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Vidding Thoughts
I have been in vidding mode the last two days, watching and listening to vids and reading all the vid meta I can. Vidding is so my primary fandom because although I have a lot of shows I watch and fandoms I pay attention to and read fic to, most of the time I just read fic for ships and am not interested in gen or daily happenings of shows. But I love gen for vidding, in fact I'd love to see it more and do more of it myself. I love to find out everything I can about vidding, I'll read almost anything about it and still be interested. And I still miss Vividcon, it feels like a dream that I went there, met so many awesome people and had such a wonderful time. Is it Vividcon 2007 yet?
I've been working up ideas and thoughts for a vidding post for awhile now and finally feel ready to type them out. First I have to say that my Introduction to Film Aesthetics course is still the BEST class ever. I have unashamedly been tying lots of things that I read about, notice and disuss to vidding which is so fun and helpful to me. The things we're covering is narative design, visual design (mise-en-scene and cinematograpy), editing (yay!), performance ie acting and sound design. All of which I can find relations to vidding. For example, the book discusses how often filmmakers put things in nonlinear order in order to get the audience more involved with the story, to have them think more about it and how it all fits together. This is what makes vids so interesting to me because the storyline is nonlinear by definition (unless you take 3:00 of a show and put it with music...you'd have to use a lot of special effects to make that work reasonably well) so you get that much more involved with the vid and trying to understand and enjoy it.
While reading the book and listening to discussion, I'm trying to jot down some helpful tips for vidding as well as ideas for different kinds of vids. Some things I'd like to see more in vids or make myself:
-Commentary on vids in vid forms: This is kind of similar to the Remix challenge at Vividcon but I can see the concept taken further. I think it would be so cool to put part of your feedback/commentary/analysis in vid form. I can see this used in different ways from using clips from the vid (this would all have to be with permission obviously) along with connections to other clips from the show or sorting the clips used together to show themes and parallels to using split screens and more screens to compare, contrast, connect, etc more easily. You can even add text to the clips, making it easier for the vidder/others to see exactly what it is you think about parts without having to check back to the vid or feedback/time stamp every second. I'm not sure if this would work, just an idea I had.
-Vids showing the similarities and differences between characters and relationships and even plotlines and themes on different shows. There are lots of great multifandom vids that do this but I'd like to see more that take a smaller focus and really dig in deeper to it. So just compare two characters or two relationships on different shows. For example, I'd love to see or make a Buffy and Veronica vid, comparing them and their personalities, journeys and experiences.
-I'd love to see vids that show a characters mindset through effects and the source. There's a certain style of film that does this but I checked through the book and can't find it so that's the only description I have. Anything experimental, like stream of consciousness style vids would be cool to see.
-Not a vid per se but not only would I love to see more meta about vids (that's a given) but I'd like to see meta about how to watch vids, how to process them. Vids can be so complicated and hard to pick across, not only on the first watch but the second and third that it would be great to see some ideas and questions and pointers about things to watch for in vids to help people understand them more.
I've realized that I don't give enough long feedback to vidders. There are a lot of vids that I love so much and I watch a LOT but my extent of my feedback is nothing at all, "I love it" to a paragraph or so. I'd like to apoligize for this as I feel bad about it. I understand how much long feedback is appreciated and I LOVE vids and want to let vidders know how much I enjoy and think about their work. But I really want to try to give more detailed feedback and have made it my new mission to try to send it out as much as I can from now on. What's held me back from it in the past is my usual perfectionistic tendencies. I feel if I send a long feedback email for a vid, it'll have to have ALL my thoughts and reactions to it and I know that will take a long time. To add to that, I feel I have to write something brilliant and if I don't then I shouldn't write anything at all until later when I can come up with something smarter. This comes with the knowledge that I admire a lot of the vidders out there and think they are OMG, so smart, and so I feel kind of hyperaware of them and what they'll think of me. I've realized I just need to work with what I have for right now and if I think of something else in the future, I can always send that later. So hopefully, you vidders (and maybe fic writers if I can manage it) will see some long feedback from me in your inbox soon.
In other fandom news, I am still loving Prison Break and thought the new episode tonight was awesome. I am addicted to the suspense and I continue to love all the characters, getting swept up in their storylines. I wholeheartedly rec![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
f1renze's vid to the show, Ragged Ass Road which captures everything I've wanted to see vidded in the first season from the master plan to the brothers love for each other to the cool motion. Just a gorgeous vid that has continued with my great pleasure to recruit more people into watching the show. I'm also enjoying Nip/Tuck in all its craziness and am impressed that finally the slash between Sean/Christian is actually getting explored. If only more shows were on cable and weren't afraid of the gay. There really needs to be more vids to the show, its very pretty visually and has great editing especially during the medical scenes, making them worth watching. Also finished Battlestar Galactica season 1 yesterday and it was amazing. Just about every episode has an interesting, suspenseful plot and a great ending. The characters are great, I loove Starbuck and I like all the rest of the characters and their relationships. Can't wait to finish the second season so I can watch the third with everyone.
