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Dec. 29th, 2019 10:03 amMy Vids for 2019
Third on the Playlist Broad City
Glass Coffins Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego
Talent Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego
In An MMMbop They're Gone
Redemption Song Star Wars
The Engineer MCU
I Walk Alone Carmen Sandiego
Vibranium MCU
Tik Tok Fiddler on the Roof
Night of Roses Inglourious Basterds
Baby Shark Inglourious Basterds
The Least That We Could Do Indecent
I Got it from Agnes MCU
Thirteen vids! That's more than a vid a month! Though obviously that rate is buoyed artificially by "Talent" and "Baby Shark", which are not truly separate vids of their own, they're just spillover emotions from making other vids.
Favorite
It's hard, I'm proud of a lot of my vids this year. I think "The Engineer" is a personal favorite, it's a vid I've wanted to make for several years and I love how it came out, and it says a lot about how I think about the world. I'm also very proud of "Night of Roses", I think it's my most technically accomplished work this year. The stuff with overlays is more ambitious than usual for me but it all works seamlessly. And it has a few of my favorite cuts of the year as well, where I manage to match the rhythm of the music both with the cuts and with the internal motion.
Least Favorite
"The Least That We Can Do"... one of those vids I make that's probably more ambitious than I can actually pull off. Every time I watch it it reads differently, and sometimes I agree with what it seems to be saying and sometimes I don't, and I find that frustrating. That said, I'm really glad I attempted it, and at least some of the time I think it works. It was trying to say things that are really important to me. It's quite possibly also a vid I have no distance on, and if I watched it again in a year I might like it.
Most Successful
My Carmen vids. "Glass Coffins" got a great reception at Festivids and was then played at Vidukon. And "I Walk Alone" has gotten more hits than any of my other vids on youtube this year, getting a big spike when Season 2 went up on Netflix.
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
I'm not really unsatisifed with the reception any of them got. I think "The Least That We Could Do" is the one where the fandom is most obscure, and therefore not a lot of people have been interested in it, but even that got a surprising number of kudos. It's been a good year for vidding! Oh, I guess the other one I could mention is "MMMbop", which I am not unhappy about the response at all, but I did think it had a potential vector to virality and it seems not to have hit that.
Most Fun to Make
"Tik Tok", no question. A mere two week vidding process, everything went smoothly and it was just about reveling in fun movement and characters I love deeply. It also gave me chances to be a little sillier and more visually imaginative with how I manipulated the source than I usually am.
Hardest Vid to Make
"Redemption Song" was a vid that pretty much got ripped apart and then put back together again differently. Switched cover version, switched premise, added a lot more supplemental source. That was a lot of work.
The Things I Learned This Year
I made significant use of Blackmagic Fusion for this first time this year, in several vids. It was used for the credits in "Third on the Playlist", for removing talky-face in "Glass Coffins", for several composited shots in "Tik Tok" and "Vibranium" and "Night of Roses". The composed insertion of the inset rose into the window in one of the first shots in "Night of Roses" is one of the shots I am proudest of this year... it looks pretty seamless unless you look very closely, it immediately establishes a bunch of things I want to establish, it's such a cool thing. I also made much more use of the in-editor effects and transitions in Kdenlive. 2019 was a year in which I became much more comfortable using effects, after the last couple years of my vidding being dominated by learning how to make use of motion and cutting alone to drive my vids. "Vibranium" uses transitions I would have shunned as too in-your-face aggressive two years ago and "Tik Tok" is fully of silly transitions. And I think two years ago I would have been right. It's only because I am so much better at cutting now that I can use showier transitions without it feeling obnoxious.
My Goals from Last Year
I made three Festivids, three Equinox vids, A Tony Stark Vid which was Migldi Magldi, and several other vids including a Con premiere at Vidukon and a con premiere at Fanworks. My only failure was on Vid Big Bang. I made 3 minutes of a VBB draft but then it fizzled.
Planning for Next Year
Target vids for 2020:
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-At least one con premiere
-The Jews Dancing Sequel
-A Fringe vid or a Sarah Connor Chronicles vid
-An MCU vid
-A Grey's Anatomy vid (it remains deeply weird that I am fannish about this show now, but since it happened, I may as well vid.)
I'm tempted to tempt fate and add the Terminator VBB vid to the list, but better to call that a stretch goal.
