that fanvid meme I've been doing for years
My Vids for 2020
Full length vids
Speeding Rover (Mars Rover RPF)
The Sequel (Jews Dancing multifandom)
Orayta (Hasodot/The Secrets)
Balloons (Community [Paintball episodes])
Odds Are (Grey's Anatomy)
Al Kol Eleh (The Women's Balcony)
Someday (MCU)
Vexercises (All Grey's Anatomy vidlets)
Pechakucha 1 - Rusalka
Pechakucha 2- Make Them Gold
Save Me
The Scientists
Supercup
Don't Leave
Teamwork
Dr. Grey's Laboratory
It Was A Funny Little Thing
So depending on how you count, 7 or 16 vids. I think I'm fine with counting the vidlets.
Favorite
I mean, The Sequel, duh. Not exactly a vid I expected to make after I finished WMLTMD, but it came out so well and was absolutely worth the effort. I particularly enjoyed playing it at Vidukon as part of my curated playlist of vids in which Jews dance... in a context, I thought it really sparkled.
Least Favorite
I'm not totally happy with Orayta, which had a questionable source rip and some issues clipping around subtitles I was never able to completely resolve, but all my vids are my babies and I hate this question every single year.
Most Successful
The Sequel. It was really amazing to get to watch people react to it in Discord at Con-solation, Vidukon, and Fanworks. I wish we could have all danced to it at Sparkle Motion, but oh well, hopefully in the future. I feel like in this question I should also note another success- my 2019 Vidukon premiere, the Carmen Sandiego vid "I Walk Alone", somehow caught the fancy of a Youtube Algorithm this summer and just recently became my first vid to top 10,000 hits. I don't think it's my best work, but eh, fairly popular still-airing fandom with not that big a vidmaking fandom FTW! It's nice for the ego that people are actually watching my vid in those kinds of numbers.
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
Not a lot of people know The Women's Balcony, and not a lot of people are tickled by the idea of punk rock covers of Naomi Shemer, and so "Al Kol Eleh" didn't get a lot of attention. But the people who got it really appreciated it so I'll take that.
Most Fun to Make
"Balloons" was an absolute blast to make and I spent a lot of process just laughing at how clever I was being. Putting all the rainbow stuff in was pure joy. The moment when I remembered that there's a balloon episode of Community that I could add was an amazing brainstorm.
Hardest Vid to Make
Objectively The Sequel was the most effort, but subjectively I think Odds Are felt like it took more. Grey's Anatomy just has such a big canon to wrap your head around, and at least with the Sequel even though it involved more source I didn't have to actually understand all the source in order to use it for a dance vid. Making something that coherently felt like it spanned all of the emotional narrative of Grey's Anatomy took a lot of thought and trial and error, and a lot of good work with my betas.
The Things I Learned This Year
"Al Kol Eleh" was the first vid I made in Da Vinci Resolve... I have since made several more vids in Kdenlive, it doesn't look like I'm going to shift fulltime yet because my Desktop has video card compatibility issues with Resolve and my Desktop is a much better setup for vids that are more overall effort because I don't like vidding for too long on my laptop. But I expect to keep doing movie vids in Resolve and if I continue to like it maybe I'll invest in a graphics card upgrade to get Resolve working on the Desktop. I love that Resolve has Fusion integration, I like its overall workflow, I'm excited to try to figure out how to use its color grading tools, and there's just a number of things that Kdenlive can do fine but Resolve makes easier. It was a relief to see that the learning curve to using the new program, to at least a basic level, was not tremendous.
Also, Vexercises was amazing for getting to think about new kinds of vidding techniques. I've used match cuts before, but the match cut exercise "Save Me" gave me a whole bunch of new tools for spotting places where a match cut might be effective, and I've noticed that I've been making more interesting use of match cuts in my latest vids. Using dialogue in "The Scientists" gave me useful insights on when dialogue can be appropriate, too, and "Don't Leave Me" was an interesting exercise in defining vid POV.
Also, Con-Solation! I ran a vidshow, got submissions, worked with
vidderkidder to use his Viddercon software to run! That was not really a huge effort but it was a great learning experience of the more organizational side of vidding fandom.
My Goals from Last Year
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-At least one con premiere
-The Jews Dancing Sequel
-A Fringe vid or a Sarah Connor Chronicles vid
-An MCU vid
-A Grey's Anatomy vid (it remains deeply weird that I am fannish about this show now, but since it happened, I may as well vid.)
I made a Festivid, I did a vid for Spring Equinox, I premiered a couple vids at
fanworks, I finished The Sequel, I made an MCU vid, and I made a Grey's Anatomy vid. My only misses were the Fringe/TSCC vid... I have an excellent first twenty seconds of a Peter Bishop vid to Tom Waits but I lost steam on it somehow. Maybe I should use Fringe for the next round of Vexercises.
Planning for Next Year
Target vids for 2021:
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-At least one con premiere
-A vid to a Hebrew vidsong
-A Fringe vid or a Sarah Connor Chronicles vid This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/366018.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
comments.
