While I'm thrilled you think my vid is good, I have to correct you on one mistaken assumption: I didn't "let" it be shown in this panel. I didn't even know this panel was happening, and no one asked me. Even more to the sore point, no one told me it happened, either.
While I do think my vid is now loose in the world and out of my hands, I am not sure I would have wanted this comparison. Mainly because it was so damned painful what happened that year.
I know you don't agree with the principle, and you didn't summarize all the perspectives on it, but my strong reservation about vidding another person's already used song is that song choice is one of the few dimensions of true creativity we have here. In the hands of a good vidder, it controls everything, and it shows your good taste. Using someone else's song, to me, diminishes the amount of creativity I can bring to a vid, and I have to work against the audience who has someone else's vid in their head, when they watch mine. It's a threat that can undermine my own work.
I also don't believe songs are perfect for multiple fandoms -- or if they are, they're generic and not as interesting. There are a lot of generic songs out there (I've used them and will use them, lacking better options). If "In Your Eyes" works equally well for Stargate and HL, then it's a generic song, too. That makes it a weaker song choice, for both of us. Which I'm sorry about.
I'm not saying your position (also the majority view) is wrong, I'm just trying one more time to say why I would rather not use someone else's song, if I can avoid it. Given the breadth of vidding fandom now, I've given up on even trying to avoid it, but I won't do it knowingly. Especially after what happened that year, which was a really, really unhappy accident.
I think a good vid pair would have been Tashery's B7 Wicked Game against mine and Gayle's for Wiseguy. We 3 did this knowing it was a comparison contest. Who knows how it turned out, though. We like them both. It's another generic song.
Also, you could have had the most excellent WG vid by Gayle for "Losing my Religion," which is my favorite for that song.
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timeasmymeasure
Um, no.
Date: 2003-08-24 11:29 pm (UTC)While I do think my vid is now loose in the world and out of my hands, I am not sure I would have wanted this comparison. Mainly because it was so damned painful what happened that year.
I know you don't agree with the principle, and you didn't summarize all the perspectives on it, but my strong reservation about vidding another person's already used song is that song choice is one of the few dimensions of true creativity we have here. In the hands of a good vidder, it controls everything, and it shows your good taste. Using someone else's song, to me, diminishes the amount of creativity I can bring to a vid, and I have to work against the audience who has someone else's vid in their head, when they watch mine. It's a threat that can undermine my own work.
I also don't believe songs are perfect for multiple fandoms -- or if they are, they're generic and not as interesting. There are a lot of generic songs out there (I've used them and will use them, lacking better options). If "In Your Eyes" works equally well for Stargate and HL, then it's a generic song, too. That makes it a weaker song choice, for both of us. Which I'm sorry about.
I'm not saying your position (also the majority view) is wrong, I'm just trying one more time to say why I would rather not use someone else's song, if I can avoid it. Given the breadth of vidding fandom now, I've given up on even trying to avoid it, but I won't do it knowingly. Especially after what happened that year, which was a really, really unhappy accident.
I think a good vid pair would have been Tashery's B7 Wicked Game against mine and Gayle's for Wiseguy. We 3 did this knowing it was a comparison contest. Who knows how it turned out, though. We like them both. It's another generic song.
Also, you could have had the most excellent WG vid by Gayle for "Losing my Religion," which is my favorite for that song.
Lynn