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This year I made 2 vids for [community profile] festivids.

As a gift for Vialana I made this vid for Clue. I hadn't seen the movie until last Spring after seeing a really good high school theater production of it. I rushed to see the movie version and have been thinking of vidding it ever since.


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Last year while screening fandoms for Festivids rarity I stumbled down a classic Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies rabbit hole. I methodically when through a chronological list of Bugs Bunny shorts from 1944-1963, scouring online sources for copies, adding info to a lengthy spreadsheet. Armed with a year's worth a work I had fun making this vid for [personal profile] tafadhali


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Here's a few more Festivids that I enjoyed.

殿と犬 | Tono to Inu A Good Day
Babylon 5 Marching On
Clue Weapon of Choice
Dept. Q. Tuesday Paper Club
Hamlet - Shakespeare nothing and everything
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Let's Get This Over With
Sinners Ya Ya
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Festivids has 128 vids in 86 fandoms and I've got 40 more vids to go, but they can wait until tomorrow. Here's the ones the ones that impressed me the most today (although I watched a whole bunch of other really great vids.

BL Metamorphosis (2022) The world is full of different colors
Interstellar Typhon Voices
Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies ASSHOLE
Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies Looney für Elise
Sinners Dreamwidth
The Canopener Bridge A Hard Knock Life (Mainly because it reminds me of something that happened when I worked for the National Archives in Seattle)
The Wild Robot Iron Enough to Make a Nail


Festivids recruiter vids alert:
Gastronaut Food vid is making me want to check out Gastronauts
Young Hearts reminds me that I’ve never seen Matilda. Must remedy that.
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Every year I look forward to Festivids and this year I got two wonderful vids for Murderbot as gifts

Let’s Get This Over With
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Performance Reliability = ATF

I'm slowly working my way through all the vids. There are many, many more great vids on the list but here are some I particularly enjoyed today.
The Pitt - Ordinary Day
Murderbot - The Heart Always Holds On to Missing Roads
Victor/Victoria - man
Star Trek Prodigy - Find Your People
A Man on the Inside - You Get What You Give
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Thanks for making my vid, I'm so looking forward to it! In general, I prefer vids that highlight characters, found families or teams. If you can inject some hope or humor in the vid that would be wonderful, but that's not entirely necessary. As for music, I generally do not enjoy metal or country. Also, including occasional dialogue might be okay but I absolutely DNW a vid with constant or frequent source dialogue running throughout and obscuring the music.

Midsomer Murders I know this source is a big ask (I've vidded it and know just how much source there is to get through), so anything would be great. Seriously.

The Holdovers [SAFETY] I would love a vid that focused on how these three characters, all broken in their own way, found healing together during the holidays.

Murderbot (TV) I love Murderbot so much, there are so many ways you can make me happy with this except this DNW: please no vids shipping Murderbot with Ratthi or Gurathin or anyone else.

The Thursday Murder Club (TV) [SAFETY] Literally anything you want to make for this would be fantastic. So many great characters played by so many fantastic actors!

The Tiny Chef Show How in the world did I become obsessed with a cancelled kids's vegan cooking show? Please make me a vid that highlights the pure rainbow colored fun Chef has with all his friends in the garden stump kitchen.
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For over a year I've been thinking about making a Hot Ones vid to Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King, so I very happy to get assigned to nicasio_silang who had requested a Hot Ones vid for Festivids.



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Festivids!

Feb. 3rd, 2024 06:36 am
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I woke up this morning to find I had THREE [community profile] festivids gifts! Two for The Banshees of Inhisherin and one for Mrs. Davis. I grabbed my first cup of coffee and watched them all. More thoughts later, but I never expected Banshees vid to make me laugh out loud. Well done, vidders, well done.
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Music: I'm pretty eclectic with music selection and vids. I know when I'm vidding I sometimes end up with some unexpected sources. I do have a few DNW, I don't generally like heavy metal, country or rap

Vid likes: I love found family, teamwork, humor, character studies and narrative deep dives.

