Vidder Profile Spotlight: super KC

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Vidder Profile Spotlight: super KC
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	super KC
Date(s):	October 23, 2011
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	vidding
External Links:	interview is here, Archived version
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super KC was interviewed in 2011 for Vidder Profile.

Some Excerpts

I became aware of vidding as something I could do myself through Lost Video Island which was, at that time, exclusively a Lost video site. (It is now multifandom.) But truth be told, I had already seen a fanvid or two before. I just didn’t understand what it was that I was looking at. (Dawson’s Creek. Don’t ask.) LVI, as it is known, was a community of vidders, and it began shortly after the show premiered in 2004 and that’s around the time I found it. If I am remembering right, they added a forum in January of 2005 and everyone began interacting with one another and talking about vids and vidding. They held monthly challenges, offered tips for vidding, and it was a really great place to get your start. (And it still is for new vidders, in my opinion.) Almost all of those vidders including myself have branched out to other fandoms by this time, especially now that Lost is over. I know Dayln03 (gigglemonster) got her start there, and I think Charmax did, as well as a few others.

There are a couple of my vids that just don’t work and never really did. On one of them (I Feel Fine), I had lost all my source footage, so I just used whatever source I could find and did not download full episodes. Don’t ask me how I did that. Vidders: We will find a way around technical difficulties! Another one, and my least favorite of all of my vids, was just not well-thought-out or well-planned. (Times Like This.) It’s a “shipper vid” (which always get such a bad name, don’t they?) that doesn’t really tell a story that makes any kind of sense. I used clips that fit the song but not the story I was telling. I was just careless and was more concerned with making a vid to this particular song about this particular couple than I was about… anything else really. As a result, it’s my least favorite vid. But I think we all have to go through the learning process one way or another. This was part of mine. I don’t think there is anything wrong with just making a vid to a song you like about something you like, but I would hope by the end of it you actually like the finished product. Somehow I managed to do the first two things, but fail on the third thing.

Vidding just doesn’t come as naturally to me as it once did. I do feel that after my hiatus, I am better than I ever was before, because I have learned so much and I still carry that with me. But it is still a lengthy and time-consuming process that takes a lot of energy and isn’t something I can do at the drop of a hat as I once did. And maybe this is all a result of over-thinking. Having that knowledge makes it harder because it’s not just throwing clips on a timeline anymore, it’s art with your own technique and your own expectations. Any vids I am putting off making are simply due to a lack of appropriate source footage (sometimes it’s just not there) or just due to a lack of time/energy.