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Day 20: Do you ever get ideas inspired from other people's stories, vids, or art in the same fandom?Not really. I make the vids I want to see, and I make them because I haven't already seen them. The one exception is that I do often get inspired by other vidders' uses of special effects -- light, color, split frames, etc. -- or sometimes their ( Read more... )

Day 13: Do you prefer canon or fanon when you vid (canon shots vs. using shots out of context; AU vs. canon)? Has vidding for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

As a rule, I prefer canon -- this goes back to what I said yesterday about distilling source rather than remaking it. As
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Day 10: Pairings: Have you ever tried to vid a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

No. Well, not exactly. I wasn't personally all that into Fraser/RayK when I first started vidding them; I mean, I got it, I could see the slash, and I did like both characters, so it's not that I didn't like ( Read more... )

Day 7: Have you ever had a vid (of yours) change your opinion of a character?I think it would be overstating a bit to say that "Out Here" changed my opinion of Fraser; I liked Fraser and was fond of him, in the abstract at least, before I started vidding. But making the vid did strengthen my emotional attachment to him. I got pretty invested in him ( Read more... )

The interview I did for vid_commentary has been posted. I got lots of terrific questions, so feel free to go read my 7,500 words of rambling in response to them. Interviews with Cherryice, Fabella, and SDWolfpup will be posted over the next few days. (I have to admit I am especially looking forward to SDW's, since apparently we proved once again that we share a ( Read more... )

Okay, so we did these an embarrassingly long time ago and then I just... kind of forgot to mention them, because my brain is more of a steel sieve than a steel trap these days. But: vid commentaries!

First sisabet recorded a commentary on "Out Here" - which is now one of my favorite things in the history of ever, and I freely admit that I have watched it ( Read more... )

ghost_lingering had a couple of general questions about my vidding process, including the arcane and mysterious "clip databases" to which I occasionally refer.

( clip databases )

I've moved on to a new vid project (or rather three new vid projects), but I'm still sort of thinking about In the Mirror, and specifically about the vid as a companion piece to Out Here. So this post is my tying-up of assorted mental loose ends.

I think it was sisabet who first articulated to me the idea that In the Mirror is the flipside of Out Here; ( Read more... )

renenet and I spend a lot of time on the phone. Sometimes I take notes. Then I forget about the notes for months. Occasionally I remember to round them up and post them. This is one of those times.

Standard disclaimer applies.

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