Fanwork Trailers
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rageprufrock published Drastically Redefining Protocol in 2008-2009 I gleefully read it, and when ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zoetrope posted their Drastically Redefining Protocol Trailer (2009, February 2) I made everyone I knew who had seen at least the first episode of Merlin and had some idea what fanfiction was watch it.
It ate my brain.
It's a minute and fourteen second long vid that uses a very small selection of footage from the show itself - it's mostly DVD extras, I think, and other sources that I've never seen. The footage has been worked with, worked into other footage, overlaid with other images. There's an ongoing theme of lights, which is such a nice match for the tinkly-ness that Badly Drawn Boy's Once Around the Block has. Likerageprufrock's fic, zoetrope's trailer follows the conventions of its genre, and it has the kind of endearing indy-ness to it that a mid to late noughts queer story has, with darker colours and soft focus in places.
Trailers are love:
The only vid mentioned in this post that I still have access to iszoetrope's Drastically Redefining Protocol Trailer, but I still remember how ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
newkidfan's Realm of Dryads made me feel, something like fifteen years after my first watch and over a decade since my last. I remember trees and the suggestion of fog and the music like a knife. I remember a kind of breathlessness.
newkidfan's work continually threw me. I'd watch it and think to myself it's 40 seconds long - how are they doing this? And it was with instrumental music from soundtracks and working source footage, and I think integrating other footage (it's been a long time since I've seen a newkidfan vid), and building for emotion.
newkidfan's vids and fanwork trailers more generally have been foundational to how I understand and approach vidding.
The vids that have lived in my drafts have been set to instrumental music and all about building feeling. The vids that live earmarked in my imagination have a really annoying multi-source aspect. Some day, if I live long enough, I am going to crack, go on a Hewligan binge, and make that McShep AU fanvid, and it's going to be because I learned how to watch fanvids in SGA fandom.
(This post has been living in my drafts for fifteen years and popping back into a draft that's nearly old enough to vote is an experience. It's been a reminder to save the fanworks that I love when I can, of the precariousness of file hosting arrangements in general, and of the value of metadata. Sometimes metadata is the only thing you have left. Sometimes metadata is all that fans leave behind. They stop updating somewhere and don't leave behind their new address, so you wonder if they're still out there being fannish, if they're still out there at all.
I feel like it's a weird thing to be posting about fanworks that are inaccessible, that I don't have copies of, but I still care, so I am. I know that there are other people out here who will remember these vids, and I also know a kind of archivist's delight of sifting through pieces of the past that you will never know.)
zoetrope posted their Drastically Redefining Protocol Trailer (2009, February 2) I made everyone I knew who had seen at least the first episode of Merlin and had some idea what fanfiction was watch it.It ate my brain.
It's a minute and fourteen second long vid that uses a very small selection of footage from the show itself - it's mostly DVD extras, I think, and other sources that I've never seen. The footage has been worked with, worked into other footage, overlaid with other images. There's an ongoing theme of lights, which is such a nice match for the tinkly-ness that Badly Drawn Boy's Once Around the Block has. Like
rageprufrock's fic, zoetrope's trailer follows the conventions of its genre, and it has the kind of endearing indy-ness to it that a mid to late noughts queer story has, with darker colours and soft focus in places.Trailers are love:
- Realm of Dryads by newkidfan (2006, April 3) for Realm of Dryads by
- Hindsight by zoetrope (2006, December 11) for Hindsight by
- No Parachute by newkidfan (2008, July 20) for No Parachute by aesc (2006, December 21)
The only vid mentioned in this post that I still have access to is
zoetrope's Drastically Redefining Protocol Trailer, but I still remember how newkidfan's Realm of Dryads made me feel, something like fifteen years after my first watch and over a decade since my last. I remember trees and the suggestion of fog and the music like a knife. I remember a kind of breathlessness.newkidfan's work continually threw me. I'd watch it and think to myself it's 40 seconds long - how are they doing this? And it was with instrumental music from soundtracks and working source footage, and I think integrating other footage (it's been a long time since I've seen a newkidfan vid), and building for emotion.newkidfan's vids and fanwork trailers more generally have been foundational to how I understand and approach vidding.The vids that have lived in my drafts have been set to instrumental music and all about building feeling. The vids that live earmarked in my imagination have a really annoying multi-source aspect. Some day, if I live long enough, I am going to crack, go on a Hewligan binge, and make that McShep AU fanvid, and it's going to be because I learned how to watch fanvids in SGA fandom.
(This post has been living in my drafts for fifteen years and popping back into a draft that's nearly old enough to vote is an experience. It's been a reminder to save the fanworks that I love when I can, of the precariousness of file hosting arrangements in general, and of the value of metadata. Sometimes metadata is the only thing you have left. Sometimes metadata is all that fans leave behind. They stop updating somewhere and don't leave behind their new address, so you wonder if they're still out there being fannish, if they're still out there at all.
I feel like it's a weird thing to be posting about fanworks that are inaccessible, that I don't have copies of, but I still care, so I am. I know that there are other people out here who will remember these vids, and I also know a kind of archivist's delight of sifting through pieces of the past that you will never know.)
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