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I kin spel reel gud
May. 22nd, 2005 04:45 pmYou know, most years at Vividcon, the thing I worry about is my vids -- how they will be received, how they will look, whether people will laugh inappropriately or not laugh apprpropriately, whether I have any worth as a vidder and general human being. Like a lot of other vidders, it's the product and my role in the product that I worry about. Strangely, this year, after having just entered my vids for various shows, that's not my primary concern.
No, my teeth-grinding worry, the one I cannot get off my mind, is that someone will correct the spelling of my entry titles, or mock me in the shows because of the title cards.
I'm totally sanguine about the vids themselves (well, okay, as sanguine as a neurotic, high-maintenance, high-strung, control freak can be) because I'm really proud of all the vids I've done in the past few months and I think the one still left to complete will be okay, if I can do it right. But my premiere show entry, Polaroid Millenium, is spelled that way on the album, etc., and I just know that the most excellent booklet com will probably want to fix it, as so far everyone else I have talked about it with has done. And another entry for another show has as part of its title a slang phrase that the band spells differently than almost everyone else spells it when they write it phonetically. Even though the entry form warns about spelling, when you have pros working on your materials, they'll want to fix the things they know are possibly incorrect -- and truly, how many people in this world can spell their own names these days?
If the same folks who've worked on the booklet before work on it this year, of course they'd want to fix me! Because they are a) smart cookies and b) perfectionists. I know my title cards will make people who don't know this history grind their teeth -- someone already helpfully pointed out to me that I spelled Millenium wrong when they saw a beta version. I feel like I want to add another title card saying "and really, it's spelled that way on the song title." I can just hear people in the audience saying, "you know, okay vid, but she really screwed it up by spelling the title wrong."
Dammit, Jim, I'm a copyeditor, not a songwriter! I only reports them as I sees them. Of course, I realize I have control and can call these vids anything I damn well please, rather than just by the song title, but I like to make it easy on people if they want to find the song. Though "I spelled it this way for a reason" just doesn't have the same cachet, you know?
No, my teeth-grinding worry, the one I cannot get off my mind, is that someone will correct the spelling of my entry titles, or mock me in the shows because of the title cards.
I'm totally sanguine about the vids themselves (well, okay, as sanguine as a neurotic, high-maintenance, high-strung, control freak can be) because I'm really proud of all the vids I've done in the past few months and I think the one still left to complete will be okay, if I can do it right. But my premiere show entry, Polaroid Millenium, is spelled that way on the album, etc., and I just know that the most excellent booklet com will probably want to fix it, as so far everyone else I have talked about it with has done. And another entry for another show has as part of its title a slang phrase that the band spells differently than almost everyone else spells it when they write it phonetically. Even though the entry form warns about spelling, when you have pros working on your materials, they'll want to fix the things they know are possibly incorrect -- and truly, how many people in this world can spell their own names these days?
If the same folks who've worked on the booklet before work on it this year, of course they'd want to fix me! Because they are a) smart cookies and b) perfectionists. I know my title cards will make people who don't know this history grind their teeth -- someone already helpfully pointed out to me that I spelled Millenium wrong when they saw a beta version. I feel like I want to add another title card saying "and really, it's spelled that way on the song title." I can just hear people in the audience saying, "you know, okay vid, but she really screwed it up by spelling the title wrong."
Dammit, Jim, I'm a copyeditor, not a songwriter! I only reports them as I sees them. Of course, I realize I have control and can call these vids anything I damn well please, rather than just by the song title, but I like to make it easy on people if they want to find the song. Though "I spelled it this way for a reason" just doesn't have the same cachet, you know?
