Vidding Questions meme 2014
I'm the terrible person that's posting a questions meme while I'm still working on the answers to the last one I posted. But I'm a follower and I'm jealous of everyone else getting into vidding discussions
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In my recent, Runs in the Family Hannibal vid of Abigail Hobbs, the something to do with her grandmother’s / grandfather’s grandmother civil war soldiers who
badly infected her / my friend has maladies, rickets, and allergies that she dates back to the 17th century part at :50-1:03 is what I'm most proud of. My brain really grasped onto all the parallels of Hannibal looking down at Abigail's mom and Alana and Abigail looking down at the blood her mom left on the cement and then going into Alana being infected. Then with Marissa's body and Abigail's dad's other staged bodies and Abigail's face and wave to her dad into him training her and then finally into the parallel of Bev and Alana seeing Abigail...
Honestly I'm still proud of that entire vid. It's the most my brain to actual timeline vid I've ever made. My brain categorized all of that in such a way that I made it a vid.
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I usually don't use a beta. When I do, I look for willingness mostly. Back when I tried to use betas traditionally I ended up in a lot of awkward situations where I didn't take people's advice. What I wanted out of the vid was different then what they wanted out of it. So I stopped using betas because my philosophy of vidding is fundamentally different than the majority of people who beta. I do use betas if I want to check something. For instance I tweeted that I needed someone to look at a vid and answer one question for me. Like for one I had them watch it and then read the question of if it looked like the woman was coming off as a rapist. It wasn't my intention, but without context, the clips could have been taken sexually, which I didn't want.
Basically, willingness to do it and the understanding that I might not take your advice. We can still be friends if we disagree, but it's my vid, not your vid.
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Hmmmmm, I'm going to say that I loved it when someone came up to me at Vividcon and asked if I would upload some older vids that they were interested in watching that had expired. They said very nice things about my vids. I'm hella awkward when getting "in person likes/kudos" for fannish things, but it really made my day because my morning had no been going well. That and I didn't think anyone cared about my old stuff. I'm working on reuploading everything, but geez does it take a long time.
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I answered this above, but I'll answer it as many times as people ask it because I am feeling vain.
In When I am Laid in Earth, a Utopia vid, I'm super proud of :13-:25 because I didn't reframe anything and found all the points for transitioning in the source. The first is a graphic novel page from the Utopia manuscript that a character on the show created that transitions with that white circle perfectly over Jessica's entrance into the door, then the push in on the door opening to Jessica again, this time transitioning into the crumpled post it note of "utopia manuscript" perfectly. In the source Jessica's dad was thought to have put a secret into his manuscript for all of season one until the last scene where Jessica realizes that her father put the secret in her blood, hence all my transitions. Jessica is the manuscript.
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I have a bonkers amount of vidding journals. I've taken to putting notes in the notes section of my iphone too, then I can search for the term I'm looking for in my notes. I have strange little codes for things that I can pull up. These are the clip notes I took for an abandoned vid.
I usually have clip progressions in mind and things I want to be sure and include. For example, with ***Flawless I ended up taking the walls of my kitchen for vidding notes. Some vids I take notes for differently. Close ups of ***Flawless clip notes one, two, three. Everything in my clip notes did not make it into the vid because I had a culling process for the progression of the vid. I needed certain things in certain places and had more than enough to work with.
Vidding idea notes I generally scribble down by hand in my vidding journal. These are some notes for my Hannibal vid. Most of it didn't make it in the vid because so much of it was tangential to Abigail Hobbs. But I had the idea, so I ( ... )
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No contest, I Threw it on the Ground. I made it for the LOLZ and because I wanted to play and make Brad laugh.
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I go through phases where I vid in certain places all over my apartment or gramma's house. Right now I'm into vidding at my kitchen table looking at my view of a giant pond. It's GORG. As soon as I get my patio furniture I'm going to vid on my patio until the weather gets bad. I once vidded in a bathtub when I was in high school and living with my grandparents. I needed privacy while there were houseguests and someone online suggested the bathroom. It worked well.
I usually have a bottle of water or Snapple. I LOVE ME SOME SNAPPLE WHILE I VID. And fruit by the foot because I can eat it without using my hands.
Ideally I don't people in my grill every ten minutes. I visit family on weekends and it's like they know I'm vidding and find me to ask me something or show me something or tell me something.
It's nice when all my source files are working properly and my laptop isn't overheated.
And I'm not tired. Or overly hyper.
Or in need of a pee.
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Hmmm, I am forever messing up the technical parts of vidding. I'm exporting incorrectly and encoding wrong. But overall World Spins Madly On for festivids was the hardest vid for me. I had offered Night Watch and Day Watch for festivids, but I quickly realized I wouldn't be able to finish the vid I was working on, so I put it aside and started watching New Amsterdam to make a vid. Then I scrambled for a song. Then I had to actually vid it. The product ended up with poor pacing because I needed the song to fit the concept of being chronological, which meant the beginning was boring as FRELLING FRAK. Looking back I do enjoy parts of it, but I feel like it was a failure. I liked parts of the show, but not a majority of it. It had promise, but was really tied up and didn't iron out what it wanted to do and where it wanted to go. LOL, THE SAME AS I DID WITH MY VID. Nice epiphany I had there.
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I'm a bounce around vidder most of the time. I hit the sections I can see most vividly in my mind first, then work my way out from those places until everything connects.
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