2009 Vidding Meme
Dec. 28th, 2009 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cherryI have never actually done one of these, for reasons that should quickly* become obvious. I did do some rambly-rambling at the end of last year, the main conclusions of which was that I should stop being afraid of Real Vidders. February will mark three years since I posted my first vid.
Vids made in 2009:
January
Unsteady Ground - Merlin
June
Convenient Parking - Dexter/Criminal Minds
Dark Room - Merlin
August
Attention: Gotham City - Batman: The Dark Knight
* I am a punny girl! Once again, my vidding output for the year can be watched in less than ten minutes. This is an improvement, as last year's total was three vids and less than eight minutes.
My favorite video this year (of my own):
At the time I made it, Unsteady Ground. Probably still my favourite in practice, but my favourite in conception is Convenient Parking.
My least favourite video this year:
Dark Room. It started out as a self-indulgent study in motion and music, and turned into a Yeats-inspired epic destiny/tragic legend/doomed relationships study. The dissonance remains in my head.
Most successful video:
Unsteady Ground, by far. By a factor of 2 - 4, actually.
Video most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I don't know if Attention: Gotham City is underappreciated -- I wish it had gotten a bigger response, but that doesn't mean that it deserved one.
Most fun video:
Convenient Parking, because I got to mashup Dexter and Criminal Minds.
Video with single sexiest moment:
I am fairly certain that moment is in someone else's vid.
Biggest vid fail:
The fact that you could have a cup of coffee, eat a bag of chips, and watch all of my vids for the year within a government-mandated coffee break.
That, or the fact that Unsteady Ground and Dark Room are far too similar to each other for my liking. They're companion vids, yes. That's it.
Hardest video to make:
Conceptually, Convenient Parking was the hardest -- I was crossing over two disparate fandoms with visually different footage. Practically, Dark Room was the hardest: as I mentioned before, it went from 'lalalala I'm going to play with movement and colour' to
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
There was residual cognitive dissonance like you would not believe. Overall, though, I didn't have anything that really, really kicked my ass.
Most unintentionally telling video:
The ones that did not get finished, because I decided they were full of failure. I don't think I abandoned any after finishing them this year.
The things I've learned this year:
- My vids are made from clips cut with rusty safety scissors and held together by chewing gum and baling twine.
- Tech isn't everything. It's (probably) okay if my vids are held together with chewing gum and baling twine.
- Hotel plants do not provide sufficient cover for covert operations and/or cowering.
- I am intimating to some people. Or was at least, at one point, intimidating to one person. The absurdity of this leads me to concede that my fear of Real Vidders is perhaps ridiculous, and that hiding behind greenery is silly.
- It's okay for me to leave feedback. Peoplecrave like feedback.
For 2010:
I would like to make some vids. This may sound like a silly goal, but considering I made four vids this year and three the year before, I feel that this is a good target. I have an extremely large number that have been backburnered in my mind, either due to time constraints, vidder failure, or uncertainly as to whether I can do the idea justice. I am going to try to buckle down more, and be more decisive.
I often have timelines on the go for three or four vids, none of which I end up finishing.
I could conceivably focus on increasing my technical abilities -- learning how to add motion, figuring out how to make titles without making a completely new screen every time anything moves, fixing my flickers, doing speed changes without cutting my clips into exceedingly tiny pieces and changing the speed incrementally on each subclip -- but I think that perhaps narrative is more important for me at the moment. Motion and musicality come more easily to me, but thesis-based narratives are like pulling teeth. The fact that I did not have any vids whose construction made me want to stab myself in the face repeatedly likely means that I wasn't stretching as much as I could be.
Of course, it might also be nice to make something just for fun, to play with motion.
Vids made in 2009:
January
Unsteady Ground - Merlin
June
Convenient Parking - Dexter/Criminal Minds
Dark Room - Merlin
August
Attention: Gotham City - Batman: The Dark Knight
* I am a punny girl! Once again, my vidding output for the year can be watched in less than ten minutes. This is an improvement, as last year's total was three vids and less than eight minutes.
My favorite video this year (of my own):
At the time I made it, Unsteady Ground. Probably still my favourite in practice, but my favourite in conception is Convenient Parking.
My least favourite video this year:
Dark Room. It started out as a self-indulgent study in motion and music, and turned into a Yeats-inspired epic destiny/tragic legend/doomed relationships study. The dissonance remains in my head.
Most successful video:
Unsteady Ground, by far. By a factor of 2 - 4, actually.
Video most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I don't know if Attention: Gotham City is underappreciated -- I wish it had gotten a bigger response, but that doesn't mean that it deserved one.
Most fun video:
Convenient Parking, because I got to mashup Dexter and Criminal Minds.
Video with single sexiest moment:
I am fairly certain that moment is in someone else's vid.
Biggest vid fail:
The fact that you could have a cup of coffee, eat a bag of chips, and watch all of my vids for the year within a government-mandated coffee break.
