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Vidding Question Responses
I got 12 hours of sleep last night! I slept til 11 AM :) This is cause for celebration since I haven't been able to wake up after 9 or get to sleep before 10. So I'm very thankful to be well rested now.
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obsessive24's Blindfold here. Angel/Fred and absolutely beautiful. The vid itself got me into vidding mode again with the motion, powerful images and interesting ideas. I am just so in love with motion *watches motion playlist*
So I finally finished writing down my responses tosockkpuppett's vidding questions.
Is there an empty space that it fills, or is it just a marvelous extra in your life?
It definitely fills an empty space in my life. It finally allows me to be creative in something that I truly love and allows me to express my ideas. I never felt like a writer or an artist even though I love to read/look at both but vidding sparks something in me that makes me want to do it myself. Vids combine all of my favorite things from the pretty visuals, music, narrative and cool effects and combines it all to make so much more. I am innately a creative person and I am so thankful that I've found something that I want to do and that I feel utilizes all of my creative talents.
What do you learn from watching other vids, or do you learn anything?
I learn a lot from watching vids. I learn about using external and internal motion, how to cut to the beat and other musical parts of the music, cool effects to try, how to use color, how to create emotion and how to show ideas, themes, etc in the source. By finding the vids I love most, I can see why I liked them so much and how I can incorporate some of that into my own to make even better vids and in order to love my vids in the same way. Watching vids is always a learning process. When you want to be a writer, people tell you to read everything you can and for me vidding is the same way, you just have to watch everything you can and look closely at it.
Do you think that vidders put a piece of themselves into their work?
Yes but it's a lot less tangible and easy to see than in fiction. At least that's how its been in my experience. Vidders put into the work how they process things and often an emphasis on one thing or another shows a vidder's preferences and experiences. The love that is felt towards the characters/relationships and music also comes through and the clip choices that are made can express a vidder's inclination towards them and the associations they form from them. The fact that sometimes people can tell who vidded what or not (see Challenge Vidshow), shows that its at least possible to vidders to have their own unique style.
Or do you think it's just a sort of technical exercise or something in between?
It's not just a technical exercise at all. It's an art from deciding what music and show to use to choosing clips and effects and composing the vid as a larger whole in terms of what is coming across. Vidding as a history, as I understand it, has always been about overcoming technical hardship in order to show the love and soul of the shows, characters and relationship. Vidding can have a lot of technical components and I certainly love that technology allows us to vid and do cool things but the reasons its done is usually done for love and art.
Can you draw the line in what you can teach a person re vidding and what has to just come from within that person?
Well there's only so much you can do for a person before it becomes your own project and not theirs (or at least co-vidded). You can teach them all the technical steps, get them source and show ways to think up ideas and match up clips and the music but they need to be able to think of their own ideas and come up with their own decisions. At some point a person needs to be able to explore with the craft themselves and have the own initiative to try out things and see what works for them and what doesn't or they'll never become their own vidder.
Do you think that vidding illuminates anything about you TO you? Something that you may not have been aware of?
I think it shows what I think and how I come up with ideas. I'm the kind of person that love to take an external stimulus and then make connections off of that and come up with ideas because of it. Vidding allows me to use that more fully and when I sit down to work on a vid, one of my favorite parts is looking at the lyrics and coming up with ideas connecting the show to the song both by seeing what the lyrics are saying in terms of themselves and within the context of the show. I love to make it all fit and to have it make sense, that's so fun to me and one reason why I LOVE vidding and even if I could only do it in my head, I'd still do it.
I've always been more focused on lyrics, emotion and lyrics and ideas and I think that shows me how important that is to who I am. But I also am spellbound by visual-audio matching, pretty visuals, motion and cool effects and that's an aspect of myself that I'm allowed to express when making a vid. I love that there are so many things to think about in vidding, that it's so complex because there's always something interesting to think about, always something more to consider that could make a vid better or my vid watching experience more complete.
Have you ever been pimped into a fandom by watching a vid? Elaborate?
Oh, all the time. The multitude of amazing Buffy and Angel vids convinced me to watch both shows. Watching Highlander vids (many, many times) byastolat and sockkpuppett convinced me to buy the 4th season of Highlander (and later 5th). Often I don't even need to see a vid to be convinced to watch the show, I'm a spoilerphobe for the most part and hate being visually spoiled so just knowing their are good quality vids to a show (and that its a good show) makes me see the show. That's happened for Supernatural, SGA, BSG, Doctor Who and many more to come.
Have you ever had a vid "made to order?" How did you feel about it once it was finished? Was it anything like what you wanted or expected?
No, not really. I wouldn't including vidding a song requested to be very different from my normal process.
What are your favorite types of vids? Universe vids? Arguments? Lyrical? Mood pieces? AU's? Something else?
I love vids that give insight into a character, relationship or show (ie arguments) but at the same time really involve me in the emotion of the characters. I'm not much into AU's but sometimes they can be cool to see. Any kind of vid can be good to me if it's high quality.
I am SO excited for next Thursday's The Office. Joss Whedon is directing and talks about it during a promo here. I love that Joss is such an "insane fan". And my favorite quote "[Buffy] was funny. Especially when people died...That is kind of I think, my stamp." Hee. We still love you, Joss. And also, The Office is still the funniest show on earth and why isn't it Thursday yet???
