Happy early birthday to sherrold

[gwyn]

Once upon a time, in the Kingdom of Fandom, there lived a girl named Sandy. She came from a tiny (at that time) village called Vidders. Most of the people in this small hamlet practiced a not-very-well-known but highly sought after craft called vidding. Sandy loved to vid, and many of her friends in the village would come by and help her do her work, and much fun was had by all. The handiwork of the village spread throughout the kingdom.

One day, Sandy fell in love with a beautiful prince in a red uniform and a charming detective, both in a show called Due South. But not many people in the kingdom knew of their story or had seen their faces! So she set about making a vid that would recruit others into falling in love, and lo and behold, it worked! After that, Sandy made many other vids about the prince and the detective, but this held a special place in many people's hearts.

But unfortunately, time was not kind to her crafts. The village of Vidders grew larger and larger, and more technically complex, and the old ways were no longer practiced. Her first vid about the prince and the detective had warbles on the music, and sometimes, the visuals were so bad, those watching couldn't see what was happening. It made everyone sad.

One of Sandy's friends in the village decided to remaster some of the old vids made by the first craftspeople. Gwyneth wanted to make sure that everyone throughout the kingdom, especially the new citizens who had no idea about what went before, would be able to see and enjoy such crafts. And she wanted to remake one of the vids about the prince and the detective most of all, as a gift for her friend Sandy.

So Gwyneth asked other people to help her on these projects, and people of the village, especially justacat, set about doing the painstaking work of re-creating these treasures. Most of all though, Gwyneth needed help to remake Sandy's first Due South vid, so she called upon other people in the Kingdom of Fandom, especially movies_michelle and mlyn.

But alas! Everyone in the village was planning to travel to another faraway land outside Vidders for a celebration of vids, on Sandy's birthday, when Gwyneth wanted to give her the surprise! So, she asked Sandy's dear friend Rachael (wickedwords) if she could help by posting it to Sandy's vids site and to Rachael's Imeem account, so that everyone in the kingdom would know, whether they knew Gwyneth or Rachael or both. You see, Gwyneth knew that anything posted in the week of a gathering in the faraway land would be lost, because everyone went into a special place in their minds called con farr.

And so, it was almost a week early, because Sandy's birthday is the 9th of August, but Gwyneth hoped that Sandy would be happy all that time. And she planned to give Sandy her very own copy when they saw each other in the faraway land.

The End

or slightly bigger copy on my Imeem site's page

or visit Sandy and Rache's vids page

Comments

[minim_calibre]

Aww!!!

What an awesome and keen birthday gift for her!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was the awesomest, funnest present I've ever had to give!

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Aww, this is such a great thing to do! But mostly I am excited for ME because now I can download this vid to watch it whenever I want. EEEEE. YAY. Thank you!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Man, if I'd known they wanted to use it in the dance show, I would totally have put my ass into gear a lot sooner! Still, I did get Sandy to agree to do it in karaoke with me next year.

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Awww that is such a sweet thing to do! And I love your story. I am *so* happy to get a chance to view this vid. It's so cute! And this is perfect timing because I just fell in love with this song again (through another vid coincidentally enough). I love the vid as it captures the tone, characters and the cuteness of their relationship so well along with the hardness of it. And the touching is wonderful especially at the end :) Yay vid! And thank you to everyone involved, I'm so glad I have the oppurtunity to watch it now.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It has been one of my favorites for such a long time, and even though remastering is hard, it was one of the best times I've had doing it, because i am so filled with love for my woobies.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Oh, what an utterly fabulous gift -- not only to sherrold, but to all of fandom. Wow.

[justacat.livejournal.com]

The title card looks great! The vid looks great! Yay for you! And what a wonderful gift!

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your help! Photoshop Users R Us. XD

[justacat.livejournal.com]

Oh, no problem - I love doing this stuff (and have become an expert at re-making MC title cards in PS :-D); glad I was able to help a little. I'm an Adobe whore - though I've discovered a way to bring my system crashing to its knees: have Premiere, Photoshop, and InDesign open all at the same time...

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You know, that's kind of how I feel about the whole remastering project -- that these are such lost, important treasures of fandom, and by doing this work (which, admittedly, is tedious and painstaking and unrewarding a lot of the time), we're giving back a missing piece of fandom, and teaching people about what went on before.

[trelkez.livejournal.com]

How awesome is it that for Sandy's birthday, we all get a present? *g* I'm so glad you did this! It looks great.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I used to always post a story on my birthday, but that kind of stopped after my sister died. In a way, i almost feel like this is the way I may have to carry on my own tradition -- make vids for people on their birthdays. Everyone wins!

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Delightful! Thanks so much for doing this, so newcomers like me can appreciate the wonderfulness of Sandy's vid!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

This is the best part of the work -- being able to share something that has been kind of lost in time. Win for everyone!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I agree with keerawa! This is a wonderful vid, to a song I've always loved, and using clips from some of my favorite Vecchio episodes (North ♥ ♥ ♥!)

[elynross.livejournal.com]

This is SO FABULOUS, that you did this! I adore this vid!!!!

[pigtailedgirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for putting this up. Lovely vid and one I hadn't seen before.
:D

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

OMG, that title slide is GORGEOUS!

I am all a-flail with glee here, at the whole thing.

[heresluck]

Oh, what a lovely thing to do!

And it's especially wonderful to see this one all cleaned up; it's still my favorite F/V vid, and it's great to have all the charm with none of the squinting. *g* Hurrah for you and Sandy and everybody who helped!

This vid is LOVE

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

Thank you for taking the time to make it shiny and new again. I'm so thrilled to see it!

Thank you thank you thank you!

[sherrold.livejournal.com]

Oh My God -- how incredibly sweet of you! How cool to watch it again. (Wow, we were deep in our literal phase, weren't we...) It looks so crystal clear, even though imeem, I can't believe how pretty it is!

I'm out of town for my step-dad's 80th birthday, so I only have connectivity for a minute, but I'm so glad I logged in and got to see this. Port Angeles -- and my family -- seems *very* far from the Kingdom of Fandom, so this is an especially nice bit of timing on your part.

Thanks so much!



Thank you very much

[maekala.livejournal.com]

It's official...I need to find and rewatch Due South. Beautifully done.