That, or the fact that Unsteady Ground and Dark Room are far too similar to each other for my liking. They're companion vids, yes. That's it.
Hardest video to make:
Conceptually, Convenient Parking was the hardest -- I was crossing over two disparate fandoms with visually different footage. Practically, Dark Room was the hardest: as I mentioned before, it went from 'lalalala I'm going to play with movement and colour' to
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
There was residual cognitive dissonance like you would not believe. Overall, though, I didn't have anything that really, really kicked my ass.
Most unintentionally telling video:
The ones that did not get finished, because I decided they were full of failure. I don't think I abandoned any after finishing them this year.
The things I've learned this year:
- My vids are made from clips cut with rusty safety scissors and held together by chewing gum and baling twine.
- Tech isn't everything. It's (probably) okay if my vids are held together with chewing gum and baling twine.
- Hotel plants do not provide sufficient cover for covert operations and/or cowering.
- I am intimating to some people. Or was at least, at one point, intimidating to one person. The absurdity of this leads me to concede that my fear of Real Vidders is perhaps ridiculous, and that hiding behind greenery is silly.
- It's okay for me to leave feedback. People
For 2010:
I would like to make some vids. This may sound like a silly goal, but considering I made four vids this year and three the year before, I feel that this is a good target. I have an extremely large number that have been backburnered in my mind, either due to time constraints, vidder failure, or uncertainly as to whether I can do the idea justice. I am going to try to buckle down more, and be more decisive.
I often have timelines on the go for three or four vids, none of which I end up finishing.
I could conceivably focus on increasing my technical abilities -- learning how to add motion, figuring out how to make titles without making a completely new screen every time anything moves, fixing my flickers, doing speed changes without cutting my clips into exceedingly tiny pieces and changing the speed incrementally on each subclip -- but I think that perhaps narrative is more important for me at the moment. Motion and musicality come more easily to me, but thesis-based narratives are like pulling teeth. The fact that I did not have any vids whose construction made me want to stab myself in the face repeatedly likely means that I wasn't stretching as much as I could be.
Of course, it might also be nice to make something just for fun, to play with motion.
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Date: 2009-12-29 12:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-29 04:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-29 03:26 am (UTC)I looooove Unsteady Ground. It's not just one of my favorite vids by you, it's one of my favorite vids, period.
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Date: 2009-12-29 04:43 pm (UTC)I know I said it before, but you guys were pretty awesome for letting me hang out with you -- I really didn't know too many people, and it went a long way to helping me feel comfortable and included.
(Not to be creepy or anything...)
I looooove Unsteady Ground.
Awww, thank you. *blush*
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Date: 2009-12-30 05:43 pm (UTC)Tech isn't everything. It's (probably) okay if my vids are held together with chewing gum and baling twine.
I'm getting this embroidered on a pillow tomorrow.
I am intimating to some people. Or was at least, at one point, intimidating to one person.
Erm...*raises hand*? :P
I think making some vids is a fantastic goal for 2010. Yes, I will share this goal. Yay vids.
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Date: 2010-01-01 12:00 am (UTC)I keep seeing people with five or six full-length vids thinking that they were not very productive. It makes me mad jealous.
I'm getting this embroidered on a pillow tomorrow.
If you take pictures, I will print them out and hang them on the wall above my computer.
Erm...*raises hand*? :P
Ack, no! *hugs!* For serious, I am probably one of the least intimidating people you can find anywhere, in any respect. I love puppies and fluffy bunnies and everything.
I will share this goal.
Yay! It's like the buddy system.
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Date: 2010-01-02 07:24 pm (UTC)Bunnies! It must be bunnies! hee. It's kind of funny how all the vidders I talk to are intimidated by some other vidders. So we all just wander around being intimidated by eachother. We are quite a neurotic and amusing bunch.
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Date: 2009-12-30 10:23 pm (UTC)I just realized that I inadvertently filtered your LJ off my flist when I saw you pop up on Dreamwidth, and I spent some portion of today going "I wonder why cherryice never posts anymore, I hope everything's okay." And now like a dork I see that you aren't crossposting and I have MISSED you and now I am back and hello!
:p
You made good vids this year, and I for one would like to see you come out from behind the plant.
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Date: 2010-01-01 12:20 am (UTC)No, I am afraid I have pretty much failed at crossposting. This should probably not surprise me, as I often fail at maintaining one journal. I should probably make some sort of notice over there, other than just throwing in a "Hi, I suck at this" at the top of a semi-sorta-catch up post.
You made good vids this year, and I for one would like to see you come out from behind the plant.
Aww, thank you. I am trying to be slightly less ridiculous.
I have just realized that I saw this comment and was thinking of you, which may be why I accidentally spammed you. Eeep. Sorry!
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Date: 2010-01-01 06:35 pm (UTC)Do not worry about the emails, really! I'm glad to be thought of, even accidentally.