FNL: DIY
YouTube user TugaA is doing something interesting: Re-editing Friday Night Lights clips and setting them to music.
On the surface, this isn't that big a deal. TugaA use good songs that could have been on the show (maybe they were) and does a pretty good job of editing. I'm not sure you could say the clips are exceptionally well chosen, because one of the things this exercise shows is that nothing on FNL has ever looked bad. Some of the stories have been preposterous, occasionally the dialog is forced, and a two or three of the actors are less than spectacular, but every single frame looks compelling.
But there's a little more depth to this than it seems. Take this video, for example:
The characters Tim and Tyra are an on-again, off-again couple. The show actually isn't very coherent on the deep meaning of their relationship. The writers are too interested in starting and resolving various outlandish stories among the sprawling ensemble cast. But TugaA seems to be trying to do that for them. It's the magic of editing: There's a story there that you didn't recognize until TugaA found it for you in the footage.
TugaA isn't alone, by the way.
Unfortunately, this effect runs out of steam before the song does, or maybe I just don't remember enough about what each of those scenes means to keep getting something out of it. Ultimately, this video just makes me want to re-watch a couple of the more spectacular scenes between these characters (the carnival and the roadside argument). But the idea has potential. And it raises questions: Could you re-edit FNL footage to achieve a fundamentally different tone from the show? What if you used a kind of music that's never been used on FNL? Some Bach might be interesting, for example.
On the surface, this isn't that big a deal. TugaA use good songs that could have been on the show (maybe they were) and does a pretty good job of editing. I'm not sure you could say the clips are exceptionally well chosen, because one of the things this exercise shows is that nothing on FNL has ever looked bad. Some of the stories have been preposterous, occasionally the dialog is forced, and a two or three of the actors are less than spectacular, but every single frame looks compelling.
But there's a little more depth to this than it seems. Take this video, for example:
The characters Tim and Tyra are an on-again, off-again couple. The show actually isn't very coherent on the deep meaning of their relationship. The writers are too interested in starting and resolving various outlandish stories among the sprawling ensemble cast. But TugaA seems to be trying to do that for them. It's the magic of editing: There's a story there that you didn't recognize until TugaA found it for you in the footage.
TugaA isn't alone, by the way.
Unfortunately, this effect runs out of steam before the song does, or maybe I just don't remember enough about what each of those scenes means to keep getting something out of it. Ultimately, this video just makes me want to re-watch a couple of the more spectacular scenes between these characters (the carnival and the roadside argument). But the idea has potential. And it raises questions: Could you re-edit FNL footage to achieve a fundamentally different tone from the show? What if you used a kind of music that's never been used on FNL? Some Bach might be interesting, for example.
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