I'm glad someone else thinks there should be more of this! We ended up with 4,000 words of outtakes (from a 7,000 word article) because I kept saying "We have to talk about— oh, wait, no we can't, we have to stay focused." I don't know yet whether all that stuff will become part of a larger project, or get thrown up on DW/LJ in chunks, or what, but yeah, there is a LOT more to do. It's so obvious to say "vids are embedded in fannish practices because they are produced and consumed by people existing in various complex relationships to those practices," but what does that actually look like? How does it work? And we need more people working on these questions, because I for one don't have all the necessary skill sets (to say nothing of the institutional support) that would be required to answer them fully.
Tumblr is something I'm going to have to look at much more closely going forward. I really had only the most basic grasp of Tumblr at the time when we were drafting this essay, and I know it shows; the essay would be better if we'd had time to track some of the major users and key tags, or even just track the circulation of a few key .gif sets, but there just wasn't time, especially given that any discussion of Tumblr was going to have to be fairly limited in terms of word count. But I totally agree that those .gif sets really resonate with vidding -- both the sets that simply take a moment out of time and say "Let's dwell on this for a while, shall we?" and the sets that add fan-created text to supply new dialogue and thus recontextualize, parody, or otherwise comment on scenes.
Vids are awesome. We both need to make more of them. ...though, wait, didn't you just make like seventeen Festivids? Including that adorable one of Maru that I could actually show to my mother, not that I would?
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Date: 2012-03-17 08:41 pm (UTC)Tumblr is something I'm going to have to look at much more closely going forward. I really had only the most basic grasp of Tumblr at the time when we were drafting this essay, and I know it shows; the essay would be better if we'd had time to track some of the major users and key tags, or even just track the circulation of a few key .gif sets, but there just wasn't time, especially given that any discussion of Tumblr was going to have to be fairly limited in terms of word count. But I totally agree that those .gif sets really resonate with vidding -- both the sets that simply take a moment out of time and say "Let's dwell on this for a while, shall we?" and the sets that add fan-created text to supply new dialogue and thus recontextualize, parody, or otherwise comment on scenes.
Vids are awesome. We both need to make more of them. ...though, wait, didn't you just make like seventeen Festivids? Including that adorable one of Maru that I could actually show to my mother, not that I would?