Hi. I’m screw, or MarikaKM, as I’m known elsewhere. I have been editing for about four years now, and am not planning to stop. I started out at the most primitive stage: Dramione videos with crappy premiere pictures and subtitles saying “ohh, I love you” edited together with WMM (windows movie maker). A lot has changed since these past four years. I mean, I don’t vid Dramione any more. 8D
But enough about me. Let’s talk about this blog.
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I have always been wondering, why isn’t there a larger community for fanvidders? Or have I failed to find it? Of course we have places like youtube, bam, and we used to have imeem. Now we have twitter. We comment, but everything seems to happen in an “insider group”. I have not managed to make close friends, because, how do you get to know them? I have not found forums, and sometimes help is hard to get. No blogs, nothing has come up during my many google searches.
I have been thinking about that. About how hard it was in the beginning, not to find any advice, any help, clips, tutorials, anything. I have found that in the end, it was a pretty good thing. It had its downsides, but deep down it helped a lot. Because now it feels awesome, that despite of the struggles, I am here, writing this right now. It’s amazing.
That’s not the only reason. The other one, and in my opinion the most important one, is, that it narrows the editors down. The ones who didn’t really care enough to spend time and effort, didn’t want to struggle to find things, gave up, but the ones who really wanted to do this, continued. They grew and keep growing into amazing fanvidders.
Or maybe I’m taking it way too seriously. Maybe nobody else feels the need to talk about this, think about how fanvidding really works. I don’t know. But I want to. That’s why I’m keeping this blog. I want to go explore this hobby better, with hopefully some other curious friends beside me.
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I think I have made things clear enough, and this is a good point to stop this first post. Comments are always more than welcome. (: Goodbye, for now.
- Screw a.k.a. MarikaKM.
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P.S. If I find out that all this time there was a huge forum and millions of blogs about this, I’m gonna be… like… unbelievably embarrased. 8D But happy!
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