Your History of Vidding

[such_heights]

I'm running some vidding programming for the Fanfic track at Nine Worlds. In particular, I'm doing a talk on vidding, which I'm aiming at fans who probably read fic but don't necessarily know so much about vids.

Crowdsourcing a little bit of my research here - I'd really like to hear about other people's experiences of discovering vids.

I'd love to know about the first vids you can remember watching.

a) Which fandoms were they in?

b) Which websites did you hear about them from?
eta: that was poorly worded, lots of you saw your first vids offline via cons, tapeswaps etc. Tell me about that too!

I'm particularly interested in hearing about fandoms other than Western media fandoms, and websites other than LJ/DW, but all responses will be helpful!

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[lizbee]

So the first time I heard about vidding was in a fanzine I bought in about 1993. It had a column by a guy who was basically explaining what vidding was and how it worked, with two VCRs, some Star Trek: The Next Generation footage and a Police song. I couldn't figure out how or why that was meant to be exciting or interesting, but in fairness, he was talking about a Deanna Troi vid to "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", which pings my embarrassment squick with its obviousness.

I actually saw a vid in late 2002 -- a new friend was a film student, and she was doing an assignment on vids for her editing class. She showed me a whole lot of Harry Potter vids and explained why she considered them good. No talky-face, no literality with lyrics, appropriate music choice, etc.

These vids were all saved to her hard drive, so I couldn't begin to tell you what sites they came from, but they made a big enough impression that I still have a couple of them on a CD-Rom around here somewhere.