2009 Vidding Meme
I have never actually done one of these, for reasons that should quickly* become obvious. I did do some rambly- rambling at the end of last year, the main conclusions of which was that I should stop being afraid of Real Vidders. February will mark three years since I posted my first vid.
Vids made in 2009:
January
Unsteady Ground - Merlin
June
Convenient Parking - Dexter/Criminal Minds
Dark Room - Merlin
August
Attention: Gotham City - Batman: The Dark Knight
* I am a punny girl! Once again, my vidding output for the year can be watched in less than ten minutes. This is an improvement, as last year's total was three vids and less than eight minutes.
My favorite video this year (of my own):
At the time I made it, Unsteady Ground. Probably still my favourite in practice, but my favourite in conception is Convenient Parking.
My least favourite video this year:
Dark Room. It started out as a self-indulgent study in motion and music, and turned into a Yeats-inspired epic destiny/tragic legend/doomed relationships study. The dissonance remains in my head.
Most successful video:
Unsteady Ground, by far. By a factor of 2 - 4, actually.
Video most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I don't know if Attention: Gotham City is underappreciated -- I wish it had gotten a bigger response, but that doesn't mean that it deserved one.
Most fun video:
Convenient Parking, because I got to mashup Dexter and Criminal Minds.
Video with single sexiest moment:
I am fairly certain that moment is in someone else's vid.
Biggest vid fail:
The fact that you could have a cup of coffee, eat a bag of chips, and watch all of my vids for the year within a government-mandated coffee break.
That, or the fact that Unsteady Ground and Dark Room are far too similar to each other for my liking. They're companion vids, yes. That's it.
Hardest video to make:
Conceptually, Convenient Parking was the hardest -- I was crossing over two disparate fandoms with visually different footage. Practically, Dark Room was the hardest: as I mentioned before, it went from 'lalalala I'm going to play with movement and colour' to
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
There was residual cognitive dissonance like you would not believe. Overall, though, I didn't have anything that really, really kicked my ass.
Most unintentionally telling video:
The ones that did not get finished, because I decided they were full of failure. I don't think I abandoned any after finishing them this year.
The things I've learned this year:
- My vids are made from clips cut with rusty safety scissors and held together by chewing gum and baling twine.
- Tech isn't everything. It's (probably) okay if my vids are held together with chewing gum and baling twine.
- Hotel plants do not provide sufficient cover for covert operations and/or cowering.
- I am intimating to some people. Or was at least, at one point, intimidating to one person. The absurdity of this leads me to concede that my fear of Real Vidders is perhaps ridiculous, and that hiding behind greenery is silly.
- It's okay for me to leave feedback. People crave like feedback.
For 2010:
I would like to make some vids. This may sound like a silly goal, but considering I made four vids this year and three the year before, I feel that this is a good target. I have an extremely large number that have been backburnered in my mind, either due to time constraints, vidder failure, or uncertainly as to whether I can do the idea justice. I am going to try to buckle down more, and be more decisive.
I often have timelines on the go for three or four vids, none of which I end up finishing.
I could conceivably focus on increasing my technical abilities -- learning how to add motion, figuring out how to make titles without making a completely new screen every time anything moves, fixing my flickers, doing speed changes without cutting my clips into exceedingly tiny pieces and changing the speed incrementally on each subclip -- but I think that perhaps narrative is more important for me at the moment. Motion and musicality come more easily to me, but thesis-based narratives are like pulling teeth. The fact that I did not have any vids whose construction made me want to stab myself in the face repeatedly likely means that I wasn't stretching as much as I could be.
Of course, it might also be nice to make something just for fun, to play with motion.
Vids made in 2009:
January
Unsteady Ground - Merlin
June
Convenient Parking - Dexter/Criminal Minds
Dark Room - Merlin
August
Attention: Gotham City - Batman: The Dark Knight
* I am a punny girl! Once again, my vidding output for the year can be watched in less than ten minutes. This is an improvement, as last year's total was three vids and less than eight minutes.
My favorite video this year (of my own):
At the time I made it, Unsteady Ground. Probably still my favourite in practice, but my favourite in conception is Convenient Parking.
My least favourite video this year:
Dark Room. It started out as a self-indulgent study in motion and music, and turned into a Yeats-inspired epic destiny/tragic legend/doomed relationships study. The dissonance remains in my head.
Most successful video:
Unsteady Ground, by far. By a factor of 2 - 4, actually.
Video most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I don't know if Attention: Gotham City is underappreciated -- I wish it had gotten a bigger response, but that doesn't mean that it deserved one.
Most fun video:
Convenient Parking, because I got to mashup Dexter and Criminal Minds.
Video with single sexiest moment:
I am fairly certain that moment is in someone else's vid.
Biggest vid fail:
The fact that you could have a cup of coffee, eat a bag of chips, and watch all of my vids for the year within a government-mandated coffee break.
That, or the fact that Unsteady Ground and Dark Room are far too similar to each other for my liking. They're companion vids, yes. That's it.
Hardest video to make:
Conceptually, Convenient Parking was the hardest -- I was crossing over two disparate fandoms with visually different footage. Practically, Dark Room was the hardest: as I mentioned before, it went from 'lalalala I'm going to play with movement and colour' to
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
There was residual cognitive dissonance like you would not believe. Overall, though, I didn't have anything that really, really kicked my ass.
Most unintentionally telling video:
The ones that did not get finished, because I decided they were full of failure. I don't think I abandoned any after finishing them this year.
The things I've learned this year:
- My vids are made from clips cut with rusty safety scissors and held together by chewing gum and baling twine.
- Tech isn't everything. It's (probably) okay if my vids are held together with chewing gum and baling twine.
- Hotel plants do not provide sufficient cover for covert operations and/or cowering.
- I am intimating to some people. Or was at least, at one point, intimidating to one person. The absurdity of this leads me to concede that my fear of Real Vidders is perhaps ridiculous, and that hiding behind greenery is silly.
- It's okay for me to leave feedback. People crave like feedback.
For 2010:
I would like to make some vids. This may sound like a silly goal, but considering I made four vids this year and three the year before, I feel that this is a good target. I have an extremely large number that have been backburnered in my mind, either due to time constraints, vidder failure, or uncertainly as to whether I can do the idea justice. I am going to try to buckle down more, and be more decisive.
I often have timelines on the go for three or four vids, none of which I end up finishing.
I could conceivably focus on increasing my technical abilities -- learning how to add motion, figuring out how to make titles without making a completely new screen every time anything moves, fixing my flickers, doing speed changes without cutting my clips into exceedingly tiny pieces and changing the speed incrementally on each subclip -- but I think that perhaps narrative is more important for me at the moment. Motion and musicality come more easily to me, but thesis-based narratives are like pulling teeth. The fact that I did not have any vids whose construction made me want to stab myself in the face repeatedly likely means that I wasn't stretching as much as I could be.
Of course, it might also be nice to make something just for fun, to play with motion.