33. Talk about a comment or review that made your day.
Every comment I get makes my day. Some make my week. I've gotten comments from fan artists I idolize and even show creatives. But it's always wonderful to feel like you've made that connection on a creative level, regardless of who is commenting.
One that will always stick with me was on my Legend of the Seeker vid, Lightning Field. About a year after I released it, a person commented with a very personal story about how the vid helped them come to terms with their own sexuality and come out to their family. They talked about how much happier they had been since then and said it started with watching my vid. It's hard to explain how that made me feel.
2. Is there a genre or style you've yet to try your hand at, but really want to? I'd like to try something that's heavy with effects and coloring, heavily manipulated. It would just take a lot of learning as I go, and my editing program is awful which limits me somewhat.
3. Is there a genre or style you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole? It's tough to say never, but I've always steered clear of RP slash. I can't really picture myself doing crossovers, either.
4. How many vid ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them? At least four. And at least two of them feel like Club Vivid projects. Which means I'm leaning toward a Femshep/Liara Mass Effect vid or a remaster of one of my old vids as my pre-Festivids project.
19. How many times do you usually revise your vid before posting? I'm a linear vidder and it's tough for me to move on to the next segment until I'm 100% happy with the current segment, so I do a LOT of revising as I'm working my way through the timeline. Almost none once the timeline is full.
6. Share one of your weaknesses. I'm the worst at titling. I'm so bad that I usually just don't even bother putting titles on the vid at all. When I do, it kind of feels like finishing a painting and then scribbling over it with a sharpie.
16. Do you use any tools, like clip notes or storyboards? No. Every time I do a vid, I go back through every second of footage from the source and clip as I go. So the clipping process kind of replaces notes or storyboarding. Even when I have a pretty good idea of specific moments and flow, it all usually changes because the clipping process points me in a direction I hadn't considered.
12. What's the best vidding advice you've ever come across? Know the audience. I believe in vidding what you want, regardless, but I think it's important to know what kind of reaction to expect up front. If you're passionate about doing a video game action vid to thrash metal, go for it. But if you're doing that for a slash con, you have to know that it's probably not going to go over as well as it might in another forum. Don't let it stop you if it's what you really want to do, but know what to expect.
13. What's the worst vidding advice you've ever come across? Different things work for different people, so the worst for me may be the best for someone else. But I got a lot of advice early on about visualizing every beat of the song, and I think that hamstrung me for a bit.
15. Do you work mostly from start to finish, or do you vid sections out of order?My program is linear so I'm forced to go from start to finish, in order. Every program I've ever used has been linear, so I've never done it any other way. I think that does force
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5. Share one of your strengths. I really enjoy working with lyric ties. (You wouldn't believe how long it took to come up with that!)
7. Point to a section from one of your favorite vids you've made and explain why you're proud of it. It's tough because there are things I love and things I hate about almost all of them. And then I'm proud of some because the emotional connection feels just right to me and proud of others because of the pacing and motion and such.
I guess one that I've always been proud of is the end of Living Dead Girl (starting about 3:25), mostly because I wanted to get into vidding - long before I knew what "vidding" was - so I could put those images together. And it looks very similar to how it looked in my head, which is always the ultimate accomplishment to me.
23. What do you look for in a beta? Someone who can tell what I'm shooting for and will point me in the right direction in a very gentle way. I'm easily crushed.
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Every comment I get makes my day. Some make my week. I've gotten comments from fan artists I idolize and even show creatives. But it's always wonderful to feel like you've made that connection on a creative level, regardless of who is commenting.
One that will always stick with me was on my Legend of the Seeker vid, Lightning Field. About a year after I released it, a person commented with a very personal story about how the vid helped them come to terms with their own sexuality and come out to their family. They talked about how much happier they had been since then and said it started with watching my vid. It's hard to explain how that made me feel.
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I'd like to try something that's heavy with effects and coloring, heavily manipulated. It would just take a lot of learning as I go, and my editing program is awful which limits me somewhat.
3. Is there a genre or style you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole?
It's tough to say never, but I've always steered clear of RP slash. I can't really picture myself doing crossovers, either.
4. How many vid ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
At least four. And at least two of them feel like Club Vivid projects. Which means I'm leaning toward a Femshep/Liara Mass Effect vid or a remaster of one of my old vids as my pre-Festivids project.
19. How many times do you usually revise your vid before posting?
I'm a linear vidder and it's tough for me to move on to the next segment until I'm 100% happy with the current segment, so I do a LOT of revising as I'm working my way through the timeline. Almost none once the timeline is full.
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4. Ohhhhhh, I am curious to see what you remaster.
bate.
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I'm the worst at titling. I'm so bad that I usually just don't even bother putting titles on the vid at all. When I do, it kind of feels like finishing a painting and then scribbling over it with a sharpie.
16. Do you use any tools, like clip notes or storyboards?
No. Every time I do a vid, I go back through every second of footage from the source and clip as I go. So the clipping process kind of replaces notes or storyboarding. Even when I have a pretty good idea of specific moments and flow, it all usually changes because the clipping process points me in a direction I hadn't considered.
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You never write/type anything? What if you forget something you wanted to do?
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You never write/type anything? What if you forget something you wanted to do?
I forget stuff I wanted to do all the time.
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Know the audience. I believe in vidding what you want, regardless, but I think it's important to know what kind of reaction to expect up front. If you're passionate about doing a video game action vid to thrash metal, go for it. But if you're doing that for a slash con, you have to know that it's probably not going to go over as well as it might in another forum. Don't let it stop you if it's what you really want to do, but know what to expect.
13. What's the worst vidding advice you've ever come across?
Different things work for different people, so the worst for me may be the best for someone else. But I got a lot of advice early on about visualizing every beat of the song, and I think that hamstrung me for a bit.
15. Do you work mostly from start to finish, or do you vid sections out of order?My program is linear so I'm forced to go from start to finish, in order. Every program I've ever used has been linear, so I've never done it any other way. I think that does force ( ... )
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5. Share one of your strengths.
I really enjoy working with lyric ties. (You wouldn't believe how long it took to come up with that!)
7. Point to a section from one of your favorite vids you've made and explain why you're proud of it.
It's tough because there are things I love and things I hate about almost all of them. And then I'm proud of some because the emotional connection feels just right to me and proud of others because of the pacing and motion and such.
I guess one that I've always been proud of is the end of Living Dead Girl (starting about 3:25), mostly because I wanted to get into vidding - long before I knew what "vidding" was - so I could put those images together. And it looks very similar to how it looked in my head, which is always the ultimate accomplishment to me.
23. What do you look for in a beta?
Someone who can tell what I'm shooting for and will point me in the right direction in a very gentle way. I'm easily crushed.
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