Thankyou :D

I happy to talk about the word doc I use. Essentially, it's just the lyrics of the song typed out with the relative clips for each line written underneath.

Generally, with vids I make I only have a vague idea of where clips should go beforehand. I'll have some main ideas, like with this vid I know I wanted to contrast Dean picking up the gun in Something Wicked with the YED getting shot in AHBL. And I'll know the main idea or narrative of the vid, for example with this one, I wanted to contrast Sam and Dean as young kids with all the horrors of hunting, like a nightmare if you will. But the rest of the clip placement I have no clue so I find that if I have a word doc with everything laid out I am better able to figure out what clips should go where and how to relate clips together.

And I found that if I don't have the vid planned out and just vid on the fly then I get a vid that's less cohesive. There have been some exceptions to this which I can go into if you want but generally if I have a plan the vid goes smoother, since I can listen to the song, read through my notes and see the vid playing in my head before I get bogged down in all the technical editing.

So with this vid, to go into more detail, what I did was get the lyrics to the song like I said above and marked in all the main clip ideas that I had. Then what I do is write down a list of clips that I think will be useful for the vid. Which can be tedious but it works for me. SO for this vid I was looking for things related to childhood like toys, monsters related to kids, etc. And I was also looking for clips where you couldn't see people's faces especially adults. So keeping those things in mind I was able to come up with a long list of clips that I could use. Then I grouped them into related clips or clips I wanted to contrast against each other and began placing them against the lyrics. Sometimes I print things out and hand write them in but that just depends on the mood I'm in.

So finally I have a word doc with my vid all planned out. This helps me with a few other things. It give me a list of clips that I need to rip, since the way I write the clips means I can sort alphabetically and have a list of clips from each episode in sequential order. It also means that theoretically I won't have to stop in the middle of vidding to rip more clips since I have ripped all the clips I need beforehand. Since once I start actually placing the clips in the vid I don't want to stop. And it also means that when I start vidding I can see how the final vid is working as whole because I know what's going to happen in the parts of the song I haven't placed clips or edited them.

Sometimes my final vid will change from the plan. I delete clips or remember a better one to use. But I just find having a vid planned out completely means I can look at the vid as a whole and see what's working and what's not.

And whoa, I rambled on a lot but you did say you wanted detail :P But if you want to actually see the word doc I used for this vid then I'll be happy to upload it somewhere for you.