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Things are..sort of fucked up around here for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture. So I'm gonna do that 30 days of vidding meme all the kids are up to these days as a distraction.
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?
A few years before I ever made my first vid or even knew it was possible, I was watching Homicide: Life on the Streets...they were one of the first shows to do musical montages as an integral part of the storyline (they also were one of the first to do the hand held cameras in a tv setting. And the jumpcuts/triple takes. Which is not relevant to this story, but seriously if you were watching it back then, H:LoTS was really exciting and innovative in a lot of ways we take for granted now, even before you got to the amazing characters and storytelling)
ANYWAY, during the episode Every Mother's Son, there is an absolutely gut wrenching montage and in it, right as the music changes/speeds up/kicks in, there is a cut to Frank and Tim walking off a curb and stepping down on a beat. It was like getting punched in the gut. I wanted that. I wanted to *do* that. If I'd known vidding even existed I would have started the next day. Alas, I did not (I was a newbie lurker in fandom who never talked to anyone and online vids were very nearly nonexistent at the time). I went a few more years assuming you could only do that as a professional working on a television show or movie.
But then I started watching/catching up on Buffy, and poking around that fandom! And people were posting these things! That did what I wanted to do! In a show I loved! OMG! And there was a small message board (BoB) where I could talk to people about it! Though I probably should have talked to them first because what I did was google 'video editing' and came back with hits for Premiere, which I then acquired completely blind on my already aging and crap computer (Rest in peace, Cletus..rest in peace...I asked so much of you) and dove in face first to much wailing and consternation. In some ways I'm glad I did it that way because I had to learn how to work in an NLE from the get go. In other ways, I think my life would have been much easier in the beginning if I'd known WMM existed.
But, yes. Buffy was the first fandom I vid in, and where I learned to vid. The one I have the most nostalgia for because of it.
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?
A few years before I ever made my first vid or even knew it was possible, I was watching Homicide: Life on the Streets...they were one of the first shows to do musical montages as an integral part of the storyline (they also were one of the first to do the hand held cameras in a tv setting. And the jumpcuts/triple takes. Which is not relevant to this story, but seriously if you were watching it back then, H:LoTS was really exciting and innovative in a lot of ways we take for granted now, even before you got to the amazing characters and storytelling)
ANYWAY, during the episode Every Mother's Son, there is an absolutely gut wrenching montage and in it, right as the music changes/speeds up/kicks in, there is a cut to Frank and Tim walking off a curb and stepping down on a beat. It was like getting punched in the gut. I wanted that. I wanted to *do* that. If I'd known vidding even existed I would have started the next day. Alas, I did not (I was a newbie lurker in fandom who never talked to anyone and online vids were very nearly nonexistent at the time). I went a few more years assuming you could only do that as a professional working on a television show or movie.
But then I started watching/catching up on Buffy, and poking around that fandom! And people were posting these things! That did what I wanted to do! In a show I loved! OMG! And there was a small message board (BoB) where I could talk to people about it! Though I probably should have talked to them first because what I did was google 'video editing' and came back with hits for Premiere, which I then acquired completely blind on my already aging and crap computer (Rest in peace, Cletus..rest in peace...I asked so much of you) and dove in face first to much wailing and consternation. In some ways I'm glad I did it that way because I had to learn how to work in an NLE from the get go. In other ways, I think my life would have been much easier in the beginning if I'd known WMM existed.
But, yes. Buffy was the first fandom I vid in, and where I learned to vid. The one I have the most nostalgia for because of it.