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Day 20: Do you ever get ideas inspired from other people's stories, vids, or art in the same fandom?Not really. I make the vids I want to see, and I make them because I haven't already seen them. The one exception is that I do often get inspired by other vidders' uses of special effects -- light, color, split frames, etc. -- or sometimes their ( Read more... )

The interview I did for vid_commentary has been posted. I got lots of terrific questions, so feel free to go read my 7,500 words of rambling in response to them. Interviews with Cherryice, Fabella, and SDWolfpup will be posted over the next few days. (I have to admit I am especially looking forward to SDW's, since apparently we proved once again that we share a ( Read more... )

I'm very pleased to be hosting this weekend's vid chat, the latest in a series of discussions started by bop_radar. This week's topic is creative growth. Please feel free not only to join in but to signal-boost in whatever way makes sense to you!

I want to start by reiterating what bop_radar said in last week's vid chat post, because I think she put it beautifully ( Read more... )

I've wanted to do a DivX (well, XviD, really) version of Cat-Scan for a while now; it's got that Pretty Movie thing going for it, and I'm still very fond of it, even though it's the least-downloaded vid I've made ( Read more... )

Just about a year ago, sockkpuppett and I had a chat about vid structure and the process of vidding. Of course that was right in the middle of my vidding hiatus, so I couldn't really do anything with the insights I gained from that conversation. But apparently I retained it, despite not consciously remembering it, because yesterday, while working on the ( Read more... )

I'm in the big city having a fannish weekend, which means that I'm thinking about vidding. So I'm stealing the Video Death Match! poll from sisabet, sdwolfpup, and f1renze... and adding one of my own.

Poll Video Death Match!

Poll What should h.l vid next?

I think I swiped this version from sisabet. She's definitely where I got the "what I learned!" sections.

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I found the following on a scrap of paper that clearly dates from early in the "Cat Scan Hist'ry" vidding process:

here's luck: This movie's really creepy. Also, so is this song.
renenet: So's your vid.
h.l: I'm going to spend the next however-long-it-takes... god, I'm just going to be creeped out all the time. That's annoying.
r: But you also ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the Slayage con that sisabet and sockkpuppett and tzikeh were at this past weekend, and thinking about the intersection of fandom and academia.

And just now I checked the site stats for paper cup and discovered that the Donnie Darko vid has been downloaded a tidy 300 times since I posted it - 200 for the large size and 100 for the small. And that' ( Read more... )