fandom quiz

[jmtorres]

echan and I have spent seriously, like, three hours, discussing fannish categorizations of material as it strays further and further from canon. We are interested in your opinions on the following:

In reference to vidding:
What constitutes canon (or nonviolation of canon)?
What constitutes an AU?
What constitutes constructed reality?

Where are the lines between these categories? What separates them? What rationales and characteristics can you use to differentiate between them?

Where does crossover fall in this scale?
Does the use of secondary sources make a vid fall into one category or another?

Second verse: would you care to tackle the same questions (as relevant) wrt fanfiction?

If you're very good, I may post my own thoughts on this matter when I am less drunk.

Comments

[ratcreature]

yeah, sorry, the conversation drifted. It's just that I watched maybe three constructed reality vids that I remember (one was Closer, and the other that SPN vid that has them as bankrobbers, and that SGA Rodney/Ronon vid that merges Ronon into scenes he wasn't in in canon), and these were pretty much what I would call AU in fic, so I've always more or less thought that constructed reality was just a word vidders use to call their AUs, like some fandoms call AUs something different.

[katta]

One thought that occurred to me is that comedy vids are kind of hard to categorize in that respect. For instance, is a LotR vid set to the Muppet Show theme song (authentic example, btw) a constructed reality in which the LotR gang are putting up a show, or is it "just" a silly commentary on their behaviour in canon? It could be seen as either...