I've been working up ideas and thoughts for a vidding post for awhile now and finally feel ready to type them out. First I have to say that my Introduction to Film Aesthetics course is still the BEST class ever. I have unashamedly been tying lots of things that I read about, notice and disuss to vidding which is so fun and helpful to me. The things we're covering is narative design, visual design (mise-en-scene and cinematograpy), editing (yay!), performance ie acting and sound design. All of which I can find relations to vidding. For example, the book discusses how often filmmakers put things in nonlinear order in order to get the audience more involved with the story, to have them think more about it and how it all fits together. This is what makes vids so interesting to me because the storyline is nonlinear by definition (unless you take 3:00 of a show and put it with music...you'd have to use a lot of special effects to make that work reasonably well) so you get that much more involved with the vid and trying to understand and enjoy it.
While reading the book and listening to discussion, I'm trying to jot down some helpful tips for vidding as well as ideas for different kinds of vids. Some things I'd like to see more in vids or make myself:
-Commentary on vids in vid forms: This is kind of similar to the Remix challenge at Vividcon but I can see the concept taken further. I think it would be so cool to put part of your feedback/commentary/analysis in vid form. I can see this used in different ways from using clips from the vid (this would all have to be with permission obviously) along with connections to other clips from the show or sorting the clips used together to show themes and parallels to using split screens and more screens to compare, contrast, connect, etc more easily. You can even add text to the clips, making it easier for the vidder/others to see exactly what it is you think about parts without having to check back to the vid or feedback/time stamp every second. I'm not sure if this would work, just an idea I had.
-Vids showing the similarities and differences between characters and relationships and even plotlines and themes on different shows. There are lots of great multifandom vids that do this but I'd like to see more that take a smaller focus and really dig in deeper to it. So just compare two characters or two relationships on different shows. For example, I'd love to see or make a Buffy and Veronica vid, comparing them and their personalities, journeys and experiences.
-I'd love to see vids that show a characters mindset through effects and the source. There's a certain style of film that does this but I checked through the book and can't find it so that's the only description I have. Anything experimental, like stream of consciousness style vids would be cool to see.
-Not a vid per se but not only would I love to see more meta about vids (that's a given) but I'd like to see meta about how to watch vids, how to process them. Vids can be so complicated and hard to pick across, not only on the first watch but the second and third that it would be great to see some ideas and questions and pointers about things to watch for in vids to help people understand them more.
I've realized that I don't give enough long feedback to vidders. There are a lot of vids that I love so much and I watch a LOT but my extent of my feedback is nothing at all, "I love it" to a paragraph or so. I'd like to apoligize for this as I feel bad about it. I understand how much long feedback is appreciated and I LOVE vids and want to let vidders know how much I enjoy and think about their work. But I really want to try to give more detailed feedback and have made it my new mission to try to send it out as much as I can from now on. What's held me back from it in the past is my usual perfectionistic tendencies. I feel if I send a long feedback email for a vid, it'll have to have ALL my thoughts and reactions to it and I know that will take a long time. To add to that, I feel I have to write something brilliant and if I don't then I shouldn't write anything at all until later when I can come up with something smarter. This comes with the knowledge that I admire a lot of the vidders out there and think they are OMG, so smart, and so I feel kind of hyperaware of them and what they'll think of me. I've realized I just need to work with what I have for right now and if I think of something else in the future, I can always send that later. So hopefully, you vidders (and maybe fic writers if I can manage it) will see some long feedback from me in your inbox soon.
In other fandom news, I am still loving Prison Break and thought the new episode tonight was awesome. I am addicted to the suspense and I continue to love all the characters, getting swept up in their storylines. I wholeheartedly rec
f1renze's vid to the show, Ragged Ass Road which captures everything I've wanted to see vidded in the first season from the master plan to the brothers love for each other to the cool motion. Just a gorgeous vid that has continued with my great pleasure to recruit more people into watching the show. I'm also enjoying Nip/Tuck in all its craziness and am impressed that finally the slash between Sean/Christian is actually getting explored. If only more shows were on cable and weren't afraid of the gay. There really needs to be more vids to the show, its very pretty visually and has great editing especially during the medical scenes, making them worth watching. Also finished Battlestar Galactica season 1 yesterday and it was amazing. Just about every episode has an interesting, suspenseful plot and a great ending. The characters are great, I loove Starbuck and I like all the rest of the characters and their relationships. Can't wait to finish the second season so I can watch the third with everyone.