Vid rec: Shelter From The Storm

[bop_radar]

chaila43 is making vids I can watch again! \o/ (I still can't watch BSG. I just can't.)

Shelter From the Storm is a thoughtful Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles vid, focused on Ellison. It's not so much a character study as an exploration of his point of view and his relationship with Sarah, his search for answers to the big questions and the role

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[bop_radar]

Mmm, good point, and I definitely didn't mean to sound like I was disparaging your vid--rather the opposite. I wanted to convey how much the vid took us inside his point of view. We learnt about him (so in that way it IS a study) but from the inside--by identifying with him, seeing through his eyes. I think it's very successful at conveying Ellison's character, but it doesn't work on the viewer in an 'obvious' manner. Rather, at the end, you realise you now know who Ellison is. Also the gen ship focus meant we were really learning about him in that one relationship--which happens to be the most central defining one of his life though... make any sense?

I think someone else would call it a character study. I'm struggling myself with the issue of genres and how to define them at the moment. Apologies for any inadvertent confusion?

[bop_radar]

If there is one, I don't know what it is. ;) I think taking people 'inside' a character is the best kind of character study, but then I see other people who don't call these character studies and I get confused. :(

I am increasingly unsatisfied with the way vidding fandom defines vids, and I am just playing around with these things myself. I think a lot of times when people use categories to describe vids what they are really trying to do is indicate audience--who they think will get the most out of the vid. Personally I'm going to try and start distinguishing that more clearly in my recs: like, if I'm talking about audience, just SAY that. Even that is limiting, because I have a biased perspective, but describing the vid a bit will hopefully help. *has reccing angst*