46:56 Vid Playlist for Sines
So Vividcon was two weekends ago now and this past weekend I had Fannish Time With Sines and decided to put together a vid playlist for her. This is it.
3:36 Starships by bironic [Multifandom]
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...)
I've got this thing where I'm more likely to check music out if it's got spaceships on it or spacey things in general, really. It's led me some pretty good places. It's also the reason I've watched Nicki Minaj's Starships music video at least twice, because I keep thinking that it somehow isn't a beach video. This video is full of starships. The first time I watched it I fell into a kind of haze of joy, I think: starships! It's this delightful sort of ode to adventures in space and those stories. It's full of spaceships and people flying them and laughing and fighting and playing and kissing and explosions. It's great.
2:29 Mothership by
laurashapiro [Doctor Who]
Dance, you beautiful chunk of the universe!
This, like Starships, is a Club Vivid vid, though not from this year; it's from 2009. It's a celebration of joy in Doctor Who, featuring the Tenth Doctor. It dances; it's full of movement, and, yes, dancing, and hugs and fist bumps and smiles. I have so much Ten love, watching this, all of these first Doctor feelings; he was great. He was so great, and ridiculous. (I miss him.) I love the way the TARDIS is used in this vid, how it frames the vid with the intro sequence and ending - it's such a great vid from start to finish.
3:38 No You Girls by gwyn-r [Multifandom]
Gender's such a drag.
This is a from Club Vivid 2011 and another celebratory vid, this time of drag. It's also an interesting exploration of some of its tropes. There are a lot of different sources used in this and their handling of drag varies a lot - gwyn-r wrote some meta about this in hir notes - so seeing all of these different sources together is interesting. It's also a lot of fun in that standard kind of multifandom vid way. The Franz Ferdinand song is kind of perfect for this vid; it's got this wonderful kind of slinky vibe.
3:17 What Makes You Beautiful by elipie [Merlin]
Merlin doesn't know he's beautiful. Or gay. But also beautiful.
It's an Arthur/Merlin vid set to a happy bouncy boy band song. There's a lot of grinning. It's wonderful and basically made of puppies. I have this desire to read all of the Merlin/Everyone (basically) fic and also all of the Merlin/Arthur fic where they get married and Merlin gets shiny things. There's so much footage of people looking at Merlin fondly! It's really great! (I stopped watching Merlin a while ago so there's also some incredibly slashy footage I hadn't seen before.) It's a fun vid.
4:15 The Adventure by
greensilver [Harry Potter]
The boy who lived.
This is a vid about Neville being awkward and brave and fantastic and generally himself. I teared up the first couple of times I watched this. It covers the whole voyage of the books; it's Neville's part in the Harry Potter story, that story of growing up and that story of the defeat of Voldemort. It's all of these little and big things that Neville did, all of these moments and it's great; Neville's great. (It reminds me of Marchin On by dazzleme7, because the song's got the same sort of heft to it and it's another vid that's working up to the defeat of Voldemort, made up of moments over the years, and similarly effective.) I have a lot of rewatches to do, yet.
3:33 God is a DJ by dualbunny [BSG]
(Starbuck/Awesomeness) Kara says get your ass on the dance floor!
It's a Kara-centric vid about her being awesome and living. Like The Adventure there's a big range in the clips; we see our hero triumphant and not. That range fleshes her out a lot. It makes her more real and that combination of the good and bad bits in her life makes both better, raises them. It's a vid wherein Kara tackles things and has a lot of feelings to the soundtrack of a defiant dance tune. It's really satisfying, even without having any exposure to BSG.
2:50 Mistaken for Strangers by
greensilver [The Sentinel]
The evolution of Blair Sandburg.
This is such a devastating vid. I've never seen an episode of source but I know this story. It's about the academic who chooses to work with men who carry guns in order to further hir research and gets caught up in that whole carrying guns thing - what that means - and undergoes a lot of trauma and ultimately becomes one of them. It's about the civilian who becomes a warrior. It's about that loss of innocence, that transformation.
5:14 Isobel by
kaydeefalls [Avatar: the Last Airbender]
to raise wonderful hell, like me, like me.
It's an Azula and Toph vid. I like it for the way that the kind of wave-like rise and fall of the music is paired with bending - Toph moving earth and Azula fire; the song is both well chosen and well used. The motion in this is really engaging. I can tell that there are parallels and contrasts being drawn between the two characters but I've seen very little of Avatar: the Last Airbender and so am not really familiar with either of them, so what I'm really getting out of this vid isn't necessarily all that's there but is two stubborn women taking on the world themselves, and that's really great as is, without that canon knowledge.
3:30 Raspberry Swirl by
sol_se [Suspira]
Suzy enrolls in a prestigious dance academy, befriends a girl named Sarah, and uncovers an ancient evil. (Or, welcome to evil dance school!)
