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seekingferretMy Vids for 2023
Bridges Hailee Steinfeld RPF- Festivid
Sea Fever Space Sweepers- Festivid
Masters of War Space Sweepers- Festivid
20 Years Jumanji- Festivid
The Cartographer Jumanji- Festivid\
when i am laid in earth Floor is Lava- Festivid
Festival Superstore
Crossroads Fringe
Jews Don't Dance in this Fanvid Multifandom
The Spinning Plates Reel Star Wars
Bicycle Race Multifandom
11 vids, including some pretty big projects! This year was the year of ambitious vids, between two large multifandom vids and my 9 minute vid.
Favorite
"Jews Don't Dance in this Fanvid" is incredibly personal and meaningful. It was great to finally use A Serious Man in a vid, it was great to tell this story about ritual and what it means to me.
Least Favorite
I always hate this question, but this year I feel like every vid I made does what I set out to do, with a lot less compromise than usual. I guess I wish I'd done more thorough canon review before making "Crossroads", it works really well but I feel like it could have more completely captured Broyles's full arc across the show.
Most Successful
By AO3 hits, "20 Years". By YouTube hits, "Bridges".
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
It feels a little ungrateful, because it got a very good response, but "The Spinning Plates Reel" really deserved a con premiere and more attention than it got. I got impatient when Fanworks got delayed and just posted it. Every other vid I made, I am entirely pleased with the response.
Most Fun to Make
"when i am laid in earth" was a joy and a pleasure. Every single little flop into that lava made me a happier human being.
Hardest Vid to Make
"Festival", which is weird because you might think the multifandom vids were more work, but they were easier on the source collection than usual. It was stunning how quickly and easily Bicycle Race came together. "Festival" was hard because the pacing was so different from anything I've done before, and getting it to work for a viewer over such a long viewing time was a true challenge, especially the early slow part.
The Things I Learned This Year
I think this is a thing I learned before, when making my Grey's Anatomy vid- the key to making vids that are about complicated big emotions. But I got a lot more practice at it this year. I always start out thinking about the construction of the vid in chunks with a unified emotional affect, but the reality is that every clip has its own emotional valences and the arrangement of those clips matters a lot not just in terms of how they interact with their neighbors, but in terms of how the viewer feels as the clips accumulate over the course of the vid.
This was really important in thinking about "Festival", because I was crafting such a long, slow build and I wanted to make sure the viewer was always emotionally sticking with me and it took a lot of thought and tuning.
Also, The Spinning Plates Reel was my most ambitious vid to date in Da Vinci Resolve, and it gave me comfort with a lot of techniques in DVR that I am putting to even more substantial use right now in my Festivid.
My Goals from Last Year
I finished the Superstore vid! 0 to 20 Festivids turned out to be 6. No MCU vids got finished this year, but I did work on some. I didn't manage a TSCC vid, but I did make a Fringe vid. And I didn't make a Jews dancing vid, but i did make a Jews not dancing vid. All in all, not too bad.
Planning for Next Year
Target vids for 2024:
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-an MCU vid, but I dunno, last year I deferred my MCU vid until Cap4 comes out and now Cap4 isn't coming out until next year, so...
-a TSCC vid, possibly the Coldplay Suite?
-a The Good Place vid
Bridges Hailee Steinfeld RPF- Festivid
Sea Fever Space Sweepers- Festivid
Masters of War Space Sweepers- Festivid
20 Years Jumanji- Festivid
The Cartographer Jumanji- Festivid\
when i am laid in earth Floor is Lava- Festivid
Festival Superstore
Crossroads Fringe
Jews Don't Dance in this Fanvid Multifandom
The Spinning Plates Reel Star Wars
Bicycle Race Multifandom
11 vids, including some pretty big projects! This year was the year of ambitious vids, between two large multifandom vids and my 9 minute vid.
Favorite
"Jews Don't Dance in this Fanvid" is incredibly personal and meaningful. It was great to finally use A Serious Man in a vid, it was great to tell this story about ritual and what it means to me.
Least Favorite
I always hate this question, but this year I feel like every vid I made does what I set out to do, with a lot less compromise than usual. I guess I wish I'd done more thorough canon review before making "Crossroads", it works really well but I feel like it could have more completely captured Broyles's full arc across the show.
Most Successful
By AO3 hits, "20 Years". By YouTube hits, "Bridges".
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
It feels a little ungrateful, because it got a very good response, but "The Spinning Plates Reel" really deserved a con premiere and more attention than it got. I got impatient when Fanworks got delayed and just posted it. Every other vid I made, I am entirely pleased with the response.
Most Fun to Make
"when i am laid in earth" was a joy and a pleasure. Every single little flop into that lava made me a happier human being.
Hardest Vid to Make
"Festival", which is weird because you might think the multifandom vids were more work, but they were easier on the source collection than usual. It was stunning how quickly and easily Bicycle Race came together. "Festival" was hard because the pacing was so different from anything I've done before, and getting it to work for a viewer over such a long viewing time was a true challenge, especially the early slow part.
The Things I Learned This Year
I think this is a thing I learned before, when making my Grey's Anatomy vid- the key to making vids that are about complicated big emotions. But I got a lot more practice at it this year. I always start out thinking about the construction of the vid in chunks with a unified emotional affect, but the reality is that every clip has its own emotional valences and the arrangement of those clips matters a lot not just in terms of how they interact with their neighbors, but in terms of how the viewer feels as the clips accumulate over the course of the vid.
This was really important in thinking about "Festival", because I was crafting such a long, slow build and I wanted to make sure the viewer was always emotionally sticking with me and it took a lot of thought and tuning.
Also, The Spinning Plates Reel was my most ambitious vid to date in Da Vinci Resolve, and it gave me comfort with a lot of techniques in DVR that I am putting to even more substantial use right now in my Festivid.
My Goals from Last Year
Target vids for 2023:
Superstore vid
Festivids, somewhere between 0 and 20
MCU vid
Fringe vid and tSCC vid
third Jews dancing vid
I finished the Superstore vid! 0 to 20 Festivids turned out to be 6. No MCU vids got finished this year, but I did work on some. I didn't manage a TSCC vid, but I did make a Fringe vid. And I didn't make a Jews dancing vid, but i did make a Jews not dancing vid. All in all, not too bad.
Planning for Next Year
Target vids for 2024:
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-an MCU vid, but I dunno, last year I deferred my MCU vid until Cap4 comes out and now Cap4 isn't coming out until next year, so...
-a TSCC vid, possibly the Coldplay Suite?
-a The Good Place vid