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arduinnaI went to Vividcon! \o/ And premiered a vid with therienne and everything! Which occurred to me tonight I never did announce here, because omg I came home and just collapsed.
It's Person of Interest, team gen, called "Some Nights". Streaming, downloads, lyrics etc here on our vidding journal
or if you prefer AO3:
[Vid] Some Nights (38 words) by Flummery
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Person Of Interest - Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: John Reese, Harold Finch, Lionel Fusco, Joss Carter
Additional Tags: Team, Vividcon, Fanvids, Embedded Video
Summary:
"Team Machine" really pretty much does sum it up. ♥ POI ♥
But one vid does not a con make, and the con itself was loads of exhausting fun, as usual. I traveled, also as usual, withtherienne and mollyamory. The trip went the way it generally does, with one fabulous exception. I always check a bag just because it's easier having the extra room, and then there's always that doubtful moment of "okay, so how do we get to the labyrinth of dark, dingy, endless back corridors, with the weird sports-team elevator hiding around behind things as inconspicuously as possible so you're never sure you're in the right place?"
Usually we just wander around trying to find it, but this year were having issues that mean less wandering is much better, so I actually asked an airport employee what the best way to the shuttle buses was, just to confirm our instinct that we wanted to go thataway.
He pointed away from the direction I thought he would and said, "Go to door 1-F and go outside, cross all lanes of traffic, and it'll be right in front of you."
Which, for the record? Is a great shortcut from baggage claim! It takes you to the sidewalk in front of the parking garage, which is indeed where the shuttle buses are. The Springhill Suites shuttle picks up at Door 2, which is almost all the way down that sidewalk, but you're certainly not doing any more walking than you are in the labyrinth indoors, and it's all nice and bright daylight-y with your goal more or less in sight at all times. \o/
So a very auspicious start to a good con.
I'm hoping to do a more detailed writeup or two later, but wanted to get some general impressions down while they're fresh, and as a way of kickstarting this 30 days of posting thing (which I'm going to attempt, although I've never managed 30 straight days of posting anywhere). (I do write posts nearly every day, though. I just don't finish and post them. So maybe this'll work after all.)
I was really pleased by the Critique panel on Saturday morning (which was very well-attended); it kept drifting off into beta instead of public review, but that's to be expected these days, when the default is not to say anything critical (or I should specify: negatively critical) in public. But public crit was definitely part of it, and there seemed to be a general sense that people missed it, especially at the con itself. VVC has always been a haven for public crit, but there's been less of it in recent years.
I think the panel paid off on Sunday; Vid Review felt like it had more constructive crit than I remember it having lately. We're not back to where we were 10 years ago (and may never get back to that level, especially without Snady to be the voice of reasoned honesty), but it felt like maybe we're starting to recover the ability to give and take crit. This makes me ridiculously happy, as that's one of the things I most love about VVC; you can learn so much!
What else -- Premieres continued its recent trend of having lots of tiny-to-small-fandom vids; almost 40% of the show this year, by my count (compared with about 20% in the 2002 Premieres show I was talking about a few weeks back), in a vidshow where only one fandom had more than one vid (Person of Interest \o/).
And in 2002, there was really only 1 vid that risked not being recognized by more than a handful of people in a fannish context; this year, I'd put that at more like half a dozen.
It's an interesting trend. I miss the days when I knew more of the fandoms - but otoh I wouldn't have missed this year's Lego Batman and Wicker Man vids, in particular, for anything. (... don't watch those back to back, though.) Not to mention the gorgeous Queen Seondeok vid, and Little Miss Sunshine... And it's no bad thing to be past the days when a single fandom dominated the show; it was always great in the years when it was your fandom, but not so much when it was that fandom you couldn't really stand (people who disliked Stargate, Supernatural, or Buffy had it rough for a few years there).
OTOH, there's nothing like it when the entire room is reacting to a source that almost everyone knows to some extent. <3
And now I am abruptly hitting post, so this goes up on Wednesday and doesn't turn into yet another never-finished draft.
therienne and everything! Which occurred to me tonight I never did announce here, because omg I came home and just collapsed.It's Person of Interest, team gen, called "Some Nights". Streaming, downloads, lyrics etc here on our vidding journal
or if you prefer AO3:
[Vid] Some Nights (38 words) by Flummery
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Person Of Interest - Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: John Reese, Harold Finch, Lionel Fusco, Joss Carter
Additional Tags: Team, Vividcon, Fanvids, Embedded Video
Summary:
Team Machine
"Team Machine" really pretty much does sum it up. ♥ POI ♥
But one vid does not a con make, and the con itself was loads of exhausting fun, as usual. I traveled, also as usual, with
therienne and mollyamory. The trip went the way it generally does, with one fabulous exception. I always check a bag just because it's easier having the extra room, and then there's always that doubtful moment of "okay, so how do we get to the labyrinth of dark, dingy, endless back corridors, with the weird sports-team elevator hiding around behind things as inconspicuously as possible so you're never sure you're in the right place?"Usually we just wander around trying to find it, but this year were having issues that mean less wandering is much better, so I actually asked an airport employee what the best way to the shuttle buses was, just to confirm our instinct that we wanted to go thataway.
