A vid-fest weekend
Nov. 25th, 2002 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynSpent much of the weekend vidding, working on getting source for vids (had to drive all the way to the eastside to get the pro tapes of the first series of Second Sight at the PBS store), writing/editing or talking about writing/editing (my first meeting of a new writer's circle so I can jump-start my commercial writing and stop pissing about with fanfic, and boy do I need the jump-start).
It's been awhile since I had a chance to vid with anyone. This past spring, I made a Witchblade vid with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mlynne, and before that, made a Due South vid with Sandy, but the rest I've done on my own. Which is fine, I like vidding by myself okay, but I'm never sure if I'm meeting my own artistic standards and actually creating something worth watching, and the really bad thing about being a VCR vidder means I can't go back and re-edit to suit feedback without a lot of heartache and terror of cascade damage if I fuck up a clip. I also lately have been wondering about the viability of this. Most people in the Buffy community have no interest in vids that aren't online and the online people have consistently ignored or refused to include the tape-producing vidders even if we have URLs for web sites with more info, and the other fandoms I'm vidding for aren't necessarily any more viable. Plus, I'm working right now on a solo vid for a show nearly no one has seen, a British detective series, and then I wonder why I'm wasting my time, but then it's creating art... and then I get into circular ar guments with myself.
But it's fun vidding with J, she hasn't vidded all year, and I'm really good at cracking whips behind people, and she and I have a similar work style. We started with the intent to do a Mag 7 vid, Chris and Vin, and then another for the whole gang with Josiah focus, but that song (Oysterband's Never Left) somehow ended up being perfect for Tombstone, which we were using as waste video (something digital vidders would know nothing about... ;-0 ). So we're over halfway through that one, I'm loving how it's going, but am so completely not sure about Night Vision, the Second Sight vid, because it's an insanely short song and I have a huge story to try to tell up front since it's such an unknown show to most, and then... my head blows up.
The effort, though, gets to me -- J and I've talked off and on about whether we can or should release our vids on a tape when we have so few right now, and I don't even think there's an audience for many of them. Aside from the issues of those digital vidders who marginalize or ignore tape producers, there's the issue of Really Obscure Fandoms or small or maligned fandoms (Westerns? Ew), and how for me at least, fandom is about sharing and contributing and I'm not sure that there's anyone to share or contribute *with* for these things beyond this really tiny handful of people I know. I've posted about this to the vidder list, about whether it's one hand clapping, and I never know anymore. I get easily discouraged by it -- and I'm sure if I was able to crank these out on a computer and slap 'em up on a big server, it wouldn't matter so much. But we can't, and so I question whether my Miss Psycho Pep-Squad approach to getting J to finish some vids with me is worth it.
Ehhhh. That's the kind of mood I'm in, I suppose. Writing is SO much easier for me, and even though with fanfic I almost never get feedback, I at least have a sense of participation and some connection with people through that, much higher than with vidding, anyway. It's a more solitary pursuit, but it's also one where when something's finished, I can post it, unlike a vid, which I can really do nothing with that won't cost a small fortune (you'd never send one vid to everyone who expressed interest; unless you were independently wealthy or had a really nice sugar daddy). But then again... man, I love vidding and just hanging around with someone, watching something come together. I adore what we're doing for Tombstone, and that should be reward enough... gah.
I'm in that blah place -- Birds of Prey has been cancelled, MDs is still off and probably won't return for long and I may never get any of the early eps on tape (no shower scene with Fichtner and Hannah!) and I really wanted to vid this show... and my birthday's in a couple days and I'm sooo unhappy about yet another year gone by with nothing to show for it. Feh.
OTOH, Sunday morning driving up to vid with J I saw two bald eagles circling high above Woodland Park Zoo, floating in a gorgeous clear sky, and the pedestrians and other motorists seemed oblivious of them. On the radio was a cover of one of my favorite Tim Finn songs, by Richard Thompson and some other guy with a lovely voice, doing a duet, and for at least that moment it reminded me that there are nice things in the world, especially when I look outside the fannish things that occasionally get me down....
