#vidding stuff

[januarium]

Dear Vidder

Hello Vidder!

(FYI to most people seeing this: I’m signing up for Festivids, so this is my letter about my requests to go with my sign up.)

Honestly, I'm flexible and I'm sure I'll be delighted with whatever you make, but I shall try to give you some guidance.

Vid preferences: I love ensembles, I love friendship vids, I love character studies, I love overviews! I’m not as into shippy vids but I can absolutely get on board with them; my fave ship vids are usually fun and/or fucked up, as I'm not really into ballads. I am a big fan of upbeat vids, but I absolutely can go for more serious ones, or those that take a darker turn, too. I can totally enjoy vids with angst, but I’d prefer that to not be the majority of it? I fucking love angry vids filled with righteous anger throughout. While I often enjoy using clips with show audio to begin or close out a vid I don't always love vids using show audio mixed with music? But there are some of that blow me away, so I'm not entirely opposed.

Music preferences: Other than not being all that into ballads, I like all sorts of music! I love discovering new music in vids. Some favourite artists are: Janelle Monae, Tori Amos, Panic! at the Disco, Fleetwood Mac, Blink 182. I love musicals, I love pop, I love rock, I love punk, but I'm here to follow you down any path that works for you.

Don't have any visual or audio sensitivities or triggers. 

Anna and the Apocalypse - What more could you want than a high school Christmas zombie comedy musical??? I love the ensemble here a lot, the whole group of them, feel free to rip my heart out with their decreasing numbers. Anna and Steph are specifically my favourite characters, but honestly I am a fan of all of them. 

Do Revenge - This film is so stunning, really there's so much vidders can do with it. Drea and Eleanor as fucked up soulmates, following the story as a whole, just appreciating the incredible outfits? Whatever you want, I'm here for it.

Everything Everywhere All At Once - What even is there to say about how great this film is? Really here for exploring Joy and Evelyn's relationship, on the film as a whole, the ensemble, , Joy/Jobu/Joybu’s journey, WAYMOND! Here for all of it.

Kevin Can Fuck Himself - God I love this and this it’s such excellent vid fodder. I’d fucking love anything focussing on Allison and/or Patty, maybe a character study of of one of them (Patty’s journey would be such a good vidddd), or an Allison/Patty or Allison&Patty vid would be my EVERYTHING okay. Basically, I desperately want vids about this show/these women in whatever form.

My Brother My Brother and Me - I love this show, I love the McElroys, and really I would love a vid exploring their shenanigans! All the silly fun. I don’t have lots of words about it, but I have much love.

Rutherford Falls - This showwww!!!! I love Reagan with all my everything, but also Bobbie! Terry! The minor characters! Yes, even Nathan, and I do love the journey of Reagan and Nathan’s friendship here. I’d love a vid for this however it goes! 

Star Trek: Lower Decks - I love this crew so much! Would love an ensemble vid for this, or maybe a Tendi's journey or Beckett and her mom or, well, exploring anything here! I just love them.

[lightneverfades]

I may be working on another fanvid for Our Flag Means Death <3

And a few more other projects heeeeeeee<3

[januarium]

Dear Vidder

(FYI to most people seeing this: I’m signing up for Festivids, so this is my letter about my requests to go with my sign up.)

Hi! Gosh, this is both exciting and nerve-wracking, as this is my first Festivids! Narrowing down what fandoms to choose was HARD and I hope there's something here that inspires you. Thank you so very much for whatever you come up with!

First, more generally: I love ensembles, I love friendship vids, I love character studies, I love overviews I love so many things! I'm not as into shippy vids (one suggestion below notwithstanding) but I can absolutely get on board with them! I am a big fan of upbeat vids, but I absolutely can go for more serious ones, or those that take a darker turn, too. I can totally enjoy vids with angst, but I'd prefer that to not be the majority of it? I am highly supportive of angry vids filled with righteous anger throughout.

I love discovering music through vids, so please use what speaks to you, but if you want some guidance, some of my favourite artists are Tori Amos, Janelle Monae, and Panic! at the Disco. Also I continue to love Glee music, especially ensemble stuff, Naya Rivera, and Alex Newell 😆I love lyric-matchy videos, but absolutely love when it's more of a ~vibe, too. 

Now to discuss the requests, in alphabetical order!

Anna and the Apocalypse - I love this film so much! As it's a safety, I'll let you know it's a high school christmas zombie comedy musical and it's amazing. I love the ensemble here a lot, the group of them, feel free to rip my heart out with their decreasing numbers. Anna and Steph are specifically my favourite characters, but honestly I am a fan of all of them. 

