[ SECRET POST #5179 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5179 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Battlestar Galactica]


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[Marvel Cinematic Universe]


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[Peaky Blinders, Boardwalk Empire, Hoodlum]


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[Emilie Autumn]


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[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]


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[Only Connect]


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[resized, not a repeat]














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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 13 secrets from Secret Submission Post #741.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a vidder, but I'm a huge fan of vids as a fannish art form, and I completely agree with this. The current style of vidding just doesn't do anything for me. Like, yes, it looks very nice, and if it's edited really well it might make me feel like rewatching the source. But that's basically as deep as my appreciation goes. New school vids very rarely feel like they're exploring the source text, and making incisive points, and drawing my attention to certain elements in new ways, or anything like that.

When I watch new school vids, I almost never feel winded by something about the source that the vidder managed to deftly convey.

Honestly, I don't really like when vids include dialogue from the source at all. I've seen a vid or two that managed to use dialogue really elegantly and it worked, but it's really rare. For the most part, I think using dialogue from the source kind of undermines the poetic nature of fanvids as an art form, because the vidder is no longer being challenged to convey meaning through the synthesis of lyrics, music, and images.

I'm sure plenty of people will be all too happy to give me the old, "sure, grandma," and accuse me of being pretentious. But fuck it, whatever. I'm not out there complaining in people's comments threads. I keep my opinions to myself and F!S.

[(Anonymous)]

100000% there with you on disliking audio clips in vids. I think they're overused and nine-point-nine times out of ten, add nothing to the vid.

Also holy shit yes, your first paragraph. Vids no longer feel transformative, and that's a shame, because there are so many vids I can name that honestly not only evoked emotion, but made me look at the source canon in a new way.

[(Anonymous)]

the only good modern fanvid that had some dialogue and sounds was hannibal - glitter and gold. Love that. Anything else though? ehhhh

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that Hannibal vid is awesome. I also love the X-Files vid Serenate Immortale, and the SPN fanvid People In Cars Don't Face Each Other, which both have some brief snippets of dialogue. That's about all the one I can think of, though.

[(Anonymous)]

old school vid watcher here, and def. agree with you on principle with the new vs old school vids and how they compare

There's like, two vidders of the more recent style whose stuff I like as much as I loved the old school style, but they're really, really good at using their vids to highlight thematic parallels in the source that I would argue the source itself was too amateur/disjointed/created by committee to take advantage of.

Basically their vids feel like visual fanfic of very pretty but mediocre film(s)? I wish I could find more people who are able to capture that same feeling of more recent stuff, but I have no idea where to even begin looking nowdays.