I did a con!
Jun. 13th, 2022 06:14 pmAfter much nudging and encouragement from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
teyla I decided to virtually attend VidUKon at the weekend.
I am not a vidder, and I don't even really watch a lot of vids, but I've always been vaguely curious about the process so Teyla sold the con to me by saying there would be a vidding workshop.
I had a lot of fun! I would definitely do it again. Maybe even in person if the country is ever less plague-ridden (I had no doubt the con itself would have been safe - they had a lot of measures in place, but I'd have had to make a very long train journey to get there and no).
The workshop was great, and I was lucky enough to be in a group with mostly people I already knew. It was nice to see the basics on how you set up a vidding project, and the sorts of things you need to think about when picking your clips.
I'm still not sure vidding will ever be for me. It took us a good couple of hours to put a 20 second vid together. I'm sure it would be quicker if you were working with a song and video material that you already knew but still. I'm on the fence.
I've joined the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
vexercises comm and I might have a go at some point. I don't have a lot of time between work, writing and watching dramas but maybe one day.
I did make me realise how much I miss hanging out with fandom people in person though. Stupid pandemic.
What I did get out of it is finding some new things I want to watch, which I sort of expected might happen. There's nothing like a good vid to sell a fandom to you. Here's a few of my faves that convinced me to watch the source material at some point
There were also many, many vids for My Country the New Age which has been on my list for ages and which I really need to watch even though everyone has warned me it's incredibly sad and angsty.
Oh, and here's the results of the vidding workshop. Everyone got a different part of the same song and 2 movies and had to vid to the part of the song they'd been given. Each group also had different movies to work with. Finally the whole thing was put together to make a Frankenvid. It was a lot of fun. We were given Parasite (which I'd seen) and Last Night in Soho (which I hadn't seen)
teyla I decided to virtually attend VidUKon at the weekend.I am not a vidder, and I don't even really watch a lot of vids, but I've always been vaguely curious about the process so Teyla sold the con to me by saying there would be a vidding workshop.
I had a lot of fun! I would definitely do it again. Maybe even in person if the country is ever less plague-ridden (I had no doubt the con itself would have been safe - they had a lot of measures in place, but I'd have had to make a very long train journey to get there and no).
The workshop was great, and I was lucky enough to be in a group with mostly people I already knew. It was nice to see the basics on how you set up a vidding project, and the sorts of things you need to think about when picking your clips.
I'm still not sure vidding will ever be for me. It took us a good couple of hours to put a 20 second vid together. I'm sure it would be quicker if you were working with a song and video material that you already knew but still. I'm on the fence.
I've joined the
vexercises comm and I might have a go at some point. I don't have a lot of time between work, writing and watching dramas but maybe one day. I did make me realise how much I miss hanging out with fandom people in person though. Stupid pandemic.
What I did get out of it is finding some new things I want to watch, which I sort of expected might happen. There's nothing like a good vid to sell a fandom to you. Here's a few of my faves that convinced me to watch the source material at some point
There were also many, many vids for My Country the New Age which has been on my list for ages and which I really need to watch even though everyone has warned me it's incredibly sad and angsty.
Oh, and here's the results of the vidding workshop. Everyone got a different part of the same song and 2 movies and had to vid to the part of the song they'd been given. Each group also had different movies to work with. Finally the whole thing was put together to make a Frankenvid. It was a lot of fun. We were given Parasite (which I'd seen) and Last Night in Soho (which I hadn't seen)
