Vidrec Thursday
Oct. 1st, 2020 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretAt the next to last Vividcon, I passed out randomly selected DVDs from those cheap DVD multipacks you see in discount stores and dared vidders to make a vid from whatever source they got, to premiere at next year's Vividcon. We got two premieres, both masterpieces.
Somebody's Watching Me bydiannelamerc is a vid for a 1980s made-for-TV movie about the Robert B Parker detective Spenser. It's a really fun vid that decided, since the source is terrible and badly made, to make a vid about how badly made it is. "I always feel like somebody's watching me" may be a commentary on the actual plot, I wouldn't know since I have no interest in watching the movie, but it's definitely a commentary on the way so much of the film is shot from such wide angles that you can't even tell what the actors are doing.
As a vidder, this is a really tricky tightrope to walk. People usually watch vids because they're fannish about the source and invested in the narrative. That is the opposite of the case here, butdiannelamerc makes it work by constantly upping the ante both in terms of the jarringly silly filmmaking and in terms of her own creative use of the source. Too-spot-on lyric matches, rhythmic cuts, motion-matching cuts, shots completely obscured by trees. And then we go the quad screens, which have a kind of closed circuit security camera energy, just when it's starting to flag. Every time I watch "Somebody's Watching Me" it's a jolt of joy.
Somebody's Watching Me by
diannelamerc is a vid for a 1980s made-for-TV movie about the Robert B Parker detective Spenser. It's a really fun vid that decided, since the source is terrible and badly made, to make a vid about how badly made it is. "I always feel like somebody's watching me" may be a commentary on the actual plot, I wouldn't know since I have no interest in watching the movie, but it's definitely a commentary on the way so much of the film is shot from such wide angles that you can't even tell what the actors are doing. As a vidder, this is a really tricky tightrope to walk. People usually watch vids because they're fannish about the source and invested in the narrative. That is the opposite of the case here, but
diannelamerc makes it work by constantly upping the ante both in terms of the jarringly silly filmmaking and in terms of her own creative use of the source. Too-spot-on lyric matches, rhythmic cuts, motion-matching cuts, shots completely obscured by trees. And then we go the quad screens, which have a kind of closed circuit security camera energy, just when it's starting to flag. Every time I watch "Somebody's Watching Me" it's a jolt of joy.
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Date: 2020-11-10 10:08 am (UTC)