The AMV Feedback Project: Reaching New Heights of Obsession!

[thefourthvine]

My annual bout of vid-meta came on early this year. Also, it's another feedback project. And, further, it's on a topic that's not going to be of great interest to many of you.

There is a specific person to blame for this, and that person is not me. I'm a totally innocent party, here. (As you will see, I fought this whole thing like - well, kind

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[thefourthvine]

Fandom? Medium? Who cares. It's meta

*nods*

Seriously, TFV, this was amazing and informative and I just had my first experience where I ws randomly rambling on imeem about an anime vid and how inexperienced I felt to even talk about it...and the vidder commented back.

Ooo. Can you link me to the rambling in question? I'm curious, because - yeah, this is a topic that interests me.

And that's in large because that's a problem I, at least, tend to have with all vids. I mean, I don't have the language to discuss what they're doing, the knowledge or skill to interact with the vid at the level the vidder does. And for me, you know, I want to get technical and specific, to deal with vids the same way I deal with fan fiction (or anything else written).

The formula that gets me through all vid feedback, though, is as follows:

What is my emotional and mental reaction to this vid? (Show your work.)
Why? (Incomplete answers and guesses perfectly acceptable.)

If I watch a vid three times (or more - sometimes a lot more) with those two questions in mind, it kind of circumvents the not-knowing-the-language and not-knowing-the-tech problem, because I'm firmly in audience space. After all, I'm not leaving feedback to beta (and experience has shown that I can't beta vids); I'm leaving feedback so the vidder can see an audience reaction. And I am as qualified to be a member of the audience - and to talk about the experience of being in the audience - as, say, Laura Shapiro. And so are you.

It's just, those of us who are meta-obsessed expect to interact with everything, analyze everything, at a certain level: as critics, as theorists, as Thinkers of Thinky Thoughts. And - well, if you watch enough vids, you'll probably reach that level, but in the meantime, you might as well hang out in the cheap seats with me. (And I'll be in the cheap seats forever, so, hey, as long as you're here being a plebeian knowledge-less audience member, we can share popcorn!)