Today began with reviews of yesterday. Frist there was the two hour Vid Review panel, lunch, and In-Depth Vid Review (a last minute change to my agenda - I originally planned to go to Best of Media West, but then it seemed like Want was going to be one of the ones for In Depth, and well, Supernatural!)

The vid review was moderated by Sandy and Melina, and I think they did an absolutely fantastic job of managing time while addressing all the vids that weren't dibsed by the In Depth review. I might be biased by their declaration of bias toward vids that tell stories. However, conversations after demonstrate an agreement that the mods did a great job keeping it constructive and brief. I already posted my personal response to most of the vids in Premieres. Here are brief notes about what others mentioned (not all vids are represented here, but all of them were at least brought up in the panel):
Moons of Jupiter: Liked the framing devace at the end and beginning. Good song choice. Good reading for all levels of viewer.
It's Not Over: the pan across black from brother to brother was awesome. Can read as gen rather than 'cest (if you need to, says Sisabet). Multiple opinions about the song choice when vid is from Dean's POV. Some shrug, some declare PERFECT, one suggests that it's from one of Sam's tapes that Dean listened to (endlessly) while Sam was at college. The effects were a good callback to the show's style.
Seven Nation Army: Good parallels, good team vid
My Happy Ending: Good frame, simple. Well focused.
Dock of the Bay: Tyranny of POV gets a little confused by an apparent shift to John. Several said it didn't quite work because the voice used for the lyrics has a very "I've given up" air, but Elizabeth is still fighting. A suggestion that using Old!Elizabeth as a framing device may have worked better.
Rodeohead: No waste. Accessible. Funny. A little long (but everytime I thought so, something else made me giggle).
Men in Black: Not really anything new about Torchwood itself.
I Remember: Color was fascinating. Excellent recruiter vid. Sadly, distribution seems limited.
Hustle: Another strong interracial male friendship (wait, I just thought that, didn't say out loud). The manic glee presented in the first few seconds of the vid set the mood and the vid carried it out. Good song choice.
Want: managed to get a mention in spite of being reserved for the in-depth. It was a twist on standard POV, being the demon instead of either (or both) of the Winchester boys. The end credits were a perfect come-down.
Sick Cycle Carousel: Good parallels
Synthesizer: The techno was fun, but some were looking for a direct metaphor for the techno that didn't ever show up.
Lifetime Piling Up: Not just funny.
The Loyal: The movie is very different, particularly in use of shot length -- much longer than the clips used in the vid.
Falling from the Sky: Yay Starbuck
Wind that Shakes the Barley: Visually interesting. Mark especially the scale of landscape shots contrasted with close-ups of hands.
Tamacum: Magic is interesting and cool.
Nothing New: a yearning, resigned vid of Mal/Inara. The vid's placement in the show (in the midst of a theme implied by Women's Work and West of Her Spine) affected its read, implying an objectification that was probably not meant by the vidder based on the self-critique in the lyrics of the male singer.
Another Sunday: Works best as a con vid, less so as a living room vid. Credits and effects were call-backs to the 80s era and really articulated the comedic intent. I wondered if SGA humor vids are loved better by SGA fans who identify the characters primarily by the archetypes they represent.
Cosmia: Another vid not like its movie. Creepily beautiful. The music choice and the structure that shaped around it were great -- beautiful harp for the beautiful imagery, and the slightly grating void to introduce the more troubling elements.
Southward Plantation Road: severe undercutting of lyrics. contrast (with what, I don't recall). Highlights the damaged relationship.
Trouble with Poets: the parallels and reassembly of the original content was entertaining and interesting.
Woodstock: theme of travel. The slower cover of the original song moved people familiar to a place of interesting dissonance and attentionl.

The In-Depth Vid Review was moderated by Rache and Dualbunny. By vote, the vids to be discussed were West of Her Spine and Want.
West of Her Spine: The vid begins with a M/F relationship, leading some viewers not familiar with the fandom (which was about 1/3 of the room) to suspect this may be a het fandom they just weren't familiar with. Others who knew what fandom it was but still lacked familiarity were experiencing the vid with the perception that the brunet POV character was Dexter (not Rudy, as explained by the other 2/3 of the room). Then (suddenly) the woman is killed. Some felt like there had been a bait-and-switch. [Personally, I did not feel that kind of betrayal, but part of that is my natural dissociation from any vid in Not My Fandom. NMF vids often don't get my attention.] There was discussion of how the placement of this vid colored the rest of the vidshow with a theme of violence against women. There was also mention of a desire for warnings on a vid this disturbing/creepy (depending, apparently, on familiarity with the fandom). [Personally, I mark that any creative work of any nature in any medium requires consideration (or assumption) of the audience. This vid was made for an audience familiar with the fandom. I am not part of that audience. That's okay. Not every vid needs to be a recruiter vid. Choice of audience is not required information for vid titles, and I don't think it should be.]
The vid initially works with and then against the lyrics. The color pallette is closer to normal than more fantastical shows, so it has a lesser level of abstraction. Rudy, the vid POV character, is broken, so the wrongness of his perspective is accurate for the vid made. However, since the vid POV character is different from the show POV character, titles become more important, as they do when operating counter-standard or vidding a new fandom that probably won't be familiar at a con.
Contrast this vid with Revenge, with an abstract, distancing color pallette and the degree of meta comentary on a genre.

In general, I wondered if this was the con of "Violence Against Women." Many hot fandoms right now have this aspect.

Want: questions raised: Was there a cheat at the end? Was the vidder trying (via song choice) trying to make demons female? Isn't Dean/Crossroads Demon the perfect mataphor for want -- our want as slashers?
The voice worked perfectly for most viewers.
Bodiless evil takes and takes and takes from the heroes.
Song comparison for thought: Justify My Love (suggestion by cesperanza).


Since I'm more than a little tired, I'm going to quit there and write up the Live Action/Anime vidpairs, Challenge Vids, and Auction Vids tomorrow. Hopefully my memory won't degrade too much. :)