that vidding meme what everyone's doing
Dec. 31st, 2015 09:50 am My Vids for 2015
This Be the Verse (Adam West Batman)
Holy Dance Vid, Batman! (Adam West Batman)
Joy to the City (Fringe)
Cassavetes (Iron Man)
Game On (Voynich Manuscript)
Favorite
"Joy to the City", I think. It's a story I've wanted to tell for several years and it's a story I've not seen anyone else talking about in the same way, and I think I did a good job of telling it. And it's a song I love and it was a pleasure to vid, and it got a good response, and everything about it makes me happy.
Least Favorite
Uh... "Game On"? I mean, not just because it is probably not really a vid, but because every time I look at it it reminds me that I originally had an idea for something incredibly ambitious and I made this instead. For what it is, "Game On" is fine, and I'm still looking forward to seeing![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ghost_lingering's response, but it's certainly the least substantial and interesting thing I made this year.
Most Successful
One of the Batman vids, I'd say "Holy Dance Vid, Batman." Which is funny because I made that so much quicker and with so much less thought than "This Be the Verse", but on the other hand, it's accessible and bangs hard on nostalgia buttons, so that makes sense.
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
"Cassavetes"! My first vid shown at a con, and I got some nice feedback from people who were at the con, and then the actual posting online got very little response. I don't understand why. It's a megafandom, it's a great song, and it says something I think is interesting about how we fan. You'd think it would get more attention than it did.
Most Fun to Make
"Joy to the City". Well, except for the hunting tediously through all of Season 5 for Resist! posters part, that was a pain. But the rest was just a wallow in beautiful source and beautiful music and Etta feelings.
Hardest Vid to Make
Torn between saying "Cassavetes" and "This Be the Verse". "Cassavetes" in general wasn't hard formally, but I could. not. get. the. opening. right. I'm not even really sure why, but the timing was impossible. I'd think I had it right, then I'd go back to it a couple days later and it would be all wrong again. It was maddening.
"This Be the Verse" went through a lot of iterations because it required a lot of precision in the messaging, because more than my other vids this year it was arguing against the source material. I originally tried to position Alfred as "your mum", but betas rejected that as confusing, so I moved toward Bruce as both "your mum and dad" and things started to work better. There were a lot of things like that, where my first intuition about how to deliver the message was wrong. Also, the crossover stuff required a lot of massaging. First the aspect ratio stuff, but that was mostly straightforward to figure out, none of the shots in Gotham I needed had important stuff in the composition outside of the 4:3 cropping box. But the color was a big problem. Adam West Batman is oversaturated with color and to try to make the Gotham footage feel reasonably compatible took a lot of time and color adjustment of each clip individually. (I considered throwing in the towel and just making the Gotham stuff be Black and White, but that didn't work either.)
The Things I Learned This Year
I dunno? I guess I learned that I can pull off a multifandom vid. I learned that I can actually make an anon vid thatsanguinity won't sniff out. I don't feel like any of my vids this year are particularly impressive or technically pushed myself all that much, so maybe I learned that if I want to make vids that satisfy me I need to learn more and push myself more outside of the limited toolkit of vidding techniques I have.
Planning for Next Year
I'm sitting on my response toghost_lingering"s presumptive crackvid salvo. I'm really excited to share it with the world... if she doesn't post hers soon, I may crack and post it anyway.
I've also been working on a neonconservative Tony Stark vid that makes me really excited because of the way it argues against everything fandom thinks about Tony. And a little further down the line there's a Big Bang Theory vid that I'm hoping to get to, not because I like Big Bang Theory but because I want to vid this particular filksong and BBT seems like the best match for the ideas I want to develop.
This Be the Verse (Adam West Batman)
Holy Dance Vid, Batman! (Adam West Batman)
Joy to the City (Fringe)
Cassavetes (Iron Man)
Game On (Voynich Manuscript)
Favorite
"Joy to the City", I think. It's a story I've wanted to tell for several years and it's a story I've not seen anyone else talking about in the same way, and I think I did a good job of telling it. And it's a song I love and it was a pleasure to vid, and it got a good response, and everything about it makes me happy.
Least Favorite
Uh... "Game On"? I mean, not just because it is probably not really a vid, but because every time I look at it it reminds me that I originally had an idea for something incredibly ambitious and I made this instead. For what it is, "Game On" is fine, and I'm still looking forward to seeing
ghost_lingering's response, but it's certainly the least substantial and interesting thing I made this year.Most Successful
One of the Batman vids, I'd say "Holy Dance Vid, Batman." Which is funny because I made that so much quicker and with so much less thought than "This Be the Verse", but on the other hand, it's accessible and bangs hard on nostalgia buttons, so that makes sense.
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
"Cassavetes"! My first vid shown at a con, and I got some nice feedback from people who were at the con, and then the actual posting online got very little response. I don't understand why. It's a megafandom, it's a great song, and it says something I think is interesting about how we fan. You'd think it would get more attention than it did.
Most Fun to Make
"Joy to the City". Well, except for the hunting tediously through all of Season 5 for Resist! posters part, that was a pain. But the rest was just a wallow in beautiful source and beautiful music and Etta feelings.
Hardest Vid to Make
Torn between saying "Cassavetes" and "This Be the Verse". "Cassavetes" in general wasn't hard formally, but I could. not. get. the. opening. right. I'm not even really sure why, but the timing was impossible. I'd think I had it right, then I'd go back to it a couple days later and it would be all wrong again. It was maddening.
"This Be the Verse" went through a lot of iterations because it required a lot of precision in the messaging, because more than my other vids this year it was arguing against the source material. I originally tried to position Alfred as "your mum", but betas rejected that as confusing, so I moved toward Bruce as both "your mum and dad" and things started to work better. There were a lot of things like that, where my first intuition about how to deliver the message was wrong. Also, the crossover stuff required a lot of massaging. First the aspect ratio stuff, but that was mostly straightforward to figure out, none of the shots in Gotham I needed had important stuff in the composition outside of the 4:3 cropping box. But the color was a big problem. Adam West Batman is oversaturated with color and to try to make the Gotham footage feel reasonably compatible took a lot of time and color adjustment of each clip individually. (I considered throwing in the towel and just making the Gotham stuff be Black and White, but that didn't work either.)
The Things I Learned This Year
I dunno? I guess I learned that I can pull off a multifandom vid. I learned that I can actually make an anon vid that
sanguinity won't sniff out. I don't feel like any of my vids this year are particularly impressive or technically pushed myself all that much, so maybe I learned that if I want to make vids that satisfy me I need to learn more and push myself more outside of the limited toolkit of vidding techniques I have.Planning for Next Year
I'm sitting on my response to
ghost_lingering"s presumptive crackvid salvo. I'm really excited to share it with the world... if she doesn't post hers soon, I may crack and post it anyway.I've also been working on a neonconservative Tony Stark vid that makes me really excited because of the way it argues against everything fandom thinks about Tony. And a little further down the line there's a Big Bang Theory vid that I'm hoping to get to, not because I like Big Bang Theory but because I want to vid this particular filksong and BBT seems like the best match for the ideas I want to develop.