Vidding Meme Continued

Hey! Still alive, no longer blonde and loving school, fellow students and even the professors.  I am a great big ball of kitten-fluff who would hug the entire world if I was, y'know, a huggy type person (and VVC doesn't count. IDEK what happens to me there).  I am doing so great right now, it should be illegal.  Right now the chief pain in my life is from the DC Reboot and pictures from the Superman Movie set.  It is... awful.  I can't lie. I've spent the last two days in a warm cocoon of Batslash Denial with a healthy side dose of Kon/Tim.

So, More Meme!!!

Hopefully my previous formatting issues from the first meme post won't reoccur. I apologize in advance if they do. Me and LJ - it just isn't working out, y'all.

11 – Genre – do you prefer making certain genres of vid? What kind do you tend to vid the most?

I like things to not be based in our-reality.  Magical/Supernatural elements or Surrealism or Comic Book Violence (not just limited to comic books!) are all things that will make me go "ooooh" when I see a source.  Ultimately, I have to really want to wallow in the visuals before I actually will get around to making a vid.  That's not to say I *only* want to vid these things - but they do get my attention. That and unicorns. Oh, and metaphorical polar bears.  I am ALL ABOUT that. Sometimes Clark Kent gives birth to a Catbaby and while I technically had nothing at all to do with that vid's creation, I like to think that somehow, a greater power in the universe read my heart and made it happen. That greater power, of course, is dualbunny, greensilver, sweetestdrain  and pipsqueaky.



12 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" vid of a favorite media source but set in a different fandom? (I.e., attempted to bring the 'feel' or 'mood' of one source to a different fandom, like the zombie Mary Poppins vid)

Yes, it was not successful but I haven't given up on the concept so I can't comment further. Mostly, though, I am a "clips to music" kinda vidder.

13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you vid (canon shots vs. using shots out of context; AU vs. canon)? Has vidding for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

This is a very  good question, as non-ironical usage of certain clips (like Spike and Buffy in the kitchen) will pull me out of a vid faster than Heroes kicked me out of that fandom.  I think it all depends on what the vid I am making is supposed to *do* -- I typically do not like to use scenes out of their original (or my read on the original subtext) context.  So, that scene where Spike is all up in Angel's bedroom and he is incorporeal and angsty and Angel is awake and in bed and shirtless and Spike keeps making these moves *toward* Angel and Angel just gets more and frustrated?  It is one of the great joys of vidding in that I can take that scene and show you EXACTLY how I read it in a vid.

I get kind of anal about context actually.  If I am making a vid and it is *solely* Lex's POV, than I have to decide "What and how much does Lex Luthor know at this point in the vid?"  because if it is something about Clark and Clark's powers that Lex can't know?  I can't show it.  The best workaround for this issue is to decide that Lex knows EVERYTHING and then to show your support for this theory.  This allowed me to use stuff in Bad Romance that happened when Lex wasn't ever around. I figured at the point his character is at as the POV person for the vid, there was not one single Clark-related thing that he didn't know about. This is possibly very fanon-based as rivkat writes some really powerful almost Omnipotent Lex. 

I remember getting a comment on a Lois vid "I Like You So Much Better When Your Naked" and the person was wondering why I didn't use the Clark/Lois sex scene from season 9, where Lois has traveled to an Alternate Reality and while there gets freaky with Clark in a barn, and the answer is just extremely simple to me: The Lois who is the viewpoint character in that vid? She didn't remember getting freaky in a barn with Clark because those memories were wiped. If I had included those scenes, it would have pulled me from my own vid.

Now, there is something to be said for recontextualizing scenes and by God, I think it can be done and it can be done well and if I wanted to I could have worked really hard and included Sex!Barn in "Naked."  But it ultimately wasn't worth it.  I did work hard to recontextualize Lex-Possessed-By-Zod in "Bad Romance" because holy shit, that stuff is iconic.  Even if it didn't work? I can still wave my Omnipotent Lex (as far as in this vid) wand and say "Lex remembers it all."

I don't make very many AU vids, if any, actually.  "Whatever" was in the AU show at VVC this year but Lum and I have always said that this is Angel, as we see him.

14 – Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever vidded higher than you're comfortable with? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the vid you're making is G-rated instead?

I have no issue with going where the vid needs to go. I would have been shocked if "On the Prowl"  had been G-rated, yes. I do like nudity. A lot. Gratuitously, even.  And violence. Mmmm, violence.  Just... leave Sam's fingernails alone.  We found my line and I am sticking to it.


15 – Warnings – What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a vid?

A lot of my vids are pretty fucking rapey and so I made a decision last year to start warning for that. I won't stop making these vids because they are a very important outlet for me and I still have things to say  -  but I don't want anyone to suffer harm from watching one of my vids, either. I was all sorts of torn up about making "Thistle & Weeds" and trying to water down some stuff and still be true to the character and her journey and it just... I decided "Imma warn for this vid" and I was able to then put in what needed to go where and be as explicit (but still I was pretty concious of not being explicit for explicit's sake - for once I did NOT use nudity gratuitously), so ultimately that felt freeing. 

I think the strangest thing I have had to warn for was incest.  In a Sam/Dean vid to a love song that was pretty much "Here have some wincest" --apparently that wasn't enough? IDEK. Back in the day (I have been vidding for almost a DECADE now, so wow I can say things like "back in the day") in some places, you had to warn for slash.  This led to my "Closer" Spike/Angel vid being rec'd on a TWOP board and the rec'er stating that you didn't *have* to read this vid as slash and I felt like such a complete failure.  I really wanted the viewer to take away the message that Angel wanted to fuck Spike like an animal, if nothing else from that vid.  I wanted to make sure that point came across.  Sigh.

16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?

I suck at blurbs.  I usually just grab a lyric and use that. If I don't do that then I end up using two or three different blurbs because I can never decide between something that adequately conveys the message of the vid and something that is funny.  I am terrible about throwing out my artistic vision for something that cracks me up.


17 – Titles – Do you try to use something different than the song? Why or why not?

Usually only if I vid with Luminosity because she is sooo much more creative than I am. Words and titles and blurbs are not my strength. This is why I vid.