I feel I'm very much a 'canon' vidder--I struggle really hard to include anything, even a mood or tone, that is not there in the original source. But that's not by choice! It just seems to be a creative limitation of mine... so I definitely admire the AU vidders. I always think they must have such a powerful personal vision of their vids.
I'm that way too. In fact in the current vid that I'm working on, it's a Starbuck one and I felt obliged to really work with her perspective/outlook with regards to her ships and it was surprisingly a little tough for me to want to include Kara/Sam scenes (even though I don't have anything against Sammy) and hard to resist just loading in the shippy K/L scenes.
Hmm, I seem to have gotten off the original point here actually and onto one about working within canon but still against your own personal vision of things.
But anyway, I too find structure really comforting but am greatly admirable of those who can do concept or mood vids and just in awe of those who pick out a very distinct AU storyline and make it so tangible. The reason why I loved the ferdalump one even though I'm not a Chlark shipper is because I watched before I'd seen S7 and for the first couple minutes of it I was seriously thinking to myself "Holy cow, they have the sex and Chloe gets pregnant in S7?!" It was just that convincing and realistic and any outside images used (if any) just meshed so well with the actual show look and feel that I had no idea.
I think that's a really interesting way to tell a story and one I'd never seen before (I never watched fanvids before this fandom and i haven't seen any AU BSG ones like that) and didn't even think was possible since vidding= recutting clips from the show to my (limited) knowledge. Never occurred to me to use outside sources (if she did that, I'd have to go back and look) or construct that kind of completely AU storyline, just the way you could in writing.
It's really hard from me to move away from sticking close to the story the lyrics are telling and since the music is usually what inspires the vid, perhaps that makes sense. But my next vid idea is much inspired by the many parallel images/scenes from the show and I'm interesting in tracing those parallels. I don't know what my big point will be or what music I would use (probably a ballad I think) so I will really need to stew over this one for a while.
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I'm that way too. In fact in the current vid that I'm working on, it's a Starbuck one and I felt obliged to really work with her perspective/outlook with regards to her ships and it was surprisingly a little tough for me to want to include Kara/Sam scenes (even though I don't have anything against Sammy) and hard to resist just loading in the shippy K/L scenes.
Hmm, I seem to have gotten off the original point here actually and onto one about working within canon but still against your own personal vision of things.
But anyway, I too find structure really comforting but am greatly admirable of those who can do concept or mood vids and just in awe of those who pick out a very distinct AU storyline and make it so tangible. The reason why I loved the ferdalump one even though I'm not a Chlark shipper is because I watched before I'd seen S7 and for the first couple minutes of it I was seriously thinking to myself "Holy cow, they have the sex and Chloe gets pregnant in S7?!" It was just that convincing and realistic and any outside images used (if any) just meshed so well with the actual show look and feel that I had no idea.
I think that's a really interesting way to tell a story and one I'd never seen before (I never watched fanvids before this fandom and i haven't seen any AU BSG ones like that) and didn't even think was possible since vidding= recutting clips from the show to my (limited) knowledge. Never occurred to me to use outside sources (if she did that, I'd have to go back and look) or construct that kind of completely AU storyline, just the way you could in writing.
It's really hard from me to move away from sticking close to the story the lyrics are telling and since the music is usually what inspires the vid, perhaps that makes sense. But my next vid idea is much inspired by the many parallel images/scenes from the show and I'm interesting in tracing those parallels. I don't know what my big point will be or what music I would use (probably a ballad I think) so I will really need to stew over this one for a while.