End-of-Year Vidding Meme
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jetpack_monkeyYes, I should be working on my Festivid. Shush.
This year's vids:
My favorite video this year (of my own):
I think the James Bond vid turned out really well. It did pretty much everything I wanted it to do, used at least one clip from each of the 22 EON James Bond films, and was full of explosions.
My least favorite video this year:
The Tank Girl vid. It was a present for my sister and so I made a vid of her favorite movie. I quickly discovered that I don't like the movie at all. At that point, I probably should've found a different movie, but I soldiered on. It's pretty much a breakdown of the relevant plot points in the movie, chronologically ordered.
Most successful video:
"Sophisticated Song". People love the crap out of that. It seems like when I stick to the old movie wheelhouse, I can do no wrong. It's pretty cute, I have to admit.
Video most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
James Bond. I spent anywhere between three weeks and two months on that vid, depending on how you define preproduction. I laid that sucker out precisely and spent nights dreaming about it. And it goes up on YouTube and... nothing. Hardly any views. I poured my lifeblood into that sucker. I do have to say, though, thatabsolutedestiny said something incredibly kind about it at Club Vivid and that makes up for everything.
Most fun video:
The Gremlin Show. It's so effing ridiculous. And I whipped it up in something like five hours, the night it was due. Which shows. It's pretty fun, warts and all.
Video with single sexiest moment:
There's nothing not sexy about Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. I have at least two shots where I imply she's checking out his ass. I'm okay with this.
Biggest vid fail:
I started on this River Song vid and it will. not. cohese. AT ALL. Dammit, Song.
Hardest video to make:
Tank Girl. I spent months on it, but I spent most of that time not working on it at all, because, well, it just wasn't working. Eventually,echan stepped in and put together a general flow which I was able to tweak, alter, and overwrite. It's incredibly hard to work on a vid while actively believing it's not going to turn out well. My sister loved it though.
Most unintentionally telling video:
Not sure how to answer this one, since I'm not sure there's any single vid that says something particularly unintentional, but I guess the Gremlins vid would probably be unintentionally telling in some way. I spent the least amount of time throwing it together, so I spent the least amount of time thinking about it.
The things I've learned this year:
Movement matching. Working with action. Just because a song is a great thematic match doesn't make it a great vidding match (my original version of the James Bond Invincible vid was in an entirely different fandom and it didn't pan out). Trying to force productivity will actually reduce productivity.
For 2012:
My return to Doctor Who vidding. Some more horror vids. A Scott Pilgrim vid when I can get a song I like. One particular vid that also needs a song, but will be perfect when I have that, because the concept itself is failure- and critic-proof.
This year's vids:
- Invincible - Tank Girl (with echan ) [available only on the Apocalypse West 2011 DVD]
- Invincible - James Bond [Vividcon 2011]
- The Gremlin Show - Gremlins [Vividcon 2011]
- A Sophisticated Song - Classic Hollywood (Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn) [Vividcon 2011]
My favorite video this year (of my own):
I think the James Bond vid turned out really well. It did pretty much everything I wanted it to do, used at least one clip from each of the 22 EON James Bond films, and was full of explosions.
My least favorite video this year:
The Tank Girl vid. It was a present for my sister and so I made a vid of her favorite movie. I quickly discovered that I don't like the movie at all. At that point, I probably should've found a different movie, but I soldiered on. It's pretty much a breakdown of the relevant plot points in the movie, chronologically ordered.
Most successful video:
"Sophisticated Song". People love the crap out of that. It seems like when I stick to the old movie wheelhouse, I can do no wrong. It's pretty cute, I have to admit.
Video most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
James Bond. I spent anywhere between three weeks and two months on that vid, depending on how you define preproduction. I laid that sucker out precisely and spent nights dreaming about it. And it goes up on YouTube and... nothing. Hardly any views. I poured my lifeblood into that sucker. I do have to say, though, that
absolutedestiny said something incredibly kind about it at Club Vivid and that makes up for everything.Most fun video:
The Gremlin Show. It's so effing ridiculous. And I whipped it up in something like five hours, the night it was due. Which shows. It's pretty fun, warts and all.
Video with single sexiest moment:
There's nothing not sexy about Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. I have at least two shots where I imply she's checking out his ass. I'm okay with this.
Biggest vid fail:
I started on this River Song vid and it will. not. cohese. AT ALL. Dammit, Song.
Hardest video to make:
Tank Girl. I spent months on it, but I spent most of that time not working on it at all, because, well, it just wasn't working. Eventually,
echan stepped in and put together a general flow which I was able to tweak, alter, and overwrite. It's incredibly hard to work on a vid while actively believing it's not going to turn out well. My sister loved it though.Most unintentionally telling video:
Not sure how to answer this one, since I'm not sure there's any single vid that says something particularly unintentional, but I guess the Gremlins vid would probably be unintentionally telling in some way. I spent the least amount of time throwing it together, so I spent the least amount of time thinking about it.
The things I've learned this year:
Movement matching. Working with action. Just because a song is a great thematic match doesn't make it a great vidding match (my original version of the James Bond Invincible vid was in an entirely different fandom and it didn't pan out). Trying to force productivity will actually reduce productivity.
For 2012:
My return to Doctor Who vidding. Some more horror vids. A Scott Pilgrim vid when I can get a song I like. One particular vid that also needs a song, but will be perfect when I have that, because the concept itself is failure- and critic-proof.
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Date: 2012-01-01 05:34 am (UTC)River Song!
The Tank Girl vid... I quickly discovered that I don't like the movie at all.
You are dead to me.
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Date: 2012-01-01 05:44 am (UTC)It was a shock to me! I remembered quite liking the film as a teenager!
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:24 am (UTC)lol