Vidding Tutorials, Tips and Tricks posts, etc?

[jetpack_monkey]

I'm overhauling my ode-to-horror vid at the moment*. It's a complex, complicated mofo. The original edit ran 6 minutes (plus another minute of credits) and used clips from 233 horror films. It was also a shambling mess.

I've cut the song by two minutes, cutting a chorus and a verse. I'm rethinking the introduction and refocusing the vid back to its original point, which was an exploration of being a classic horror fan in a modern horror world.

Thing is, the process of making this vid has illuminated some deficiencies in my technique -- primarily in storytelling and constructed narrative. Does anybody know of any good resources on vidding style and technique (rather than technical resources)? I'm doing independent research in my personal library of books on cinema, but it's rather specific to standard narrative cinema.

* Thanks go to bradcpu, whose encouraging words on the early cut of the vid gave me the confidence to start working on it again.

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[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

There's mainly informal information and discussion on vidding. I only have a few links that might not help. The posts I'm linking come from different parts of fandom and aren't all in agreement, but they're good reads.

Vidding: Background reading (1/2) (http://thuviaptarth.livejournal.com/132233.html) and (2/2) (http://thuviaptarth.livejournal.com/132365.html)
In Media Res: Vids and Visual Storytelling (http://tishaturk.livejournal.com/5197.html)
vid structure and the process of vidding (http://heresluck.livejournal.com/152677.html)
vid types (http://heresluck.livejournal.com/126575.html)
notes on narrative in a vidding context (http://heresluck.livejournal.com/99138.html)
vidding as storytelling... or not (http://heresluck.livejournal.com/49161.html)
TV and movie vids (http://tishaturk.livejournal.com/2042.html?style=mine)
Vids and the technical definition of narrative (http://tishaturk.livejournal.com/1189.html)
Vids and the technical definition of narrative: addendum (http://tishaturk.livejournal.com/1405.html)