Thanks so much for your insights! I'll admit my involvement with the vidding side of fandom is pretty minimal, so it's great to hear from someone with an insider view.
I'd also point towards this vid which is perhaps interpretable as emo rather than critical, but there is certainly a fair amount of critique in there I'd call that critical. I'm not sure how much I agree, but an interesting watch none the less.
Basically because they're a bit harder to make . . . But with vids, you're generally limited to footage from the show and the contexts that fans will always have in mind. As such its a bit harder to explicate a critical intent, though it's easiest to do with juxtaposition to appropriate music. I can see how that would be, yes.
And for whatever reason, while Doctor Who gets a reasonable amount of attention from "vidding fandom", "Doctor Who vidding fandom" seems much, much smaller than I would expect for a fandom so large. Huh. Very interesting. My last serious fandom was so tiny as to have practically no vidders at all, so I have very little sense of what constitutes an expected level of activity.
I don't think you ever watched the new BSG, but if you did, I could list you a ton of critical pieces on that. It's pretty much my favorite show of all time, although I was never really involved in the fandom for some reason. I'd love a few links if you have them, though.
it's a multifannish vid commenting on media tropes rather than criticising an individual text (though those exist too), is Stay Awake by [info]laurashapiro, which is about the scifi's creepy obsession with knocking up women against their will. Oh, that is fantastic and chilling. Thanks for that.
Again it's not really critical in the way I think you initially meant, but it's certainly dark rather than emo and a very interesting example of reappropriating footage to tell an alternate story, which is something often not attempted in fanvids as you have to not only reappropriate the footage but convince your audience to abandon its original intepretation of it. That's quite impressive. I see how that can be very hard to make work.
from reading other comments here I can tell you're also looking more for snarky/crack critique as opposed to straight critique, but most of what I said still applies Eh, it's all been interesting and frankly much, much more than I was ever expecting to get out of a pretty flippant, off-hand musing I just decided to post. I've been inspired to wade in deeper :-) Thanks for taking the time to put together such an in-depth response.
I'm not sure what fandoms we share the I could rec for you. :) Going by your interests on your profile, I'd say BSG, Heroes, Dexter, Star Trek, Star Wars, LotR . . .
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I'd also point towards this vid which is perhaps interpretable as emo rather than critical, but there is certainly a fair amount of critique in there
I'd call that critical. I'm not sure how much I agree, but an interesting watch none the less.
Basically because they're a bit harder to make . . . But with vids, you're generally limited to footage from the show and the contexts that fans will always have in mind. As such its a bit harder to explicate a critical intent, though it's easiest to do with juxtaposition to appropriate music.
I can see how that would be, yes.
And for whatever reason, while Doctor Who gets a reasonable amount of attention from "vidding fandom", "Doctor Who vidding fandom" seems much, much smaller than I would expect for a fandom so large.
Huh. Very interesting. My last serious fandom was so tiny as to have practically no vidders at all, so I have very little sense of what constitutes an expected level of activity.
I don't think you ever watched the new BSG, but if you did, I could list you a ton of critical pieces on that.
It's pretty much my favorite show of all time, although I was never really involved in the fandom for some reason. I'd love a few links if you have them, though.
it's a multifannish vid commenting on media tropes rather than criticising an individual text (though those exist too), is Stay Awake by [info]laurashapiro, which is about the scifi's creepy obsession with knocking up women against their will.
Oh, that is fantastic and chilling. Thanks for that.
Again it's not really critical in the way I think you initially meant, but it's certainly dark rather than emo and a very interesting example of reappropriating footage to tell an alternate story, which is something often not attempted in fanvids as you have to not only reappropriate the footage but convince your audience to abandon its original intepretation of it.
That's quite impressive. I see how that can be very hard to make work.
from reading other comments here I can tell you're also looking more for snarky/crack critique as opposed to straight critique, but most of what I said still applies
Eh, it's all been interesting and frankly much, much more than I was ever expecting to get out of a pretty flippant, off-hand musing I just decided to post. I've been inspired to wade in deeper :-) Thanks for taking the time to put together such an in-depth response.
I'm not sure what fandoms we share the I could rec for you. :)
Going by your interests on your profile, I'd say BSG, Heroes, Dexter, Star Trek, Star Wars, LotR . . .