Dear White People - I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH!!! My favourites are Sam, Lionel, and Brooke, but again I LOVE THIS ENSEMBLE SO MUCH! A vid showing their journeys over the show would be great, but really anything for this show would make me so happy.

Kevin Can Fuck Himself - God I love this and this it's such excellent vid fodder. I'd fucking love anything focussing on Allison and/or Patty, maybe a character study of of one of them (Patty's queer journey would be such a good vidddd), or, and here's the one request I'll specifically suggest a ship vid, because Allison/Patty could make such a good one. But I also have a lot of love for Patty/Tammy, so don't feel you have to shy away from them if you do make a different sort of KCFH vid. An Allison&Patty friendship vid would also be great, doesn’t have to take it shippy. Basically, I desperately want a vid about this show/these women in whatever form.

Mythic Quest - Another fantastic show with a fantastic ensemble!!! Poppy and the testers are my faves, but really, any way you want to go with this I am hype for it. This is short, but really I just love it and and repeating myself by now.

Rutherford Falls - This showwww!!!! I love Reagan with all my everything, but also Bobbie! Terry! The minor characters! Yes, even Nathan, and I do love the journey of Reagan and Nathan's friendship here. I'd love a vid for this however it goes!

Schitt's Creek- If you look at my AO3 you'll see how much I fucking love this show. While, yes, it's clear I love David/Patrick, I love the whole ensemble so much, and Stevie Budd is my everything. I'd love digging into the found family, or David and Stevie (and Patrick!)’s friendship, or Stevie's career journey (or all of their career journeys?), or Alexis and David's sibling journey, or Ronnie Lee being amazing for 60 seconds. Anything you want to do here!

Watchmen - I fucking loved this show. Certainly quite different from a lot of what I've mentioned, but honestly you could do anything here and I would be excited for it. Obviously, considering the source, feel free to go dark. 

We Are Lady Parts - THIS SHOW!!!! This show is so fucking good, as it's a safety I feel I can say YOU SHOULD TOTES WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN'T! It's about an all-female Muslim punk band in London. It's on Peacock in the US and channel 4 in the UK. I love all the characters, but Saira and Amina are maybe my faves? Except I love Aisha, Bisma, and Momtaz, too. There's great ensemble stuff and friendship journeys and character study stuff you could get into here, go wild.

Really looking forward to wherever you want to go with any of these sources!

[xturnonthelight]

I was wondering if when season 5 is over you wouldn’t mind making another Killervibe fanvid because you have amazing talent and we got so much more amazing content and there’s so little killervibe videos 😢

Ahhh I’m so sorry I never replied to this, I know it was forever ago…anyway, thank you, that’s so sweet 💖I just uploaded a video of them today actually!!! And yes I’m hoping to do another video after season 5 ends, similar in style to my first video of them! (although I’m a little behind in s5 now so I need to catch up first) You’re totally right though, there’s so few videos of them and it’s really a shame - but that just gives me more motivation to vid them!! 😊

[brihana25]

Wayback machining myself

Setting the clock back to a point in time at which I imagined myself to be a talented vidder, and when I thought spending 2 months putting together one 3-second segment was a productive thing to do. 

Dear God, this thing took forever. 

[brihana25]

My Vimeo account was deactivated

After almost a decade of posting there, I got two DMCA notices last week, for one Stargate vid (Right Said Fred song) and one NCIS vid (Five for Fighting song).

I just woke up to an email saying Gathering Storm has been deleted as well. And as that made my third “unresolved” strike, my account’s been deactivated.

Weird that it was Vimeo that did it, because I’ve always felt safer there than on YouTube.

But now, I’m just waiting for them to yank me down, too.

Irony is, I used to fight tooth and nail against streaming services because I was afraid of this happening. It took me 5 years to give in and start using them. And now, one of them is gone. Just like I always said would happen.

Happy fucking Monday.

[aurumcalendula]

I can’t tell if the issues I have with masking in Sony Movie Studio are because of me or the program

ETA: figured it out

[brihana25]

My brain is all over the place today

So. While I’m waiting to get Chapter Six finalized and posted, I wanna vid.

I wanna do a Daniel Worship vid. But I’ve been trying to find a song since May, and I haven’t found one yet. Which is weird in and of itself. How can I not think of a theme song for my favorite character in the history of ever?

Anyway. Give me songs that make you think of Daniel. Or songs that even might work for him. Or songs that you like that just make you think about pretty dudes in general.

And ... go!