Endgame (Canada TV 2011)

I'd love a vid that focuses on Arkady's quirky style in solving his "people puzzles" or maybe one that focuses on Alcina and how her grounded focus offsets Arkady's eccentricities.

Mrs. Davis (TV)
There is so much to work with here, go wild and surprise me.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
The movie focuses on the disintegration of friendship and I've love to see that. Or maybe a vid from Siobhán's POV

WGA / SAG-AFTRA 2023 Strike (Event)
Anything, just celebrate the action of workers against corporate greed

You Me and the Apocalypse

I initially started watching this series because I'd finished binging Horrible Histories and I saw Matthew Baynton was a lead actor. But there are so many fantastic characters, relationships and general weirdness I'd love to see something of a road trip to the apocalypse.

深夜食堂 | Shinya Shokudo | Midnight Diner (Japan TV)

I love this series so much. Either a character study of the Master or a found family-like focus on his regular customers would make me very happy.

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I offered Rashomon as a source I wanted to vid for [community profile] festivids this year and I was matched up with [personal profile] cupidsbow

Rashomon is one of those movies that everyone's heard about, even if they've never seen it. A murder is committed and there are widely divergent tales of how and why it happened. I knew that I wanted to pare down the story. While I used the woodcutter's discovery of the body to start, the short vid needed to depend entirely the bandit, the samurai, and the samurai's wife to show the wildly conflicting story. After a fruitless search for music with lyrics, I quickly decided to use instrumental music and 2Cellos' version of Technical Difficulties.

I got everything ready, started laying clips in the timeline and then second-guessed myself on the song choice. I lot of time was wasted to discover I had it right in the first place. In the movie Kurosawa never actually shows the murder take place or the actual corpse. The suicide version of events happens with the samurai standing in background. The vid would need to stand on the emotions of the three main characters, with their actions taking a secondary role. After many, many edits this is the finished result.

perception of truth on AO3

perception of truth on YouTube
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When you were a child, did you ever have a Christmas where Santa Claus brought you exactly what you wanted? For Festivids 2022 I got exactly that! I wanted a Christmas vid for one of my favorite Christmas movies, Die Hard, and that's exactly what I got with Carol of the Bells
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Thank you for creating this vid for me. In general, if the music inspires you to create, feel free to use it. Metal is probably the only kind of music I really don't like.

General requests: In this pandemic year, I really love vids that are funny or uplifting. Family of any kind, perseverance and success, these are themes that make me happy. For some of my requests I will love anything you choose to make. These include:
Kim's Convenience
Cleverman
Princess Bride
Reclaiming the Blade
Raising Arizona

For the the NASA/JPL YouTube channel I would love a vid that focuses on the Mars rovers. Talk about perseverance and success - this little rovers are all about that.

For the Peter Cushing Dr. Who movies, I am really only interested in the second one - Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Focusing on Tom Campbell, the London policeman who gets scooped up for a trip to the future would be great.
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I've been through most of them now and have a few more recs. Every year Festivids works as a great recruitment tool, too, for media that I might have missed this year it's made me add Raising Dion to my Netflix list, scour the internet for NTSC version of the series Ghosts (not available yet, maybe it'll show up on Britbox), and decide that after 20 years it's time to rewatch Brother From Another Planet.

Here are a few more recs.
Confident
Somehow I drifted away from watching Killjoys after the second season. This vid’s pulling me right back in.

Hello My Old Heart
A really magical and heroic Moana vid

Try Everything
Another great Gourmet Makes vid!

Garden of Your Mind
I don’t play D&D or watch Critical Role, but this vid’s so well edited and brilliant.

A Place Called Home
The search for family, belonging, and personal identity in The Expanse

Speeding Rover
I’m a sucker for space stuff, like these trusty little rovers rambling about the red planet doing science

We're Here, But Should We Have Come?

