baby's first vid

[isiscolo]

I've learned that in fandom, one should never say never. In October 2005 I wrote a post about not liking vids. I started reccing vids in May 2006. And now, in January 2007, I have just made my first vid (well, really a vidlet):

Lonesome Wilby (Wilby Wonderful/Lonesome Dove; 11.3MB/1:23, right-click and save

Comments

[sdwolfpup]

For me, it was more distracting seeing CKR as Duck and the Western guy, rather than the lady (Irene, I think) and the bad guy from the Western movie. If you wanted to tease out the theme more (and this could go with the longer vid idea; though I have to say that I'm going through the same thing with my IJVP vidlets, in that because I'm limiting myself to a minute, my ideas are not really expandable beyond that, even though I might want to). Where was I? Oh, right, teasing the theme! You could introduce the character's in Dan's life intercut with the characters from Westerns so we get the general theme each person plays in his life, and you could identify Duck as a generic Good Guy and then later in the vid use the clip of CKR in the Western garb to reinforce it and to also show how much Duck has become the embodiment of that Good Guy to Dan.

Theoretically. Hee.

I really like the horses, though. I know that seems like a stupid thing to point out, but they really drew me in and I knew what I was dealing with right away. Plus the juxtaposition of the blue/green colors in WW with the gold/yellow of the western was very effective.

I have tried to write non-linearly but I can't do it.

I couldn't do it until after I started vidding non-linearly. Weird, huh?

[isiscolo]

Oh, interesting. I really like the ideas you've suggested here, especially the going from generic Good Guy down to the personal! It makes me think about what I was trying to do and different ways to express and develop it.

And yay for horses! I very deliberately picked them because to me Westerns are "horse movies" (this is part of a running joke in my household, because my husband is from a ranching family and is a very good horseman, and he likes movies with horses)...and then when I was watching the first cut of the vid at full size, I realized the movie Dan's watching has a horse in it, which made me feel all warm and fuzzy about that choice.