Every little thing she does is magic

[hazelk]

Faith vid is racing along. She’s such a kinetic character, it feels as if all you have to do is throw random clips at the timeline then sit back and squee. Well there’s the tagline to write but that came fairly early on. I actually find it much easier to vid once the summary’s done, I have a tendency to think in headlines or captions and having one for a vid gives me something to build around.

So just the titles to do and two bars of intro - at this rate it’s going to take weeks rather than months. At least I think it’s two bars. I seem to be incapable of parsing musical structure intellectually, it’s as if there are no audio jacks attached to my left brain or something. This was part of the reason the VVC vid took so long, it’s the first vid I’ve made in a while without marking out the beat and that was basically due to having no idea where to find it in a song that was both slow and as good as dammit a cappella. I pick up emotion from music and have a reasonable sense of rhythm but that’s a body thing not a brain thing. So for marking out beats I’m basically reduced to tapping along to the music and watching what my hand does as if it were some alien entity. Does anyone else have this sort of musical dyslexia? You hear so many really good vidders talking about having poor visual memory, me I can’t remember music. Other than by singing the whole song until I get to the relevant part - it’s lucky most pop songs are only 3 minutes long.

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[azdak.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else have this sort of musical dyslexia?

I don't know about musical dyslexia, but most of the time I can't recognise a tune I hear on the radio until I get to the bit with the words, and then I'm like "Oh, it's THAT song!" and the whole melody floods into my brain. And I have a hell of time with songs where there are two different tunes available for the same set of words, like "In the Bleak Midwinter", because for me the music is triggered by the words, not the other way around.

[genarti]

I don't know about musical dyslexia, but most of the time I can't recognise a tune I hear on the radio until I get to the bit with the words, and then I'm like "Oh, it's THAT song!" and the whole melody floods into my brain.

Same here! I often listen to the opening chords thinking "Oh, I know that! I know that really well. What on earth is it?" I'm very lyrics-focused; the words are distinctive, for me, and once I have the words I can do the tune fine, but background music is all... well, background, for me.

It drives my guitarist brother crazy. "Listen to what they're doing with the tempo and the interplay of bass and guitar there!" he'll say. "And they're crazy good with the [whatever] pedal!"

"Okay?" I say. "Wow, that rhyme there was cliched. His voice is okay, though."

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

I can recognise songs from some of the instrumental parts, intro or hook but the wordy bits are definitely more defining or something. Like it's when you start to remember the words that you *know* you've got it. And instrumental music , classical or jazz mostly goes over my head in that it's fine while it's playing but I can't really tell one symphony from another. I wonder if musical training would help and if you could actually distinguish a minor fall from a major lift would you remember them by remembering their names or themselves? Then again words are more memorable when they're set to music so the music is having some effect.

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously dying to see this. My favorite thing about vidding Faith is that there's depth and complexity to the character and themes and arc(s); but it's presented in a such a kinetic way that it just begs to be vidded.

I've had that problem with music before as well. When I'm flailing, I always cling to the bassline like a life preserver.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

She lives everything large. Speaking of the vid would you be interested/able to give it quick beta (do say no if there's no time)?

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

I'd be more than happy to help out however I can! I'm kind of in a pre-VVC lull at the moment. My only problem would be if the beta version came in the week of VVC, but I'm getting the feeling that's not likely to happen.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Cool! Beta most probably will be ready to go before VVC. Actually I have it pretty much good to go now :-) The intro's a bit rough but it's all there. Shall I e-mail you the link?

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Whenever you're comfortable with it, I'll be happy to take a look.

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

for marking out beats I’m basically reduced to tapping along to the music and watching what my hand does as if it were some alien entity

Yes, that sounds extremely familiar, and I'm glad to hear someone who makes amazing vids say they're the same! :) I can't tell a bar from a hole in the ground... I really *feel* music, but though I did do music for a while in school I somehow never quite learned to intellectualise it.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

I'm in good company then. It is weird - you read all that stuff about up beats and backbeats and 4:4 and 5:8 and it makes perfect sense but listen to any given piece of music and nothing does.