Ah, Richard Ayoade looking uncomfortable and disappointed with the world!
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Festivids is live and it looks like a bumper crop of vids, it's going to take me a while to get through these! I didn't participate this year (retiring, starting new business, hardware issues) and I miss that, but over the next couple of days I thought I'd rec some of the ones I enjoy the most.

so tired
This vid - this should be a recruiting vid for Gourmet Makes. I love the series, granddaughters love the series, my son’s secret crush is Claire. This vid could go out and infect others

Body Talks
The fluid dancing of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.


Untitled Goose Vid
I don’t usually care much for video game vids, but this one is just fun.

Come on Over
Schitt’s Creek is one of those shows I tried watching and just didn’t get into. These guys in this vid might just have charmed my way into giving it a second chance

A Gorgeous Vid Moment
It’s like the vidder took all my love for this Queer Eye and squished it all into a vid.

An American Primer
Using the words of James Baldwin and historical footage, this is a powerful, thoughtful look at being black in America

Our House
I’m adding this to my list to remind me to look up the series Ghosts. So many actors from Horrible Histories are in this!

Fighter
The Expanse has eaten up my viewing/reading life lately and this vid showcasing the strength of Bobbie and Chrisjen leaves me eager for season 5

Children’s Work
I’ve been curious about ST: Discovery. vids like this make me want to go ahead and get that CBS All Access subscription to check it out.

Emigrante
Brother from Another Planet is such a power movie that does what good sf always does, serve as a commentary on today in a science fiction wrapper. This vid is a great intro to the movie.
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Wow, time flies and all that. I passed on the autumn Equinox Exchange because of real life issues and now that Festivids nominations are live, I was planning to give that a psss, too. I'm retiring at the end of the month and have to prep my house to sell, and pack and move across country from Kansas to Connecticut and find a new place to live. A lot to deal with right now.

But then I saw that something had been nominated that has been tickling my creative muse for awhile. At the very least I think I'll aim for making a treat if that source is requested. That way I won't have to worry about defaulting if all the real life stress deters me from getting it done.
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I love character study vids, funny vids, vids that focus on motion - anything that honors the source and inspires you would be fantastic. Musically, whatever inspires you is find with me. Id probably not be happy with heavy metal or country, but seriously, what inspires you - go for it.

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I loved my assignment, which was to make a  vid for jetpack_monkey for the classic movie, The Third Man.  The director, Carol Reed, uses great lighting and off-kilter camera angles to great effect in this noir nod to post-war Vienna, a city suffering from the aftermath of WWII. I first saw this in Vienna in the summer of 1993 a movie theater that continues to show the film regularly. The hardest part for me was finding the right music. I knew I wanted an instrumental piece that built the tension in just the right way and had some way to highlight the big reveal of Orson Welles' character about half-way through. Faceoff by Kevin MacLeod was great, although I wish it have been a bit longer.


I decided to make a treat for odessie, a vid for The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. I got the chance to ask Peter Davison about how it was made at a little DW con in Wichita last fall and spurred me on to the search for just the right song.  Frank Sinatra to the rescue with Pick Yourself Up.




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Festivids is live so I know what I'm going to do with the rest of my weekend. First and foremost, the wonderful Galavan vid with lots of love for King Richard that was made just for me Stayin' Alive
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I love character study vids, funny vids, vids that focus on motion - anything that honors the source and inspires you would be fantastic. Musically, whatever inspires you is find with me. Id probably not be happy with heavy metal or country, but seriously, what inspires you - go for it.

Read more... )
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This summer I rewatched You, Me, and the Apocalypse for a multi-fandom vid I've been working on and decided I would definitely nominate that source for Festivids and offer to vid it. I totally forgot to nominate the show, but thought, no sweat, surely someone else must have shown the show a little love. Checked the list of nominated fandoms and it's not there. Well, shit.

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