foundations!

So, as a complete and utter newbie, my first places to go for learning about vidding were permetaform's Vidding for newbies links and vidding community's memories -- along with lots of just general quiet lurking and observation of my friends list and friendsfriends list and vidding fandom.

At this point, I think I can say that these are the first three rules I feel fairly certain I have learned about vidding:

1) Cut to the beat
2) Don't be overly literal
3) Always know what you're trying to say (your theme, your thesis, your point, whatever)

There is other stuff I've learned or noted, of course, but I'd say those are the ones I've most internalized. What about you guys? What were the first building blocks you picked up? I'm thinking conceptual rather than technical, which, um, is a whole different thing.

sg-1 thoughts

I've spent the last day watching four of the Stargate SG-1 episodes you guy recommended to me, and ... it's like watching fanfiction a lot of the time, isn't it? Except it only feels half done, because at every step they tragically forgot to add in the porn.

However, these are the worst opening credits I have ever seen. What is the point of the exciting heroic action-y music if your entire credits are spent panning super super slowly over some carved rock? Um.

As I said, I've only watched four episodes so far, but two of them were "Window of Opportunity" and "But For the Grace of God" which -- even with the lack of porn -- leads me to the hypothesis that Jack and Sam are apparently fucking just about every possible state of the universe except the one the show usually exists in. Is this an inaccurate sample?