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lierdumoaJust writing cause I feel like I need to write something.
So. Premiere has been bitchign lately. My computer has been running slowly, and whenever my computer is slow Premiere is, like, totally anal. Wah. I managed to add one more secene to my vid -- which meant adding one clip, cutting it up into four clips, adjusting the time on each, then adding on two layers to the last for a double effect. Hee! I love to make it sound like I'm doing omgohsomuchwork. I'm sure it would only have taken, like, ten minutes if my computer hadn't been bitching at me so much.
Anyway -- more of that later.
My roommate got a chia pet. It's a frog. It delights me.
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kuriadalmatia updated her Bobby/St. John fic. If you have not read it, I feel deeply sorry for you.
So. Vidding. You know what one of my favorite things about vidding is? I can tell the normals about it. I can show my roommates a good vid and they will say, "That was cool!" I can show my roomates a good fic and they will say, "...Huh. That's...interesting." I can tell people, "Well my hobby is making music videos out of tv-shows and movies." It's a little odd, yes, but not necessarily fringe behavior in the way that "I write pornographic fiction based on homoerotic subtext" is fringe behavior.
It's a little weird to me how *different* vidding is from fic writing. A vid can advertize a tv show or movie way better than a fic can, most of the time. Sometimes it's like fic writing and you're telling a narrative. A lot of times, vidding is like meta.
I kind of wonder why no one's made that comparison before. A lot of my favorite vids are meta vids. They make me look at a character or relationship in a way I would never have thought to look at it before, or they reach to the core of a character or pairing or fandom and just...gah. You know? Or maybe you don't know. Whatever. Coherency is for other people.
Of course, other than meta vids are the visual orgasms. The ones so stylistically perfect that they just blow your mind in every possible connotation of the word blow. And if you're very lucky there'll be good meta in there as well. Or some good narrative.
Mmmmm. Thinky.
So. Premiere has been bitchign lately. My computer has been running slowly, and whenever my computer is slow Premiere is, like, totally anal. Wah. I managed to add one more secene to my vid -- which meant adding one clip, cutting it up into four clips, adjusting the time on each, then adding on two layers to the last for a double effect. Hee! I love to make it sound like I'm doing omgohsomuchwork. I'm sure it would only have taken, like, ten minutes if my computer hadn't been bitching at me so much.
Anyway -- more of that later.
My roommate got a chia pet. It's a frog. It delights me.
kuriadalmatia updated her Bobby/St. John fic. If you have not read it, I feel deeply sorry for you.So. Vidding. You know what one of my favorite things about vidding is? I can tell the normals about it. I can show my roommates a good vid and they will say, "That was cool!" I can show my roomates a good fic and they will say, "...Huh. That's...interesting." I can tell people, "Well my hobby is making music videos out of tv-shows and movies." It's a little odd, yes, but not necessarily fringe behavior in the way that "I write pornographic fiction based on homoerotic subtext" is fringe behavior.
It's a little weird to me how *different* vidding is from fic writing. A vid can advertize a tv show or movie way better than a fic can, most of the time. Sometimes it's like fic writing and you're telling a narrative. A lot of times, vidding is like meta.
I kind of wonder why no one's made that comparison before. A lot of my favorite vids are meta vids. They make me look at a character or relationship in a way I would never have thought to look at it before, or they reach to the core of a character or pairing or fandom and just...gah. You know? Or maybe you don't know. Whatever. Coherency is for other people.
Of course, other than meta vids are the visual orgasms. The ones so stylistically perfect that they just blow your mind in every possible connotation of the word blow. And if you're very lucky there'll be good meta in there as well. Or some good narrative.
Mmmmm. Thinky.
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Date: 2004-09-17 02:39 pm (UTC)PS...has the chia pet actually started to grow? Taking an informal poll.
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Date: 2004-09-17 02:46 pm (UTC)I think you're right about vidding. It really does leave a lot more up to viewer interpretation than fic does. I think I had this point really hammered home in my last vid when a number of people got a message completely different from the one I intended.
Like when I'm writing fic, it's mine, but when I'm vidding I feel more like I'm channelling something than making something.