I am beginning more and more to think about this as a learning process. In a way, I wonder whether vidding is like reading poetry in that there are poems that seem to go for the emotions and the pretty images and language and they make sense on first or second reading. And then there's the stuff you spend a lot of time mulling over, and these are the poems that I return to again and again, and enjoy them ultimately more, but usually on a more cerebral level.
And yes, there are some that manage to so both (the first poem in English that I ever "got" was Owen's Dulce et Decorum est, and I still think it's a great poem, and I know I "got" some vids before I started trying to actually lean to "read" them, some of which were yours, in fact... But I didn't get the same things out of them as I'm beginning to do now, and I know I haven't even begun to scratch the surface...
So, yes, I agree with you that there's a place for happy fannish vids that make the shipper and show fan happy (i'm wondering if someone like Frost or even a lot of the Romantics or Shkespeare would fall in here) and that there are vids that will only appeal to the educated "reader" (eh...just about all of modernist poetry?), and there are very few crossovers (who used that term? Laura?) who manage to do both...
And, permetaform, I don't think anyone needs to attempt to cross over, but I wonder if awareness of one's intended audience at least might not be a very useful thing. And I agree that it's a matter of aesthetic, but some aesthetics require better tools or better equipped "readers" than others, right?
re your post: would you mind saying a bit more about the differing aesthetics, b/c as an utter beginner, i went to poison_pagan's LJ and was trying to figure out why you'd love the one's she rates under 5 (b/c the couple I saw were ones I can't quite see you enjoying)
re gattaca...i need to see it again, but let's just say that i remember not liking the movie very much and your vid made me want to rewatch it...or maybe just rewatch the vid??? :-)
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And yes, there are some that manage to so both (the first poem in English that I ever "got" was Owen's Dulce et Decorum est, and I still think it's a great poem, and I know I "got" some vids before I started trying to actually lean to "read" them, some of which were yours, in fact... But I didn't get the same things out of them as I'm beginning to do now, and I know I haven't even begun to scratch the surface...
So, yes, I agree with you that there's a place for happy fannish vids that make the shipper and show fan happy (i'm wondering if someone like Frost or even a lot of the Romantics or Shkespeare would fall in here) and that there are vids that will only appeal to the educated "reader" (eh...just about all of modernist poetry?), and there are very few crossovers (who used that term? Laura?) who manage to do both...
And, permetaform, I don't think anyone needs to attempt to cross over, but I wonder if awareness of one's intended audience at least might not be a very useful thing. And I agree that it's a matter of aesthetic, but some aesthetics require better tools or better equipped "readers" than others, right?
re your post: would you mind saying a bit more about the differing aesthetics, b/c as an utter beginner, i went to poison_pagan's LJ and was trying to figure out why you'd love the one's she rates under 5 (b/c the couple I saw were ones I can't quite see you enjoying)
re gattaca...i need to see it again, but let's just say that i remember not liking the movie very much and your vid made me want to rewatch it...or maybe just rewatch the vid??? :-)