Fletcher has crystallized many of my non-formed thought on this
precisely.
I have watched motion, and also the fsol video many times and one
thing that has really irritated me has been the edits - "why couldn't
it have morphed continuosly (or at the very least faded
progressively) from that last tunnel into this new bit?", "why
couldn't the computerised "camera" just move round from behind the
dolphins to in front?" etc.
But nothing like as irritating as your average pop video where the
edits now occur almost every second it seems. I really get the
feeling that the editing has destroyed any art there was left in
actually filming some of this stuff.
Continuous unedited sequences can certainly be very satisfying in
"real" movies - check out the intro sequence of "The Player".
The only thing I got bored of in the orb video was the continued use
of the mirror effect.
One other major factor is making the video images match the music.
Too often excellent visuals are just chopped and changed for no
apparent reason. The Irresistible force video is a good (or bad)
example of this.
Some of the clips on the X-Mix/3-Lux videos are excellent in this
respect.
There is one for the 1st track off the first Silence CD which really
does this well, and a few others. Thats on one of the 3-Lux tapes
There is a continuous clip for Loopzone "Natural High" on X-Mix1. No
edits whatsoever, though it repeats itself too much, and the graphics
are a bit "video-gamey". It's not a very "I" DM track but the racy
visuals match the wild track well, and the continuity is very
satisfying.
A similar issue that so many of these clips ignore is rhythmic
repetition occuring in the visuals at a different tempo from the
music - bad news.
well, I'm a bit disjointed but I think you get my drift
J
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James Skilton aka Steady J - jamess@firefox.co.uk