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seekingferretI made two Festivids this year, my assignment and then a quickie 24 hour treat.
The Mystery Cat (12 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: American Vandal
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Christa Carlyle
Summary:
Download or watch The Mystery Cat at Critical Commons
American Vandals is a brilliant parody of True Crime documentaries like Serial and Making a Murderer... it knows all the cliches and it uses them to tell the very serious story of a high school prankster accused of spray painting penises onto cars in the faculty parking lot. It has a lot of penis jokes, sure, but it also has a surprising amount of effective storytelling about life in high school and the nature of our sense of justice.
This vid is quite spoilery for the show. We all know I don't care about that too much. It was a really interesting project, putting it together from very limited available source material to tell a story so aslant to the original storytelling of the show. There just isn't that much imagery of Christa to use, so I had to milk what I had.
This is the one I thought people would instaguess as mine- for the second time in three years, I vidded to a mid-century male British poet reading one of his own poems. That feels like it ought to be a pretty specific, obvious vidder signature. NOBODY ELSE DOES THAT. Also, I have no idea why that's apparently one of my vidder signatures. My brain is a funny place. But the poem works shockingly well. It's a poem about tropes, as Macavity is a wry mashup of Moriarty and Macheath and various other early 20th century mastermind villains. So using the poem lets me comment on the way Christa fits into the tropes, in sometimes surprising and sometimes obvious ways.
It's a fun reading of Christa, and a plausible one, though not necessarily the most obvious. I think we're meant to read Christa's plan as attaining in some way a teenager's idea of moral justice: Rafferty was bad, he was being rewarded in spite of or even maybe because of his badness by a faculty establishment that was corrupt, and so the establishment and Rafferty needed to be humiliated. Christa was good, so she needed to escape punishment for her legal crime which was morally virtuous. An essential part of Christa's plan is getting away with it while making her moral and intellectual superiority as obvious as possible: Hence the Save Dylan campaign, hence standing up in the assembly to take credit- rubbing Rafferty's nose in the fact that she is better than him. It's not precisely the classic Moriarty archetype, but Christa displays a callousness about the human costs of her actions that is ultimately pretty evil. Might Dylan have ruined his life without her intervention? Quite possibly, but that doesn't excuse anything.
(My other vid idea for this fandom, even more ridiculous, was to vid Dylan's arc to the first half of Arlo Guthrie's epic "Alice's Restaurant ". Peter gave me so much footage for the eight by ten color glossy photos with the pictures and arrows. But it proved too ambitious a concept, there were too many bits in the eight! minutes I couldn't sustain good lyrical matches for.)
Powers (11 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sky High (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Will Stronghold, Layla Williams, Zach (Sky High), Ethan (Sky High), Warren Peace, Magenta (Sky High)
Summary:
Download or watch Powers at Critical Commons
I had a small time window to do a treat, and I remembered I'd acquired this movie last year with the thought of maybe treating it last year for Festivids, so I set out to find a quick vid idea. I started out thinking of trying to use the Dixie Power Trio's amazing cover of the Spiderman cartoon theme song, but it was on the long side, so I looked at their cover of the Beatles' "Saw Her Standing There". It has a fabulous swing, a thumping tuba bassline, and a great structure for vidding.
I wrote in my year end vid post that one of the big things I learned while doing Might Lead to Mixed Dancing was how to make better use of internal motion in editing, and I think this vid really let me flex those new muscles. I think I did a good job of playing internal motion against the music rather than cuts, to really highlight the movie's visual humor.
Sky High is not a brilliant movie, but it's a really well executed movie. All the little sight gags work, all the character beats land. So it worked well for this kind of quick vid, all the visual things I was looking to use were pretty readily available.
This is not precisely the traditional 'team' vid, though it does focus on the sidekicks team. I wanted to highlight more generally the neat use of powers, by heroes and sidekicks, and how Sky High at its best is a place where kids get to learn how to be their best selves and discover the amazing gifts nature has given them with a sense of wonder.
Amusingly to myself, I realized midway through vidding that I was once again vidding both a spoken word piece and a jazz instrumental. I think some part of me, when vidding a spoken word piece, misses the part of vidding that includes working with music and this is my way of compensating. I swear it wasn't actually a conscious thing.
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I've done Festivids for 5 years. The headings under whichbironic has recced my vids:
2017: "AUDIO CHOICE"
2016: o_o
2014: Bonus points for audio choice:
2013: Honorable Mentions for Song Choice
I thinkbironic likes my audio choices. ;)
The Mystery Cat (12 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: American Vandal
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Christa Carlyle
Summary:
He's outwardly respectable [They say he cheats at cards].
