REVELCon 2019: The slash vid discussion
Sunday at 9 a.m.: The slash vid discussion panel
We started off with Jan's choice, "Tainted Love" by the Media Cannibals, a comic look at a very unhealthy Mulder/Krycek dynamic. A real crowd-pleaser! Jan stated that one of the elements that makes a vid like this one work is condensation; that is, the vidders have compiled moments that happened very briefly here and there over the course of years, and put them together in a single vid to provide an intensified view of the relationship. I thought that was a cool observation!
Next we watched a vid that I adore and haven't seen in quite a while: Kat-byrd's Pros vid "I Know You're Out There Somewhere." The vid uses clips from other sources in which Martin Shaw appeared later in life to make it look as if an older Doyle has lost touch with Bodie and is trying to find him again, while clips from the original Professionals series look like flashbacks in the older Doyle's reminiscences. This approach casts a whole different light on the Pros clips, making them seem nostalgic and even bittersweet, given the feelings of longing and loneliness that permeate the older-Doyle scenes. Audience members pointed out the parallels between the Pros clips and the later ones, with props like coffee cups and actions like shaving connecting the past and present. It's one of those vids that gets even better with rewatching, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing it again and hearing people share their insights.
I forget who picked Kat's vid, but Kat herself brought someone else's vid, a very clever Starsky/Hutch vid to the song "Something To Talk About." Now, that song was vidded to death--or so I thought--back in the 90's, but this version brought something new! The vidder used a technique of freezing S&H for just a moment in particularly suggestive poses and then making the scene black & white, as if to suggest that someone had just snapped a photograph, often preceded by clips of people in the series taking pictures, as if they were paparazzi or voyeurs (or, as I said, us!). Lots of fun, and it really showcased how incredibly slashy the Starsky & Hutch TV show is. Someone--I forget who--told a great anecdote: when the vid was shown at an earlier convention, a fan who had never actually seen the show asked how on earth the vidder managed to manipulate the footage to get the guys so close together so often, and was astonished to learn that she was looking at the actual source!
I showed the ones I had brought next, which were both Highlander vids by Central Consortium. People wanted to see the dark and twisted one first, so I showed the Kronos/Methos vid to "Closer." There's a more famous constructed-reality Kirk/Spock to this song, but what really strikes me about this vid is how straightforward it is: you don't have to jump very far to see the relationship between Kronos and Methos in this light. Kat-byrd commented that she liked how the vid featured a relationship beween grownups rather than cute teens. The second one I brought, which is comical, is more subversive; the vidder uses Weird Al's song "I Am So Sick of You" to express her take on the relationship between Methos and Duncan, which is pretty much an anti-relationship take. Since Duncan/Methos was a popular pairing in the fandom, the song ran very much against the popular current at the time. I also find it interesting that she uses some of the same clips you see in Duncan/Methos vids, but they come across very differently in the different context.
I'm still having trouble remembering who brought what, but the next vid, which I think Jamie (?) picked, was the hilarious Media Cannibals Sentinel vid showing Jim being totally under Blair's thumb, "The Man Song." (I was gonna say "Blair-whipped," as in "pussywhipped," but I didn't want to give the wrong impression.)
Finally, we watched the remarkable Sherlock vid by Karliene, who wrote and sang the lovely, heart-aching song as well as constructing the vid, "I Never Knew I Had a Heart Until it Beat for you." I know I've mentioned it before in a vid report--it has an amazing look to it, as if we're looking at a filmstrip that shifts from one frame to another, moving up and down before each frame settles into focus. Someone mentioned that the movement from one frame of the filmstrip to another reminded them of the rhythm of a beating heart, which fits perfectly with the theme of the song.
This entry was originally posted at https://amedia.dreamwidth.org/415050.html.
We started off with Jan's choice, "Tainted Love" by the Media Cannibals, a comic look at a very unhealthy Mulder/Krycek dynamic. A real crowd-pleaser! Jan stated that one of the elements that makes a vid like this one work is condensation; that is, the vidders have compiled moments that happened very briefly here and there over the course of years, and put them together in a single vid to provide an intensified view of the relationship. I thought that was a cool observation!
Next we watched a vid that I adore and haven't seen in quite a while: Kat-byrd's Pros vid "I Know You're Out There Somewhere." The vid uses clips from other sources in which Martin Shaw appeared later in life to make it look as if an older Doyle has lost touch with Bodie and is trying to find him again, while clips from the original Professionals series look like flashbacks in the older Doyle's reminiscences. This approach casts a whole different light on the Pros clips, making them seem nostalgic and even bittersweet, given the feelings of longing and loneliness that permeate the older-Doyle scenes. Audience members pointed out the parallels between the Pros clips and the later ones, with props like coffee cups and actions like shaving connecting the past and present. It's one of those vids that gets even better with rewatching, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing it again and hearing people share their insights.
I forget who picked Kat's vid, but Kat herself brought someone else's vid, a very clever Starsky/Hutch vid to the song "Something To Talk About." Now, that song was vidded to death--or so I thought--back in the 90's, but this version brought something new! The vidder used a technique of freezing S&H for just a moment in particularly suggestive poses and then making the scene black & white, as if to suggest that someone had just snapped a photograph, often preceded by clips of people in the series taking pictures, as if they were paparazzi or voyeurs (or, as I said, us!). Lots of fun, and it really showcased how incredibly slashy the Starsky & Hutch TV show is. Someone--I forget who--told a great anecdote: when the vid was shown at an earlier convention, a fan who had never actually seen the show asked how on earth the vidder managed to manipulate the footage to get the guys so close together so often, and was astonished to learn that she was looking at the actual source!
I showed the ones I had brought next, which were both Highlander vids by Central Consortium. People wanted to see the dark and twisted one first, so I showed the Kronos/Methos vid to "Closer." There's a more famous constructed-reality Kirk/Spock to this song, but what really strikes me about this vid is how straightforward it is: you don't have to jump very far to see the relationship between Kronos and Methos in this light. Kat-byrd commented that she liked how the vid featured a relationship beween grownups rather than cute teens. The second one I brought, which is comical, is more subversive; the vidder uses Weird Al's song "I Am So Sick of You" to express her take on the relationship between Methos and Duncan, which is pretty much an anti-relationship take. Since Duncan/Methos was a popular pairing in the fandom, the song ran very much against the popular current at the time. I also find it interesting that she uses some of the same clips you see in Duncan/Methos vids, but they come across very differently in the different context.
I'm still having trouble remembering who brought what, but the next vid, which I think Jamie (?) picked, was the hilarious Media Cannibals Sentinel vid showing Jim being totally under Blair's thumb, "The Man Song." (I was gonna say "Blair-whipped," as in "pussywhipped," but I didn't want to give the wrong impression.)
Finally, we watched the remarkable Sherlock vid by Karliene, who wrote and sang the lovely, heart-aching song as well as constructing the vid, "I Never Knew I Had a Heart Until it Beat for you." I know I've mentioned it before in a vid report--it has an amazing look to it, as if we're looking at a filmstrip that shifts from one frame to another, moving up and down before each frame settles into focus. Someone mentioned that the movement from one frame of the filmstrip to another reminded them of the rhythm of a beating heart, which fits perfectly with the theme of the song.
This entry was originally posted at https://amedia.dreamwidth.org/415050.html.