Ask the Vidder: gigglemonster
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| Title: | Ask the Vidder: gigglemonster |
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| Interviewee: | gigglemonster |
| Date(s): | June 22, 2010 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | vidding, Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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gigglemonster was interviewed in 2010 for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
I started "vidding" (I use the term lightly because I'm not sure what I was doing back then could really be called vidding ;) back in 2006. My first fandom was LOST, but once I started watching Supernatural I was hooked for quite a while. In total I've made 17 Supernatural vids. Wow!Right from the beginning I was interested in constructed reality vids. I'd say over half of my vids are either Wincest and/or other AU pairing related vids. I've always been fascinated by the idea of taking the clips and the characters and the stories we're given and either expanding on them or just completely reconstructing them into something totally new. I'm always really excited to try new effects and different ways of manipulating clips. I'd say that's definitely where my niche, in this fandom especially, has been since I started vidding.
For the most part I vid exclusively with Sony Vegas Pro 8. Lately I've been trying to do a lot more with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. AE is a really spectacular program for the afoermentioned manipping obsession :) It's also a really good program to try out cool new coloring and effects.
I think the shift in editing style was definitely deliberate. I remember when I started vidding I was really in the dark about most of it. Like I said, when I started out I was strictly in the LOST fandom over at LVI. So the vids that I was exposed to at that time were almost all very effect heavy videos. Not knowing anything else I just thought that was the way it was done. I think I tried to experiment with effects and eventually refine and structure my use of them, but for a really long time I just didn't think there was any other way of doing it. (I also think if you do a quick youtube search for vids in pretty much any fandom, those effects driven vids will make up about 80% of your results)When I eventually migrated over to LJ and started being exposed to other vidders who had been doing this much (soo so much) longer than I had and were sooo much more experienced was when I finally started to realize that there really was a high level of art and dedication that went into vids. Not that I didn't have that in my earlier vids, but I think I started to realize that I could be putting more care and thought into the existing clips the way they were. That if I stepped back and just looked at my source bare, with no effects I would still be able to see a strong vid come together. That whatever I was trying to say I could say just as clearly (if not more so) without so many effects.
That's not to say that they don't enhance a vid, because very often the totally do! I just realized that they need to be used in the right way, a way that is appropriate for that particular vid. It's funny that you bring effects up actually, because I really kind of want to get back into using effects and coloring and stuff. There are some vidders whose work with coloring and effects I admire SO much. It is definitely making me want to experiment with stuff like that again.