He pointed away from the direction I thought he would and said, "Go to door 1-F and go outside, cross all lanes of traffic, and it'll be right in front of you."
Which, for the record? Is a great shortcut from baggage claim! It takes you to the sidewalk in front of the parking garage, which is indeed where the shuttle buses are. The Springhill Suites shuttle picks up at Door 2, which is almost all the way down that sidewalk, but you're certainly not doing any more walking than you are in the labyrinth indoors, and it's all nice and bright daylight-y with your goal more or less in sight at all times. \o/
So a very auspicious start to a good con.
I'm hoping to do a more detailed writeup or two later, but wanted to get some general impressions down while they're fresh, and as a way of kickstarting this 30 days of posting thing (which I'm going to attempt, although I've never managed 30 straight days of posting anywhere). (I do write posts nearly every day, though. I just don't finish and post them. So maybe this'll work after all.)
I was really pleased by the Critique panel on Saturday morning (which was very well-attended); it kept drifting off into beta instead of public review, but that's to be expected these days, when the default is not to say anything critical (or I should specify: negatively critical) in public. But public crit was definitely part of it, and there seemed to be a general sense that people missed it, especially at the con itself. VVC has always been a haven for public crit, but there's been less of it in recent years.
I think the panel paid off on Sunday; Vid Review felt like it had more constructive crit than I remember it having lately. We're not back to where we were 10 years ago (and may never get back to that level, especially without Snady to be the voice of reasoned honesty), but it felt like maybe we're starting to recover the ability to give and take crit. This makes me ridiculously happy, as that's one of the things I most love about VVC; you can learn so much!
What else -- Premieres continued its recent trend of having lots of tiny-to-small-fandom vids; almost 40% of the show this year, by my count (compared with about 20% in the 2002 Premieres show I was talking about a few weeks back), in a vidshow where only one fandom had more than one vid (Person of Interest \o/).
And in 2002, there was really only 1 vid that risked not being recognized by more than a handful of people in a fannish context; this year, I'd put that at more like half a dozen.
It's an interesting trend. I miss the days when I knew more of the fandoms - but otoh I wouldn't have missed this year's Lego Batman and Wicker Man vids, in particular, for anything. (... don't watch those back to back, though.) Not to mention the gorgeous Queen Seondeok vid, and Little Miss Sunshine... And it's no bad thing to be past the days when a single fandom dominated the show; it was always great in the years when it was your fandom, but not so much when it was that fandom you couldn't really stand (people who disliked Stargate, Supernatural, or Buffy had it rough for a few years there).
OTOH, there's nothing like it when the entire room is reacting to a source that almost everyone knows to some extent. <3
And now I am abruptly hitting post, so this goes up on Wednesday and doesn't turn into yet another never-finished draft.
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Date: 2013-08-22 04:12 pm (UTC)I heard plenty of other people saying the same things about the crit panel, and about folks later putting their crit practice into action. That is so great!
And now I am abruptly hitting post, so this goes up on Wednesday and doesn't turn into yet another never-finished draft.
\o/
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Date: 2013-08-22 05:57 pm (UTC)And yes! Yay crit!
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Date: 2013-08-23 08:41 pm (UTC)I was thinking about this a lot after the show, that it was more like "I like this movie/show/whatever and want to vid it, and VVC is the only place I can send it" than fandoms per se. I find that interesting, because that mirrors my own thought process a lot since so many of my fandoms are either microscopically tiny or I'm the only person I know of who's even a fan. And while I like that (obviously), a show where that's the predominant thought process can almost be as bad as those ones where it's all one fandom that you don't like.
The challenge is getting people to connect to something like that, especially if it's a situation where source is hard to come by if someone's intrigued. I probably could have other thoughts on this except that I'm still kind of brain dead.
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Date: 2013-08-24 04:21 pm (UTC)And while I like that (obviously), a show where that's the predominant thought process can almost be as bad as those ones where it's all one fandom that you don't like.
Yeah, it really can. Honestly, I hope the ratio doesn't keep shifting much further, and I think that for myself personally, I'd be happiest at something more like 30% of the vidshow. I don't parse vids well on a first viewing, even in fandoms I know; when I don't know them it all, I can get really lost, and that's frustrating/exhausting when there are too many like that.
OTOH, looking at some of the things I've vidded over the years, I cannot throw stones at anyone. *g* I totally get the "I love this, and I don't care if anyone else gets what I'm saying with this, I need to make this vid" impulse.
I do miss the sense of shared fannishness, though, even if it's not *my* fannishness; like, I was boggled that there was only one Teen Wolf vid, and that barely-medium-sized POI was the "big" fandom of the show.
The challenge is getting people to connect to something like that, especially if it's a situation where source is hard to come by if someone's intrigued.
I could weep for the Queen Seondeok vid -- the only source I could find (for under ~$100) is ~60 hour-long eps on Crunchyroll. Which is too many for me, especially for having to sit at the computer to watch them.
I probably could have other thoughts on this except that I'm still kind of brain dead.
omg, dude, my brain is so gone. *flail*