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I CAN FINALLY SPEAK!!!!

*pulls tape off mouth ... ouch!*

Keeping my mouth shut all this time was tough! There was so much I wanted to say about everything but I was afraid that even things only tangentially related to my vids would give it all away.

The first thing I wanted to say was that I personally have been calling this the Bechdel Test Festivids. There were plenty of vids that focused on awesome individual female characters - a Losers vid that focused on Aisha, a Colombiana vid, a Maid Marian from Robin of Sherwood vid, a Mattie vid from True Grit, Audrey from Haven, Cha Song Joo from Capital Scandal, Ma Joad from Grapes of Wrath, and that's only for starters - there are plenty more. But I particularly noticed what felt to me to be a large number of vids that were about women's relationships with other women - Birds of Prey, two Charlie's Angels movies vids, a Charlie's Angels tv show vid, three(!) League of Their Own vids, a Bletchley Circle vid (I never heard of this show and now I want to watch! But all of the *ahem* links at the *ahem* places are expired!), Sense & Sensibility and Lilo & Stitch vids that focused on sisters, two Chak De! India vids, a Daria & Jane vid, the women of Parks & Rec - and that's also really just a small sampling. I mean, I didn't do a scientific comparison to prior years' Festivids, but it felt to me like there were a large number of women-centric - and in particular, women's relationship-centric - vids this year. Let's just say that if VVC ever does another Bechdel-test themed show, they won't be hurting for potential vids to include.

I apparently was caught in the zeitgeist, because both of my vids were about (scantily-clad) women who kick ass -- and, to a lesser extent, about their relationships with other women: Lady Marmalade (Cleopatra 2525) and Titanium (Wonder Woman).

( Cleopatra 2525 )

( Wonder Woman )

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1649415.html

So, Festivids reveals are up! You can now see who made what vids at the website or at either of the masterposts.

As for me, I made two vids:

Titanium (Wonder Woman). Yeah, yeah, everybody and his mother had me pegged for this; I knew even as I was making it that I may as well go ahead and sign my name because I wasn't fooling anyone.

and

Lady Marmalade (Cleopatra 2525)

More later....

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1648636.html

I was going to skip this because I just didn't make a lot of vids in 2012 - and one of them is a sekrit Festivid that will end up counting toward 2013 - but then I figured, ah, fuck it.

So, (public) vids I made this year - counting vids that were still sekrit this time last year:

Kill the Director
You Might Think
Coming Home
The Count of Monte Christo
A Different Kind of Love Song

( Meme under the cut )

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1631832.html

The Festivids anonymity period is over, and you can see the names of the vidders at the masterpost!

I made three vids in Festivids this year:

Kill the Director (Remington Steele)

Coming Home (Quantum Leap)

You Might Think (Bringing Up Baby)

And, yeah, it wasn't very hard to figure out which were mine - at least two people, including one of my recipients, had me pegged. Stealthy, I am not :-).

Also, now that the identities have been revealed, I can thank (by name!) the lovely people who made vids for me - which you should totally watch if you haven't done so already: Shati (Maru the Cat), AbsoluteDestiny (Maru the Cat), and Mithborien (Daybreakers). Thank you guys so much! I've rewatched all three vids an embarrassing number of times, seriously.

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1433328.html

There 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.

( Read more )

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1409995.html

Which actually is not usually my thing, but the theme this time around was irresistible - Vids to songs by Florence and the Machine. Hee!

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1391626.html

I've got a song, I've started reviewing source, and I've already put clips on the timeline. Well, one clip, but I am insanely happy with this one clip. At first I was a little intimidated by my source and wondering if I made a mistake by offering it, but now that I have my song and my one clip on the timeline, I am gleeful.

Sadly, I will be drowning in real life work for the next couple of weeks so I can't work on it much, but at least now I'm motivated to finish work quickly so I can get back to the important task of vidding!

In other news,

deathisyourart was kind enough to interview me for

vid_commentary, and the post is up now, complete with lovely, flattering screenshots that

deathisyourart selected.

And here you can see pictures of a house cat's peculiar encounter. (It sort of amazes me that the owners just stood there and took pictures.)

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1370010.html

The vidder commentary community is doing an interview series focusing on 5 vidders - astartexx, greensilver, kuwdora, superKC, and umm, me? They're asking for people to submit questions for the vidders, and eventually the questions and responses will be put up in gorgeous posts like these.

So, you should ask stuff. Of me, or of any of the other vidders. I'm planning to start with astartexx - "how are you so awesome?" - and then go from there.

