Oh, bother
Aug. 29th, 2005 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynAt VVC, I had a conversation with a friend about something she'd mentioned to me before the con: she had had a vid idea that had been recently done by someone else, in the same fandom, but with slight differences -- a different version of the song and a different pairing. But she and this vidder are both active in the community, and she didn't want to be the bad guy by doing the same song, similar situation for the vid, in a tight fannish community -- and do it right. Because the vidder had done a bad job (and I am familiar with this other vidder's work in some of my own fandoms, so I know exactly what my friend meant), and my friend is an excellent vidder who would do the song and the fandom justice.
I was all rah-rah do the vid, because in the first place, the other vidder churns out songvids like a vending machine, so no one would be likely to remember; second, I feel like anymore these days songs get reused and done to the same fandoms, pairings, whatever, and few people notice or care -- not like in the olden days, when you wouldn't touch a song someone else had used unless you had permission, because there were far, far fewer vidders and the community was much more tightly knit, even across fandoms. She was still doubtful about doing the vid, and I left hoping she would, because I understood how she felt but I wanted to see her take on the song, knowing it would be good.
Now, though, I find myself in a similar boat, except without some of the extra baggage. I'm not in this fandom's community anymore, and it's kind of a... not dead fandom, but definitely not a thriving one anymore. This vidder is brand new, and she used the exact song I wanted to do, but very poorly, I think; she has a decent visual style but doesn't know how to edit clips (for god's sake, the endless clips and talking! Aiiieeee!), and she didn't edit the song, which goes on forfuckingever and needs to cut off at the end of the vocals. Vids? Should never ever use guitar solos, especially at the end.
But I have thought about this vid off and on for quite a few years now, and had even been contemplating doing it for VVC next year, since I've resigned myself to being a "breather" between all the cool fast-is-the-new-black vids by all the cool vidders. This would be a nice safe solid decent vid, I think. But I feel funny doing it -- it's not an unusual song, and people would probably remember this person posting about it in all the usual places. It would seem like I stole the idea from her, or that I was trying to show the other vidder how to do it "right." Or something.
I normally have no problems being rude and doing what I want to, but I'm stumped about what to do. I wouldn't work on it right away, but it's always been there, waiting to be made... and now someone has made it, only not even close to the way I think the song should be vidded. What to do, what to do?
I was all rah-rah do the vid, because in the first place, the other vidder churns out songvids like a vending machine, so no one would be likely to remember; second, I feel like anymore these days songs get reused and done to the same fandoms, pairings, whatever, and few people notice or care -- not like in the olden days, when you wouldn't touch a song someone else had used unless you had permission, because there were far, far fewer vidders and the community was much more tightly knit, even across fandoms. She was still doubtful about doing the vid, and I left hoping she would, because I understood how she felt but I wanted to see her take on the song, knowing it would be good.
Now, though, I find myself in a similar boat, except without some of the extra baggage. I'm not in this fandom's community anymore, and it's kind of a... not dead fandom, but definitely not a thriving one anymore. This vidder is brand new, and she used the exact song I wanted to do, but very poorly, I think; she has a decent visual style but doesn't know how to edit clips (for god's sake, the endless clips and talking! Aiiieeee!), and she didn't edit the song, which goes on forfuckingever and needs to cut off at the end of the vocals. Vids? Should never ever use guitar solos, especially at the end.
But I have thought about this vid off and on for quite a few years now, and had even been contemplating doing it for VVC next year, since I've resigned myself to being a "breather" between all the cool fast-is-the-new-black vids by all the cool vidders. This would be a nice safe solid decent vid, I think. But I feel funny doing it -- it's not an unusual song, and people would probably remember this person posting about it in all the usual places. It would seem like I stole the idea from her, or that I was trying to show the other vidder how to do it "right." Or something.
I normally have no problems being rude and doing what I want to, but I'm stumped about what to do. I wouldn't work on it right away, but it's always been there, waiting to be made... and now someone has made it, only not even close to the way I think the song should be vidded. What to do, what to do?
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Date: 2005-08-29 05:23 pm (UTC)Let a little time elapse before posting it (but that just gives you more time to perfect it *g*) then post without apologies. It's not like you saw the other vid and thought 'Ugh! That's not the way! This is the way!' You've had your own ideas on it for quite some time. If you want to put a little note about 'This has been percolating in my brain since the great gopher invasion of 2000' well fine, but never let a good vid go unvidded because another vidder pre-vidded you. Or something.
Oy vey!
Shutting up now and searching for caffeine.
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Date: 2005-08-30 04:21 am (UTC)