Well, if you want to find the old ones, I don't recommend searching on YouTube, as most of them were made before YouTube existed. You might have better luck following links from this old angelfire page.
I did a search on the Vividcon vid database, because I remembered bringing at least one Xena vid to VVC when I started VJing. Most of the Xena vids on that list are newer and produced by VVC attendees, but New Age Girl by Rocketchick is the one I brought. You can see my post about that vidshow here but unfortunately both New Age Girl and the Xena vid I had in my alternates list, Macedonian Getaway, have broken links. Fortunately, I have retained my copies of both. You can download them here.
A big part of what I was thinking about was clips where not much is happening, and the emotion is not from the visuals + music combination but from "that's the scene where they said such and such" plus the visuals.
Yes, that is extremely old school. In the traditional vidding community, it grew from a time when there were three networks as opposed to 100 channels, and everyone in fandom was watching the same tiny handful of shows. If you were a media fan, you knew Star Trek and Blake's 7 and, eventually, The X-Files; if you were a slasher, add in The Professionals and Starsky and Hutch and, eventually, Highlander. That was it. And your audience was exclusively the kind of dedicated fangirls who would go to cons or who would mail you ten bucks and an envelope for your vid collection. So everybody really did recognize "that was the scene where Starsky said _____".
I think because Xena fans were Xena fans and not even necessarily fans of other media, the assumption was that your audience would have that deep familiarity.
many of these vids feature clip after clip after clip of characters giving each other meaningful looks but not really ever doing much
Yes, I think that plagues every fandom in its early vid stages. :p
If you want to find old Xena vids that are full of action, I recommend searching for Callisto ones.
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I did a search on the Vividcon vid database, because I remembered bringing at least one Xena vid to VVC when I started VJing. Most of the Xena vids on that list are newer and produced by VVC attendees, but New Age Girl by Rocketchick is the one I brought. You can see my post about that vidshow here but unfortunately both New Age Girl and the Xena vid I had in my alternates list, Macedonian Getaway, have broken links. Fortunately, I have retained my copies of both. You can download them here.
A big part of what I was thinking about was clips where not much is happening, and the emotion is not from the visuals + music combination but from "that's the scene where they said such and such" plus the visuals.
Yes, that is extremely old school. In the traditional vidding community, it grew from a time when there were three networks as opposed to 100 channels, and everyone in fandom was watching the same tiny handful of shows. If you were a media fan, you knew Star Trek and Blake's 7 and, eventually, The X-Files; if you were a slasher, add in The Professionals and Starsky and Hutch and, eventually, Highlander. That was it. And your audience was exclusively the kind of dedicated fangirls who would go to cons or who would mail you ten bucks and an envelope for your vid collection. So everybody really did recognize "that was the scene where Starsky said _____".
I think because Xena fans were Xena fans and not even necessarily fans of other media, the assumption was that your audience would have that deep familiarity.
many of these vids feature clip after clip after clip of characters giving each other meaningful looks but not really ever doing much
Yes, I think that plagues every fandom in its early vid stages. :p
If you want to find old Xena vids that are full of action, I recommend searching for Callisto ones.