2011: My Year in Vidding
Dec. 30th, 2011 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
giandujakissThere have been so few this year that I almost didn't do this meme, but everyone else on my FList was, so I caved. I think the main reason for my relative lack of output was that my big fandom obsession this year was XMFC - which had only limited source, and then I got stalled on my second attempt to vid in this fandom (haven't given up though!).
Anyway, the questions I have below are different from the ones a lot of others used, because these were the questions when I first started the meme and I loathe change.
January
Going by the dates the vids were made public, and not the dates they were made or the dates they were attributed to me, I have three January vids, all of which were for Festivids.
What a Good Boy (Young Americans)
Senses Working Overtime (Young Sherlock Holmes)
The Weight of Us (Rebel Without a Cause)
March
Shock the Monkey (H50)
April
Too Darn Hot (H50)
May
What New York Used to Be (White Collar)
July
Seamstress (Nikita)
August
End (X-Men Films)
Favorite vid:
To be honest, my favorite vid is my Festivid, which I completed a couple of weeks ago! But I can't tell you about it!
So my second favorite would probably be What New York Used to Be. I'm proud of the song choice for that one, and there was such shiny footage to play with.
Least Favorite:
End, probably. Because I have so many feelings about Erik and Charles and I couldn't express them all.
Most successful:
This year, there's no obvious choice for this one, but if you go by sheer comment count, probably Too Darn Hot - not exactly a shocker, since it's a lighthearted slash vid with a popular pairing :-).
Vid that I think should have gotten more attention:
Nothing in particular this year, I think - the Festivids ones possibly got less feedback overall, but considering the whole idea was that these were small fandoms, that's not surprising at all.
Most fun to make:
What New York Used to Be. Just because it's such a fun song and the look of the show is so snazzy and sharp.
Hardest to make:
Seamstress. It's definitely the most complex of my vids this year, and I struggled a lot with what I felt was very limited footage for the points I wanted to make.
Things I've learned and Things to Work On
I'm such a broken record at this point - I didn't make the kind of technical progress I'd hoped to make (in part because there just weren't a lot of vids this year - and some of them weren't even really made in 2011, they were just made public then) - and every year I swear I'll learn more. At this point, the resolution has to be that I'll finally upgrade my vidding software and learn the new stuff, because learning new stuff on Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 - which is like, a dinosaur now in programming terms (my tech support guy, during the Great Harddrive Failure, laughed at me) - seems like a bit of a waste of effort, especially if various functions are simpler now.
And - that's vidding in 2011.
Anyway, the questions I have below are different from the ones a lot of others used, because these were the questions when I first started the meme and I loathe change.
January
Going by the dates the vids were made public, and not the dates they were made or the dates they were attributed to me, I have three January vids, all of which were for Festivids.
What a Good Boy (Young Americans)
Senses Working Overtime (Young Sherlock Holmes)
The Weight of Us (Rebel Without a Cause)
March
Shock the Monkey (H50)
April
Too Darn Hot (H50)
May
What New York Used to Be (White Collar)
July
Seamstress (Nikita)
August
End (X-Men Films)
Favorite vid:
To be honest, my favorite vid is my Festivid, which I completed a couple of weeks ago! But I can't tell you about it!
So my second favorite would probably be What New York Used to Be. I'm proud of the song choice for that one, and there was such shiny footage to play with.
Least Favorite:
End, probably. Because I have so many feelings about Erik and Charles and I couldn't express them all.
Most successful:
This year, there's no obvious choice for this one, but if you go by sheer comment count, probably Too Darn Hot - not exactly a shocker, since it's a lighthearted slash vid with a popular pairing :-).
Vid that I think should have gotten more attention:
Nothing in particular this year, I think - the Festivids ones possibly got less feedback overall, but considering the whole idea was that these were small fandoms, that's not surprising at all.
Most fun to make:
What New York Used to Be. Just because it's such a fun song and the look of the show is so snazzy and sharp.
Hardest to make:
Seamstress. It's definitely the most complex of my vids this year, and I struggled a lot with what I felt was very limited footage for the points I wanted to make.
Things I've learned and Things to Work On
I'm such a broken record at this point - I didn't make the kind of technical progress I'd hoped to make (in part because there just weren't a lot of vids this year - and some of them weren't even really made in 2011, they were just made public then) - and every year I swear I'll learn more. At this point, the resolution has to be that I'll finally upgrade my vidding software and learn the new stuff, because learning new stuff on Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 - which is like, a dinosaur now in programming terms (my tech support guy, during the Great Harddrive Failure, laughed at me) - seems like a bit of a waste of effort, especially if various functions are simpler now.
And - that's vidding in 2011.