Mostly for my own reference, two interesting pieces of vidding/slash meta in the wake of
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Festivids has gone live!

I confess to having been overcome with disappointment when I discovered that the History Boys vid Tadzio, Tadzio wasn't actually set to Britten's Death in Venice. I may not have yet recovered.

Why aren't more vids set to classical? And no, I don't mean soundtrack music.

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By way of preparation for Yuletide, or possibly for my upcoming opera pilgrimage to Manchester, I have been watching The Innocents. It's yet another adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, this one made in 1961 and starring Deborah Kerr. Aside from the fact that the characters inexplicably fail to burst into operatic arias at moments of high emotion, ( Read more... )

So my parents are finally getting 1) a DVD player and 2) a subscription to Netflix. And we have a legal pad dedicated to listing all the things that we're planning to watch, in some order or other. To start with I have "Point of Order!" (about the Army-McCarthy hearings) and "The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit." So yes, documentaries. After that, I' ( Read more... )

Unless vidding tech gets a lot simpler, or I get a lot more patient, I'll never be an accomplished vidder. Still, I can dream...

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Usually we think of fanvidding as having a relatively straightforward geneology, starting with Kandy Fong's "Both Sides Now" and moving on from there. In the 80s there were distinct schools of vidding (or so Henry Jenkins tells us) but they all fit into the general female-dominated media-oriented sphere. Since then we have added things like anime ( Read more... )

So in discussion with shanith and rustica, I've been pondering the program for what I've been coming to think of as OxVidThing. (Much too small to be a con, much too cool to go without a name, and very few events could not be improved by comparison to a Viking moot.) Originally the plan was very simple... basically to have people take turns to nominate vids to ( Read more... )

Do you ever find yourself watching a really, really good vid and wishing that it had been made about your favourite fandom? So much, in fact, that you mentally re-do the vid, in the same style and all, so that it is about your fandom of choice? Because I do this all the time. In a sense I feel bad about it because it could be interpreted as somehow ( Read more... )

You thought that Youtube-style mash-ups using edited video footage in order to mock political figures were a thing of the twenty-first century, didn't you? Didn't you? While I'd assumed that this was the case, I've just discovered that they have been around since 1941 at least ( Read more... )

Working on my list of ten desert island vids got me thinking about what it is that I love about vids. For me, an important part of the appeal is the chance that they offer me to see through other people's eyes.

This train of musing was set off by the Star Trek: Enterprise music vids made by Red Fenix of TrekBBS. When I first saw them, back in ( Read more... )