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1345386.html

not to remaster The Real Slim Shady with Hawaii 5-0, Merlin, Star Trek: Reboot, Rizzoli & Isles, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, and BBC Sherlock.

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1219317.html

Is that while you're making your vid and you're deep within your source, you have all these thoughts but you can't post them because that would give it away.

I dutifully held my tongue earlier, and now I can finally say what I wanted to say at the time.

Really, really, really tl;dr below the cuts.

( Young Americans )

( Young Sherlock Holmes )

( Rebel Without a Cause )

And, that's what I wanted to say weeks/months ago.

I feel better now.

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1215390.html

Just a reminder - you've got about 24 more hours to watch the vids anonymously before the vidders' names go up.

It's actually pretty awesome, by the way - I've been watching as people compile rec lists and talk about the vids, and I see that while some of the oft-rec'd vids are by very well-known vidders, several of them are by people who either aren't particularly well-known or who don't have much of an LJ presence. It's a really nice mix.

(And just in case anyone wants to guess what I made, I'll give a hint: I made more than one vid. Also, just as happened last year, it turned out that the vids I made share a theme. Last year, the theme was angsty vampires. This year, it ... isn't. Anyhoo, I can't promise a vid to anyone who guesses correctly, but the satisfaction can be its own reward.)

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1212763.html

In keeping up with tradition - my year in vidding output. It's been a slow year, particularly in the second half. Part of that was work, part of that was Festivids (I finished a vid! But you won't see it until next year!), and part of it - I have to admit - is that my main fannish obsession, Supernatural, hasn't been giving me the same kind of inspiration as it has in the past. Sigh.

Anyway, here's what I got:

( Read more )

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1186514.html

curated by Francesca Coppa. Part I is a bit of an introduction, featuring Flummery's Handlebars and Kiki Miserychic's I'm On a Boat. Part Two has a variety of other vids (including Origin Stories!), Parts Three and Four have interviews with several vidders (Flummery, Counteragent, Kiki, and me!)

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1173818.html

Kristina Busse writes Affective Aesthetics for the Transformative Works blog, discussing how most of formal academia overlooks vidding, even when vids should be a natural area of study for the field.

Henry Jenkins is posting a series on vids, curated by Francesca Coppa. First installment is here. (Full disclosure: Origin Stories will eventually be mentioned.)

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1165866.html

I'm doing this Ask the Vidder thing at SPN Roundtable, and it would be awesome if a couple of you would go over and ask me a question ... so I'm not reduced to asking if the mike is on, or if this is an audience or an oil painting... *blush*

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1144812.html

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, okay? It's just that I have been unable to move from this desk for weeks, and I'm going to be tied to it for at least another week or so, so forgive me.

Also, I did something horrible to my shoulder and it really hurts, but I have to keep sitting here and keep working.

And doing this vid meme, I'm discovering that a terrific number of people never bothered to replace dead Imeem streaming links and embeds with working ones, which ... well, I admire y'all, really, because I must confess, I'm too vain to let my streaming links just die without trying to replace them.

I think I'd be enjoying BBC Sherlock a lot more if I hadn't seen the interviews where everybody emphatically denied that there is even the slightest hint of a possibility that maybe in an alternate universe Sherlock and John are gay.

Also, I don't care if you don't read RPS, you really need to read Live Free or Twihard. It's a moral imperative.

Crossposts: http://giandujakiss.livejournal.com/1090611.html

Anita Sarkeesian of the Feminist Frequency blog recently did a presentation on feminist fanvids, short films, and remixes at the Women, Action, and the Media conference in Los Angeles.

Her presentation is now available for viewing online, with links to the videos that she presented, including ones you've seen around these parts, such as Luminosity & Sisabet's Women's Work, Sloane's On the Dance Floor, and Charmax's I'm Your Man. Also, I was very proud that she chose to include It Depends on What You Pay.

such_heights's Vidding Workshop,

obsessive24 asked all of the vidder panelists a set of really interesting questions:

If all but one of your vids are erased from history, never to return (you can't reconstruct them, nor can you get anyone else to do it for you), which one would you keep and why?

AND, if all but one of the vids that you've ever watched are erased from history, never to return, which one would you keep and why?

And, name ONE vid that's had a formative influence on you as a vidder and tell us why. (I'm sure there is more than one that's had a formative influence on you as a vidder. Suck it up and whittle it down. ;) )

After tearing my hair about it, here's what I answered:

If I had to save one of my own vids, it would probably be Origin Stories. I mean, it's gotten a lot of attention for its message - which of course was thuviaptarth's - and I guess for that reason it's the most significant of the vids I've made.

