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!

Comments

[oyceter]

The first vid I ever saw was an Utena vid to Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" which holy crap actually still seems to be online. So that was in 1999. I think I just found a random link online and spent two days downloading it.

After that, I watched a lot of AMVs in college via the anime club, mostly on people's VHS tapes IIRC. I think they got the vids via con AMV awards. I saw a LOT of Evangelion vids. The one I remember most is Kevin Caldwell's Engel, as well as Tainted Donuts (Trigun/Cowboy Bebop crossover), Right Now Someone Is Reading This Title (multi, meta), a ton of stuff from ErMaC Studios, Brad DeMoss' Star Wars Episode I trailer redone with Evangelion footage (can't find link), and Kusoyaro's Bachelorette (Utena movie). Some of these were downloaded off my college ethernet connection, and there was a lot of wrangling with codecs, as it was pre-VLC.

The first Western media fandom vids I saw were Buffy vids around 2002-2003. The ones I remember are Strange Disease, Eunice and Myrtle's Fragile, heresluck's Come On and Superstar, and Morgaine's She Bangs. I also remember lurking at We Band of Buggered and watching the vid camp stuff that Valerie set up. Pretty much all the recs I got through my flist on LJ, and that's when I found out about VVC and the whole chronology of media fandom vids from the Star Trek stuff. I had a hard time getting used to media fandom vids at first, because they look less flashy than AMVs, but then I learned more about the aesthetics while lurking in vid camp and stuff.