It's been awhile since I had a chance to vid with anyone. This past spring, I made a Witchblade vid with
mlynne, and before that, made a Due South vid with Sandy, but the rest I've done on my own. Which is fine, I like vidding by myself okay, but I'm never sure if I'm meeting my own artistic standards and actually creating something worth watching, and the really bad thing about being a VCR vidder means I can't go back and re-edit to suit feedback without a lot of heartache and terror of cascade damage if I fuck up a clip. I also lately have been wondering about the viability of this. Most people in the Buffy community have no interest in vids that aren't online and the online people have consistently ignored or refused to include the tape-producing vidders even if we have URLs for web sites with more info, and the other fandoms I'm vidding for aren't necessarily any more viable. Plus, I'm working right now on a solo vid for a show nearly no one has seen, a British detective series, and then I wonder why I'm wasting my time, but then it's creating art... and then I get into circular ar guments with myself.But it's fun vidding with J, she hasn't vidded all year, and I'm really good at cracking whips behind people, and she and I have a similar work style. We started with the intent to do a Mag 7 vid, Chris and Vin, and then another for the whole gang with Josiah focus, but that song (Oysterband's Never Left) somehow ended up being perfect for Tombstone, which we were using as waste video (something digital vidders would know nothing about... ;-0 ). So we're over halfway through that one, I'm loving how it's going, but am so completely not sure about Night Vision, the Second Sight vid, because it's an insanely short song and I have a huge story to try to tell up front since it's such an unknown show to most, and then... my head blows up.
The effort, though, gets to me -- J and I've talked off and on about whether we can or should release our vids on a tape when we have so few right now, and I don't even think there's an audience for many of them. Aside from the issues of those digital vidders who marginalize or ignore tape producers, there's the issue of Really Obscure Fandoms or small or maligned fandoms (Westerns? Ew), and how for me at least, fandom is about sharing and contributing and I'm not sure that there's anyone to share or contribute *with* for these things beyond this really tiny handful of people I know. I've posted about this to the vidder list, about whether it's one hand clapping, and I never know anymore. I get easily discouraged by it -- and I'm sure if I was able to crank these out on a computer and slap 'em up on a big server, it wouldn't matter so much. But we can't, and so I question whether my Miss Psycho Pep-Squad approach to getting J to finish some vids with me is worth it.
Ehhhh. That's the kind of mood I'm in, I suppose. Writing is SO much easier for me, and even though with fanfic I almost never get feedback, I at least have a sense of participation and some connection with people through that, much higher than with vidding, anyway. It's a more solitary pursuit, but it's also one where when something's finished, I can post it, unlike a vid, which I can really do nothing with that won't cost a small fortune (you'd never send one vid to everyone who expressed interest; unless you were independently wealthy or had a really nice sugar daddy). But then again... man, I love vidding and just hanging around with someone, watching something come together. I adore what we're doing for Tombstone, and that should be reward enough... gah.
I'm in that blah place -- Birds of Prey has been cancelled, MDs is still off and probably won't return for long and I may never get any of the early eps on tape (no shower scene with Fichtner and Hannah!) and I really wanted to vid this show... and my birthday's in a couple days and I'm sooo unhappy about yet another year gone by with nothing to show for it. Feh.
OTOH, Sunday morning driving up to vid with J I saw two bald eagles circling high above Woodland Park Zoo, floating in a gorgeous clear sky, and the pedestrians and other motorists seemed oblivious of them. On the radio was a cover of one of my favorite Tim Finn songs, by Richard Thompson and some other guy with a lovely voice, doing a duet, and for at least that moment it reminded me that there are nice things in the world, especially when I look outside the fannish things that occasionally get me down....
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Hey I'd Watch It
Date: 2002-11-25 06:43 pm (UTC)yee-haw.
Re: Hey I'd Watch It
Date: 2002-11-25 09:19 pm (UTC)I think the thing is that this would be such a small collectin of vids, very top-heavy with me, me, me because I have been producing quite a lot, while my partner in crime hasn't, and I'm not sure that such a small collection of such obscure or disliked fandoms is worth the effort. On the other hand, everyone and their cat wants a copy of that Band of Brothers vid, and for that alone, I feel like it's worth doing. I might have to post on vidder just to see if there's any interest in a sort of beta test version, a .5 tape, if you will, of probably less than 10 vids. I mean, that just seems... awkward, but with Escapade coming up, getting the tapes to the tiny handful of folks like you who'd want it might be worth it, I dunno.
Life was easier when there were ten vidders and three fandoms, you know?