Rainbow Noise

In 1993, Tashery Shannon started a letterzine for vidders called Rainbow Noise, named for the flashes of color between clips in old songtapes made without a flying erase head built into their editing VCR.AMORPHOUS PROMISE in the Ask Rik Video Newsletter Nov 1993: "The manual for my Hitachi VM-C1E camcorder explains...that the flying erase head eliminates glitches and rainbow noise that occurs at the joints between recordings." (reference link).
Tashery also included a videotape of vids with a subscription, with the hope that each subscriber would add her own vid to the end until there was a collection of vids of all the vidders in the group.
From On the Double #25 (December 1992):
In 1993, Tashery wrote a short article about vidding to the Strange New Worlds newsletter (a mid 1990s newsletter that published original non-fiction articles related to TV media, including science fiction, military, and others). In it she described another purpose of the Rainbow Noise newsletter: 
At least three issues were published, possibly more.
==Before The First Issue==
Before the first issue was published in March 1993, the editors sent a lengthy "topics for discussion" guide. The list touches on some of the more important issues to vidders in the analog era
==Issue 1==
Issue 1 was published in March 1993 and contains 14 pages.
Contents
* Basic Song Selection by DJ Driscoll
* Songvids and FanFic by Tashery S
* A Musing On Vid Making In General, And The Use of Color In Particular by Gayle F
* In Case You Didn't Get To Escapade by Sandy Hereld (see the Escapade page)
* Reviews - Too Long a Soldier and Winds of Change by Karen Y (see those pages)
* Fan Music Videos That Please Me by Nicole V
* Audio /Visual Rhythm by Nicole V
* Favorite Vids by Gayle F (The Boxer by Mary Van Deusen and Evening Falls by Tashery S) (see those pages)
* Natterings From The North by Sandy Hereld
* Desert Island Songtapes by Sandy Hereld
* VCRs? By Sandy Hereld
* Show and Tell of My Setup by Tashery S
* Email Anyone? (Looking For Slash Fans) by Sandy Hereld
* Current Projects by Gayle F, DJ Driscoll and Tashery S
* Swapping Corner – Bazaar For Ideas and Tape Trades
===Songvids and FanFic===
Selected excerpts from the article:
===Color===
===Vids As Audio/Visual Poetry===
===Natterings/Desert Island Songtapes===
In 1993, Sandy Herrold posted to the Virgule-L mailing list the following letter that she had mailed to the new letterzine. It is reposted here in its entirety with permission. 
===VCR Help===
==Issue 2==
Issue 2 was published in June 1993 and contains 12 pages.
* The Use and Abuse of Videotape by Kandy Fong
* About Rainbow Noise issue #1 (Letters)
* Old Vidfellows by Sandy Hereld (a survey of the frequency of pairings in Blake’s 7 vids to date)
* Editing For Continuity and Motion by Tashery Shannon
* Song Videos and the Male of the Species by Clif Davis
* Reviews by Gayle F (Arbiter and We Will Never Pass This Way Again) by Paul and Mary Van Duesen (see those pages)
* Various Vid Reviews by Alana M
* Technical Tips: 1 ¾ <F*INSERT PAUSE (AKA What The Cat Tries To Do to Your VCR) by T’Rhys
* Trading Corner
* Round Robin Tape Schedule
* The Lost Pages: Diary of A Mad Vidder by DJ Driscoll
* Ideas and Offers by Kandy Fong
===Videotape Handling===
===Letters===
===Editing For Continuity and Motion===
Selected excerpts:
Other topics addresses: Actor's Motion, Camera Motion, Length of Shots.
===Gender and Vidding===
===Lost Diary===
Note: The Miami Vice vid may be by Tolbran.
===Ideas and Offers===
Note: The vid library and duping tree never did materialize.
==Issue 3==
Unknown content. It was mentioned in Rallying Call #13 in April 1995 when a fan addresses another: "Do we know each other? Well, we would (sort of) if Tashery Shannon had put out that fourth issue of "Rainbow Noise" on anything resembling its originally projected schedule. I have comments in there replying to your comments in the previous three issues... it's hard to remember after all this time."
==References==
Category:Multimedia Zines
Category:Vidding
Category:1993 Zines