it, because she's always in color in a bw world the rest of the vid I was trying to show two things. When Veronica is in bw it's when she's feeling the least connected to the world around her. The color and bw was supposed to flow as the story unfolded. For example, in the beginning, she turns bw because Lilly died and she's lost something very important to her and is sad/in shock/disconnected. When she's in color and the world is in bw it's when she feels singled out and usually upset and alone. In most cases it's when

[obsessive24]

That definitely cleared it up a lot. Thank you! :)

[whereistheluv]

I am so bummed! For some reason livejournal didn't email me this comment! :( I would've loved to participate. What a great idea. I hope it came out amazing!