I need to have something I want to explore with vidding, otherwise I can see how you feel a bit adrift Yeah. I have a number of things I *kind of* want to explore but nothing that is really really pulling me, if that makes sense. And there's a lot of dithering around not really vidding as a consequence. When I started out it was far more straight forward--one big idea followed another and they just seemed to arise naturally from being into different things. I think I need to be a little less perfectionist about always wanting to be completely swept away and highly motivated with what I'm making, because like you say just the practice of vidding itself can lead to other ideas.
I must admit I opened your yearly meme and was so amused at how it was the polar opposite of mine! You made a TON of vids! :)
nobody can validate your vidding on a large scale and it’s futile to try for that? Totally. I think that's one area I'm pretty grounded about--it was a surprise to find I'd started caring at all about what other people think. I think it only really happened because I lost my personal motivation there for a while and so started looking for external motivation instead.
some seriously awesome vids and vidders get pretty low amounts of feedback Definitely! I think getting a lot of comments is influenced by many other things, not just the quality of the vid.
I'm definitely going to post to comms from now on. I'm really glad I broke down that block. For Capital G it was cool to get direct feedback from the people most squeeful about that particular ship (even though I did not know them).
As for DLZ, it's not really that I feel it wasn't appreciated, just that other vids of mine get way more comments, so it's not at all proportional to the amount of work I've put into it. Really I just nominated it because *I'm* really proud of it and very satisfied with the audience it received, but it's still pretty low profile compared to some other vids of mine.
I can't imagine *not* having made the post and it was something I really needed to do personally so I don't regret it, but looking back it was a really tough thing to do and and it was a hard few weeks after it. It definitely helps to know it helped other people! A few things other people said to me during that time really did shift things for me too and so I hope soon to be in that desirable place of just not stressing about that community stuff, spending time with the people who actually care about me, and actually VIDDING.
It is TOTALLY RATIONAL! Hee! That's really great to hear--I would love to meet you and it would be SO MUCH fun in the UK! It would have the air of added cosmopolitanness if we had more folks flying in from overseas. :) I'm all for it! I know i appear inactive about it right now but the next couple of weeks are ear-marked for some serious planning of both Aus con and UK con. Stay tuned! :)
Yeah. I have a number of things I *kind of* want to explore but nothing that is really really pulling me, if that makes sense. And there's a lot of dithering around not really vidding as a consequence. When I started out it was far more straight forward--one big idea followed another and they just seemed to arise naturally from being into different things. I think I need to be a little less perfectionist about always wanting to be completely swept away and highly motivated with what I'm making, because like you say just the practice of vidding itself can lead to other ideas.
I must admit I opened your yearly meme and was so amused at how it was the polar opposite of mine! You made a TON of vids! :)
nobody can validate your vidding on a large scale and it’s futile to try for that?
Totally. I think that's one area I'm pretty grounded about--it was a surprise to find I'd started caring at all about what other people think. I think it only really happened because I lost my personal motivation there for a while and so started looking for external motivation instead.
some seriously awesome vids and vidders get pretty low amounts of feedback
Definitely! I think getting a lot of comments is influenced by many other things, not just the quality of the vid.
I'm definitely going to post to comms from now on. I'm really glad I broke down that block. For Capital G it was cool to get direct feedback from the people most squeeful about that particular ship (even though I did not know them).
As for DLZ, it's not really that I feel it wasn't appreciated, just that other vids of mine get way more comments, so it's not at all proportional to the amount of work I've put into it. Really I just nominated it because *I'm* really proud of it and very satisfied with the audience it received, but it's still pretty low profile compared to some other vids of mine.
I can't imagine *not* having made the post and it was something I really needed to do personally so I don't regret it, but looking back it was a really tough thing to do and and it was a hard few weeks after it. It definitely helps to know it helped other people! A few things other people said to me during that time really did shift things for me too and so I hope soon to be in that desirable place of just not stressing about that community stuff, spending time with the people who actually care about me, and actually VIDDING.
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I'm not actually upset about DLZ, at ALL. It's just objectively less noticed. I don't care. I'm fine with it flying under the radar, actually. ;)
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It is TOTALLY RATIONAL! Hee! That's really great to hear--I would love to meet you and it would be SO MUCH fun in the UK! It would have the air of added cosmopolitanness if we had more folks flying in from overseas. :) I'm all for it! I know i appear inactive about it right now but the next couple of weeks are ear-marked for some serious planning of both Aus con and UK con. Stay tuned! :)
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