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30 Days of Vidding
Day 1 – How did you first get into vidding, and what was the first fandom you vidded? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?
I think like most vidders I tended to vid my favorite shows in my head long before I knew what vidding was. So when I discovered my first XF fanvid my instant reaction was, 'Of course, people are doing this - ' followed shortly by the thought, 'I want to do that too.' But the whole technical aspect was too daunting for me, so I mainly watched these little 5MB vids that took twenty minutes to download. I started further investigation into the whole thing, when I had a flat rate and one friend was kind enough to point me towards Adobe Premiere 6.0. I opened the program look around for twenty minutes and then closed it for months. When I decided to try again, figuring the basics out took some time, by then I was in the AtS/BtVS fandom and had some clips on my hard drive.
The result was Runaway - a Spike/Drusilla/Angel vid with a total of 8 different scenes set to Linkin Park and released in January 2002. It's gloriously bad and encoded in realmedia, so that I can cop out of showing it again, because even I had to search for the alternative codec today. But I still remember the feeling of accomplishment I had, when I first watched scenes I chose set to music I loved. When the timing of some cuts hit right, I was giddy. The thrill was great - all these possibilities, so when the vid was finished, I instantly started the next one.
So the first fandom I vidded was AtS/BtVS and what pulled me in was the way technology changed. My TXF eps were on vhs tape, I wasn't motivated enough or had the equipment to get them on my hard drive. With faster connections - I think 56 k - and a flat rate and the whole internet getting about sharing, it was becoming easier to get quality clips or even eps. DVDs were becoming cheaper too, so what pulled me into vidding AtS was timing. Two years earlier The X Files would have been my starter vidding fandom, ten years earlier Star Trek: TNG, before that Robin of Sherwood. But in January 2002 I just discovered Angel the Series and I loved Cordelia and Angel wasn't too hard on the eyes either. And then I discovered their back story on BtVS and I was hooked and more importantly? Ready to go.
( 30 Days of Vidding Meme )
30 Days of Vidding
Day 1 – How did you first get into vidding, and what was the first fandom you vidded? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?
I think like most vidders I tended to vid my favorite shows in my head long before I knew what vidding was. So when I discovered my first XF fanvid my instant reaction was, 'Of course, people are doing this - ' followed shortly by the thought, 'I want to do that too.' But the whole technical aspect was too daunting for me, so I mainly watched these little 5MB vids that took twenty minutes to download. I started further investigation into the whole thing, when I had a flat rate and one friend was kind enough to point me towards Adobe Premiere 6.0. I opened the program look around for twenty minutes and then closed it for months. When I decided to try again, figuring the basics out took some time, by then I was in the AtS/BtVS fandom and had some clips on my hard drive.
The result was Runaway - a Spike/Drusilla/Angel vid with a total of 8 different scenes set to Linkin Park and released in January 2002. It's gloriously bad and encoded in realmedia, so that I can cop out of showing it again, because even I had to search for the alternative codec today. But I still remember the feeling of accomplishment I had, when I first watched scenes I chose set to music I loved. When the timing of some cuts hit right, I was giddy. The thrill was great - all these possibilities, so when the vid was finished, I instantly started the next one.
So the first fandom I vidded was AtS/BtVS and what pulled me in was the way technology changed. My TXF eps were on vhs tape, I wasn't motivated enough or had the equipment to get them on my hard drive. With faster connections - I think 56 k - and a flat rate and the whole internet getting about sharing, it was becoming easier to get quality clips or even eps. DVDs were becoming cheaper too, so what pulled me into vidding AtS was timing. Two years earlier The X Files would have been my starter vidding fandom, ten years earlier Star Trek: TNG, before that Robin of Sherwood. But in January 2002 I just discovered Angel the Series and I loved Cordelia and Angel wasn't too hard on the eyes either. And then I discovered their back story on BtVS and I was hooked and more importantly? Ready to go.
( 30 Days of Vidding Meme )
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