Vidding, vidding, random post

[starrylizard]

Vidding is kinda evil and kinda sexy - like Evil!Sam.
Hence the icon.

It's like this slightly highly addictive creative process, that sucks time and energy and valuable sleep (because I seem to be up until 3am getting that scene just right)and yet there's not much feedback for it. It's really just an evil yet enjoyable process. And I thought I had it bad when I was using WMM, but now I have Vegas it just takes me ten times longer to make a vid, because I keep thinking that I have the means to make it perfect when before I would have settled for "good enough."

Also, I can get 16 comments for a 100 word drabble. I get over 200 hits and downloads of a vid and hardly any comments. It's slightly disconcerting and I wonder if this is just the plight of vidders, or are my vids needing a lot of improvement. The plight, oh my...that sounds whiny! I don't mean it that way. :P

I do wish people would give con crit, but then I wish that for my fic too and it never happens there either.

Oh well, I think my vidding muse has taken a holiday at present - or I should say my vidding muse is still throwing ideas at me, but my will to vid is on the decline. Eh, it always comes back.

I started vidding Madonna's - Die another day. Next day, Yokiem's points me to MM's Heroes vid to the same song and a few days later someone posted a SPN vid and just the other day a CSI one -- all to the same song. *facepalm* Oh I am sooo unoriginal. I'm not watching them until I'm finished damnit.

*peers at her half-finished SPN vid*

Disclaimer: This has been a random comment, brought to you by Starrylizard's boredom.

Comments

[lark_ascends]

Also think about the statistics for fic on ff.net. I've got some fics where I've got 1000 hits and 10 comments, or 200 hits and no comments.

But, I agree that in general, people need to comment more!!! Give the creators of art (of any sort) some feedback.

However, con crit a lot of people find really hard to give for fic, particularly when you can't find anything wrong with it (which by the time you post your fics, I can't).

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Hee! Like I said, I don't mean to whine. My post was about vidding being addictive and bad for your health. *grins stupidly*

[lark_ascends]

Nah, just addressing that point of the post. You weren't whining, you were bringing up a valid point that's a big issue in a lot of fandoms.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

I've just started noticing all the vidding competitions on the web. You enter yourself and most people with a decent vid end up with a banner for their trouble. I know why people enter them now and I appreciate them being there.

*here pretty banner - here my pretties*