There's actually different pools of HL fandom, the official board is one but not one I'm actively involved with and I agree that the few vids I've seen on there are generally not great and often geared more to the films. There's a couple of exceptions to that, Andrew Modeen has done a few vids that are nice, but he works mostly with animation.
Of course there's a HL presence on LJ and that's where I was lured into vidding. There's also the HL Fiction and fanfiction that's on fanfiction.net. HL has an increasing presence on Facebook, the main Hihghlander: The Series page has over 9,000O people who are listed as fans. I know that former HL writers Gillian Horvath and Donna Lettow are on FB and have seen vids there.
One of the most active group of HL fans, and one that interacts most with TPTB is Highlander Worldwide which has around 1000-1100 members. The last HLWW con was in LA and we had a panel on the history of HL vidding, the notes for which are on fanlore. There's also where we had vids introducing the panels. I believe Don't Fear the Reaper was used for one. The Richie vid by fan_eunice ran before the panel Stan and Adrian's panel and they both liked it. Both of those were used with permission of the vidders. The con com has commented on the fact that the GOH like to see the vids.
There's a lot of going on with fans and HL that has absolutely nothing to do with the official board.
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Date: 2010-08-21 08:30 pm (UTC)Of course there's a HL presence on LJ and that's where I was lured into vidding. There's also the HL Fiction and fanfiction that's on fanfiction.net. HL has an increasing presence on Facebook, the main Hihghlander: The Series page has over 9,000O people who are listed as fans. I know that former HL writers Gillian Horvath and Donna Lettow are on FB and have seen vids there.
One of the most active group of HL fans, and one that interacts most with TPTB is Highlander Worldwide which has around 1000-1100 members. The last HLWW con was in LA and we had a panel on the history of HL vidding, the notes for which are on fanlore. There's also where we had vids introducing the panels. I believe Don't Fear the Reaper was used for one. The Richie vid by
There's a lot of going on with fans and HL that has absolutely nothing to do with the official board.