VID: Home (Jigoku)

Vid Title: Home
Length: 2:26
Song: Miles Fisher - This Must Be the Place
Source: Jigoku (1960)
Summary: "Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there."
Warnings: Gore, body trauma, some stuttery cuts, trippy imagery.
Made for: absolutedestiny , Festivids 2011 (Treat).

Password:  tamura

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Notes: This vid was as much a gift from absolutedestiny  as it was a gift for him. I'd long wanted to do a vid for Jigoku set to this song and I even had some of it laid down in Final Cut, but I knew it would be very difficult and I wasn't sure there would be an audience for it, so I put it aside. Then absolutedestiny  posted his Dear Festividder letter. At that point, I was damn near convinced that I was going to get assigned him, given that I'd offered so many of the fandoms he requested, so I started in on the Jigoku vid again.

I ended up getting assigned someone else (as you do), but I still did the Jigoku vid as a treat because it might be the only time I ever had to make it and because I was so damned delighted that there was someone else out there who even knew the film existed. The vid... well, it morphed into a different vid than I had originally set out to make. Partially because I was trying to match some of the request, but also because I was a different vidder than I was back when I started contemplating this vid. Honestly, I think it's better for it.

I first ran into Jigoku in 2007 when I bought it on DVD on a whim, completely unaware of what it was. I watched it and my mind was blown. Sure, it was the first film with concentrated amounts of gore in it, but that was beside the point. It was also a fascinating, trippy descent into Hell with more layers than parfait. It took me a year to properly review it on Classic-Horror.com and that review remains my longest to date.

I kind of love trippy films about damnation. Just get me going on Mario Bava's Lisa and the Devil sometime.

Is there a point to this? Yes. You really need to go see Jigoku. It's on DVD from the Criterion Collection and it's awesome, if not for the squeamish.

Also, thanks to my betas, echan , diannelamerc , and  lizbetann for encouragement and notes. And thanks so, so much to absolutedestiny, without whom this vid would never have been completed.

VID: Mean Woman Blues (Once a Thief)

Vid Title: Mean Woman Blues
Length: 0:58
Song: Roy Orbison - Mean Woman Blues
Source: Once a Thief (TV)
Warnings: Gunfire with muzzle flash, some strobing lights in the background of one shot.
Made for: fan_eunice, Festivids 2011 (Treat)

Summary: It's "Director" with a capital "D" and "Mac" with a lowercase "s".

Password: director

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Notes: fan_eunice  brought me into the world of Once a Thief and I am eternally grateful. I knew she would be requesting it for Festivids, so I kept my ears open for a song. It found me in an album of Roy Orbison's greatest hits. I heard this song and said to myself, "Yeah, that's the Director. That's the song!" I've done very few shippy vids, so there were some new muscles to test out in that regard. I also tried very hard to make this vid like fan_eunice  might have made it had she made it for herself -- I'm not sure how successful I was in that regard.

Much love to my betas, echan, diannelamerc, and lizbetann for encouragement and notes.

VID: TiK ToK (Cemetery Man)

Vid title: TiK ToK
Length: 1:59
Song: Ke$ha - TiK ToK
Fandom: Cemetary Man, aka Dellamorte Dellamore
Warnings: Violence, muzzle flash, gore
Made for: thirdblindmouse , Festivids 2011 (Treat)

Summary: For the caretaker of a small-town cemetery in Italy, the party don't stop... ever.

Password: dellamorte

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Notes: Everybody has to do a TiK ToK vid eventually, might as well do it for a film you love. And I do love Cemetery Man, which is why I was so excited to see someone request it and why I was so excited to fill that request. Rupert Everett + zombies + existentialist purgatory = AWESOME.

Many thanks to echan, without whose encouragement I might not have completed this.

VID: Eye of the Tiger (A Knight's Tale)

Vid Title: Eye of the Tiger
Length: 2:16
Song: Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Source: A Knight's Tale
Warnings: None that I can think of
Made for: Jaidanwolf, Festivids 2011

Summary: A Knight's Tale is both 20 years too late and nearly 700 years too early to be a 1980s sports movie. That doesn't stop it from trying.

Password: ulrich

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Notes: Thanks to echan, butterflykiki, lizbetann, and diannelamerc for your beta fu. Thanks to Jaidanwolf for the prompt and the suggestion of We Will Rock You for the song which put me into a sports-movie frame of mind. Thanks to whoever randomly posted Bill Conti's Gonna Fly Now to Facebook for helping me narrow that frame of mind until I had a song.

Festivids Revealed!

Festivids reveals are today! Now it can be told! I made four Festivids this year. Links to their individual posts below:

Eye of the Tiger (A Knight's Tale for Jaidanwolf)

Home (Jigoku for AbsoluteDestiny)

TiK ToK (Cemetery Man for Third Mouse)

Mean Woman Blues (Once a Thief for fan_eunice)

I loved making all of these vids and I'm really excited about all of them.

Festivids Makes Me Post a Lot

One of the great things about Reveals is that I finally get to thank the makers of my two AMAZING vids by name. So, thank you thank you thank you to my vidding braintwin sol_se for the gorgeous Martin vid  and azarsuerte for the adorable Eureka vid. You two rock and I will be rewatching both vids incessantly for years to come.