New vid: "Starships!" multifandom SPACE VID YAY
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This premiered tonight at Club Vivid (first vid, even! after the Joxer Dance), so finally finally I get to share it with you!
Title: Starships!
Music: Nicki Minaj
Fandoms: *deep breath* 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien/Aliens, Apollo 13, Archer, Battlestar Galactica (2004-8), Cocoon, Community, Doctor Who (2005-), Dune, Farscape, The Fifth Element, Firefly/Serenity, Forbidden Planet, Futurama, Galaxy Quest, Independence Day, The Muppet Show, Odyssey 5, Planet of the Apes (1968), Spaceballs, Star Trek (TOS, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager; movies II, IV, VII, VIII and XI/Reboot), Star Wars IV & V, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Sunshine, Superman (1978), Toy Story 2, Virtuality, WALL-E.
Length: 3:36
Summary: A celebration of pilots, captains, engineers, crew members, and the spacecraft they love to fly. (And race, and crash, and fix, and play in, and fight in, and...)
Rating/Contents: PG-13 for sci fi action, swear words and makeouts. *Physical note for camera movement (shaking, spinning, tilting), flashing lights and some fast-cut sequences. I don't believe there are any other content issues, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Spoilers: There... actually might not be any. Cool.
Acknowledgements: To cinco, deelaundry, ellen_fremedon and thingswithwings for taking the time to lend me various sources. To kassrachel for offering. To nightdog_barks, roga and others for contributing to the brainstorm. To absolutedestiny for granting permission to make this vid for the show on short notice.
Streaming at Vimeo | Streaming on YouTube | Download MP4 (43 MB) | Download captions file (.srt)
password: starships ETA: removed password protection
starships final from bironic on Vimeo.
Notes: Whew! For those of you who don't know the story, I made this vid in a week and a half at the end of April while working six-day weeks at my day job. That's how much time there was between when I first heard the song/got permission to submit it to Club Vivid, and when Club Vivid vids were due. Words cannot describe the scramble to get enough source-I only own about a third of the above-plus make all the clips, figure out the best aspect ratio, find a good vid structure, define constraints (e.g. only clips where people look happy/enthralled to be flying; only ships in space, not in atmosphere, except for launches/crashes), etc.
Having done a bunch of vids before definitely made this one possible; it was like previous experience built up to allow me to do this one in the allotted time. I knew how to rip and encode and clip several different kinds of footage. I figured out how to deal with a Premiere letterboxing problem. I knew that like half the clips needed speed work. I knew how to export for DVD when it was done. All of that and more meant technical problems didn't defeat the project and I had a little more time to devote to things like making sure this wasn't an "all white guys, all the time" show.
The punishing turnaround had its benefits, though. For one, there wasn't time to second-guess a lot of choices; for another, it prevented me from actually attempting to acquire every spaceship-containing movie and representative TV show episode ever and cram them in there. (Even on the last day, I was tugging at my hair about how there's too much Lee/Apollo and no Babylon 5/Red Dwarf/Andromeda/Avengers/whatever. Not to mention anime and other non-Western source.)
And then it was done, and then... I couldn't even talk to you about it, because it didn't premiere for another three and a half months!
Now here it is, and I am so so happy to post it here. It may not be deep, but it's almost exactly how I envisioned it when I heard the song (I only thought there'd be more room for space battles), and that is a wonderful thing to be able to achieve and share. Hope you like it.
Lyrics can be found at http://rapgenius.com/Nicki-minaj-starships-lyrics. Coming up Now posted (see link below): a list of clips/sources paired with the lyrics, for kicks and for people who've asked if there's a way to identify quick or obscure images.
Comments and concrit are always welcome as I try to improve my vidding.
Okay, back to the party.
x-posted to vidding (LJ) and vidding (DW)
UPDATES:
8/25/12: A note about how the vid does not contain "everything"
4/6/13: List of clips/sources matched to the lyrics
4/18/13: Traffic spike and follow-up, with discussion of platform limitations and community attribution habits
8/19/13: jetpack_monkey's Starships! (Monochromatic Remix), source list, and remarkable side-by-side comparison
8/21/13: Thanks to morgandawn, Starships (as well as the remix) now has a Fanlore page!
8/5/14: Two-year anniversary; traffic spike; haters gonna hate
1/8/16: Exciting news: Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit
2/24/16: Write-up after visiting the exhibit
This vid has since shown at: Connotations 2012, Swancon 2013, Muskrat Jamboree 2013, Vidukon 2013 (space vid show), Wiscon 37 (Ad Astra Per Aspera vid show and singalong vid show), Continuum 9, Nine Worlds, Vividcon 2013 (Out of this World vidshow), Bitchin' Party/Pacificon 2014, WisCon 38 (Sing Along With Me vid show), ComicCon 2014 (OTW panel), Vividcon 2014 (Club Vivid), Worldcon/Loncon-3, sinpOZium 2014, Vidukon 2015 (Tropes vid show), Wiscon 39 (Singalong: The Voyage Home vid show), Wiscon 40 (Singalong vid show)
It is included in "MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture" at the Vancouver Art Gallery, February-June 2016 (!)
And it has been featured at: TheMarySue.com, io9 (!), AmazingStoriesMag.com, Queer Geek Theory (Alexis Lothian's blog), Obsidian Wings (Doctor Science's blog), SourceFed News, Riemurasia.net, Giant Freakin Robot, MoviePilot.com, and some other sites, and has been kicking around Tumblr and Twitter. So cool.
