I ♥ lamardeuse's vid, and I also ♥ your and Joshua's essay. It's so neat to see y'all outlining and exploring the processes of vid-watching, the ways in which an educated viewer (by which I mean, a viewer familiar with the fandom, fannish tropes, fannish context) brings all of these extra lenses to bear on the vids that s/he watches.
And also, I love your point about downplaying 'ship vids and why we should resist that. I'm guilty of that myself, I think, at least in terms of how I think about my own work in this space -- I love a good 'ship vid and yet when I think about what I want to bring to VVC, my first thought is, "Well, I don't have anything interesting or novel to say about the Doctor and his companions, so I can't vid Doctor Who" -- as though the kind of character-focused / relationship-focused / squee-focused vid that I love to watch (and love to make!) is somehow less valid or less valuable than the technically-fabulous, intellectually-intriguing kinds of things we sometimes see at that con.
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Date: 2012-03-16 04:43 pm (UTC)And also, I love your point about downplaying 'ship vids and why we should resist that. I'm guilty of that myself, I think, at least in terms of how I think about my own work in this space -- I love a good 'ship vid and yet when I think about what I want to bring to VVC, my first thought is, "Well, I don't have anything interesting or novel to say about the Doctor and his companions, so I can't vid Doctor Who" -- as though the kind of character-focused / relationship-focused / squee-focused vid that I love to watch (and love to make!) is somehow less valid or less valuable than the technically-fabulous, intellectually-intriguing kinds of things we sometimes see at that con.
Anyway. ♥!