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migrating to DW

I've been thinking about shifting from LJ to DW for some time, but I've finally decided to do it. I'm wondering if it's still relevant, so many people seem to be moving on to tumblr for fannish stuff or Facebook for non-fannish stuff. I guess I need to take some time to see what's here and what's the same of diffferent than LJ.

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More Festivids recs

Between watching the Inauguration and several other things I didn't watch nearly as many vids as I meant to today. Here's the best of what I did manage to squeeze in, a real mixed bag, both of sources and vids.

Who Will Comfort Me (Grapes of Wrath)
Living in a Box (Maru the Cat)
Another Code Against the Gone (Moon)
Rondo (Sense and Sensibility)
The Fucking Manual (The Thick of It)

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Vid recs day 2

I found out today that there are 192 vids in

festivids this year. It's going to take a little while to work through them. Here's the highlights from today.

Pandora's Aquarium (Elementary)
Garrow's Light (Garrow’s Law)
All the Rowboats (the Godfather movies)
In Our Bedroom After the War (Goodbye, Lenin!)
A Combat in Tribute to You (Hero)
Somewhere a Clock is Ticking (The Hollow Crown - why, oh why, doesn’t BBC America bring this series to the US?)
Seven Devils (Kings)
Beautiful in Los Angeles (LA Complex)
We Belong Together (Lone Gunmen)

This last rec is probably definitely the best vid this year, so far. The layers of meaning, the fantastic song choice, the ability of the vidder to build a coherent narrative, even for people who don't watch Mad Men, it all adds up to a vid that needs to be watched over and over.
Smoke and Mirrors

Festivids viewing day 1

Off and on today I watched a lot of vids. Here's some highlights.

High Treason (The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.) - A festivids gift for me.

Stayin’ Low (Alien franchise)

Big Warning Signs (Alphas) A Festivids gift for me

Beauty in the Breakdown (Amelie)

This Night (Batman: Under the Red Hood)

Getaway (The Black Cat)

Step Into Your Place (Blackadder Goes Forth) - A Festivids gift for me and a fantastic melding of the wackiness of the show and the seriousness of the message.

Mowgli's Road (Brideshead Revisited)

Holland (Case Histories)

Not Afraid (Colombiana)

I was meant for the stage (Dead Poets Society

...and please don't break it (Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Bog)

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Festivids!!

I'm so happy!!! I got three vids made for me in

festivids this year. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr!!!!! Blackadder!!! Alphas!!! Off to watch all the lovely vids!!!

I've very happy to have a three day weekend. I'm gonna watch all the vids!!!

gender and vid point of view

I've got an itch to do a vid where a female character is rather aggressively chasing a man, and the perfect song for it is Professor Elemental's "You Remind Me of a Car". I'm just wondering if having the male vocals for the point of view of the female character would be a bit odd.

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Done (I think)

I think I'm done with my

festivids assignment and with the treat I made. I'm going to let them rest just a bit and give them a fresh look in about a week, but if the one still makes me laugh and the other is still wonderfully sad, I gonna declare them done.

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Yippee!

Got a complete draft finished of my Festivids vid and it truly doesn't suck! Gonna move on the the treat I want to work on and come back to my assignment in a couple of weeks with a fresh point of view.

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Wish I'd thought of this earlier

I really wish I'd requested Shaun of the Dead for Fesstivids because I'd love for someone to vid it to Johnathan Coulton's Re: Your Brains. I guess I could, but I've got my own assignment to do, plus a treat I want to make. And I've got Amanda from HL:TR percolating in the back of my brain - something devoted to sword swinging.

But I'd still love that funny zombie vid.

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Down to Festividdy business

I finally located a high quality source for one of my offered fandoms and that is the one I've matched on! Lots of watching and note taking in order for this weekend as I plan it out. I've got a tentative song choice and a couple of different directions I could go.

Even better, I had a strong idea for a vid for another source and after going through the Dear Festividder letters I found someone who wanted JUST THIS VID! I'm excited! Not I've just got to get started.

