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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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I woke up this morning to find I had THREE 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.

I offered Rashomon as a source I wanted to vid for festivids this year and I was matched up with 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

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.

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.

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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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

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.

Festivids go live is today and, of course, the first thing I did was watch this lovely vid made just for me. Chopped is one of my favorite shows but I had no hopes I would actually get a vid for it. This wonderful vid captures the tension, the struggle to get it right, the weird ingredients that are thrown at the contestants and the wonderful judges. It's everything I hoped for and more.

Here It Goes Again

I'll try to watch most all the vids during the week and will post a list of those I loved best soon. I've got to get back to my major Doctor Who marathon. I want to get through the rest of Classic Who before I leave for Gallifrey One on Feb. 11 and I just found out that both Hulu and Netflix are pulling the show from their line up. I'm not sure if that means both the classic and modern shows, but I've just started season 26 so I think I can finish it off this weekend.

I'm the kind of vidder who finds motivation in the source or in a particular piece of music, so I would want to dictate what you'll use for my vid. I might balk a bit at heavy metal, but other than that whatever moves you to vid and fits the source is fine by me. I'm inordinately fond of humor in vids and all but one of my requested sources are just calling out for humor.

The Man From Uncle (2015 - Movie)
For me this movie was a love letter to the Sixties, all about the style and slick action. That opening chase scene must be one of my favs of all time. If you let a little Napoleon/Illya slash sneak in, I wouldn't object

Big Trouble in Little China
This movie needs a campy, over-the-top vid featuring the wanna be hero Jack Burton or the real hero, Wang.

The Martian
Mark Watney is such a big ball of humor and hope and resourcefulness. I like his time back on the Hermes, too. And the guy who came up with the plan to go back and save him. And just about everything. Hey, vidder, if you love it too, I'm sure I'll love your vid.

Key and Peele
One of the best and most versatile comedy sketch shows on tv, I love their geekiness and respect for women. I'm so bummed their show was cancelled, I'd love a vid that encapsulates the crazyness and social commentary that is also very, very funny.

Archer
Campy. My Archer vid needs to be campy and heavy on Lana and Sterling, with just a touch of Woodhouse.

These last two might be harder to vid but, Dear Festividder, I'll love so much more if you can pull it off.

Ikiru
A movie about a man dying of cancer - how did this become one of my favorite movies of all time? Akira Kurasawa sculpts a story of a man who finds a joy for living in the face of death and Takashi Shimura drives it home with his brilliant performance.

Chopped
This is my tv crack. I never get tired of watching, even episode I've seen several times before. The drama! The crazy ingredients! I've go no idea how you'd vid it, but I'd be eternally grateful if you could.