#kandy fong

It is from this slideshow and others that followed that we have gotten music fanvids and AMVs (Animated Music Videos) within modern fandom.

Kandy Fong's Fanlore article

Kandy Fong's AO3 profile

Oral interview with Kandy Fong and Marnie S. (2012)

"Some companies have replicated the fanvid format for multimedia advertising campaigns. Because teenagers so often jump to social media after consuming content, video edits can become an incentive to dive deeper into a particular brand. It is addictive because, “video editors always compose the best movie scenes into one edit,” said Melanie Candelo, a junior at NEST+m who enjoys watching video edits on Instagram. “The transitions are always on beat with the music,” she added, suggesting that our natural affinity for beat drops and predictive timing might just play a role in the vidding craze. ...

This is the first ever fanvid (in the Western tradition). Made by Kandy Fong using cut clips from Star Trek episodes discarded by production and set to music and narration by Kandy herself in a slideshow, this vid premiered first to the United Federation of Phoenix in 1974, then again at Equicon 75/Filmcon 3 in 1975.

“Kandy Fong is widely acknowledged to be the first live action media vidders. She began by making slideshows that set Star Trek footage to music in 1975.”

This gets a little into the details of language, and Kandy Fong's video recording of - mixing Star Trek stills on a slide projector with Leonard Nimoy singing "Both Sides Now" is certainly a remix. But is it a customization of Star Trek? or the song? This difference doesn't matter too much outside the context of our project. But when we are trying to bring so many people together the details become important. And for the video, even if it's relation to the project is a point of discussion in the bigger scheme - it started the culture of vidding, without which our conversation would be much more limited. So thanks Kandy.