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Oct. 24th, 2020 09:24 pmTitle:Odds Are
content notes: So many. Violence, death, suicide, sexual assault, medical trauma, SO MANY BAD THINGS HAPPENING
Song: "Odds Are" by Barenaked Ladies with the Persuasions
responsible for the lack of consistency in title block from vid to vid: seekingferret
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Length:3:18
Summary: "You know how people say, ‘Who knows, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow!’ That seems pretty far fetched. Until you have a friend who got hit by a bus."
Thanks to:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jagwriter78 and janecdotes for beta.
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vid_bingo 2020 same song challenge
Premiered at:fanworks con 2020.
I've been saying for a while that there are eerie similarities between Grey's Anatomy and the BNL song "Odds Are", in that just about every bad thing described in the song has happened on Grey's, usually more than once. The vid idea amused me but it was just a sort of back of the mind idea, not something I was immediately planning to work on. Whenvid_bingo announced a challenge for everyone to vid "Odds Are" this year, I decided I had to actually go through with it.
Grey's has sixteen seasons and a terrifying amount of source to go through, but I usedvexercises as a way to ease into it, getting familiar with different bite sized pieces of the series with each biweekly exercise. By the time I'd done all the exercises, I pulled up a timeline for "Odds Are" and banged out a draft, astonishing myself, in a couple weeks. Then I spent the next month and a half polishing it and going back and forth with betas about the details of balancing it so the narrative of the vid was more coherent and clear.
Whenever I talk about Grey's I inevitably talk about my fascination with the metanarratives of the show. It is paced by the mandates of 22 episode season, with characters routinely experiencing improbably bad things simply because it's sweeps or the midseason finale, or because a character needs to be written off the show for being a homophobe. Grey's is deeply embedded in its own metanarrative, if that makes sense. So a song like "Odds Are", optimistic as it is about the good to come, serves to speak to those narrative improbabilities.
I'm really proud of this vid, jumping into vidding Grey's was extremely daunting and I'm happy something as good as this came out of it.
content notes: So many. Violence, death, suicide, sexual assault, medical trauma, SO MANY BAD THINGS HAPPENING
Song: "Odds Are" by Barenaked Ladies with the Persuasions
responsible for the lack of consistency in title block from vid to vid: seekingferret
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Length:3:18
Summary: "You know how people say, ‘Who knows, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow!’ That seems pretty far fetched. Until you have a friend who got hit by a bus."
Thanks to:
jagwriter78 and janecdotes for beta.Created for:
vid_bingo 2020 same song challengePremiered at:
fanworks con 2020.I've been saying for a while that there are eerie similarities between Grey's Anatomy and the BNL song "Odds Are", in that just about every bad thing described in the song has happened on Grey's, usually more than once. The vid idea amused me but it was just a sort of back of the mind idea, not something I was immediately planning to work on. When
vid_bingo announced a challenge for everyone to vid "Odds Are" this year, I decided I had to actually go through with it. Grey's has sixteen seasons and a terrifying amount of source to go through, but I used
vexercises as a way to ease into it, getting familiar with different bite sized pieces of the series with each biweekly exercise. By the time I'd done all the exercises, I pulled up a timeline for "Odds Are" and banged out a draft, astonishing myself, in a couple weeks. Then I spent the next month and a half polishing it and going back and forth with betas about the details of balancing it so the narrative of the vid was more coherent and clear. Whenever I talk about Grey's I inevitably talk about my fascination with the metanarratives of the show. It is paced by the mandates of 22 episode season, with characters routinely experiencing improbably bad things simply because it's sweeps or the midseason finale, or because a character needs to be written off the show for being a homophobe. Grey's is deeply embedded in its own metanarrative, if that makes sense. So a song like "Odds Are", optimistic as it is about the good to come, serves to speak to those narrative improbabilities.
I'm really proud of this vid, jumping into vidding Grey's was extremely daunting and I'm happy something as good as this came out of it.