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Dear Festividder

Before I get bossy with my what I want, let me say Thank you!! I'm looking forward to the wonderful vid that you're going to make for me. I'm not going to give you specific songs for my choices; if you're anything like me you need to vid to music that speaks to you, not to a song that I like. I've got fairly eclectic taste in music, from 1930s big band to Celtic punk, I like a range of music, although I'm pretty lukewarm to modern pop and bland country. Funny songs make me very happy and since most of my requests lean heavy toward humor, cracky vids are fine.

( Now, on to the fandoms. )

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Loch Lomond - an Adrian Paul vid

I’ve taken a different turn with my second vid for the Twenty Year challenge at

hl_chronicles. Instead of vidding Duncan MacLeod, I've taken a look at twenty years of Adrian and his fans. In addition to photos and clips from Davis-Panzer, I've got the thank Carmel and HLWW and the list of friends credited at the end for finding photos from some of the earlier cons.

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Musing about Festivids

I've been thinking about VVC and how it's left me with new creative ideas bubbling around in my head. Last year two Festivids were made for Maru, the cat who has a series of videos up on Youtube. Got me thinking about some of the web series I've been watching, mostly The Hunted and The Daly Show and the great post-apocolyptic 10,000 Days. I want to vid them all and, if Festivids is goint to happen this year, to nominate them for Festivids, too. The nomination period for Festivids started in September last year, so if it's happening again I guess we should hear something soon.

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VVC Premiere vid: You're a Sweet Little Headache

I hadn't planned on doing another Highlander vid, but I was rewatching HL: The Raven at the same time I had also acquired a 10-disk collection of Benny Goodman and this song just cried out to me. Lucy and Amanda!

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This was almost my VVC premieres vid (but it's not)

It was going to start with clips from Monty Python, Eric Idle's character beating the drum and calling out "Bring out your dead". Three of these clips, each one followed by the sound of a beating heart and text saying that we all have them, those vids that we start and abandon before they're done. This would be followed by the sound of a heart monitor flatlining and fading into B. B. King's The Thrill is Gone and clips a descriptions of vids that seemed like good ideas but just didn't work.

Problem is, it's both depressing and boring disecting failures and back ideas. I didn't finish this one and have a nice, pleasant vid from HL; The Raven instead.

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multifandom vid rec

I got up early this morning to watch live Olympic coverage of the women's marathon and while cruising through lj I found this absolutely fantastic vid The Multifandom Games: Survival by

rhoboat.

Brilliantly cut and just phenomenal choice of clips.

Just a few more days left til VVC and watching great vids like this really puts me in the mood to spend days watching vids and talking vidding.

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Kicking off the Highlander Chronicles: 20 years later

When

hl_chronicles first announced the categories for the 20 years of Highlander challenges I immediately had two thoughts. That's a great idea. Too bad you can't vid that. But using

killabeez as a sounding board, it dawned on me that I could do this by pulling together clips from Highlander, Peter Wingfield's later tv work and other source material.

The song, Times Will Change by Danish band Marvins Revolt, was the only one I considered. I liked the changing pace of the music and the lyrics are filled with urge to keep moving, grow stronger and survive. What could be more Methos than that?

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One down, one to go

I've got the first vid done for

hl_chronicles. It went together much quicker than I thought it would, but except for one clip that I might switch out, I like it. It says what I wanted it to say and hopefully HL fans will like it, too.

That leaves the second vid which, thankfully, isn't due until October 2. That's good. It's proving a bit harder to find source material that I'd hoped. I really, really want to use Real McKenzies for this, probably Thistle Boy or, maybe Scots Wha Hae. Scottish Gaelic punk is so perfect for what I want to do, but a lot of HL fans - I don't know if they're really into that kind of music. It's not your lilting harps folk song kind of thing.

totally free weekend - when's the last time that happened?

The past few weekends have been loaded with deadlines, but I think I'm finally caught up. I had three articles to write for a newsletter - done. VVC vids - done and submitted. ALL that reading for the Hugo Awards - done and ballot form submitted. Gardening - nothing urgent, just watering and picking tomatoes and blackberries.

I've got nothing pending and nothing urgent and I think I'll vid tonight and just kind of go with the flow during the day. Very unusual.

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I love it when a plan comes together

Hours and hours and hours of clipping and sorting and hunting for outside source material leading up to laying stuff down in the timeline and OMG it's so much better than I ever expected. My first hl_chronicles is more fun than I've had vidding in ages.

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