Vid rec:
obsessive24's Blindfold here. Angel/Fred and absolutely beautiful. The vid itself got me into vidding mode again with the motion, powerful images and interesting ideas. I am just so in love with motion *watches motion playlist*So I finally finished writing down my responses to
sockkpuppett's vidding questions.Is there an empty space that it fills, or is it just a marvelous extra in your life?
It definitely fills an empty space in my life. It finally allows me to be creative in something that I truly love and allows me to express my ideas. I never felt like a writer or an artist even though I love to read/look at both but vidding sparks something in me that makes me want to do it myself. Vids combine all of my favorite things from the pretty visuals, music, narrative and cool effects and combines it all to make so much more. I am innately a creative person and I am so thankful that I've found something that I want to do and that I feel utilizes all of my creative talents.
What do you learn from watching other vids, or do you learn anything?
I learn a lot from watching vids. I learn about using external and internal motion, how to cut to the beat and other musical parts of the music, cool effects to try, how to use color, how to create emotion and how to show ideas, themes, etc in the source. By finding the vids I love most, I can see why I liked them so much and how I can incorporate some of that into my own to make even better vids and in order to love my vids in the same way. Watching vids is always a learning process. When you want to be a writer, people tell you to read everything you can and for me vidding is the same way, you just have to watch everything you can and look closely at it.
Do you think that vidders put a piece of themselves into their work?
Yes but it's a lot less tangible and easy to see than in fiction. At least that's how its been in my experience. Vidders put into the work how they process things and often an emphasis on one thing or another shows a vidder's preferences and experiences. The love that is felt towards the characters/relationships and music also comes through and the clip choices that are made can express a vidder's inclination towards them and the associations they form from them. The fact that sometimes people can tell who vidded what or not (see Challenge Vidshow), shows that its at least possible to vidders to have their own unique style.
Or do you think it's just a sort of technical exercise or something in between?
It's not just a technical exercise at all. It's an art from deciding what music and show to use to choosing clips and effects and composing the vid as a larger whole in terms of what is coming across. Vidding as a history, as I understand it, has always been about overcoming technical hardship in order to show the love and soul of the shows, characters and relationship. Vidding can have a lot of technical components and I certainly love that technology allows us to vid and do cool things but the reasons its done is usually done for love and art.
Can you draw the line in what you can teach a person re vidding and what has to just come from within that person?
Well there's only so much you can do for a person before it becomes your own project and not theirs (or at least co-vidded). You can teach them all the technical steps, get them source and show ways to think up ideas and match up clips and the music but they need to be able to think of their own ideas and come up with their own decisions. At some point a person needs to be able to explore with the craft themselves and have the own initiative to try out things and see what works for them and what doesn't or they'll never become their own vidder.
Do you think that vidding illuminates anything about you TO you? Something that you may not have been aware of?
I think it shows what I think and how I come up with ideas. I'm the kind of person that love to take an external stimulus and then make connections off of that and come up with ideas because of it. Vidding allows me to use that more fully and when I sit down to work on a vid, one of my favorite parts is looking at the lyrics and coming up with ideas connecting the show to the song both by seeing what the lyrics are saying in terms of themselves and within the context of the show. I love to make it all fit and to have it make sense, that's so fun to me and one reason why I LOVE vidding and even if I could only do it in my head, I'd still do it.
I've always been more focused on lyrics, emotion and lyrics and ideas and I think that shows me how important that is to who I am. But I also am spellbound by visual-audio matching, pretty visuals, motion and cool effects and that's an aspect of myself that I'm allowed to express when making a vid. I love that there are so many things to think about in vidding, that it's so complex because there's always something interesting to think about, always something more to consider that could make a vid better or my vid watching experience more complete.
Have you ever been pimped into a fandom by watching a vid? Elaborate?
Oh, all the time. The multitude of amazing Buffy and Angel vids convinced me to watch both shows. Watching Highlander vids (many, many times) by
astolat and sockkpuppett convinced me to buy the 4th season of Highlander (and later 5th). Often I don't even need to see a vid to be convinced to watch the show, I'm a spoilerphobe for the most part and hate being visually spoiled so just knowing their are good quality vids to a show (and that its a good show) makes me see the show. That's happened for Supernatural, SGA, BSG, Doctor Who and many more to come.Have you ever had a vid "made to order?" How did you feel about it once it was finished? Was it anything like what you wanted or expected?
No, not really. I wouldn't including vidding a song requested to be very different from my normal process.
What are your favorite types of vids? Universe vids? Arguments? Lyrical? Mood pieces? AU's? Something else?
I love vids that give insight into a character, relationship or show (ie arguments) but at the same time really involve me in the emotion of the characters. I'm not much into AU's but sometimes they can be cool to see. Any kind of vid can be good to me if it's high quality.
I am SO excited for next Thursday's The Office. Joss Whedon is directing and talks about it during a promo here. I love that Joss is such an "insane fan". And my favorite quote "[Buffy] was funny. Especially when people died...That is kind of I think, my stamp." Hee. We still love you, Joss. And also, The Office is still the funniest show on earth and why isn't it Thursday yet???