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oh, I miss Leverage
I was going to post about Perception today -- even went back and found an unposted draft from a couple months ago where I'd originally started talking about it! And then someone on my network linked to this Leverage vid as something that would be good for people who miss Leverage, which I clicked on and which shoved Perception to the side.
(I can't quite believe I'm talking about a non-VVC vid before talking about any VVC vids at all, but there it is.)
So I have thoughts about this! Which I'm cutting in case people would rather watch without any other influences.
Mostly, I love this a lot. <3 It's warm and happy, hits all my team and partner spots, and makes me want to hug all of them. And rewatch a lot of eps.
Of the extra special good is all the bits of source audio the vidder melds in. They're so seamless they sound like they belong as much as the times she times out clips to match perfectly on sharp beats in the song (like Parker poking Hardison in the chest at 0:45). I'm usually not a fan of source audio being included, because it's distracting, but here it adds a fabulous layer.
Of the less good for me is the sudden shift outside the universe at 3:07 to include footage of behind-the-scenes filming, script discussions, etc. Right up till that point, this felt to me like a completely in-universe vid about how much the team loves each other, individually and as a group, with an added meta level of the vidder's (and my!) relationship to the show, how even though the show is over, the love for it lives on. Breaking the fourth wall like that instantly broke my connection to the vid, because suddenly this wasn't about characters living their lives, but writers, directors, and actors doing a job. Which, argh, because other than that, I love this!
Which of course is your basic Doylist / Watsonian split. To the vidder, the act of creating the series appears to be as important to her as the series itself. To me, they're completely separate in terms of what I react to, and I don't want to know anything about behind the scenes, really; it's irrelevant to the universe I want to immerse myself in.
So clearly I'm biased against the addition of that, but beyond my bias, I do think that the way it was included didn't work. There was no setup to indicate that this was going to be a Doylist vid; even just using the first tiny instrumental intro to show the crew filming the show would have been enough to reframe the entire thing, I think.
But ah well -- 95% of this makes me really happy, and makes me miss the show a whole lot. ♥
(I can't quite believe I'm talking about a non-VVC vid before talking about any VVC vids at all, but there it is.)
So I have thoughts about this! Which I'm cutting in case people would rather watch without any other influences.
Mostly, I love this a lot. <3 It's warm and happy, hits all my team and partner spots, and makes me want to hug all of them. And rewatch a lot of eps.
Of the extra special good is all the bits of source audio the vidder melds in. They're so seamless they sound like they belong as much as the times she times out clips to match perfectly on sharp beats in the song (like Parker poking Hardison in the chest at 0:45). I'm usually not a fan of source audio being included, because it's distracting, but here it adds a fabulous layer.
Of the less good for me is the sudden shift outside the universe at 3:07 to include footage of behind-the-scenes filming, script discussions, etc. Right up till that point, this felt to me like a completely in-universe vid about how much the team loves each other, individually and as a group, with an added meta level of the vidder's (and my!) relationship to the show, how even though the show is over, the love for it lives on. Breaking the fourth wall like that instantly broke my connection to the vid, because suddenly this wasn't about characters living their lives, but writers, directors, and actors doing a job. Which, argh, because other than that, I love this!
Which of course is your basic Doylist / Watsonian split. To the vidder, the act of creating the series appears to be as important to her as the series itself. To me, they're completely separate in terms of what I react to, and I don't want to know anything about behind the scenes, really; it's irrelevant to the universe I want to immerse myself in.
So clearly I'm biased against the addition of that, but beyond my bias, I do think that the way it was included didn't work. There was no setup to indicate that this was going to be a Doylist vid; even just using the first tiny instrumental intro to show the crew filming the show would have been enough to reframe the entire thing, I think.
But ah well -- 95% of this makes me really happy, and makes me miss the show a whole lot. ♥
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The interesting thing about the switch to behind-the-scenes footage is that it did work for me, and it almost never does -- normally I dislike a mix of canon and BTS footage, because, yeah, it completely breaks my suspension of disbelief (which is often the problem I have with constructed-reality vids that go really far afield of canon, because dammit, I know what was happening in those scenes, and it isn't this! *g*). But in this case it did work for me, and I'm trying to figure out why that is. I think it's because it made my brain do a little twist and reinterpret the entire vid in light of the final scenes, from "they love each other" to "we love them", and it meshed with the song really well and, I don't know, worked for me. It's still hard to figure out why.
(The only other vid I can think of off the top of my head that mixed BTS and canon footage in a way I really liked was this White Collar one, and again I'm not really sure why it worked, except that the transition from gag reel to canon footage was paced really well with the song, and it made the jump work, I guess?)
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it made my brain do a little twist and reinterpret the entire vid in light of the final scenes,
*nodsnods*
It really did. I think that's my issue, actually. I'm thinking didn't want a twist here; I wanted something more straightforward, because I was so happily immersed in what I had already. So if I'd had even one or two clips at the beginning to set it up...
Watching it again it's less jarring because I know what's coming, but I'm also that little bit less invested in the rest of the vid - it's like I've lost the POV, a bit.
That White Collar vid is interesting! And ahaha, she uses the same clapboard transition, in reverse -- this time from behind the scenes to inside the universe. That's awesome - and really, that could be the trick. A clear, physical signal of moving back and forth between the two worlds...
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And I can see what you mean about the twist in perception not being what you wanted from the vid. I think perhaps it worked better for me because it's been a long time since I watched the show and I'm not that invested in it -- I might have had a very different reaction to a show in which I have a heavier fannish investment. In this case, I enjoyed the meta aspects of the vid, but I can see myself reacting differently to one of the fandoms I'm more emotional about, where I'm heavily invested in the characters as themselves and don't really like to be reminded that they're fictional.
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The video was pretty fun, though I wasn't a huge fan of the song. And as you say, it was a bit jarring to shift to cast and crew partway through.
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I'm completely earwormed by this song. *wry grin* I really do wish it had stayed in-universe, but ah well, what can you do.