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Signing up for the planned parenthood auction and coming off of Festivids, I am pondering the difference between making a vid and making a vid for someone else. I actually really like making vids for other people, and I think I'm pretty good at it? Please feel free to contradict that if I've ever made a vid for you, I won't be insulted and I want any future vid recipients to be happy so knowing where I missed in the past is always helpful.

Anyhoo, for me, what I like about it is...okay, I have mentioned before that I am a horribly indecisive vidder. Nine times out of ten if I am stalled on a project or it is going sloooooooowly, it's because I can't narrow focus enough to make decisions. But the thing about making vids for someone else is that decision making process is narrowed automatically. 'Cause, okay, I can't vid stuff I don't feel/think myself. So, when making a vid for someone else the process is all about finding the common intersection between what they want/what I feel. Find that point and expand on it. And there's always some point of intersection.

I'm still doing me, so it doesn't feel forced or unnatural, but the range of directions/options comes pre-limited which makes it easier to get down to business and discard lines of thought instead of wandering down every tangent but refusing to commit to any.

So anyway, yeah. That's what I like/find different about vidding for other people. What about y'all? Fic too.