(These and all other related posts now organized under the vid: starships tag)
This premiered tonight at Club Vivid (first vid, even! after the Joxer Dance), so finally finally I get to share it with you!
Title: Starships!
Music: Nicki Minaj
Fandoms: *deep breath* 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien/Aliens, Apollo 13, Archer, Battlestar Galactica (2004-8), Cocoon, Community, Doctor Who (2005-), Dune, Farscape, The Fifth Element, Firefly/Serenity, Forbidden Planet, Futurama, Galaxy Quest, Independence Day, The Muppet Show, Odyssey 5, Planet of the Apes (1968), Spaceballs, Star Trek (TOS, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager; movies II, IV, VII, VIII and XI/Reboot), Star Wars IV & V, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Sunshine, Superman (1978), Toy Story 2, Virtuality, WALL-E.
Length: 3:36
Summary: A celebration of pilots, captains, engineers, crew members, and the spacecraft they love to fly. (And race, and crash, and fix, and play in, and fight in, and...)
Rating/Contents: PG-13 for sci fi action, swear words and makeouts. *Physical note for camera movement (shaking, spinning, tilting), flashing lights and some fast-cut sequences. I don't believe there are any other content issues, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Spoilers: There... actually might not be any. Cool.
Acknowledgements: To cinco, deelaundry, ellen_fremedon and thingswithwings for taking the time to lend me various sources. To kassrachel for offering. To nightdog_barks, roga and others for contributing to the brainstorm. To absolutedestiny for granting permission to make this vid for the show on short notice.
Streaming at Vimeo | Streaming on YouTube | Download MP4 (43 MB) | Download captions file (.srt)
password: starships ETA: removed password protection
starships final from bironic on Vimeo.
Notes: Whew! For those of you who don't know the story, I made this vid in a week and a half at the end of April while working six-day weeks at my day job. That's how much time there was between when I first heard the song/got permission to submit it to Club Vivid, and when Club Vivid vids were due. Words cannot describe the scramble to get enough source-I only own about a third of the above-plus make all the clips, figure out the best aspect ratio, find a good vid structure, define constraints (e.g. only clips where people look happy/enthralled to be flying; only ships in space, not in atmosphere, except for launches/crashes), etc.
Having done a bunch of vids before definitely made this one possible; it was like previous experience built up to allow me to do this one in the allotted time. I knew how to rip and encode and clip several different kinds of footage. I figured out how to deal with a Premiere letterboxing problem. I knew that like half the clips needed speed work. I knew how to export for DVD when it was done. All of that and more meant technical problems didn't defeat the project and I had a little more time to devote to things like making sure this wasn't an "all white guys, all the time" show.
The punishing turnaround had its benefits, though. For one, there wasn't time to second-guess a lot of choices; for another, it prevented me from actually attempting to acquire every spaceship-containing movie and representative TV show episode ever and cram them in there. (Even on the last day, I was tugging at my hair about how there's too much Lee/Apollo and no Babylon 5/Red Dwarf/Andromeda/Avengers/whatever. Not to mention anime and other non-Western source.)
And then it was done, and then... I couldn't even talk to you about it, because it didn't premiere for another three and a half months!
Now here it is, and I am so so happy to post it here. It may not be deep, but it's almost exactly how I envisioned it when I heard the song (I only thought there'd be more room for space battles), and that is a wonderful thing to be able to achieve and share. Hope you like it.
Lyrics can be found at http://rapgenius.com/Nicki-minaj-starships-lyrics. Coming up Now posted (see link below): a list of clips/sources paired with the lyrics, for kicks and for people who've asked if there's a way to identify quick or obscure images.
Comments and concrit are always welcome as I try to improve my vidding.
Okay, back to the party.
x-posted to vidding (LJ) and vidding (DW)
UPDATES:
8/25/12: A note about how the vid does not contain "everything"
4/6/13: List of clips/sources matched to the lyrics
4/18/13: Traffic spike and follow-up, with discussion of platform limitations and community attribution habits
8/19/13: jetpack_monkey's Starships! (Monochromatic Remix), source list, and remarkable side-by-side comparison
8/21/13: Thanks to morgandawn, Starships (as well as the remix) now has a Fanlore page!
8/5/14: Two-year anniversary; traffic spike; haters gonna hate
1/8/16: Exciting news: Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit
2/24/16: Write-up after visiting the exhibit
This vid has since shown at: Connotations 2012, Swancon 2013, Muskrat Jamboree 2013, Vidukon 2013 (space vid show), Wiscon 37 (Ad Astra Per Aspera vid show and singalong vid show), Continuum 9, Nine Worlds, Vividcon 2013 (Out of this World vidshow), Bitchin' Party/Pacificon 2014, WisCon 38 (Sing Along With Me vid show), ComicCon 2014 (OTW panel), Vividcon 2014 (Club Vivid), Worldcon/Loncon-3, sinpOZium 2014, Vidukon 2015 (Tropes vid show), Wiscon 39 (Singalong: The Voyage Home vid show), Wiscon 40 (Singalong vid show)
It is included in "MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture" at the Vancouver Art Gallery, February-June 2016 (!)
And it has been featured at: TheMarySue.com, io9 (!), AmazingStoriesMag.com, Queer Geek Theory (Alexis Lothian's blog), Obsidian Wings (Doctor Science's blog), SourceFed News, Riemurasia.net, Giant Freakin Robot, MoviePilot.com, and some other sites, and has been kicking around Tumblr and Twitter. So cool.
(These and all other related posts now organized under the vid: starships tag)