(There are some really fantastic horror and suspense vids on this year's Vividcon playlists; choosing just one to show
sinesofinsanity was a little sad.) This is a vid that makes me want to go hunt down the source, because it's got this 1970s gothic feel and is just really fantastic visually. I really love the way the vid's ending uses footage from its beginning (the ending is wonderful) and the way that this is cut. There are a lot of cuts back and forth between different scenes that lend to the kind of chaos of the heroine's experience. It's really great.
2:00 TV taught me how to feel by almostgaby [Community]
A video focusing on the character Abed Nadir and his relationship with those around him.
This is an excellent fun little piece on Abed and his relationship with media. It's about Abed's love of media and storytelling and narrative and his sometimes rejection of real life and his desire to incorporate elements of media in his life, to live out those stories and try on those roles. (It's reminding me that I have meta about Harry Dresden that I should write up.) It's this really wonderful celebration of Abed and how he interacts with the world. It's also an incredibly meta vid dealing with the impact of narrative and storytelling.
3:35 You by
lola [Glee]
My love's too big for you my love.
I still have a bunch of rewatches to do and haven't finished unraveling this vid yet, and I'm probably never going to fully get this vid because I stopped watching Glee, but it's great; it's so great. Like TV taught me how to feel it examines the way that films and media shape and colour our reality. It's a Glee vid intercut with all of these old films, which is in itself incredibly charming to me (like Kurt, I'm a little in love with some of these films), but also draw really effective comparisons and highlight some of the wardrobe choices that Kurt makes. Kurt dresses up like Plato from Rebel Without a Cause at one point and I am just- busy having a lot of feelings over here.
3:55 Us by
lim [Multifandom]
You draws heavily on Us in some ways. There's the title to start with. The songs that they use have a really similar feel and some of You's effect work is reminiscent of Us'. Where Us uses sketching and highlights the transformative nature of fandom through that You uses a kind of embedded film reel and created static and other kinds of footage distortions to interweave Kurt's life and his media. Some of my favorite bits of You are where the non-Glee sources are less distorted, more real, than the Glee bits.
5:04 We Didn't Start the Fire by
fiercynn and
scribe [Multifandom]
Fifty years of fandom.
I really like this vid, not so much for all of the fan-loved sources it uses (though recognising sources is a lot of fun, everyone has their own experience of fandom that doesn't necessarily match up with anyone else's), but for the way that it uses footage of fan activities and fan productions; that's not something I can remember having seen incorporated in a multifandom fannish meta vid before. I really enjoyed seeing that in a fannish history vid. Knitting! Audio-editing! Us! A Very Potter Musical! It was very cool seeing that interactivity, that involvement with the source.
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3:36 Starships by bironic [Multifandom]
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...)
I've got this thing where I'm more likely to check music out if it's got spaceships on it or spacey things in general, really. It's led me some pretty good places. It's also the reason I've watched Nicki Minaj's Starships music video at least twice, because I keep thinking that it somehow isn't a beach video. This video is full of starships. The first time I watched it I fell into a kind of haze of joy, I think: starships! It's this delightful sort of ode to adventures in space and those stories. It's full of spaceships and people flying them and laughing and fighting and playing and kissing and explosions. It's great.
2:29 Mothership by
laurashapiro [Doctor Who]
Dance, you beautiful chunk of the universe!
This, like Starships, is a Club Vivid vid, though not from this year; it's from 2009. It's a celebration of joy in Doctor Who, featuring the Tenth Doctor. It dances; it's full of movement, and, yes, dancing, and hugs and fist bumps and smiles. I have so much Ten love, watching this, all of these first Doctor feelings; he was great. He was so great, and ridiculous. (I miss him.) I love the way the TARDIS is used in this vid, how it frames the vid with the intro sequence and ending - it's such a great vid from start to finish.
3:38 No You Girls by gwyn-r [Multifandom]
Gender's such a drag.
This is a from Club Vivid 2011 and another celebratory vid, this time of drag. It's also an interesting exploration of some of its tropes. There are a lot of different sources used in this and their handling of drag varies a lot - gwyn-r wrote some meta about this in hir notes - so seeing all of these different sources together is interesting. It's also a lot of fun in that standard kind of multifandom vid way. The Franz Ferdinand song is kind of perfect for this vid; it's got this wonderful kind of slinky vibe.
3:17 What Makes You Beautiful by elipie [Merlin]
Merlin doesn't know he's beautiful. Or gay. But also beautiful.
It's an Arthur/Merlin vid set to a happy bouncy boy band song. There's a lot of grinning. It's wonderful and basically made of puppies. I have this desire to read all of the Merlin/Everyone (basically) fic and also all of the Merlin/Arthur fic where they get married and Merlin gets shiny things. There's so much footage of people looking at Merlin fondly! It's really great! (I stopped watching Merlin a while ago so there's also some incredibly slashy footage I hadn't seen before.) It's a fun vid.
4:15 The Adventure by
greensilver [Harry Potter]
The boy who lived.
