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permetaform Friday night and remembered.
A while agosisabet wrote this really incredible post about why she vids and why she loves vids. I started to comment, and then realized my comment probably belonged in my lj more than it did in someone else's comment thread because, well, it was all about me.
I think the first vid I watched wasrhiannonhero's first vid. It was to QaF, which I had never seen, and what I got from it was "Okay, two hot guys. They have hot sex. But wait, the're angsting! And now they're not together! And now they're back together having hot sex again!" rhiannonhero came from the background of a fic writer, and from her vid I managed to gather the general plot of the show through a Brian/Justin fan's eyes. From this I got that vids could 1) tell a story and 2) argue a point. My first vid was a meta vid comparing Brian and Ted.
My first vid had fairly decent pacing. I remember after making it looking back and thinking -- hey, some of these clips would have looked better if they'd fallen on beat. In my next vid, everything will fall on beat. Rhythm, beat, and pacing were very instinctual to me right from the beginning (I should note here that I define beat as any musical accent, stress or pitch, by any musical instrument including voice). I know some people count out beat patterns. My menthod is a much more flybytheseatofmypants "put clips down and tweak until what I'm seeing matches what I'm hearing."
My second vid was all about the music, in a way that I think set a pattern for a lot of my subsequent projects. I heard a song and fell in love with it. I then had to find the perfect fandom for it, which turned out to be Oz. After reading through a ton of episode summaries and skimming through a few transcripts, I acquired the episodes I needed and got to work. I put all my clips together fairly chronologically, choosing those that I felt best accentuated the music. It was very well recieved by the Oz fandom. I've been told it made a good recruiter vid, which I think is kind of funny considering I was never recruited into the fandom myself.
A lot of the people commenting insisabet's post talked about how the first thing they noticed in vids was something falling on beat, and how it was only later, after seeing a vid that truly revealed something new about a character, etc. that they got vids. Due to my particular musical aesthetic, I never really noticed when a vid was on beat because, well, that's how it was supposed to look. I really only ever noticed if it was offbeat.
That is, until I sawpermetaform's The Fragile. I saw how she absolutely exploited every musical beat, stress and pitch, instrumental and vocal, to create a vid that looked like a waveform incarnate. Here is where my situation branches away from most of the vidders I've met in live action vidding fandom. The first time a vid made me feel BIG EMOTION (tm) it had nothing to do with fandom and everything to do with editing technique.
Later I would see vids likegwyn_r's Valentine Heart that made me want to cry and fall in love with a fandom/character/pairing all over again. Such vids made me appreciate vidding's connection with fandom. Still, I see vidding more as an independent craft than as an extension of fandom.
Later, if I ever get around to it, I'll be writing a big post on vidding aesthetics.
permetaform Friday night and remembered.A while ago
sisabet wrote this really incredible post about why she vids and why she loves vids. I started to comment, and then realized my comment probably belonged in my lj more than it did in someone else's comment thread because, well, it was all about me.I think the first vid I watched was
rhiannonhero's first vid. It was to QaF, which I had never seen, and what I got from it was "Okay, two hot guys. They have hot sex. But wait, the're angsting! And now they're not together! And now they're back together having hot sex again!" rhiannonhero came from the background of a fic writer, and from her vid I managed to gather the general plot of the show through a Brian/Justin fan's eyes. From this I got that vids could 1) tell a story and 2) argue a point. My first vid was a meta vid comparing Brian and Ted.My first vid had fairly decent pacing. I remember after making it looking back and thinking -- hey, some of these clips would have looked better if they'd fallen on beat. In my next vid, everything will fall on beat. Rhythm, beat, and pacing were very instinctual to me right from the beginning (I should note here that I define beat as any musical accent, stress or pitch, by any musical instrument including voice). I know some people count out beat patterns. My menthod is a much more flybytheseatofmypants "put clips down and tweak until what I'm seeing matches what I'm hearing."
My second vid was all about the music, in a way that I think set a pattern for a lot of my subsequent projects. I heard a song and fell in love with it. I then had to find the perfect fandom for it, which turned out to be Oz. After reading through a ton of episode summaries and skimming through a few transcripts, I acquired the episodes I needed and got to work. I put all my clips together fairly chronologically, choosing those that I felt best accentuated the music. It was very well recieved by the Oz fandom. I've been told it made a good recruiter vid, which I think is kind of funny considering I was never recruited into the fandom myself.
A lot of the people commenting in
sisabet's post talked about how the first thing they noticed in vids was something falling on beat, and how it was only later, after seeing a vid that truly revealed something new about a character, etc. that they got vids. Due to my particular musical aesthetic, I never really noticed when a vid was on beat because, well, that's how it was supposed to look. I really only ever noticed if it was offbeat.That is, until I saw
permetaform's The Fragile. I saw how she absolutely exploited every musical beat, stress and pitch, instrumental and vocal, to create a vid that looked like a waveform incarnate. Here is where my situation branches away from most of the vidders I've met in live action vidding fandom. The first time a vid made me feel BIG EMOTION (tm) it had nothing to do with fandom and everything to do with editing technique. Later I would see vids like
gwyn_r's Valentine Heart that made me want to cry and fall in love with a fandom/character/pairing all over again. Such vids made me appreciate vidding's connection with fandom. Still, I see vidding more as an independent craft than as an extension of fandom.Later, if I ever get around to it, I'll be writing a big post on vidding aesthetics.
