22 Jan 2013 05:12 pm
Assorted Festivids Thoughts
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frayadjacentI'm slowly making my way through the Festivids Master List -- ended at S's with my morning coffee. I'm not posting any recs at least until I've watched everything with agreeable-seeming content notes, but I still want to talk about how much fun I'm having!
Not surprisingly, I know very few of the fandoms, but this is a great opportunity for me to practice watching vids of sources I don't know. Of course, the average festivid is probably designed to be more accessible than other vids, though this is possibly true for small-fandom vids in general. I've been really pleased with how much I can get from a vid to a source I don't know. Whether the vidder uses visuals to tell a story or draw out an important theme, or whether they just make something gorgeous and fun to watch, it's been working really well for me. And I am not a super-savvy vid-watcher. It often takes multiple viewings for me to start to "get" a vid.
One thing that's cool about all this is I get an introduction to so many new sources. Some are things I definitely want to check out -- the list is getting unwieldy, actually -- and some are things that it's nice to at least know a bit more about. And other still are of sources that frankly I'm not sure I care to see, but the vidder made a really enjoyable vid out of it through editing techniques or through highlighting a minor character who I might find more interesting than the main characters. (I've seen a lot of vids focusing on a female character in sources that I'm pretty sure tend to be dude-heavy, for example.)
Also, I have been delighted by the comments on the vid I made! It's been so exciting and fun for me as a relative newcomer.
So, basically, festivids is not only awesome, it's inspiring me to put in the effort to watch and comment on vids more throughout the year. Even vids of sources I don't know, time permitting.
Not surprisingly, I know very few of the fandoms, but this is a great opportunity for me to practice watching vids of sources I don't know. Of course, the average festivid is probably designed to be more accessible than other vids, though this is possibly true for small-fandom vids in general. I've been really pleased with how much I can get from a vid to a source I don't know. Whether the vidder uses visuals to tell a story or draw out an important theme, or whether they just make something gorgeous and fun to watch, it's been working really well for me. And I am not a super-savvy vid-watcher. It often takes multiple viewings for me to start to "get" a vid.
One thing that's cool about all this is I get an introduction to so many new sources. Some are things I definitely want to check out -- the list is getting unwieldy, actually -- and some are things that it's nice to at least know a bit more about. And other still are of sources that frankly I'm not sure I care to see, but the vidder made a really enjoyable vid out of it through editing techniques or through highlighting a minor character who I might find more interesting than the main characters. (I've seen a lot of vids focusing on a female character in sources that I'm pretty sure tend to be dude-heavy, for example.)
Also, I have been delighted by the comments on the vid I made! It's been so exciting and fun for me as a relative newcomer.
So, basically, festivids is not only awesome, it's inspiring me to put in the effort to watch and comment on vids more throughout the year. Even vids of sources I don't know, time permitting.
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