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thuviaptarth) wrote2008-12-02 05:38 pm
thuviaptarth) wrote2008-12-02 05:38 pm
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I don't know what to do with myself now that I don't have a vid to go home to every night. Yuletide just isn't the same. Clearly, the thing to do is to start another vid. I have reviewed the source for random fandom #1 and decided I don't want to vid it after all, and started reviewing the source for random fandom #2 and decided I still like that vid idea. And I edited the audio. Editing hip hop is SO MUCH EASIER than editing alternative rock, guys! All my vid songs should be hip hop songs! Sadly, my imaginary vids playlist does not agree.
I am not as psyched about random fandom #2 vid as I was about "Low Red Moon," but I expect I will get pulled in when I am vidding, or anyhow that's how it works with writing. Mostly I am excited about Buffy plans (but I need to rewatch the series first) and Sarah Connor Chronicles plans (but I will wait for hiatus because trying to vid a show with canon that changes every week is too scary). It is so intimidating to think about vidding Buffy -- there's so much canon, and so many of the vids I imprinted on way back when were Buffy vids. I'm afraid everything I do will have other people's fingerprints all over it. I am afraid of that with Supernatural, too; in some ways, it was much, much easier to vid Ruby than it would have been to vid Sam or Dean. (And in other ways it was much, much harder. I could write an essay on how the visual narrative undercut half of what the dialog tried to establish about Ruby, if I thought anyone would care.) Even with a focus on Ruby, it was impossible to avoid using clips I've seen used dozens of times before.
I think there may be around three people in the world who care about random fandom #2 -- it's a Yuletide perenniel -- but fortunately I am pretty sure I can rope in at least one of them for beta.
I am not as psyched about random fandom #2 vid as I was about "Low Red Moon," but I expect I will get pulled in when I am vidding, or anyhow that's how it works with writing. Mostly I am excited about Buffy plans (but I need to rewatch the series first) and Sarah Connor Chronicles plans (but I will wait for hiatus because trying to vid a show with canon that changes every week is too scary). It is so intimidating to think about vidding Buffy -- there's so much canon, and so many of the vids I imprinted on way back when were Buffy vids. I'm afraid everything I do will have other people's fingerprints all over it. I am afraid of that with Supernatural, too; in some ways, it was much, much easier to vid Ruby than it would have been to vid Sam or Dean. (And in other ways it was much, much harder. I could write an essay on how the visual narrative undercut half of what the dialog tried to establish about Ruby, if I thought anyone would care.) Even with a focus on Ruby, it was impossible to avoid using clips I've seen used dozens of times before.
I think there may be around three people in the world who care about random fandom #2 -- it's a Yuletide perenniel -- but fortunately I am pretty sure I can rope in at least one of them for beta.
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Maybe I should make this its own post, after all.
And even when Zoe is the only person in the frame, she tends to be much farther from the camera than, say, River -- far, far fewer closeups, less-close closeups when there were closeups, and that sounds less major than it is when I phrase it like that, but it is!
Yes! There's one place that still makes me wince because I needed a close-up and it didn't exist. And I'm sure that happens with major characters, but seriously -- it was so much easier to find alternative close-ups for Sam.
I am so frustrated we never got a Zoe episode. I've heard people call "War Stories" her episode, and it boggles me. It's not a Zoe episode -- it's a Wash episode. It's a Wash episode in which he and Mal do male primate posturing and then bonding, even though Zoe refuses to act like an object of dispute. The comic "Better Days" should have been a Zoe comic, but it fails at character development, not to mention coherency.
Not enough Zoe, damn it.