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

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[scriggle]

*bookmarks for d'load tonight*

That is a great premise for a vid. I can't wait until I get home and can watch it.

[scriggle]

Oh, I really liked this. You did a great job.

[isiscolo]

Yay, thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[neery]

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

Oh God, me too. Okay, I haven't actually made a vid yet, mostly because the process totally intimidates me, but I had the same progression from not liking vids to enjoying / reccing vids and now there's a vid I desperately want to make, if I could only figure out how to do it. I've already got most of the source and the song and all that. (So, you know, spill: How difficult was it to learn to vid? *g*)

I'm going to actually watch your vid as soon as the internal network stops mystriously not functioning and I can clear harddrive space on the main PC again; right now, ten more MB might just be the straw that breaks the poor thing's back.

[isiscolo]

Hee, well. Probably the most useful advice I gleaned from the vidding memories was (I think from permetaform) that you should learn the bare minimum and then just tackle it, because otherwise you'll be so intimidated and confused that you'll never get anywhere. So I went into it with the vague idea that I should not be too literal (heh, with an instrumental this was easy), that I should cut to the beat, that I should have a purpose for each clip, and, okay, shoo, go, make a vid. (I also went into it with my own very strong and idiosyncratic preferences for vids in mind, which are mostly that I like short and I like narrative

[sdwolfpup]

I haven't seen the source for this vidlet, so I'm bringing only noncontextual thoughts to this, but it's an interesting idea and really solid for a first vid. I love the way you highlighted those oh-so-familiar whistles at the beginning. Great effect, and really sets up the whole vid nicely. I also really enjoyed when you made the direct comparisons between the two movies, intercutting between the WW characters and the western characters. I think it would've helped if you'd started earlier with that and hit it a little harder (maybe finding comparisons for everyone, like the Sandra Oh character who I wasn't sure why she was in it; again, that could be a contextual thing I'm missing!), because the horses and Western theme were confusing to me until you did that

[isiscolo]

Oh, thank you so much for watching it - I like your vids and respect your thoughts, and I was hoping you might watch it

[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

[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.

[china_shop]

Oh, this is so cool! I hadn't previously made the connection between westerns and hangings -- I love it when vids illuminate stuff like that. And the shot of "Duck" as cowboy -- *hearts* /early morning fb

[isiscolo]

Yay, thank you! If you've never see The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: at the very beginning, "ugly" (Tuco) is being hanged, and "good" (The Man With No Name, played by Clint Eastwood) shoots through the rope to rescue him - and then they go off and split the reward money that he got for turning Tuco in.

[z_rayne]

I can't watch it; I'm sorry. The aspect-ratio being off is actually painful to me.

I think it's tremendously cool that vidding has sucked you in, though!

[isiscolo]

I didn't notice any aspect ratio problems until you mentioned it; the vid clips look the same on my screen as the movie does. Perhaps you could tell me what I need to do to avoid the problem.

[z_rayne]

What video editing software are you using? I can help with Premiere, probably, but that's the only one I know. You could try looking at previous posts on vidder, and maybe in astolat or permetaform's memories, too.