Vid Question!

[permetaform]

'kay, color me curious, but what do ya'll consider a 'shipper vid? Or a relationship vid?

Like for instance, I consider 'Why' to be simultaneously a Lex vid and a Clex vid, in the way that 'The Fragile' was a Leeloo vid and a Leeloo/Corbin vid. But would one consider one vid-type more 'shippery than the other? If so why?

The reason I ask is 'cause I'd realized (with help) that Moment Couldn't Break could be considered a non-shipper vid...possibly 'cause we vidded a relationship subtext? (Which amuses me SO MUCH)

Then again I'm wondering if it's more of this consideration that I've posted about before, where one's concept of a relationship would alter whether one sees a relationship in a particular text at all.

...which possibly should disturb me that I'm okay with so much dysfunction in a relationship. ::blinks::

::pokes at the several open Sasuke/Naruto fics on desktop:: heh.

Comments

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Trapped in the hell of dial-up as I am, I haven't seen either of the vids you're talking about here (though I do get that Jack-centric PotC vid of yours out and watch it every couple of weeks), but for me, part of what makes a vid register as "shippy" is the song the vidder choses, and what sort of clips are matched up to which lyrics-a song that's a flat out love song, or that contains a good deal of sexual or romantic subtext, is pretty much guaranteed to produce a shippy vid. However, depending on the way the footage is selected and edited, you could end up conveying anything from a love triangle, to a failed relationship, to happily ever after, depending on the narrative sequence of clips and which characters get the most screen time (and get the most screen time together).

There's an Angel/Spike vid by Sisabet (I think) that will utterly convince you that Spike and Angel were having violent, kinky sex on screen in BtVS, and that it's going to pop up any second now in the video, just through the pacing and the clips she chose.