Download or watch The Mystery Cat at Critical Commons
American Vandals is a brilliant parody of True Crime documentaries like Serial and Making a Murderer... it knows all the cliches and it uses them to tell the very serious story of a high school prankster accused of spray painting penises onto cars in the faculty parking lot. It has a lot of penis jokes, sure, but it also has a surprising amount of effective storytelling about life in high school and the nature of our sense of justice.
This vid is quite spoilery for the show. We all know I don't care about that too much. It was a really interesting project, putting it together from very limited available source material to tell a story so aslant to the original storytelling of the show. There just isn't that much imagery of Christa to use, so I had to milk what I had.
This is the one I thought people would instaguess as mine- for the second time in three years, I vidded to a mid-century male British poet reading one of his own poems. That feels like it ought to be a pretty specific, obvious vidder signature. NOBODY ELSE DOES THAT. Also, I have no idea why that's apparently one of my vidder signatures. My brain is a funny place. But the poem works shockingly well. It's a poem about tropes, as Macavity is a wry mashup of Moriarty and Macheath and various other early 20th century mastermind villains. So using the poem lets me comment on the way Christa fits into the tropes, in sometimes surprising and sometimes obvious ways.
It's a fun reading of Christa, and a plausible one, though not necessarily the most obvious. I think we're meant to read Christa's plan as attaining in some way a teenager's idea of moral justice: Rafferty was bad, he was being rewarded in spite of or even maybe because of his badness by a faculty establishment that was corrupt, and so the establishment and Rafferty needed to be humiliated. Christa was good, so she needed to escape punishment for her legal crime which was morally virtuous. An essential part of Christa's plan is getting away with it while making her moral and intellectual superiority as obvious as possible: Hence the Save Dylan campaign, hence standing up in the assembly to take credit- rubbing Rafferty's nose in the fact that she is better than him. It's not precisely the classic Moriarty archetype, but Christa displays a callousness about the human costs of her actions that is ultimately pretty evil. Might Dylan have ruined his life without her intervention? Quite possibly, but that doesn't excuse anything.
(My other vid idea for this fandom, even more ridiculous, was to vid Dylan's arc to the first half of Arlo Guthrie's epic "Alice's Restaurant ". Peter gave me so much footage for the eight by ten color glossy photos with the pictures and arrows. But it proved too ambitious a concept, there were too many bits in the eight! minutes I couldn't sustain good lyrical matches for.)
Powers (11 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sky High (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Will Stronghold, Layla Williams, Zach (Sky High), Ethan (Sky High), Warren Peace, Magenta (Sky High)
Summary:
Heroism is hard. Summaries are harder.
Download or watch Powers at Critical Commons
I had a small time window to do a treat, and I remembered I'd acquired this movie last year with the thought of maybe treating it last year for Festivids, so I set out to find a quick vid idea. I started out thinking of trying to use the Dixie Power Trio's amazing cover of the Spiderman cartoon theme song, but it was on the long side, so I looked at their cover of the Beatles' "Saw Her Standing There". It has a fabulous swing, a thumping tuba bassline, and a great structure for vidding.
I wrote in my year end vid post that one of the big things I learned while doing Might Lead to Mixed Dancing was how to make better use of internal motion in editing, and I think this vid really let me flex those new muscles. I think I did a good job of playing internal motion against the music rather than cuts, to really highlight the movie's visual humor.
Sky High is not a brilliant movie, but it's a really well executed movie. All the little sight gags work, all the character beats land. So it worked well for this kind of quick vid, all the visual things I was looking to use were pretty readily available.
This is not precisely the traditional 'team' vid, though it does focus on the sidekicks team. I wanted to highlight more generally the neat use of powers, by heroes and sidekicks, and how Sky High at its best is a place where kids get to learn how to be their best selves and discover the amazing gifts nature has given them with a sense of wonder.
Amusingly to myself, I realized midway through vidding that I was once again vidding both a spoken word piece and a jazz instrumental. I think some part of me, when vidding a spoken word piece, misses the part of vidding that includes working with music and this is my way of compensating. I swear it wasn't actually a conscious thing.
---
I've done Festivids for 5 years. The headings under which
bironic has recced my vids:2017: "AUDIO CHOICE"
2016: o_o
2014: Bonus points for audio choice:
2013: Honorable Mentions for Song Choice
I think
bironic likes my audio choices. ;)
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Date: 2018-02-04 02:33 pm (UTC)In my defense, we have at least one other friend in common who has vidded to poets reading their poetry - http://archiveofourown.org/works/485232
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Date: 2018-02-04 04:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-02-04 04:34 pm (UTC)truuuuuuuuue
Fool me twice, I guess, except it's more like five times!