Oh, definitely, the age of the vids and the way styles have evolved since then will be a big factor of difference, maybe the biggest, for anyone watching them now.
It's cool to hear everyone's personal vidding trajectory and the things that influenced them. The first vids I saw were Mulder/Krycek VCR vids, and it wasn't too long after seeing them that I made my first one. Then I went to Escapade and my head exploded. (:
My instinct says that Farscape vidding, along with Xena and probably BtVS and Firefly, helped broaden the scope of what vidding-at-large could be, and the topics and characters that vids explored. Agree?
Absolutely! And I can think of other communities that were big influences as well.
Vidding is still really balkanized, and I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. Every community develops its own norms and ways of doing. But the community I hang out in seems to have been influenced by a lot of different styles in the past 15 years, first through the Internet and then very much through Vividcon and now VidUKon. A vidding generation is only about 2-3 years, it seems to me, and then something new comes along to shape the aesthetics.
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Date: 2014-11-01 04:23 pm (UTC)It's cool to hear everyone's personal vidding trajectory and the things that influenced them. The first vids I saw were Mulder/Krycek VCR vids, and it wasn't too long after seeing them that I made my first one. Then I went to Escapade and my head exploded. (:
My instinct says that Farscape vidding, along with Xena and probably BtVS and Firefly, helped broaden the scope of what vidding-at-large could be, and the topics and characters that vids explored. Agree?
Absolutely! And I can think of other communities that were big influences as well.
Vidding is still really balkanized, and I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. Every community develops its own norms and ways of doing. But the community I hang out in seems to have been influenced by a lot of different styles in the past 15 years, first through the Internet and then very much through Vividcon and now VidUKon. A vidding generation is only about 2-3 years, it seems to me, and then something new comes along to shape the aesthetics.