Vid panel at HLWW9 in LA

[valoise]

It looks like I'm going to be putting together a panel for HLWW9 in April. Keep posted for more information. As it stands now, we'll be doing it like a little film festival. Vidders will show a video and then be available to answer questions about their inspiration and techniques for creating it. I know it will be on Friday, but don't know when.

More info and a call for volunteers soon.

Comments

[valoise.livejournal.com]

I do understand about not doing actor cons, I didn't go to my first one until 2006.

I've only been looking at vids for about 3 years and I have tried to dig up any I could find online to watch and enjoy. Unfortunately, I know that in the past few years many have disappeared and some were never online to start with.

This con panel is fairly fluid, I'm waiting to see who answers my call for participation. In an ideal world, it would be really nice to have someone put together a compilation of early vids. In everyday life I work to preserve historical documents; preserving the history of fandom would be a good thing! If it doesn't happen for the LA con, maybe sometime in the future.

Just spinning ideas off the top of my head, wouldn't it be nice to put together a documentary of HL vidding as kind of a visual essay? It would definitely be a labor of love, tracking down vidders, getting clips together, transferring analog early stuff to digital, etc, etc. A lot of work and I'm afraid since I'm kind of a late bloomer to fandom (although a HL fan from season 1) I just don't have the names or contacts to pursue it right now. Someday it would be cool, though.

[unovis.livejournal.com]

Contact me offline if you want to pursue this. I think the visual essay would be wonderful. I could tell you what I know. A while back, pat_t also put together a list of HL vids she's collected, if I remember correctly.

OTW has begun work on vidding histories and oral histories (info on it here). Since OTW members include former HL vidders, someone might already be working on a history.