Jealous of your mad skillz!

I just want to elaborate, on the little vidding challege over here that Dayln posted last night. (We cut each other tiny bits of songs to vid to in ways we're not used to.)

What Dayln and I talked about was basically that we already have certain styles of our own and at this point it's hard to experiment. (At least for me.) Because there's less of that "let's see how this looks, it doesn't have to be perfect" mentality that there is when you first start vidding in the first place.

After a while, the level of creativity becomes more intensified, I think. At the same time, it's no longer about what looks "cool" and what new effect or trick you can "show off" but about what suits the story and about what looks "best." This can mean different things for different people, obviously. And since we are creatures of habit, (and fear!) we tend to stick to what we know. Even moreso when we do have an established audience (even a small one) that kind of knows what to expect of us.

For me, it was just a personal challenge. When we made them, we had no intention of ever showing them to anyone but each other. It wasn't a competition either. I guess we're just not wired that way. Haha.

That being said, I think that overall, Dayln's is the most successful out of this little experiment. (You could say that the basic elements of what she was trying to do are already present in her vids, so it was less of a departure, clip choice and clever cutting are par for the course in any vid - or you could say that she's just a superior vidder, which I happen to believe and tell her so on a daily basis.) In fact I liked it so much I told her she had to post it, but she wouldn't let me get away with not posting mine, so there it is.

Mine (a Firefly vidlet) is kind of all over the place in terms of style. But that was kind of the point, just to try different things.

Callum and HCL girls, perk up your ears! Dayln's little vidlet is a hot Joe/Billy romp to twenty-something seconds of Jealous of Your Cigarette by Hawksley Workman. Run, don't walk!

Jealous of your mad skillz!

I just want to elaborate, on the little vidding challege over here that Dayln posted last night. (We cut each other tiny bits of songs to vid to in ways we're not used to.)

What Dayln and I talked about was basically that we already have certain styles of our own and at this point it's hard to experiment. (At least for me.) Because there's less of that "let's see how this looks, it doesn't have to be perfect" mentality that there is when you first start vidding in the first place.

After a while, the level of creativity becomes more intensified, I think. At the same time, it's no longer about what looks "cool" and what new effect or trick you can "show off" but about what suits the story and about what looks "best." This can mean different things for different people, obviously. And since we are creatures of habit, (and fear!) we tend to stick to what we know. Even moreso when we do have an established audience (even a small one) that kind of knows what to expect of us.

For me, it was just a personal challenge. When we made them, we had no intention of ever showing them to anyone but each other. It wasn't a competition either. I guess we're just not wired that way. Haha.

That being said, I think that overall, Dayln's is the most successful out of this little experiment. (You could say that the basic elements of what she was trying to do are already present in her vids, so it was less of a departure, clip choice and clever cutting are par for the course in any vid - or you could say that she's just a superior vidder, which I happen to believe and tell her so on a daily basis.) In fact I liked it so much I told her she had to post it, but she wouldn't let me get away with not posting mine, so there it is.

Mine (a Firefly vidlet) is kind of all over the place in terms of style. But that was kind of the point, just to try different things.

Callum and HCL girls, perk up your ears! Dayln's little vidlet is a hot Joe/Billy romp to twenty-something seconds of Jealous of Your Cigarette by Hawksley Workman. Run, don't walk!

putting the ick, in ficktion: why slashers hide

Snow day! I have been looking through del.icio.us for slash meta to help me brainstorm for ideas when we talk about why there is so little Battlestar slash in the fandom over at bsg_slashathon. I haven't found much that is particularly useful when it comes to that discussion, but I am finding plenty of other thought-provoking topics.

One is the following entry, The Slash Closet by fairestcat, written about a year and a half ago. While the entry is dated, I don't think the topic is.

In it, she talks about how slashers are a relatively closeted bunch, who tend to hide their fannish activities from the people in their lives. Not only that, but she talks about how it seems like the normal thing to do. The post opens up the floor for discussion as to why that is. Why the secrecy? Why is it seemingly the status quo?

My thoughts: ( putting the ick in ficktion )

putting the ick, in ficktion: why slashers hide

Snow day! I have been looking through del.icio.us for slash meta to help me brainstorm for ideas when we talk about why there is so little Battlestar slash in the fandom over at bsg_slashathon. I haven't found much that is particularly useful when it comes to that discussion, but I am finding plenty of other thought-provoking topics.

One is the following entry, The Slash Closet by fairestcat, written about a year and a half ago. While the entry is dated, I don't think the topic is.

In it, she talks about how slashers are a relatively closeted bunch, who tend to hide their fannish activities from the people in their lives. Not only that, but she talks about how it seems like the normal thing to do. The post opens up the floor for discussion as to why that is. Why the secrecy? Why is it seemingly the status quo?

My thoughts: ( putting the ick in ficktion )