I keep getting reminded in these conversations of how old I am. :p
It would be a shame if the Xena vids aren't archived somewhere. I remember seeing some I really liked back in the day.
they tend to be very long, with long clips that don't have much to do with the music, use clips that require a lot of context knowledge -- all stuff I associate more with a brand new (or experienced but careless) vidder than with a different well-developed aesthetic.
Yes, you see those in every fandom, in every community where new vidders are figuring out the form. But the "clips that require a lot of context knowledge" thing is specifically an OLDER aesthetic, one that hugely informed me as I began as a vidder and continues to influence my work. Vidding has trended away from that in recent years but it was absolutely critical to all but the most whimsical garbage can vids in the 1990s and early 2000s.
As I said I haven't seen enough Xena vids recently enough to comment on the overall aesthetic. I just remember watching them in about 2002-2003 and thinking they were different from the vids I was used to. And then a year or two later I was watching Farscape vids and thinking the same thing.
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It would be a shame if the Xena vids aren't archived somewhere. I remember seeing some I really liked back in the day.
they tend to be very long, with long clips that don't have much to do with the music, use clips that require a lot of context knowledge -- all stuff I associate more with a brand new (or experienced but careless) vidder than with a different well-developed aesthetic.
Yes, you see those in every fandom, in every community where new vidders are figuring out the form. But the "clips that require a lot of context knowledge" thing is specifically an OLDER aesthetic, one that hugely informed me as I began as a vidder and continues to influence my work. Vidding has trended away from that in recent years but it was absolutely critical to all but the most whimsical garbage can vids in the 1990s and early 2000s.
As I said I haven't seen enough Xena vids recently enough to comment on the overall aesthetic. I just remember watching them in about 2002-2003 and thinking they were different from the vids I was used to. And then a year or two later I was watching Farscape vids and thinking the same thing.