It might help to disengage it mentally from fannishness too. Like you're not making a vid for Battlestar Galactica, but trying to tell a different story using that footage.
This has become increasingly true for me. I used to vid exclusively from a place of fannish passion, but now I'd say that at least half of the time I'm looking at the show as fodder for my ideas. I still love the shows or I wouldn't vid them, but I tend to be waaaaay more intellectual and waaaaay less emotional in my process than I used to be. Fannish love isn't my primary motivator anymore; the urge to tell a new story or explore an interesting theme is what's driving me. The show is raw material; the vid is me.
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Date: 2009-11-08 04:56 pm (UTC)This has become increasingly true for me. I used to vid exclusively from a place of fannish passion, but now I'd say that at least half of the time I'm looking at the show as fodder for my ideas. I still love the shows or I wouldn't vid them, but I tend to be waaaaay more intellectual and waaaaay less emotional in my process than I used to be. Fannish love isn't my primary motivator anymore; the urge to tell a new story or explore an interesting theme is what's driving me. The show is raw material; the vid is me.