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zana16Just by chance, I was listening to NPR over dinner and happened to hear this segment: Vidders Talk Back to Their Pop Culture Muses. After a moment of "OMG, it's about us!!" (us = fans, as I can include myself in that group; I have no vidding skills), I heard it mention the Organization for Transformative Works.
It's not a story about fanfiction, which is still pretty taboo. It's a more accessible idea to outsiders: fanvids. It was a good public-interest piece, but well-researched, and it touched on a few fundamental ideas that as a fan I've given a bit of thought to: corporate media vs. fan ownership, for example. "The media seems to think they own the things they've pumped into my brain," says one of the vidders. Also the idea that the media isn't making the sort of thing that women want to view, so they're doing it for themselves.
And being that I'm now working in media relations, in the business of getting stories covered by the media, my question is this: how did this story come to be? Does OTW have a media/press person who pitches this kind of story to reporters? Because very few stories that are not pitched (or are not political or disasters or both) actually get into the news. That's why organizations hire companies like mine: to call up reporters and convince them to cover the organization. My other idea is that maybe someone in the newsroom is a vidder and wanted to do the story. I'm just intrigued; I didn't think that OTW was big enough to have their own media relations.
I'm linking to a vid that I hadn't seen before, called "Us," by Lim. I like it because it's about the canon material, and about fans, and because I recognized almost all of the source material, and also because it has a clip from The Professionals in it which always makes me happy (come! join our fandom! 'tisn't scary at all!).
Us - lim
It's not a story about fanfiction, which is still pretty taboo. It's a more accessible idea to outsiders: fanvids. It was a good public-interest piece, but well-researched, and it touched on a few fundamental ideas that as a fan I've given a bit of thought to: corporate media vs. fan ownership, for example. "The media seems to think they own the things they've pumped into my brain," says one of the vidders. Also the idea that the media isn't making the sort of thing that women want to view, so they're doing it for themselves.
And being that I'm now working in media relations, in the business of getting stories covered by the media, my question is this: how did this story come to be? Does OTW have a media/press person who pitches this kind of story to reporters? Because very few stories that are not pitched (or are not political or disasters or both) actually get into the news. That's why organizations hire companies like mine: to call up reporters and convince them to cover the organization. My other idea is that maybe someone in the newsroom is a vidder and wanted to do the story. I'm just intrigued; I didn't think that OTW was big enough to have their own media relations.
I'm linking to a vid that I hadn't seen before, called "Us," by Lim. I like it because it's about the canon material, and about fans, and because I recognized almost all of the source material, and also because it has a clip from The Professionals in it which always makes me happy (come! join our fandom! 'tisn't scary at all!).
Us - lim
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Date: 2009-02-26 05:51 am (UTC)Also, man, I wish I could get people into Pros. I have been sending out pimping DVDs, but it hasn't converted anyone. Bah.
Also, vidding skills are fun to develop! I wish I had the computer setup to keep vidding!
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Date: 2009-02-26 10:53 pm (UTC)I have yet to master even GarageBand, and I haven't the faintest clue how vidders do what they do; I am in awe. My plan to take Pros fandom down the podfic road have been slightly derailed by the fact that I can't even figure out how to make my stupid microphone work, let alone actually record anything. Zana = not technical in the slightest degree