I would have used a finished vid - but all mental processes have left me today.

Mine are on vacation. :)

I started thinking about what you meant and then I realized that maybe I didn't know what you meant. *g* In writing, I think of "show don't tell" as being the difference between giving us three pages of "Xander thought about how angry and frustrated he was, blah blah blah," and just having Xander curse and punch the wall. In vidding, does it mean choosing scenes that don't rely on dialogue to give them meaning? Or choosing the most efficient scenes to convey whatever it is that you want to convey? Scenes that are more accessible to people who haven't seen the source, are more meaningful to people who have, or are some combination of the two?