This is a vid about Neville being awkward and brave and fantastic and generally himself. I teared up the first couple of times I watched this. It covers the whole voyage of the books; it's Neville's part in the Harry Potter story, that story of growing up and that story of the defeat of Voldemort. It's all of these little and big things that Neville did, all of these moments and it's great; Neville's great. (It reminds me of Marchin On by dazzleme7, because the song's got the same sort of heft to it and it's another vid that's working up to the defeat of Voldemort, made up of moments over the years, and similarly effective.) I have a lot of rewatches to do, yet.
3:33 God is a DJ by dualbunny [BSG]
(Starbuck/Awesomeness) Kara says get your ass on the dance floor!
It's a Kara-centric vid about her being awesome and living. Like The Adventure there's a big range in the clips; we see our hero triumphant and not. That range fleshes her out a lot. It makes her more real and that combination of the good and bad bits in her life makes both better, raises them. It's a vid wherein Kara tackles things and has a lot of feelings to the soundtrack of a defiant dance tune. It's really satisfying, even without having any exposure to BSG.
2:50 Mistaken for Strangers by
greensilver [The Sentinel]
The evolution of Blair Sandburg.
This is such a devastating vid. I've never seen an episode of source but I know this story. It's about the academic who chooses to work with men who carry guns in order to further hir research and gets caught up in that whole carrying guns thing - what that means - and undergoes a lot of trauma and ultimately becomes one of them. It's about the civilian who becomes a warrior. It's about that loss of innocence, that transformation.
5:14 Isobel by
kaydeefalls [Avatar: the Last Airbender]
to raise wonderful hell, like me, like me.
It's an Azula and Toph vid. I like it for the way that the kind of wave-like rise and fall of the music is paired with bending - Toph moving earth and Azula fire; the song is both well chosen and well used. The motion in this is really engaging. I can tell that there are parallels and contrasts being drawn between the two characters but I've seen very little of Avatar: the Last Airbender and so am not really familiar with either of them, so what I'm really getting out of this vid isn't necessarily all that's there but is two stubborn women taking on the world themselves, and that's really great as is, without that canon knowledge.
3:30 Raspberry Swirl by
sol_se [Suspira]
Suzy enrolls in a prestigious dance academy, befriends a girl named Sarah, and uncovers an ancient evil. (Or, welcome to evil dance school!)
(There are some really fantastic horror and suspense vids on this year's Vividcon playlists; choosing just one to show
sinesofinsanity was a little sad.) This is a vid that makes me want to go hunt down the source, because it's got this 1970s gothic feel and is just really fantastic visually. I really love the way the vid's ending uses footage from its beginning (the ending is wonderful) and the way that this is cut. There are a lot of cuts back and forth between different scenes that lend to the kind of chaos of the heroine's experience. It's really great.
2:00 TV taught me how to feel by almostgaby [Community]
A video focusing on the character Abed Nadir and his relationship with those around him.
This is an excellent fun little piece on Abed and his relationship with media. It's about Abed's love of media and storytelling and narrative and his sometimes rejection of real life and his desire to incorporate elements of media in his life, to live out those stories and try on those roles. (It's reminding me that I have meta about Harry Dresden that I should write up.) It's this really wonderful celebration of Abed and how he interacts with the world. It's also an incredibly meta vid dealing with the impact of narrative and storytelling.
3:35 You by
lola [Glee]
My love's too big for you my love.
I still have a bunch of rewatches to do and haven't finished unraveling this vid yet, and I'm probably never going to fully get this vid because I stopped watching Glee, but it's great; it's so great. Like TV taught me how to feel it examines the way that films and media shape and colour our reality. It's a Glee vid intercut with all of these old films, which is in itself incredibly charming to me (like Kurt, I'm a little in love with some of these films), but also draw really effective comparisons and highlight some of the wardrobe choices that Kurt makes. Kurt dresses up like Plato from Rebel Without a Cause at one point and I am just- busy having a lot of feelings over here.
3:55 Us by
lim [Multifandom]
You draws heavily on Us in some ways. There's the title to start with. The songs that they use have a really similar feel and some of You's effect work is reminiscent of Us'. Where Us uses sketching and highlights the transformative nature of fandom through that You uses a kind of embedded film reel and created static and other kinds of footage distortions to interweave Kurt's life and his media. Some of my favorite bits of You are where the non-Glee sources are less distorted, more real, than the Glee bits.
5:04 We Didn't Start the Fire by
fiercynn and
scribe [Multifandom]
Fifty years of fandom.
I really like this vid, not so much for all of the fan-loved sources it uses (though recognising sources is a lot of fun, everyone has their own experience of fandom that doesn't necessarily match up with anyone else's), but for the way that it uses footage of fan activities and fan productions; that's not something I can remember having seen incorporated in a multifandom fannish meta vid before. I really enjoyed seeing that in a fannish history vid. Knitting! Audio-editing! Us! A Very Potter Musical! It was very cool seeing that interactivity, that involvement with the source.
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