Fascinating discussion! I love reading this as a non-vidder because there's none of that "uh-oh, maybe I should be doing that, but I'm not sure I could pull it off" feeling I sometimes get when reading about the fic-writing creative process.
-When I particularly admire a vid, I worry a lot about getting the interpretation "right," because as others were saying I don't want to write someone novel length feedback and tell them how brilliant they were to do something completely other than what they intended to to! So I worry about losing track of the argument of the vid when writing feedback to 'argument' or 'telling deeper' vids in particular. It helps if the vidder will tip her hand a bit early on, because if I don't detect an organizing structure fairly early on my mind will start to impose one. I think the best example is one of my now-favorite vids, that I initially thought I would absolutely hate. Not because the vidder did anything wrong, but because the character it was about + song choice + the author's notes made me expect something entirely different than it was. (It's called Jolene (http://nicole-anell.livejournal.com/84062.html) and it's about Cally and Cylonhood as the other woman"> I don't know whether I'd characterize it as an argument or as 'telling deeper' - probably both? I guess argument vids must always be exploring aspects of the show that are already present (so 'telling deeper') but not necessarily explicit - unless the argument is just non-canon based. (?)
I think my favorite vids are those which explore metaphor or otherwise cause me to look at various characters and events in ways I hadn't before. (Or vids about Kara - those don't have to be intellectual at all! ;) Like Hera Has Six Mommies, for example, which among other things paralleled Roslin and D'Anna - not characters I would have thought to compare, which made it all the better for me.
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Date: 2008-10-13 12:11 am (UTC)-When I particularly admire a vid, I worry a lot about getting the interpretation "right," because as others were saying I don't want to write someone novel length feedback and tell them how brilliant they were to do something completely other than what they intended to to! So I worry about losing track of the argument of the vid when writing feedback to 'argument' or 'telling deeper' vids in particular. It helps if the vidder will tip her hand a bit early on, because if I don't detect an organizing structure fairly early on my mind will start to impose one. I think the best example is one of my now-favorite vids, that I initially thought I would absolutely hate. Not because the vidder did anything wrong, but because the character it was about + song choice + the author's notes made me expect something entirely different than it was. (It's called Jolene (http://nicole-anell.livejournal.com/84062.html) and it's about Cally and Cylonhood as the other woman"> I don't know whether I'd characterize it as an argument or as 'telling deeper' - probably both? I guess argument vids must always be exploring aspects of the show that are already present (so 'telling deeper') but not necessarily explicit - unless the argument is just non-canon based. (?)
I think my favorite vids are those which explore metaphor or otherwise cause me to look at various characters and events in ways I hadn't before. (Or vids about Kara - those don't have to be intellectual at all! ;) Like Hera Has Six Mommies, for example, which among other things paralleled Roslin and D'Anna - not characters I would have thought to compare, which made it all the better for me.