A Nothing Trail of Silences

Thank you so much for offering to make something for me! You are clearly someone with discerning tastes!

My (recurring) general vid preferences are as follows: motion, character studies, humour, seriousness lurking below humour, humour spun out of seriousness, serious deconstructions, SCIENCE, magic, things that are just plain fun, things that are thinky, things that are things, awesome ladies, awesome characters in general, and awesome adventures. I love things that defy genre and I ALSO love things that embrace and celebrate their genre.

As for the specifics:

( Continuum, Schitt's Creek, The Good Place, Muppet Treasure Island [SAFETY], Ponyo [SAFETY], Santa Clarita Diet, and Legend of Fei )

Hello, fantabulous vidder who will be making something for me! I think you're super neat.

For this exchange, I requested sources that I think are a blast. I'd love to see something fun with them.

I don't have a lot of music preferences - I think you can make just about any song work for just about any source, if you really try.

Specifics:

Fast and the Furious series

They started out hijacking vcrs. Now they fight helicopters, submarines, and straight-up snatch cars out of the air barehanded. If you want to try to make this series serious and dramatic, I will applaud! If you make a shiny, flashy action vid with feelings, I will also be super happy.

Pokemon: Detective Pikachu

This movie is super fun! You could certainly go that route, explore Tim and/or Lucy's characters and their interactions with Pokemon, construct something noir (detectives hunt bad guys, and that's a game!), or make a vid about Pikachu! I'd also love something that revelled in world building, or explored Pokemon in general.

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

I love this movie. I love how shiny and flashy it is, I love how it's self-aware that Scott's a dick. (Nega Scott is a great guy!) There are so many places you could go with this, and I'll love any of them. You could focus on music and competition there (I love Kim), Ramona herself and Scott's attempts to defeat all of her evil exes, or the video game aspects of the entire thing. Note: As with PDP, if you happened to want to bring in anything from the actual game(s), that would also be super cool! I by no means expect it, but if you had a hankering, that could be neat.

Wreck-It Ralph series

I'd love something that captures the heart and the fun of these movies! I love everyone in this bar, and adore the visuals. You could focus in on racing and friends, or do something really cool with the broader gaming context/environment of the worlds here.

January (Festivids)
Relativism (Arrival)

August (VividCon)
Seven Years (Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra)
Shut Up and Drift (Pacific Rim)
Small Bill$ (Supernatural

October (Equinox Vids)
Work This Body (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle)

Overall thoughts:
Holy forking shirtballs, I made a lot of vids! For me, this is a lot of vids. Despite my general tendency to be dissatisfied with my own work, I am overall very pleased with my output. One of these is the most ambitious vid I've made, one is the most experimental, and at least two of them are amongst my favourites of my own vids.

Favorite vid of my own:
Seven Years or Small Bill$.

Hardest to make:
Seven Years. It's a vid I've been wanting to make for years. It's incredibly narratively dense. In addition, I made it in an extremely compressed timeframe, because VVC premieres were due shortly after I defended my PhD thesis. Which I did with ruptured eardrums. I lost a lot of my vid notes in a cross-country move, but I really want to write up some meta about just how many layers I put into this thing

Most underappreciated:
Small Bill$. It also has some chewy layers to it, but it features a non-major pairing. I started my headfirst dive into Supernatural in January 2018, and I got stuck on Benny. And how good Benny/Dean was. This was in S8 of a 14 season show, so most people who initially gave a fork have moved past it. It was also vidded shortly after I wrote a 25k Dean/Benny fic, and was weirdly influenced by that process. The vid played up a lot of the toxic behaviours and parallels I was using in the fic.

I was also hoping for more of a response on Seven Years, but the differential isn't as high.

Most successful:
The most successful in terms of 'did what I wanted it to do' was probably Seven Years. Most successful in terms of 'people actually watching it' was probably Shut Up and Drift. Most successful in terms of 'experimentation with vid form and also in comments' was Relativism.

My best vid:
Seven Years.

Most fun:
Work This Body has singing hippos. Enough said.

Things I learned this year:
A Good Thing: I am capable of doing better emotional work than I thought I was. Bonus: I need to trust my instincts about motion and flow, instead of second-guessing myself.
A Thing To Work On: I need to get better at killing my darlings - just because a section of a vid LOOKS shiny and moves well, it doesn't mean it serves the narrative purpose. Narrative can be more important.
A Thing That Just Is: FCPX is something I just have to deal with now. It exists. It's what is on my computer. FCP isn't coming back. I just have to live with it.

