przed | The Interview Meme

From

just_ann_now

1. Leave a comment saying you would like to be interviewed.
2. I will then respond with 5 questions that quite possibly could be personal—or not, whatever mood I'm in.
3. Then update your LJ with the questions I've asked
4. Put these same rules (or something that resembles these rules) with your questions
5. When people ask you to interview them, you will ask them five questions.

Ann's questions, and my responses:

1. How did you become interested in vidding?
I stumbled into fandom at the same time I was doing an M.A. in Film, back in 1991. My course work included a production course, so I learned to edit on a professional editing deck at the same time I was also refining my knowledge of continuity editing. Stir in seeing my first fan vids, add a pinch of fandoms I adore (Blake's 7, UNCLE and Pros, initially) and I was desperate to vid. But after editing on a real deck, the thought of vidding on two VCRs just about made me break out in hives. So for years I accumulated song ideas, vidded in my head and waited until I could afford a computer powerful enough to handle digital editing. That finally happened in 2001, I made my first vid in 2002, and I've never looked back.

2. A Swordspoint question: Alex or Richard?
Richard, absolutely. Much as I adore Alex, it will always be the competent one with the weapon that I really love. Plus, in Privilege of the Sword, Richard comes with even more added angst.

3. What do you like on your toast?
Marmalade, spread very thinly indeed. Though I usually make do with raspberry jam, since I'm the only marmalade lover in our household. (Oooh, lemon curd is also awesome. Must get some soon.)

4. What's your favorite piece of LOTR fanfiction that you've written yourself?
Ya know, in any other fandom I could answer this off the top of my head, but in LOTR? Hmmm. I think it might just be In Memory Yet Green, which I wrote out of frustration with how quickly Boromir is forgotten in the books. It's my personal tribute to my favorite LOTR character.

5. What's your favorite piece of LOTR fanfiction written by someone else?
Crikey, another tough one. The story in the fandom I've read most often is actually LOTR RPS: Cinzia's A Long Journey, which taught me that it was possible to create a long, intricate narrative in RPS, complete with complexly rendered characters. In LOTR FPS proper, it's quite possibly Plastic Chevy's The Captain and the King, which is, gasp!, Gen, but has enough strength of feeling between Aragorn and Boromir to keep me going. I pull out my zine copy of it to re-read at regular intervals. And then there's

just_ann_now's The Haradric Whore and Her Son: A Love Story, which has a lovely portrayal of Boromir and quite fabulous original characters. (And yes, Ann, I would have said that even if these weren't your questions.)

Anyone else up for an interview?

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Sure you can interview me. :-)

Okey dokey, here goes...

1. How did you make your way into fandom?
2. If money and time were no object, where would you most like to travel to?
3. What's your absolutely favorite kind of food?
4. What piece of writing are you most proud of? Fannish or non-fannish, doesn't matter.
5. What's your favorite piece of UNCLE fan fiction written by someone else?

Yup, me too.

Here you go...

1. If a fellow fan were to visit Turkey, where would you most like to take them?
2. What is your favourite beverage?
3. A two parter, in commemoration of Turkey nearly making the Euro final: do you enjoy watching/playing sports? If so, which sport do you most enjoy watching/playing?
4. Another two parter: What piece of fan writing are you most proud of? And, if it's different, which one do you think is your best?
5. What is your favourite Pros story written by someone else?

Oooo, good questions! Shall go away and ponder the answers..

I do know what you mean about editing - I learnt digital editing for my first degree, then had to film and edit a short for my MA but as creative writing students rather than film, we only got the cruddy vid to vid suite - I cried. I only had one day, and trying to do the edit reduced to me furious tears of pure, unadulterated frustration... the result was ghastly and I've never been near one since! *g*

Since I was doing my degree back in the dark ages (crikey, were the early '90s really that long ago?) there was no digital editing. Or rather, the only digital editing suites were really freaking expensive Avid ones that no film school could afford. I worked on vid to vid editing and considered myself lucky. (Fortunately, I'm stupidly organized when it comes to stuff like that, so I found it time consuming, but kinda cool.) And really, it was better than editing Super 8 film, which we also did. That was all wearing white cotton gloves and using teeny pieces of tape and razor blades, and it SUCKED.

I did my first editing in '96-'97 on Media100 (well something 100 - can't remember) I know they were changing to Avid the following year. We filmed on VHS and transfered. Yes, you could lose your digitised edit with a misplaced click but you could still be very precise, and lighten/darken. It was '02 I did the MA - which was why I was appalled that from the little local college were I did my access year and used its 'proper' editing suite, I went to a top uni and all they could offer was a highly inaccurate, worn out vid to vid with at least a 2-3 second (let alone frame!) rollback - you can imagine!!

Trying to do match cuts or eyeline stuff was out of the window, and my scene was a 'talking heads' drama needing reaction shots - *shakes head* it was effing awful! And because I'd shot on mini-disc it had to be transferred to VHS then edited and transferred again - the degradation was shocking, and stuff I'd filmed expected to digitally tweak in the edit had to stay since I didn't know I wasn't going to get a digital suite to use. Never again! >_

If I'd started on digital and then had to move back to vid to vid, I'd have been crying too. At least when I was working on video, I only knew it was wayyyy better than Super 8 editing.

a lovely portrayal of Boromir and quite fabulous original characters.

Eeep! Thank you!

Your welcome. It's well-deserved!

You find the best stuff, Hon... and the 'funnest' to quote your Sweetie. Have I told you lately how much I value your friendship? 'Cause I totally do...especially because J and I wouldn't watch Wipeout with anyone else and it was just what I needed to bring me out of the family crap....

I value your friendship beyond counting too. I'm glad to be your safe place where you can watch Wipeout. (Everyone needs to watch silly TV once in a while, and you more than had a need for silly.)

So, here goes for the questions:

1. Who is your favorite 19th century novelist? And what's your favorite novel by that writer?
2. You have unlimited funds, time and a babysitter. What restaurant do you take J to, and what meal do you have there?
3. If money and logistics were no object, where in the world would you most like to live?
4. Within Toronto, where's your favorite place to go in the summer?
5. You have a couple of hours to kill. Which Sharpe movie do you watch?

Man that was fun! Posted answers on Blogger, though, since haven't officially put up site on LJ.

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