Dear Festividder 2024
Oct. 5th, 2024 04:18 pmThank you for making me a vid!
I have a couple things that I put outside the cut tag, because I have two visual triggers:
1) Super fast flashes of lights or colors that have high contrast. Almost all vids are fine for me, but some that intercut scenes for two or three frames at a time can trigger this. It depends on the amount of contrast between the two scenes—stutter cuts are fine between two similar scenes, but not between one dark green and one bright red lit scene, between a nighttime and daytime scene, etc. Strobe lights and strobe effects, full-screen glitch effects, full-screen lighting effects, or fast lightning flashes can also trigger this. The stutter cuts have to be very fast to bother me—think three lightning strikes in a second (dark, light, dark, light, dark, light, dark in one second).
2) Frame rate fuckery—when a show or a vid plays 24 fps footage in 30 fps or vice versa. So, like, when a film puts footage at the wrong frame rate to make it feel awkward or tense, which is super common in action films. (For example, the Bucky/Steve knife fight on the street in Winter Solider or like the entirety of Mad Max Fury Road.) It can also happen by accident, if footage at one frame rate is put into a project with a different frame rate, or sometimes when a show needs to stretch or compress footage and they do it by duplicating every third frame. (You might not be able to see this—many people see this as smooth motion, because our brains are already interpreting stills as motion.)
I'll call these out in the source notes below for any fandom where they're relevant.
Please also feel free to run a sample by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thingswithwings. She can explain them with examples if that would be helpful.
The rest of this post is additional details if you're interested!
( General Preferences )
I asked for: Backspot (2023) [SAFETY], Der Schwarm | The Swarm (Germany TV 2023), Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper, Fancy Dance (2023) [SAFETY], The Great Canadian Baking Show (TV), Home Movie: The Princess Bride [SAFETY], Lego Video Games [UMBRELLA], Mythbusters (TV), Night Raiders (2021) [SAFETY], This Place (2022) [SAFETY]
( Backspot (2023) )
( Der Schwarm | The Swarm )
( Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper )
( Fancy Dance (2023) )
( The Great Canadian Baking Show )
( Home Movie: The Princess Bride )
( Lego Video Games [UMBRELLA] )
( Mythbusters )
( Night Raiders (2021) )
( This Place (2022) )
I have a couple things that I put outside the cut tag, because I have two visual triggers:
1) Super fast flashes of lights or colors that have high contrast. Almost all vids are fine for me, but some that intercut scenes for two or three frames at a time can trigger this. It depends on the amount of contrast between the two scenes—stutter cuts are fine between two similar scenes, but not between one dark green and one bright red lit scene, between a nighttime and daytime scene, etc. Strobe lights and strobe effects, full-screen glitch effects, full-screen lighting effects, or fast lightning flashes can also trigger this. The stutter cuts have to be very fast to bother me—think three lightning strikes in a second (dark, light, dark, light, dark, light, dark in one second).
2) Frame rate fuckery—when a show or a vid plays 24 fps footage in 30 fps or vice versa. So, like, when a film puts footage at the wrong frame rate to make it feel awkward or tense, which is super common in action films. (For example, the Bucky/Steve knife fight on the street in Winter Solider or like the entirety of Mad Max Fury Road.) It can also happen by accident, if footage at one frame rate is put into a project with a different frame rate, or sometimes when a show needs to stretch or compress footage and they do it by duplicating every third frame. (You might not be able to see this—many people see this as smooth motion, because our brains are already interpreting stills as motion.)
I'll call these out in the source notes below for any fandom where they're relevant.
Please also feel free to run a sample by
thingswithwings. She can explain them with examples if that would be helpful.The rest of this post is additional details if you're interested!
( General Preferences )
I asked for: Backspot (2023) [SAFETY], Der Schwarm | The Swarm (Germany TV 2023), Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper, Fancy Dance (2023) [SAFETY], The Great Canadian Baking Show (TV), Home Movie: The Princess Bride [SAFETY], Lego Video Games [UMBRELLA], Mythbusters (TV), Night Raiders (2021) [SAFETY], This Place (2022) [SAFETY]
( Backspot (2023) )
( Der Schwarm | The Swarm )
( Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper )
( Fancy Dance (2023) )
( The Great Canadian Baking Show )
( Home Movie: The Princess Bride )
( Lego Video Games [UMBRELLA] )
( Mythbusters )
( Night Raiders (2021) )
( This Place (2022) )
