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linzeestyleOne of the things I miss the most about "old school" fandom is meta: long posts about content, or craft, dissecting primary or secondary materials. The 'old school' vidding fandom loved meta, and one of the tragedies of LJ being somewhere in Russia now is the sheer number of posts we've lost in which the artist themselves talks about their work: pieces that were in some cases so well-sourced and thought out as to have genuinely enriched the videos themselves.
But I also think about what I learned as a baby vidder, through those essays. Small details, things that don't quite make it to "how-tos," or "must-knows:" hitting a beat by cutting right before it, for instance, or the dos and don'ts of "talky-face." I knew about deinterlacing a decade before Tom Cruise sent out a very important message. And I still can't articulate to you why certain colors fit or clash with moods and tempos, but thanks to years of watchingluminosity 's videos and reading about her process via in-depth posts, I can sure as hell feel it. Most of what I've learned, really learned in fandom has come out of its intimate moments: the blog-posts and navel-gazing and conversations that aren't written for mass consumption in the way, say, a How To guide or Fanlore entry might be. I think a lot of that has been lost in the transfer over to Tumblr, but also, in fandom's gradual shift in focus from creating an insular community (often as a way to guard against 'tptb') to building one based on interaction with TPTB.
That isn't my point though. I was going to post a video.
Anyway, eventually my goal is to post everything I have made in 2018: a LinZine, if you will (you have no choice, so you will). I'm starting off with a Dean/Castiel music video I premiered at Vividcon in August (was it August? It was August, right? How long is this year?).
This video is a sort-of remix to a video I made while I was in grad school and thus Out Of Fandom, Gold Trans-Am, which I am proud of but desperately needs a revision. Like GTA, Boots came out of my continued interest in how Dean's sexuality is coded -- here, in regards to Castiel specifically, as I challenged myself to use a song I thought "unviddable" for the source material.
I gotta say, I was really surprised how easily this worked. I shouldn't have been: my key fear was that the song is sexy, and that the material needed to be sexy, but despite Dean and Castiel wearing five layers of clothing each at any given time, a surprising number of scenes between them are...intimate. Even more so, possessive . Supernatural is good at nothing if not photogenically throwing around Jensen Ackles while Castiel looks Upset. One of my favorite things about vidding is that it's beyond argument: I'm not telling you to feel anything; I'm just showing you what's behind the camera.
Like many vids I am going to post, this was made in irritation. I've long said spite drives 30% of fandom, and that's possibly true only for me, but between this and NLYTM (forthcoming) I had some issues to work out somewhere around season 12-13 and while I don't think it "shows" in a straightforward sense, it certainly informs the material I was working with.
As you'll see, I vidded Rob Thomas. I broke a rule, y'all.
But I also think about what I learned as a baby vidder, through those essays. Small details, things that don't quite make it to "how-tos," or "must-knows:" hitting a beat by cutting right before it, for instance, or the dos and don'ts of "talky-face." I knew about deinterlacing a decade before Tom Cruise sent out a very important message. And I still can't articulate to you why certain colors fit or clash with moods and tempos, but thanks to years of watching
luminosity 's videos and reading about her process via in-depth posts, I can sure as hell feel it. Most of what I've learned, really learned in fandom has come out of its intimate moments: the blog-posts and navel-gazing and conversations that aren't written for mass consumption in the way, say, a How To guide or Fanlore entry might be. I think a lot of that has been lost in the transfer over to Tumblr, but also, in fandom's gradual shift in focus from creating an insular community (often as a way to guard against 'tptb') to building one based on interaction with TPTB.That isn't my point though. I was going to post a video.
Anyway, eventually my goal is to post everything I have made in 2018: a LinZine, if you will (you have no choice, so you will). I'm starting off with a Dean/Castiel music video I premiered at Vividcon in August (was it August? It was August, right? How long is this year?).
This video is a sort-of remix to a video I made while I was in grad school and thus Out Of Fandom, Gold Trans-Am, which I am proud of but desperately needs a revision. Like GTA, Boots came out of my continued interest in how Dean's sexuality is coded -- here, in regards to Castiel specifically, as I challenged myself to use a song I thought "unviddable" for the source material.
I gotta say, I was really surprised how easily this worked. I shouldn't have been: my key fear was that the song is sexy, and that the material needed to be sexy, but despite Dean and Castiel wearing five layers of clothing each at any given time, a surprising number of scenes between them are...intimate. Even more so, possessive . Supernatural is good at nothing if not photogenically throwing around Jensen Ackles while Castiel looks Upset. One of my favorite things about vidding is that it's beyond argument: I'm not telling you to feel anything; I'm just showing you what's behind the camera.
Like many vids I am going to post, this was made in irritation. I've long said spite drives 30% of fandom, and that's possibly true only for me, but between this and NLYTM (forthcoming) I had some issues to work out somewhere around season 12-13 and while I don't think it "shows" in a straightforward sense, it certainly informs the material I was working with.
As you'll see, I vidded Rob Thomas. I broke a rule, y'all.
