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Vidding thoughts
Jun. 7th, 2006 06:18 pmI'm working on another Hercules: the Legendary Journeys vid, and I'm noticing a trend. Two of the HtLJ vids I've made so far, Live Till I Die and Holding Out For A Hero fall into a 'Look at this guy/gal/drag queen/fandom, yay, see how fabulous/cheesy/awesome it is? Yay!' category, and the third, Do You Dream Of Me is more of a 'I can't stand this canon development and this is MY version' vid.
I think the one I'm working on now falls into the second category, but it's much more upbeat than Do You Dream Of Me. The theme is "Alternate universes? Just say no," or as I was explaining it to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aka_arduinna the other day, "Don't exchange the psycho bastard you know for the nice guy who abuses you".
On the one hand, this is all kinds of fun as I try to figure out how to cram all the bizarro-verse happenings into one vid and get to admire Ares the God of Love in his amazing Elvis suit, on the other hand, it means I have to watch all the Jester episodes. I'd rather eat paint than watch all the Jester episodes - it's just, I want the real Iolaus back when I watch them, just as bad as when they were aired for the first time and we didn't know if he would ever return. It's trauma.
(Which was pretty much what Hercules was inflicting on the guy, if you ask me. "Here, put on this padded suit. Now I will patronize you, hit you in the face when you aren't looking and pull a face behind your back because you will never live up to my demigodly standards. Can I have my Iolaus back now?")
In the "look at my fandom, yay!" category, I still want to do a Hercules/Iolaus vid, an upbeat one about their lives together, and I still haven't found the right song for it. I could kick myself. This doesn't happen to other vidders! They have songs for everything! They know how to take an unlikely song and bend it to their whim! Sigh. I think I've asked this before, but suggestions are still welcome. *g*
The weird thing is, I do have song ideas for Buffy/Spike, and for LOTR, and even for Methos. I have never seen the Methos episodes. I only know the guy from vids, and yes, he's lovely, but what is wrong with me that I have a song for him? Did you ever have a song or vid idea for a fandom you weren't even in?
Maybe I'm in luck, and you are a Buffy vidder but you have this terrific song that would only work for Hercules and Iolaus...
I think the one I'm working on now falls into the second category, but it's much more upbeat than Do You Dream Of Me. The theme is "Alternate universes? Just say no," or as I was explaining it to
aka_arduinna the other day, "Don't exchange the psycho bastard you know for the nice guy who abuses you". On the one hand, this is all kinds of fun as I try to figure out how to cram all the bizarro-verse happenings into one vid and get to admire Ares the God of Love in his amazing Elvis suit, on the other hand, it means I have to watch all the Jester episodes. I'd rather eat paint than watch all the Jester episodes - it's just, I want the real Iolaus back when I watch them, just as bad as when they were aired for the first time and we didn't know if he would ever return. It's trauma.
(Which was pretty much what Hercules was inflicting on the guy, if you ask me. "Here, put on this padded suit. Now I will patronize you, hit you in the face when you aren't looking and pull a face behind your back because you will never live up to my demigodly standards. Can I have my Iolaus back now?")
In the "look at my fandom, yay!" category, I still want to do a Hercules/Iolaus vid, an upbeat one about their lives together, and I still haven't found the right song for it. I could kick myself. This doesn't happen to other vidders! They have songs for everything! They know how to take an unlikely song and bend it to their whim! Sigh. I think I've asked this before, but suggestions are still welcome. *g*
The weird thing is, I do have song ideas for Buffy/Spike, and for LOTR, and even for Methos. I have never seen the Methos episodes. I only know the guy from vids, and yes, he's lovely, but what is wrong with me that I have a song for him? Did you ever have a song or vid idea for a fandom you weren't even in?
Maybe I'm in luck, and you are a Buffy vidder but you have this terrific song that would only work for Hercules and Iolaus...