I wanted to open this up for discussion, because i've been feeling the pressure to move on from Farscape (the fandom that, until recently, i've vidded well nigh exclusively) - and finally, i'm emptying the back burner of the vid ideas that've been simmering there for the past year and half and i'm ready. if not exactly to move on, then to move forward. to leave "earth", as it were.
because that's what Farscape is to me. it's home. it's the comfy couch. the sunday chicken. it's love, wrapped in every possible guise. it's my native vidding language. i'm completely fluent. and tho, occasionally i'll rewatch an episode to get the finer points, the "newer" perspective, generally i'm so imprinted with Farscape that i don't need to watch it anymore. which is a good thing. time to move forward.
and i've found a new love. it's name is Torchwood, and though it isn't quite as shattering an experience as Farscape was, it has enough "omg!!" moments that i want to reach out and kiss it. hug it. vid it. but i don't know the language. not yet. the task is how to take it from gibberish (which it is now) to some level of fluency. maybe it'll always be a second language; maybe i'll never be completely comfortable with the idiom. maybe i'll always get confused when the patter goes by too fast. but i think i can get close. the question is how? is there a berlitz for vidders?
i've been sitting in front of the screen, pad in hand, jotting down timecode for what are awesome scenes, and i've done this for a few episodes but when i think back on them, all i get are separate and distinct impressions. this worked with farscape, which i'd seen twice before the idea of vidding it even occurred to me; it could actually work with stargate, a series i've watched through three times. i know how the episodes fit together. but this isn't the way to go with a brand new series.
so back to the beginning. to "everything changes" through "exit wounds" and banishing the pen and pad. just watch it through and let it seep in. maybe write down song ideas and themes as they come to me, but not "scenes" no matter how dramatic, or incredibly shot. forget close ups and wide shots; that'll all come later. those are the idioms; the slang of Torchwood. for now i need to concentrate purely on the nouns and verbs. and maybe only present tense verbs at that. go slowly. let it sink in, and hopefully, finally, gel together so that it's one huge picture. then i can start taking pieces out of it, and putting it on a timeline.
i'm in awe of multi-fandom vidders, especially the ones that do it so well. how's it done? any secrets? or does this all sound just daft?
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