Third on the Playlist Broad City
Glass Coffins Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego
Talent Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego
In An MMMbop They're Gone
Redemption Song Star Wars
The Engineer MCU
I Walk Alone Carmen Sandiego
Vibranium MCU
Tik Tok Fiddler on the Roof
Night of Roses Inglourious Basterds
Baby Shark Inglourious Basterds
The Least That We Could Do Indecent
I Got it from Agnes MCU
Thirteen vids! That's more than a vid a month! Though obviously that rate is buoyed artificially by "Talent" and "Baby Shark", which are not truly separate vids of their own, they're just spillover emotions from making other vids.
Favorite
It's hard, I'm proud of a lot of my vids this year. I think "The Engineer" is a personal favorite, it's a vid I've wanted to make for several years and I love how it came out, and it says a lot about how I think about the world. I'm also very proud of "Night of Roses", I think it's my most technically accomplished work this year. The stuff with overlays is more ambitious than usual for me but it all works seamlessly. And it has a few of my favorite cuts of the year as well, where I manage to match the rhythm of the music both with the cuts and with the internal motion.
Least Favorite
"The Least That We Can Do"... one of those vids I make that's probably more ambitious than I can actually pull off. Every time I watch it it reads differently, and sometimes I agree with what it seems to be saying and sometimes I don't, and I find that frustrating. That said, I'm really glad I attempted it, and at least some of the time I think it works. It was trying to say things that are really important to me. It's quite possibly also a vid I have no distance on, and if I watched it again in a year I might like it.
Most Successful
My Carmen vids. "Glass Coffins" got a great reception at Festivids and was then played at Vidukon. And "I Walk Alone" has gotten more hits than any of my other vids on youtube this year, getting a big spike when Season 2 went up on Netflix.
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
I'm not really unsatisifed with the reception any of them got. I think "The Least That We Could Do" is the one where the fandom is most obscure, and therefore not a lot of people have been interested in it, but even that got a surprising number of kudos. It's been a good year for vidding! Oh, I guess the other one I could mention is "MMMbop", which I am not unhappy about the response at all, but I did think it had a potential vector to virality and it seems not to have hit that.
Most Fun to Make
"Tik Tok", no question. A mere two week vidding process, everything went smoothly and it was just about reveling in fun movement and characters I love deeply. It also gave me chances to be a little sillier and more visually imaginative with how I manipulated the source than I usually am.
Hardest Vid to Make
"Redemption Song" was a vid that pretty much got ripped apart and then put back together again differently. Switched cover version, switched premise, added a lot more supplemental source. That was a lot of work.
The Things I Learned This Year
I made significant use of Blackmagic Fusion for this first time this year, in several vids. It was used for the credits in "Third on the Playlist", for removing talky-face in "Glass Coffins", for several composited shots in "Tik Tok" and "Vibranium" and "Night of Roses". The composed insertion of the inset rose into the window in one of the first shots in "Night of Roses" is one of the shots I am proudest of this year... it looks pretty seamless unless you look very closely, it immediately establishes a bunch of things I want to establish, it's such a cool thing. I also made much more use of the in-editor effects and transitions in Kdenlive. 2019 was a year in which I became much more comfortable using effects, after the last couple years of my vidding being dominated by learning how to make use of motion and cutting alone to drive my vids. "Vibranium" uses transitions I would have shunned as too in-your-face aggressive two years ago and "Tik Tok" is fully of silly transitions. And I think two years ago I would have been right. It's only because I am so much better at cutting now that I can use showier transitions without it feeling obnoxious.
My Goals from Last Year
Target vids for 2019:
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-A Tony Stark vid
-Figure out what to do with Migldi Magldi (this might be the Tony Stark vid)
-Vid Big Bang project
-Two more wild cards, including one con premiere, exact con TBD
I made three Festivids, three Equinox vids, A Tony Stark Vid which was Migldi Magldi, and several other vids including a Con premiere at Vidukon and a con premiere at Fanworks. My only failure was on Vid Big Bang. I made 3 minutes of a VBB draft but then it fizzled.
Planning for Next Year
Target vids for 2020:
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-At least one con premiere
-The Jews Dancing Sequel
-A Fringe vid or a Sarah Connor Chronicles vid
-An MCU vid
-A Grey's Anatomy vid (it remains deeply weird that I am fannish about this show now, but since it happened, I may as well vid.)
I'm tempted to tempt fate and add the Terminator VBB vid to the list, but better to call that a stretch goal.