You know, this is totally fascinating and also makes me realise how little of my conscious thought goes into these things. Apparently I make vids very instinctively through a process of clip and lyric association and general fumbling around and worrying about whether bits 'don't work' and then fixing them if I feel they're not doing what the vid's supposed to do, whatever that is. Sekritly I suspect that a lot of people probably work this way!
But I do think that I agree with the people talking about how these genres and styles are more venn diagram or waveform than firm boundries. But then...isn't that always the case with genres?
I would add a type of vid, though. Gen! I suppose this comes under 'Universe vids,' and actually I'm reasonably happy with that title, though gen vids can choose to concentrate on certain parts of the universe rather than the whole thing.
Though if we were going to discuss a specific type of vid, I'd love to discuss AU and crack vids, and when, exactly, a vid crosses the border to becoming a crack!vid.
This curiosity actually comes from the fact that a lot of my 'gen' vidding (and character vidding, and, screw it, my vidding in general) isn't simply an attempt to retell the story, but, as I suspect is the case with most other vidders, an attempt to say, "Here. This is what I see!"
And because the writers aren't me, that's often something that diverges to some degree from canon, even if just in terms of focus.
I think what I'm talking about is the difference between constructed reality vids and vids that 'tell deeper' (and what a wonderful phrase that is!) and how...I'm no longer sure where the boundries of those are. The same way I'm no longer sure where the boundries of silly crack and serious crack are. Sometimes it's obvious....sometimes not.
For instance, I don't consider myself to have ever really made an AU vid, but I did recently make a Sam/Kara/Scar the Cylon Raider OT3 vidlet from the Raider's POV. Obviously that's a humorous premise and an AU premise, but at the same time, I wanted to treat it deadly seriously and point out the parallels I really think exist between Kara and Sam and their various parallel encounters with these raiders as a metaphore for the cylon influence in both of their lives and destinies. So...yeah.
I think AU and constructed reality vids are so tricky to discuss because there are actually a bunch of different things going on with them, and a bunch of very different sub-genres; all of which are pretty impressive. There's the total departure from canon, which is technically impressive in terms of its construction of a new story, and then there's the sort where you adhere to, but completely reinterpret existing canon which is impressive in the way it teases out new stories and makes commentaries on the way canon exists at the moment under a more traditional interpretation. Which is, I think, what a lot of the best slash vids do.
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Date: 2008-10-12 12:01 pm (UTC)But I do think that I agree with the people talking about how these genres and styles are more venn diagram or waveform than firm boundries. But then...isn't that always the case with genres?
I would add a type of vid, though. Gen! I suppose this comes under 'Universe vids,' and actually I'm reasonably happy with that title, though gen vids can choose to concentrate on certain parts of the universe rather than the whole thing.
Though if we were going to discuss a specific type of vid, I'd love to discuss AU and crack vids, and when, exactly, a vid crosses the border to becoming a crack!vid.
This curiosity actually comes from the fact that a lot of my 'gen' vidding (and character vidding, and, screw it, my vidding in general) isn't simply an attempt to retell the story, but, as I suspect is the case with most other vidders, an attempt to say, "Here. This is what I see!"
And because the writers aren't me, that's often something that diverges to some degree from canon, even if just in terms of focus.
I think what I'm talking about is the difference between constructed reality vids and vids that 'tell deeper' (and what a wonderful phrase that is!) and how...I'm no longer sure where the boundries of those are. The same way I'm no longer sure where the boundries of silly crack and serious crack are. Sometimes it's obvious....sometimes not.
For instance, I don't consider myself to have ever really made an AU vid, but I did recently make a Sam/Kara/Scar the Cylon Raider OT3 vidlet from the Raider's POV. Obviously that's a humorous premise and an AU premise, but at the same time, I wanted to treat it deadly seriously and point out the parallels I really think exist between Kara and Sam and their various parallel encounters with these raiders as a metaphore for the cylon influence in both of their lives and destinies. So...yeah.
I think AU and constructed reality vids are so tricky to discuss because there are actually a bunch of different things going on with them, and a bunch of very different sub-genres; all of which are pretty impressive. There's the total departure from canon, which is technically impressive in terms of its construction of a new story, and then there's the sort where you adhere to, but completely reinterpret existing canon which is impressive in the way it teases out new stories and makes commentaries on the way canon exists at the moment under a more traditional interpretation. Which is, I think, what a lot of the best slash vids do.