Full length vids
Speeding Rover (Mars Rover RPF)
The Sequel (Jews Dancing multifandom)
Orayta (Hasodot/The Secrets)
Balloons (Community [Paintball episodes])
Odds Are (Grey's Anatomy)
Al Kol Eleh (The Women's Balcony)
Someday (MCU)
Vexercises (All Grey's Anatomy vidlets)
Pechakucha 1 - Rusalka
Pechakucha 2- Make Them Gold
Save Me
The Scientists
Supercup
Don't Leave
Teamwork
Dr. Grey's Laboratory
It Was A Funny Little Thing
So depending on how you count, 7 or 16 vids. I think I'm fine with counting the vidlets.
Favorite
I mean, The Sequel, duh. Not exactly a vid I expected to make after I finished WMLTMD, but it came out so well and was absolutely worth the effort. I particularly enjoyed playing it at Vidukon as part of my curated playlist of vids in which Jews dance... in a context, I thought it really sparkled.
Least Favorite
I'm not totally happy with Orayta, which had a questionable source rip and some issues clipping around subtitles I was never able to completely resolve, but all my vids are my babies and I hate this question every single year.
Most Successful
The Sequel. It was really amazing to get to watch people react to it in Discord at Con-solation, Vidukon, and Fanworks. I wish we could have all danced to it at Sparkle Motion, but oh well, hopefully in the future. I feel like in this question I should also note another success- my 2019 Vidukon premiere, the Carmen Sandiego vid "I Walk Alone", somehow caught the fancy of a Youtube Algorithm this summer and just recently became my first vid to top 10,000 hits. I don't think it's my best work, but eh, fairly popular still-airing fandom with not that big a vidmaking fandom FTW! It's nice for the ego that people are actually watching my vid in those kinds of numbers.
Most Underappreciated by the Universe
Not a lot of people know The Women's Balcony, and not a lot of people are tickled by the idea of punk rock covers of Naomi Shemer, and so "Al Kol Eleh" didn't get a lot of attention. But the people who got it really appreciated it so I'll take that.
Most Fun to Make
"Balloons" was an absolute blast to make and I spent a lot of process just laughing at how clever I was being. Putting all the rainbow stuff in was pure joy. The moment when I remembered that there's a balloon episode of Community that I could add was an amazing brainstorm.
Hardest Vid to Make
Objectively The Sequel was the most effort, but subjectively I think Odds Are felt like it took more. Grey's Anatomy just has such a big canon to wrap your head around, and at least with the Sequel even though it involved more source I didn't have to actually understand all the source in order to use it for a dance vid. Making something that coherently felt like it spanned all of the emotional narrative of Grey's Anatomy took a lot of thought and trial and error, and a lot of good work with my betas.
The Things I Learned This Year
"Al Kol Eleh" was the first vid I made in Da Vinci Resolve... I have since made several more vids in Kdenlive, it doesn't look like I'm going to shift fulltime yet because my Desktop has video card compatibility issues with Resolve and my Desktop is a much better setup for vids that are more overall effort because I don't like vidding for too long on my laptop. But I expect to keep doing movie vids in Resolve and if I continue to like it maybe I'll invest in a graphics card upgrade to get Resolve working on the Desktop. I love that Resolve has Fusion integration, I like its overall workflow, I'm excited to try to figure out how to use its color grading tools, and there's just a number of things that Kdenlive can do fine but Resolve makes easier. It was a relief to see that the learning curve to using the new program, to at least a basic level, was not tremendous.
Also, Vexercises was amazing for getting to think about new kinds of vidding techniques. I've used match cuts before, but the match cut exercise "Save Me" gave me a whole bunch of new tools for spotting places where a match cut might be effective, and I've noticed that I've been making more interesting use of match cuts in my latest vids. Using dialogue in "The Scientists" gave me useful insights on when dialogue can be appropriate, too, and "Don't Leave Me" was an interesting exercise in defining vid POV.
Also, Con-Solation! I ran a vidshow, got submissions, worked with
vidderkidder to use his Viddercon software to run! That was not really a huge effort but it was a great learning experience of the more organizational side of vidding fandom.
My Goals from Last Year
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-At least one con premiere
-The Jews Dancing Sequel
-A Fringe vid or a Sarah Connor Chronicles vid
-An MCU vid
-A Grey's Anatomy vid (it remains deeply weird that I am fannish about this show now, but since it happened, I may as well vid.)
I made a Festivid, I did a vid for Spring Equinox, I premiered a couple vids at
fanworks, I finished The Sequel, I made an MCU vid, and I made a Grey's Anatomy vid. My only misses were the Fringe/TSCC vid... I have an excellent first twenty seconds of a Peter Bishop vid to Tom Waits but I lost steam on it somehow. Maybe I should use Fringe for the next round of Vexercises.
Planning for Next Year
Target vids for 2021:
-At least 1 Festivid
-At least 1 Equinox vid
-At least one con premiere
-A vid to a Hebrew vidsong
-A Fringe vid or a Sarah Connor Chronicles vid This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/366018.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
comments.