cimorene

I was thinking this song would make a pretty awesome film trailer, or alternatively, a cool vid, if it were a trailer-type vid. But I came up against a wall in thinking about it: I'm not a sufficiently visual/viddy thinker to make an imaginary vid in my head, though I can visualise imaginary stories (or works of un-animated visual art for that matter) till the cows come home. I have a certain level of sense when I listen to the song - perhaps a few moments from canon will leap to mind and I'll think "something about that death bit in this verse" or "that shot from the credits there" or "sadface!", and on a separate level, things like "action shots" and "something slow moving" and "some quick cuts would go here". But I can't put those things together, nor call to mind enough clips, to in any way visualise what the vid would look like.

I also don't see stories that I write as movies. I tend to actually visualise the typewritten words of the sentence as I go along narrating (along with bits and pieces of images and dialogue and so on), although in recent years I have moved more towards visualising scenes for purposes of stage directions and that sort of thing, but it's a conscious effort.

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Er. Discuss?

I wonder: are all successful vidders (by which I mean people who set out to make vids and then finish them, as opposed to giving up) people who "see" the vid when they hear the song, or is there a spectrum there? Is there intuitive vidding vs methodical vidding that doesn't proceed from a whole preconception?