4, 5, and 21 for the vidder asks!
Gonna allow myself to ramble and answer with two vids thanks to this double jeopardy lol
Vid you're the proudest of?
I consider Spring Awakening to be my most polished/some of my best editing yet. Not only did I really start to nail some techniques like light leaks and color correction, but I think it has a good balance of tight sync and thought-out structure.
Beyond just a romance vid, I wanted to make sure it was clearly a vid about a queer awakening, which did involve me having to bend Bloom Into You a bit (not bc it isn't that, but everyone's self discovery journey is a bit more complicated than a 3 minute vid can visually capture) but it was so satisfying when others picked up the whole flowers/nature vs. train/mechanical symbolism I had going on. I worked really hard to build up to Yuu and Touko getting "together" with verse 1 showing Yuu mostly alone and pining, verse 2 about being close but still no touch yet, until we get Yuu actually reaching out in the bridge, before the final chorus is like a victory lap of them being happy on a date and self-actualized
Then this has new vid freshness to it and new breakthroughs in mediums, but I am also pretty proud of To Have Without Holding, 2023 I really got interested in mmvs and I never expected to be able to put out a 3 minute one within a year's time. If you have been paying attention to this blog at all, you know I am obsessed with the series Aono-kun, so it was really great to edit out those feelings and convince a few more folks to give the series a read
Due to the difference in medium, it is pretty clearly To Have Without Holding probably makes sense as a clear contender. But aside from mmvs just being slower bc of the composition work and masking that has to go into it, I would also say The Storyteller's Burden is up there as well
Rakugo Shinjuu is not the most visually interesting show to look at, and the song both has a lot of intense musical cues but each verse takes forever to say a complete idea, so I had to really stretch out every scrap of footage I could. The fact the song is so specific and I only watched 3/4th of s1 of the show added to the pain. Ultimately it is a vid that lives and dies by its storytelling, and there is still a lot I am unsatisfied about it, but I am glad I at least got it out the door and out of my head
How would you describe your vidding style?
A fellow editor describing their philosophy said that song is queen, and I totally picked that up as well. My first goal is to maximize as much sync as I can in any section, then I want to make sure the lyrics and overall themes of the song line up with the visuals as much as possible. For the length of the song I am dedicated to making sure these two sources feel literally made for each other, and I want to make sure it all flows together seamlessly enough the viewer never feels pulled to click away
Because of these goals, I would say I try to make the most of what the footage itself offers in internal sync and other little quirks I can use, but I am not against using more and more special effects, again I want their inclusion to feel like a natural choice, and overall for fans of a series, I do want the vid to itself feel like a heightened version of the show, maybe not literally looking like how the events happened, but feeling it
