Yeah -- I zoomed and cropped more than half of the shots where Zoe wasn't the only person in the frame, and it didn't help nearly as much as I wanted it to. And even when Zoe is the only person in the frame, she tends to be much farther from the camera than, say, River -- far, far fewer closeups, less-close closeups when there were closeups, and that sounds less major than it is when I phrase it like that, but it is! And there were all these other things. I can work around limitations, or try to, but the limitations are still there, and still visible -- there's a big difference between adding a zoom, and being able to teleport yourself back to the filming of the scene and moving the camera 10 feet to one side for a different angle.
The Ruby stuff is fascinating. And frustrating. (And also gives me helpful background for Low Red Moon, since I only saw about three episodes of S3 SPN.) I would say things, but I don't really have anything to add. Thank you for writing it out!
With Zoe it wasn't contradictory; the camera is doing the same thing as the writing. (I read one of the Firefly official book things in the process of making the vid, and there were little blurbs from Joss about each character's creation, and Zoe's was all about what she was supposed to show about Mal.) I'd known when I started the vid that Zoe didn't really have a character arc, or really much onscreen development at all -- the first time I watched Firefly I was sulky because I liked Zoe and River best and the Zoe-centric episode never came -- but I hadn't realized how much that came through in every frame. Vidding the Haitian was easier.
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The Ruby stuff is fascinating. And frustrating. (And also gives me helpful background for Low Red Moon, since I only saw about three episodes of S3 SPN.) I would say things, but I don't really have anything to add. Thank you for writing it out!
With Zoe it wasn't contradictory; the camera is doing the same thing as the writing. (I read one of the Firefly official book things in the process of making the vid, and there were little blurbs from Joss about each character's creation, and Zoe's was all about what she was supposed to show about Mal.) I'd known when I started the vid that Zoe didn't really have a character arc, or really much onscreen development at all -- the first time I watched Firefly I was sulky because I liked Zoe and River best and the Zoe-centric episode never came -- but I hadn't realized how much that came through in every frame. Vidding the Haitian was easier.
... Not that I'm bitter.