I'm completely biased in my love for this show, and I count myself incredibly lucky to be able to wrangle it each year. I loved the idea of the show from the moment it was suggested, because it began with the impulse to give everyone who attends or supports the con the chance to show a vid that they love, that might never get shown anywhere else, to a room full of people excited to see them... and without needing to be a premiering vid. That seemed like such a great thing! New vids, old vids, vids for tiny fandoms, vids for big fandoms that no-one noticed, happy vids, sad vids, weird vids... it's such an amazing thing to be able to have a show where I know that everyone there is going to be seeing all those vids that are personal to someone, in the room or streaming the show, and to know that the audience will be receptive and supportive. It's like a group hug with vids and happy flailing, and it's deliberately as low-key as possible with the requirements. If I never do anything good for the con again, I've had the priviledge of being able to wrangle so many little moments of joy in vid form, and heard so many people get excited about things they've never seen before, or new shows and films and ideas that they'd never encountered, and that feels amazing to me. Vidder's Choice for the win! :)
Of course, I also clutch my head a lot when trying the wrangle the show into a running order that makes some kind of sense :P I've developed a rhythm of watching all the vids in the show multiple times, and scribbling notes down on each - usually just half a dozen words at most - along with noting things like the vid length. It was pretty obvious from the outset that the show would need an intermission, and that even if it didn't, trying to run everything as a single playlist would be fairly exhausting for those watching. The vids cover such a wide range of ideas and emotions! I read once that one of the reasons that horror movies work well for dates is that a good horror movie amps up the emotions of those watching, heightening emotional responses for a while afterwards, and I always have that in the back of my head - it feels like the show works well when the more emotionally heavy vids are in the first act, and the lighter vids are in the second, where things like a sense of humour or delight get amped up because of the first act. It's not as simple as make someone scared, then make them laugh, but it really feels like having the show run through an emotional arc in a reasonably consistent way gives a hook into the show that works better than any attempt I could make to organize the vids into another kind of theme. I could be talking rubbish, but I hope that Vidder's Choice is a show that works through people's feelings :)
And there are so many interesting vids that've been shown! I always come away with a list of things to track down and watch, and I never comment on as many of the vids as I want to because there are always so many people I want to enthuse at about their vids. I love this show so much every year :)
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Date: 2019-09-23 08:31 pm (UTC)Of course, I also clutch my head a lot when trying the wrangle the show into a running order that makes some kind of sense :P I've developed a rhythm of watching all the vids in the show multiple times, and scribbling notes down on each - usually just half a dozen words at most - along with noting things like the vid length. It was pretty obvious from the outset that the show would need an intermission, and that even if it didn't, trying to run everything as a single playlist would be fairly exhausting for those watching. The vids cover such a wide range of ideas and emotions! I read once that one of the reasons that horror movies work well for dates is that a good horror movie amps up the emotions of those watching, heightening emotional responses for a while afterwards, and I always have that in the back of my head - it feels like the show works well when the more emotionally heavy vids are in the first act, and the lighter vids are in the second, where things like a sense of humour or delight get amped up because of the first act. It's not as simple as make someone scared, then make them laugh, but it really feels like having the show run through an emotional arc in a reasonably consistent way gives a hook into the show that works better than any attempt I could make to organize the vids into another kind of theme. I could be talking rubbish, but I hope that Vidder's Choice is a show that works through people's feelings :)
And there are so many interesting vids that've been shown! I always come away with a list of things to track down and watch, and I never comment on as many of the vids as I want to because there are always so many people I want to enthuse at about their vids. I love this show so much every year :)