Questions, questions, questions

[hazelk]

It seems about half the posts linked to on metafandom are about the legitimacy or otherwise of fanfic, something which seems to have been sparked off by a certain published author’s disparaging remarks about the form. There doesn’t appear to be an equivalent amount of interest about other types of fanart like vids, although the underlying issues would seem to be the same. Is it that vidders basically accept that what they do isn’t entirely legit? Or that vids are a qualitatively different art form to the source material? The complaints about fanfiction mostly seem to come from published authors about fics based on their own work, direct competition in a sense. Then again I’m sure there’ve been authors who refuse to allow their books to be made into movies so it’s certainly possible to feel proprietal about one’s work across those sorts of boundaries. Are there film directors who won’t let people write tie-in novels though? Making movies or TV is a much more collaborative process than writing a novel so maybe even would-be auteurs learn not to be too possessive about their art early on. But is such possessiveness innate or learned? Would Homer have felt he owned the Odyssey? Or more to the point when do children start feeling that the stories they make up are theirs and theirs alone?

And now for something not entirely different:


1. Alexis Denisof is the god of facial expression.

2. He gives good body language too.

3. Camerawork is very different on Buffy and Angel. AtS pans where BtVS would cut.

4. Especially when Joss directs.

5. iMovie is an entry level piece of almost-freeware that’s no better than it should be but if you spend most of your free time alternately kicking and cajoling it into submission it will do some funky things.

6. It helps to be numerate.

7. There’s a difference between tempo and beat. I’m not sure which is which but while I get one of them, the other I think I’d need to learn to play an instrument to have any hope of grasping.

8. Aspect ratios are scary (see point 6 above).

9. Even if you’ve spent 3 days getting a particular effect to work and it finally looks absolutely, completely, perfectly as you imagined it, if it doesn’t fit in the storyline as a whole IT HAS TO DIE.

10. I think I need a beta.

Comments

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Alexis is terrific in comical scenes. I loved him in "Spin the Bottle" and he was great again in "Life of the Party", you know the elevator scene, it's priceless!

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that icons, vids, and fan art (with the exception of manipulations) are more celebrations of the original work, while fan fic is, quite often, attempts to re-write the original work with "AU" scenarios, or allows the fic authors to write characters out of character or in non-canonical relationships, or do cross-overs with other fictional universes, in short, there is more alterations of the original work in fan fiction than in other forms of fan work.

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

Tempo is the speed of the music. Beat is the frequency with which the musician makes a stress. That is what 'bars' are all about. So say the music was 'in four' that means there is a beat of four regular pulses throughout the music, each one is stressed slightly and the first one of each four is stressed a lot.

Dah-dah-dah-dah Dah-dah-dah-dah Dah-dah-dah-dah Dah-dah-dah-dah

That could obviously happen at any tempo the musician considers appropriate.

In classical music at least it should always be possible to hear the beat and to hear when the start of every bar is - because it gives the whole thing structure. If you can't hear it then the musician isn't doing their job. Or something clever is going on. Or something modern ;)

So beat obviously follows tempo but not vice-versa.