silver_moon wrote:kritikal wrote:My question is, should I make it go to the beat or the words.
Well, the trick is to do both. The best way to time and edit to a song is to keep both the music and the lyrics in mind as you edit. So find a scene that matches the lyrics, then do your best to time that scene to the beat.
One should also consider the melody of the song. This is especially important if you are working with music that does not have, say, explicit percussion for you to sync up to. Consider visual ways to foreshadow where the music is going; consider ways to integrate color and musical key; and so on.
I've tried to do such things in the past, and everybody hated what came out of it. But that's almost certainly because I can't edit. If, or when, you pull such a thing off, it would look really impressive.
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