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Vidder Profile Spotlight: SDWolfpup

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Title: Vidder Profile Spotlight: SDWolfpup
Interviewer:
Interviewee: SDWolfpup
Date(s): September 19, 2010
Medium: online
Fandom(s): vidding
External Links: interview is here, Archived version
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SDWolfpup was interviewed in 2010 for Vidder Profile.

Some Excerpts

I started on my own, although I was a member of the Buffy Nummy Treat mailing list (which I found via the TWOP Buffy boards, which is where I saw my first non-anime, non-stills fanvid), and so I lurked on that list and listened to what they said when I was making my own. To make my first vid, though, I got source from Kazaa and a free trial version of Adobe Premiere 6.5 (which is what I used for all of my vids until I moved to a Mac - I had to keep reinstalling it when the trial would run out) and went to town.

I enjoyed it immediately (I took 4 hours to make my first vid - that seemed SO LONG at the time; I have to laugh, now) and actually got really great comments on it when I posted it, which is what encouraged me to make a second one. I didn't feel like I was a good vidder until I started working on what I thought were more complex ideas, like "Coin-Operated Boy" and moving into different fandoms, like my BSG vid "Cold Cold Water." CCW especially is when I thought "hey I might be a good vidder." How I feel about that seems to vary on day and mood, though, honestly. And how well or badly my current vid-in-progress is going. *g*

I don’t mind if an audience member interprets a vid differently than I intended. Often people will see something I hadn’t consciously put in there, but it makes the vid smarter, so I’ll take it. *g* I will say that if someone sees something very differently than I intended, I feel like I’ve failed as a vidder. It’s my job to make my argument clear, if that’s what matters to me in that particular vid, so I try to figure out where things went awry for later vids. As for defining a vid... that’s an interesting question. I think the audience interpretation will naturally define a vid – for instance, people have reacted more seriously to what I thought were comedy vids I made than I had intended, and it does actually change how that vid is defined at large, and a little for me as well. My personal definition of my vids, though it often stays the way it is, can be influenced in that way. I’m not really a fan of ‘shoulds’ in general, though.