that fanvid meme I've been doing for years
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seekingferretMy Vids for 2021
Full length vids
We Are Golden (Bruno and Boots)
Jenny (Bruno and Boots)
Still Beating (Jumanji)
Istanbul (Charlie's Angels reboot)
Fantasy (Carmen Sandiego Netflix)
Carmen Sandiego Does the But If You Close Your Eyes Meme (Carmen Sandiego Netflix)
Hapiyut shel Harley Quinn / הפיוט של הארלי קווין (Birds of Prey)
Við spilum endalaust (Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga)
Soul Meets Body (Soul)
Handlebars (MCU/Black Widow)
Vexercises
Hai-ju (Multifandom Jews dancing)
10 or 11 vids, but this hardly seems a fair count since six of them were from a massively productive Festivids campaign and I've barely made any vids since then. And in fact, specifically refused to let myself make any vids after about May as Hunt responsibilities kicked into a higher gear. A strange year, but I'm proud of a lot of my vids.
Favorite
I love a lot of my vids this year, but I think "Handlebars" is the closest to the vid in my head for that, and I love it.
Least Favorite
I can never feel good answering this but I feel like I particularly can't this year. I just took another look through the list and there are none I'm disappointed with. Not all are masterpieces but all do what I set out to do. This may be the first year I really feel that. I think my biggest complaint with any of them is the timing of the bell ringing is slightly off on Við spilum endalaust, but even there, the mistiming kind of works with the vid's vibes? I'm not even sure it's a failure.
Most Successful
The answer seems to be "Fantasy"- Carmen Sandiego vids seem to do very well for me. I'll also note the only time I got in person feedback was when I played "Handlebars" at Worldcon and got to see someone's jaw drop, that was perhaps the best feedback I got all year simply because of the circumstances.
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
I guess the "but if you close your eyes" meme is not as well known as I thought, I got a lot of headscratching responses to that vid.
Most Fun to Make
"Jenny" was a fast and really satisfying vid to make, because I was using the source I'd just used in "We Are Golden" and figuring out different ways to reuse it to have a very different effect.
Hardest Vid to Make
"Handlebars" went through a lot. It used a lot of source from a lot of places, and it had a very complicated narrative to a narratively and rhythmically complicated song. I'm lucky I had such great betas to talk through ideas with as I went, and it gradually drew closer to what I wanted it to be.
The Things I Learned This Year
Most of the answer is Hunt related.
My Goals from Last Year
I made a lot of Festivids, Equinox hasn't happened, I had con premieres, no vids in Hebrew but I did vid in Turkish and Icelandic, and no Fringe or TSCC vids. Maybe I'll pick those up this year? Also I'm up to >50 sources collected for the Threequel, so maybe that happens this year?
Planning for Next Year
Target vids for 2022:
Gosh, I have no idea. Ask me again in a month?
Full length vids
We Are Golden (Bruno and Boots)
Jenny (Bruno and Boots)
Still Beating (Jumanji)
Istanbul (Charlie's Angels reboot)
Fantasy (Carmen Sandiego Netflix)
Carmen Sandiego Does the But If You Close Your Eyes Meme (Carmen Sandiego Netflix)
Hapiyut shel Harley Quinn / הפיוט של הארלי קווין (Birds of Prey)
Við spilum endalaust (Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga)
Soul Meets Body (Soul)
Handlebars (MCU/Black Widow)
Vexercises
Hai-ju (Multifandom Jews dancing)
10 or 11 vids, but this hardly seems a fair count since six of them were from a massively productive Festivids campaign and I've barely made any vids since then. And in fact, specifically refused to let myself make any vids after about May as Hunt responsibilities kicked into a higher gear. A strange year, but I'm proud of a lot of my vids.
Favorite
I love a lot of my vids this year, but I think "Handlebars" is the closest to the vid in my head for that, and I love it.
Least Favorite
I can never feel good answering this but I feel like I particularly can't this year. I just took another look through the list and there are none I'm disappointed with. Not all are masterpieces but all do what I set out to do. This may be the first year I really feel that. I think my biggest complaint with any of them is the timing of the bell ringing is slightly off on Við spilum endalaust, but even there, the mistiming kind of works with the vid's vibes? I'm not even sure it's a failure.
Most Successful
The answer seems to be "Fantasy"- Carmen Sandiego vids seem to do very well for me. I'll also note the only time I got in person feedback was when I played "Handlebars" at Worldcon and got to see someone's jaw drop, that was perhaps the best feedback I got all year simply because of the circumstances.
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
I guess the "but if you close your eyes" meme is not as well known as I thought, I got a lot of headscratching responses to that vid.
Most Fun to Make
"Jenny" was a fast and really satisfying vid to make, because I was using the source I'd just used in "We Are Golden" and figuring out different ways to reuse it to have a very different effect.
Hardest Vid to Make
"Handlebars" went through a lot. It used a lot of source from a lot of places, and it had a very complicated narrative to a narratively and rhythmically complicated song. I'm lucky I had such great betas to talk through ideas with as I went, and it gradually drew closer to what I wanted it to be.
The Things I Learned This Year
Most of the answer is Hunt related.
My Goals from Last Year
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-At least one con premiere
-A vid to a Hebrew vidsong
-A Fringe vid or a Sarah Connor Chronicles vid
I made a lot of Festivids, Equinox hasn't happened, I had con premieres, no vids in Hebrew but I did vid in Turkish and Icelandic, and no Fringe or TSCC vids. Maybe I'll pick those up this year? Also I'm up to >50 sources collected for the Threequel, so maybe that happens this year?
Planning for Next Year
Target vids for 2022:
Gosh, I have no idea. Ask me again in a month?