As for what had a formative influence, that's actually an easy one - Killa's Highlander vid, In Your Eyes. And the reason that's easy is because it was one of the very first vids that made me "get" it - get what vids were for, get what they were about. Until then, I'd seen ones that were good and well-edited, but I was just being introduced to them and I hadn't seen ones that were my 'ships or my fandom. And you know, I've heard people say that a lot of people who say they don't like vids just need the right one - they need to see the one that's in their fandom or has their 'ship, and suddenly it clicks and they understand what it's all about. And for me, that vid was In Your Eyes - an extremely well-edited HL vid, with a Methos/Duncan 'ship, and I found it so evocative and emotional it was almost overwhelming. And I'd have to say hand in hand with In Your Eyes would be Luminosity's HL vid Don't Panic - I saw them both at the same time, and they had the same effect on me.

One vid to save? I agonized over this, I certainly couldn't possibly name a favorite vid for a million dollars. But the thing that comes to mind is Killa and T Jonesy's Closer. Which is a boring choice, I admit, but it not only shows what vidding can do, and it's not only still a model for everything that came after, but what I love about it is how it reads so differently to fans and non-fans. If you're not into fandom or vidding, it seems to read like a humorous parody - for fans, however, it tends to read as dark and really disturbing, and that kind of division really highlights fan culture, and how fans view the text, and the art, differently.

So now I turn her questions on you - what say you all? And for nonvidders, you can just answer the second question.

(BTW: Work's doing that thing where they intermittently block LJ, so I may not be able to respond to comments there for a while.)

...except it suddenly occurred to me that the concept is uncomfortably similar to another vid I already made a while ago. So I have to decide - do I drop the idea in the name of artistic purity, or do I charge on ahead, because hey, I'm doing this to indulge my id anyway, and there can never be too many vids exploring the nature of Sam and Dean's epic love? After all, it's not like I'll ever get tired of Dean hooker!fic; I can make more than one Sam&Dean vid with this storyline.

Also, it's possible that I've been making the same 'shipper vid in various fandoms for years, so I see no reason to stop now.

In other news,

such_heights is running a Dreamwidth-based vidding workshop this weekend here at

camelot_fleet. It's a Merlin community, but the discussion is about vidding in general. Basically, you're invited to comment to discuss anything about vids, from technical questions about how to get started to higher-order meta about interpretation and artistic choices. There are various comment threads with different topics, to help get the conversation going.

such_heights has invited several vidders, including me, to serve as "panelists" to answer questions about vidding in general and our own vids in particular (she calls me an expert - hee! I am amused.) Each panelist has set up, or will set up, a comment thread, where you can ask questions directed to that specific person. My thread is here and if you want to ask me a couple of questions so I'm not left out there hanging, I'd be much obliged :-).

TWC's special issue devoted to Supernatural meta is now available online! Featuring articles about SPN's representation of fandom, fandom's reaction to SPN, an in-depth analysis of Counteragent's amazing meta vid, Still Alive, and - yes - MPREG in fanfic.

Also, one of my vids gets a mention, so I'm flattered about that.

What's really painful is that the deadline for submission of articles came before The Real Ghostbusters aired, so there's discussion of eps like Monster at the End of This Book and Sympathy for the Devil, but in-depth discussions of TRG will have to await another issue.

(Also, I find it vastly amusing to suspect that many of the authors are people with LJ accounts and whose LJ names I would immediately recognize - but because they're using their RL names for the articles, I have no idea who they are.)

ETA: Oh, also, thank you to whoever sent the anonymous squirrel love! That made me smile :-).

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Entries tagged with vanity

Festivids: Commentary on the Vids What I Made (Or, Really, the Sources)

Festivids reveals!

End of Year Vidding Meme

Festivids reveals are up, and here's what I made!

2011: My Year in Vidding

I just submitted a vid to a contest

I am so excited about my idea for my Festivid, it's ridiculous.

Umm, ask me stuff? Or ask it of someone else?

Sometimes, it's almost physically painful

So the worst part about Festivids

The eve of Festivids reveals is upon us!

2010: My Year in Vidding

The full set of vidding posts is now up at Henry Jenkins's blog

Stuff in the world

So, umm...

No, dammit, I have not seen Inception!

Thing I should have linked to before

Riddle me this

So I'm working on this vid....

It's up, it's up!!