In 2019:
I hope I continue to vid! I have some concerns that the end of VividCon (rest in peace, my dear sweet friend) will lead to accidental vidding retirement. Maybe I'll try to collaborate with someone on something? I've never done a vid collaboration, and I wonder if being forced to externalize why I'm making the decisions I'm making will lead me to construct more coherent narratives.

After many years in writing retirement, I also wrote two fics!

Words of fiction that I wrote!
Wayfinding (Supernatural, Dean/Benny)
put color in your cheeks (Supernatural, Dean/Benny/Cas, NSFW)

Thoughts/Learning/Etc
I learned that I can still write non-scientific words! Also, that sweetestdrain is a really fantastic beta.

I am actually quite happy with these! Wayfinding came about as my thesis-stress release binge-watching of Supernatural also included live-tweeting. Once upon a time, a handful of my friends encouraged me to spend my day off writing a little Dean/Benny fic. It spiralled, and I spend the next couple of weeks alternating between thesis edits and feverishly writing Wayfinding. It turned out to be much longer, and have far more museums and rabbits than I had initially planned. It's a story that also means a lot more to me than I'd initially anticipated.

With regards to put colour in your cheeks, you know the thing where every single fic I've ever written has a smut-o-meter that tops out at 'forehead kiss' or 'holding hands?' (You probably don't. It's been a very long time since I wrote anything, and I doubt anyone has ever had an encyclopedic knowledge of my fic output.) That is no longer true! put colour in your cheeks is pretty much just porn and feelings.

Hi! Hello! Vidder, thank you so much for offering to make something for me!

My (recurring) general vid preferences are as follows: motion, character studies, humour, seriousness lurking below humour, humour spun out of seriousness, serious deconstructions, SCIENCE, magic, things that are just plain fun, things that are thinky, things that are things, awesome ladies, awesome characters in general, and awesome adventures. I love things that defy genre and I ALSO love things that embrace and celebrate their genre.

As for the specifics:

( Disney Renaissance, Aladdin, Mulan, X-Men: The Animated Series, Sailor Moon, and The Mummy )

An Equinox letter will be here soon, probably tomorrow!

For now, anonymous vidder, I offer this: I think you’re swell.

Title: Wait for a Minute
Fandom: Mad Max: Fury Road
Music: Wait for a Minute - tUnE-yArDs
Summary: I'm still trying to leave the high of violence behind.


Links: Download 1080p mp4, 268 MB | Streaming (YouTube)

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Notes: For vividcon Premieres 2016. Warning for rapid cutting and physical violence.

Title: Wow
Fandom: Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Music: Wow (TOKiMONSTA Remix) by Beck
Summary: (The course of true love never did run) smooth like a tidal wave.


Links: Download 1080p mp4, 184 MB | Streaming (YouTube)

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Notes: For dkwilliams in festivids 2016.

Dear Festividder:

I like you. I don't know you, but I like you. (It is entirely possible that I do know you, in which case you probably already know that I like you.) I think you must have exquisite taste, to like some of these things that I adore.

( 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [Movie] )

( Blue Planet [TV] )

( Continuum [TV] )

( How the Universe Works [TV] )

( Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) [Movie] )

( Marvel Adventures: The Avengers [Still Image] )

( Power Play [TV] )

( Walking with Dinosaurs (1999) [TV] )

Title: The Lights Are All Out
Fandom: Continuum
Music: One Way or Another - Until The Ribbon Breaks
Summary: Standing on a beach, facing the approaching tsunami.


Links: Download (720p mp4 - 165 MB, 98 MB) | Streaming (YouTube) | Original Festivids Post (LJ/DW)

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Notes: For luvtheheavan, Festivids 2015.

It's that time of the year again, and my dear, darling Festividder, I just want to start by saying that clearly you have good taste in media. A++, would match with again.

General notes, before I get into specifics. I haven't included any musical notes, because I'm a firm believer you can make pretty much anything work if you vid with intent, and I listen to most types of music anyway.

Things I love in general (repeated verbatim from the last couple of years): I love motion, character studies, humour, seriousness lurking below humour, humour spun out of seriousness, serious deconstructions, SCIENCE, magic, things that are just plain fun, things that are thinky, things that are things, awesome ladies, awesome characters in general, and awesome adventures. You also have pretty much carte blanch permission to go hay-wild on any and all BBC nature documentaries, if the urge strikes you. (As with all reasonable human beings, I <3 David Attenbourough.)

Specifics:

( Continuum [TV] )

( Dead Like Me [TV] )

( Marvel Adventures: The Avengers [Still Image] )

( The Muppets (live action) [DVD, Movie, Other, Performance, TV, Web] )

( Planet Earth [TV] )


( Power Play [TV] )

( Touch of Pink [Movie] )

( Walking with Dinosaurs (1999) [TV] )