If you have nothing to show, then don't show it?

[CHAMELEON_D_H]

After reading this thread, I thought I'd mess with the idea a little bit. I think it adds to the weirdness and fun of the video. You tell me..

http://rapidshare.de/files/1915360/Drag ... i.avi.html (Has spoilers on Naruto eps 134-135)

It's a minute long.. Well do you think it adds something, or do you think something has to be there in those black spaces. I personally liked the way it turned out.

it looks likes there were missing scenes in your timeline, rather then intentional black scenes..... maybe fade out the clips instead of a "hard cut" ?

[staces]

I have a creator friend who is fond of the "black screen technique". In one song the music went silent for about a second and then picked up more loudly than before, having about a second of black looked great there. But in her other videos she'll have lots of pauses of black screens, and while they're excellent otherwise (the vids), all of the dead time can get annoying and seems a bit lazy.

[SuperFusion]

The topic title makes no sense. If you have nothing to show, then you obviously can't even attempt to show it. So you can't show it in the first place.

[x_rex30]

After reading this thread, I thought I'd mess with the idea a little bit. I think it adds to the weirdness and fun of the video. You tell me..

http://rapidshare.de/files/1915360/Drag ... i.avi.html (Has spoilers on Naruto eps 134-135)

It's a minute long.. Well do you think it adds something, or do you think something has to be there in those black spaces. I personally liked the way it turned out.

it looks likes there were missing scenes in your timeline, rather then intentional black scenes..... maybe fade out the clips instead of a "hard cut" ?

meh, I spent around 10 minutes on it.

[Pyle]

Didn't Trythil make something like what you described?

[Apeotheosis]

I would have to agree with Pwolf on this one, it has the potential to be extremely effective, but on the other hand, it can probably drive a video into the ground.

For example, take Otohiko's video "The Wasteland". I could definietly picture a long black screen sequence somewhere in there to add to the dark mood, but if you took a video like "Toushi" and slapped a black screen in for 30 seconds, I'd probably think there was some critical editing error that occurred...then I'd most likely chastise the editor with my home-made MS paint images.

[Voices_Of_Ryan]

This is a bit of a selfpromotion, so I'm not going to link it.
But in my "Lost [And Still]" AMV, I had a very large scene with nothing but black (sometimes text would fade in, but still).

Then again, that video had alot of the use of black and white in it so.
There you go.

[Flint the Dwarf]

I'm not talking about the blank space between a fade-out and a fade-in when a phrase is done in the music, but just a straight black (or white) screen while the instruments keep going.

The opposite.

/pointless

[Rozard]

I'm not talking about the blank space between a fade-out and a fade-in when a phrase is done in the music, but just a straight black (or white) screen while the instruments keep going.

The opposite.

/pointless

Aw man, whatever happened to prius?

[Flint the Dwarf]

I don't know, man, I don't know.