thoughts on visual fanwork in two very different fandoms

[isiscolo]

I figure with everyone away at Vividcon I can post about my shameful little secret, which is: I don't really like (most) vids. I have been thinking about this a lot lately, because SGA has a lot of vidders and a lot of vids, and also because it has led me into some tangential thoughts about fanart and other visual derivatives

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[idlerat]

This is a great post, and I don't have all that much time to comment but I will say:

a) it's really exciting to me to have you going through this transition to media fandom at the same time. Because there are such deep differences. The importance of the visual medium and the actors just permeates it.

b) I never liked or saw the point of view of vids *at all*, and now I'm suddenly seeking them out- even recced one. And I had a similar thought: ie., that it is because I *am* a music person that it works. The song is a very powerful unit for me, if I like the song. I think you have to be very invested in the show, the fandom, and the song, all at once, for it to work- it may be the most heavily intertextual and immersive type of fanwork. But that vid I recced, for me, seemed like the show in song form. It moved me, and it gave me a new angle, I might almost say a new appreciation, for both a song and a show I already liked.

You don't have links for any of these vids? Is there a vid comm or archive for sga?

[isiscolo]

You can find Mamoru's work at her website. I will email you the URL of a copy of Danvers's vid: her bandwidth is problematic so hers are by request only, but I actually put a copy of this one on my site because I wanted fabularasa to see it. I would put up the URL publicly but I don't have her permission to distribute it.

There is a vid comm: atlantis_vids. I think there's an archive also.

Oh, and if you go to the comm, another vid that I didn't mention because it isn't quite a songvid in the way the others are, but which I enjoyed, is the "extended credits remix" which is basically a fan version of the (cut) credits for season 2.

[idlerat]

Thanks for the recs, links etc! I'm not sure I'll get as much out of the sga vids because not invested in the source- I kind of have to have a feeling for the song, too, at least somewhat.

[isiscolo]

And additionally: I also never saw the points and then, once I started in on SGA, started seeking them out. But I quickly got bored because I don't know most of these songs (and some of them I really, really dislike!).

And yeah, it's a whole different type of fandom, and as a very metaish analytical person I am driven to dissect my attraction to it.

[idlerat]

as a very metaish analytical person I am driven to dissect my attraction to it.

You and me both sistah. Though I've absorbed so much media fannish meta, both academic and otherwise, that part of my experience has been, oh! that's what they're talking about! :)