My Year in Vidding. 2011
So I decided to do this meme now, because I don't think I'll finish any of my WIP's before the years end.
January: Nothin
February:
No Longer Feels Like Home//BtVS, S6 Buffy Character Study
March:
It's Raining Here//BtVS, Spike & Buffy (For seasonal_spuffy Not Posted until April),
Pyro//BtVS, Spike & Buffy (For seasonal_spuffy Not Posted until April),
Stuck in a Bad Way//BtVS, Spike & Buffy (For seasonal_spuffy Not Posted Until April)
Words Get in the Way//BtVS, Spike & Buffy (for ever_neutral's birthday),
April:
Discuss, Discourage//Community, Jeff & Annie,
Here We Go Again//Community, Jeff & Annie,
Faster Than My Bullet//Community, Modern Warfare Tribute,
So Tired of Being Me//Community, Annie Character Study,
May:
The Annie of it All//Communtiy, Annie & Jeff,
What Love Has Done//Community, Jeff + Study Group,
I'd Like to Know//Community, Jeff & Annie,
June:
A Moment//Community, Jeff & Annie,
Lead Me to the Truth//BtVS, Spike & Buffy, (For aerintine & angearia's Birthday)
I Never Thought About Love When I Thought About Home//AtS, Angel & Darla,
July: nothing
August:
Life's too Short (to even care at all)//BtVS, Dawn Character Study,
Interlude//BtVS, Spike & Buffy (For seasonal_spuffy Not Posted Until Sept),
I Still Choose You//BtVS Buffy & Spike (For seasonal_spuffy Not Posted Until Sept),
September:
Your Heart & Mine//BtVS, Spike & Buffy (For seasonal_spuffy),
October: nodda
November: zilch
December:
Setting Fire to Our Insides//BtVS, Spike & Buffy (for eilowyn's Birthday),
Like a Stranger//The Vampire Diaries, Damon & Elena, Damon & Stefan, Damon & Katherine, Elena & Stefan, Stefan & Katherine, Katherine & Elena
Over 2x the amount of videos I made in 2011. Woot!
My Favorite Video this year (of my own): I'm actually not sure. The videos I made differed so much this year because of 2 new fandoms and trying to spread out the content of my BtVS videos. I think I'll go with It's Raining Here. I'd wanted to vid Spuffy to another Great Northern Song for so long, and I feel like I vid from Spikes POV too often, because even though I don't really view the relationship from his POV it's easier to read? I feel like the video successfully got across the fact that it was a Buffy POV and you don't see too many of those.
My Least Favorite Video: Discuss, Discourage. Hands Down. I feel that song was WRITTEN for this ship, and I was so anxious to start vidding them that I feel I kinda wasted it on a rushed video. It's also probably my worst music editing to date. And I pride myself on the way I edit songs. :/
Most Successful Video: I honestly feel like even though it's a hard subject to broach in fandom No Longer Feels Like Home was the most successful. And I am kinda proud of it, which doesn't happen too often after months of it being completed. I Still Choose You is another video that I think got a lot of positive feedback.
Video Most Under Appreciated by the Universe: Once again, I'm not even sure why this is a question. I am grateful for all the feedback I get on my videos. It's never not enough.
Most Fun Video: I'd Like to Know & Here We Go Again, were the most fun videos I made this year. I started vidding Jeff/Annie thinking I'd be making a lot of cutesy/fun videos. turns out, I'm an angst whore. So those are the only two videos that were purely fun times.
Video with the single sexiest moment: I think Like a Stranger is gonna win sexiest video for me this year. Because these kids have sex a lot. and they are attractive. specifically in their FACES.
Biggest Vid Fail: As a Concept video, I think Interlude was poorly executed. It feels off beat, and kinda ragged to me now. and again, Discuss, Discourage was a fail in all aspects. Length, music edit, just all around.
Hardest Video To Make: No Longer Feels Like Home was the most difficult emotionally on me. Because I felt like I was opening up something inside of myself making it, and it's not something I enjoy dissecting. As far as difficult concept/editing wise, Lead Me to The Truth took me almost two years to finish, and I still feel like I could have done more with it.
The Things I've Learned This Year: Have fun. When videos become a chore for me, like I'm pressed for time, or I really want to finish something but haven't' really thought the video through, I need to relax and remind myself I do this because I love doing it, not because I feel I need to. And it remains fun for me, which is why I think I doubled my videos this year.
For 2012:Welcome new fandoms/concepts. I will always, ALWAYS vid BtVS. ALWAYS. But I would like to start incorporating new fandoms in addition to my Buffy/Spuffy videos. Vidding is really one way I analyze a show, and while I don't think I'll ever stop learning something new about Buffy, I'd like to start learning new things about other fandoms.
Fandoms I hope to vid in 2012 include:
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (of course)
Angel (I would like to make a couple ensemble/character videos)
Community
Parks & Recreation
Twin Peaks (when I'm finished with my rewatch)
The Vampire Diaries
Grimm
Veronica Mars
Arrested Development
Happy Endings