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.

Comments

[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.