I'll admit, I'm a little shy. Good vids are very powerful for me, and to take them apart without necessarily knowing authorial intent is... a scary place to go. But my brain goes there anyway. And didn't telesilla say something about not privileging certain forms of fannish output over others? (specifically referring to ficcing vs. reccing, but I think it applies here, too)
but we all interpret the vids in our heads, without knowing the authorial intent.
This is true and must be taken into account whenever producing meta.
I'm not sure what you mean here about privileging certain forms of fannish output
There was a kerfluffle a while back in which an author got pissed because kyuuketsukirui gave her story a two-star rating or something like that (which is, by the way, about average). Without getting into detail, let us say that this is pretty distinctly privileging writing over reviewing, as though one were inherently better than the other when both are actually recursive and reliant on something else (namely, the canon).
There are folks who think that meta is inherently less important than the original fannish work it's based on, when in fact meta is what's going on in our heads when we experience the original, thus making it rather an intrinsic part of the original work. But that's just my opinion
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2/5 is average. If you ever get a 4, you know you've blown her socks off. ^_^
Vids do have a lot of detail, but for me the details speak to the overall experience. A good vid, like a good fic, makes its details work for the story as a whole. So if I talk about the way Arthur and Uther turn away from each other at 1:00 in Red, I'm not just talking about how well it fits the glide of the singer's voice on the high notes - I'm actually referencing the way Arthur rebels against his father but fails to fully break free from the past Uther represents.
I hope that by writing this kind of meta, I will get people to think more deeply about vids. Or maybe that's hubris.
I found her meta was more about different styles and levels of meta within vids themselves, rather than about vids' construction and direct message, but that, too, is useful in that it provides a window into the vidder's choices and decision-making process that wouldn't be available in a fannish vacuum. So she has an excellent point about context that I'll have to keep in mind.
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I'll admit, I'm a little shy. Good vids are very powerful for me, and to take them apart without necessarily knowing authorial intent is... a scary place to go. But my brain goes there anyway. And didn't telesilla say something about not privileging certain forms of fannish output over others? (specifically referring to ficcing vs. reccing, but I think it applies here, too)
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This is true and must be taken into account whenever producing meta.
I'm not sure what you mean here about privileging certain forms of fannish output
There was a kerfluffle a while back in which an author got pissed because kyuuketsukirui gave her story a two-star rating or something like that (which is, by the way, about average). Without getting into detail, let us say that this is pretty distinctly privileging writing over reviewing, as though one were inherently better than the other when both are actually recursive and reliant on something else (namely, the canon).
There are folks who think that meta is inherently less important than the original fannish work it's based on, when in fact meta is what's going on in our heads when we experience the original, thus making it rather an intrinsic part of the original work. But that's just my opinion ( ... )
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Vids do have a lot of detail, but for me the details speak to the overall experience. A good vid, like a good fic, makes its details work for the story as a whole. So if I talk about the way Arthur and Uther turn away from each other at 1:00 in Red, I'm not just talking about how well it fits the glide of the singer's voice on the high notes - I'm actually referencing the way Arthur rebels against his father but fails to fully break free from the past Uther represents.
I hope that by writing this kind of meta, I will get people to think more deeply about vids. Or maybe that's hubris.
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I found her meta was more about different styles and levels of meta within vids themselves, rather than about vids' construction and direct message, but that, too, is useful in that it provides a window into the vidder's choices and decision-making process that wouldn't be available in a fannish vacuum. So she has an excellent point about context that I'll have to keep in mind.
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