I've been enjoying other people's responses to the recent vidding meme. Reading them reminds me that I never finished the 30 Days of Vidding meme from last year, so here are the last two "days":

Day 29: What is your current project or projects?"Current projects" is hard for me to define, because there are 100 .blend files on my laptop, and I ( Read more... )

Day 24: Betaing: How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren't any major flaws in your vid? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?For my own vids I rarely formally use a beta. I run my vids past my boyfriend a lot, and I will often pass it to other people for comments. My only beta horror story is that time I got notes back ( Read more... )

Day 22: Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?Festivids! It's the only fest I've ever participated in, and this is my third year of participating. I'm not sure what my favorite experience has been. ( Read more... )

Day 20: Do you ever get ideas inspired from other people's stories, vids, or art in the same fandom?I think of vids as meta, so when I get ideas from other people, it's usually from meta or discussions of the fandom. I try not to be inspired by other people's vids, because the vid ideas I get out of that kind of inspiration usually end up too ( Read more... )

Day 18: Where do you get the most inspiration for your vids from?

The source. I generally start with an idea or ideas I want to vid, then I go looking for a song. Very occasionally the song comes first, but usually it's because I have a concept I want to see in vid form.

Day 19: When you have vid ideas, do you sit down and start vidding right ( Read more... )

Day 17: Titles: Do you try to use something different than the song? Why or why not?

I try to title my vids something that makes sense for the vid and is memorable given the lyrics. Usually the song title suffices. "Life in Mono" did not make sense for my Cat People/Curse of the Cat People vid at all (or really, for the song itself), whereas ( Read more... )

Day 15: Warnings: What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a vid?Um, I checked, and apparently I've only ever warned for crackvids? I think it is important to warn for people wearing beards made of live bees, and other similarly disturbing content. Warning for NSFW footage is nice too, ( Read more... )

Between festivities and festividding, this is turning into an every other day posting meme.

Day 13: Do you prefer canon or fanon when you vid (canon shots vs. using shots out of context; AU vs. canon)? Has vidding for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?I used to be hardline canon shots in canon ( Read more... )

Day 12: Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" vid of a favorite media source but set in a different fandom? (I.e., attempted to bring the 'feel' or 'mood' of one source to a different fandom, like the zombie Mary Poppins vid.)

No, unless making crackvids counts as "adaptation", which I don't think it does.

( All 30 days )

Day 11: Genre: do you prefer making certain genres of vid? What kind do you tend to vid the most?I'm trying, but I can't find a common genre in my vids. The genre that has been the most relaxing to vid has been light-hearted character celebrations, because they don't need a goddamn structure and the thesis is as simple as it gets. I haven't made ( Read more... )