2017 Vids Year in Review
Dec. 31st, 2017 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI made so few vids this year that it feels ridiculous to do this, but I'm waiting till Yuletide reveals to do my writing one, so. Three vids…that's just sad.
February: All We Do
My Escapade vid for the series Political Animals
August:
Battleflag
A vid for the Star Wars universe made for the premieres show at Vividcon
Chase You Down
My Club Vivid vid for Captain America fandom, focusing on Steve and Sam, Bucky, and Peggy
It feels funny to be doing this, since there's only three, but whatever. Thinky thoughts part:
My favorite video this year:
Battleflag. I've wanted to do this song for so many years, and when I walked out of Rogue One, I just knew it was finally my time.
Least favorite video this year:
I don't really have one, I felt like they all had at least one good thing about them.
Most successful:
Judging by response on Tumblr and AO3, Chase You Down wins by a wide margin, but All We Do is pretty close on YouTube. Judging by my perspective, Battleflag, just because it did what I wanted it to do, which was show the characters resisting the fascist state and look good doing it.
Vid most under-appreciated by the universe in my opinion:
I honestly thought, since it's a much, much larger fandom than Captain America or anything else I vid lately, that Battleflag would do well. And it sank without a trace, it has even fewer hits on YouTube than my silly Jet Song vid from last year. People have suggested it's because most people don't follow me for Star Wars stuff, but it's heavily tagged with SW tags everywhere…I don't know. It was definitely disappointing.
Funnest video:
Chase You Down seems to make people happy. There are so few vids that show Steve and Sam as a couple that it made me happy to be able to give that one to people, and I really enjoyed turning the story around in the Peggy and Steve verse.
Video with the single sexiest moment:
Probably All We Do, because it has half-naked Sebastian Stan kissing boys and getting cocaine snorted off his abs and playing the piano in his underwear. So not single sexy moment, but a lot of them.
Biggest vid fail:
Seekingferret was kind enough to help me with Star Wars footage for TFA and R1, but something really weird happened because everything on my system is wonky and I found out that some of it wouldn't come through in download, or once I fast-forwarded through the clips scrubbing for scenes, it would stay that way. I mean, I couldn't even re-download the files and have them work, they stubbornly refused to go back to normal speed. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen--probably because my OS is so old that everything malfunctions lately. Anyway, I had to use those clips sped up, and I can't not see them that way, but apparently no one else seems to notice it.
Hardest video to make:
Battleflag, because of the reason above. Intellectually it was Chase You Down, because I couldn't find my way in with it, until killabeez made a suggestion to me and the light went off above my head.
Easiest video to make:
All We Do, because it was one goddamn fandom with one aspect ratio, although interesting I had another tech failure there too, because my discs have some kind of processing error in a couple scenes and they have that digital drag effect I haven't seen for years.
Most unintentionally telling video:
I never really know what this means, but I suppose Battleflag showed how angry and helpless and hopeless I feel about my future in this awful world, and how much I wish there was a useful resistance.
What's Next?
I'm doing a vid for the Fandom Loves Puerto Rico auction for minim calibre. This will be an interesting challenge since it's a NOTP for both of us and it's to a band I never listen to--it could have very entertaining results, and I'm really scared of the stalker fans for this particular pairing.
February: All We Do
My Escapade vid for the series Political Animals
August:
Battleflag
A vid for the Star Wars universe made for the premieres show at Vividcon
Chase You Down
My Club Vivid vid for Captain America fandom, focusing on Steve and Sam, Bucky, and Peggy
It feels funny to be doing this, since there's only three, but whatever. Thinky thoughts part:
My favorite video this year:
Battleflag. I've wanted to do this song for so many years, and when I walked out of Rogue One, I just knew it was finally my time.
Least favorite video this year:
I don't really have one, I felt like they all had at least one good thing about them.
Most successful:
Judging by response on Tumblr and AO3, Chase You Down wins by a wide margin, but All We Do is pretty close on YouTube. Judging by my perspective, Battleflag, just because it did what I wanted it to do, which was show the characters resisting the fascist state and look good doing it.
Vid most under-appreciated by the universe in my opinion:
I honestly thought, since it's a much, much larger fandom than Captain America or anything else I vid lately, that Battleflag would do well. And it sank without a trace, it has even fewer hits on YouTube than my silly Jet Song vid from last year. People have suggested it's because most people don't follow me for Star Wars stuff, but it's heavily tagged with SW tags everywhere…I don't know. It was definitely disappointing.
Funnest video:
Chase You Down seems to make people happy. There are so few vids that show Steve and Sam as a couple that it made me happy to be able to give that one to people, and I really enjoyed turning the story around in the Peggy and Steve verse.
Video with the single sexiest moment:
Probably All We Do, because it has half-naked Sebastian Stan kissing boys and getting cocaine snorted off his abs and playing the piano in his underwear. So not single sexy moment, but a lot of them.
Biggest vid fail:
Seekingferret was kind enough to help me with Star Wars footage for TFA and R1, but something really weird happened because everything on my system is wonky and I found out that some of it wouldn't come through in download, or once I fast-forwarded through the clips scrubbing for scenes, it would stay that way. I mean, I couldn't even re-download the files and have them work, they stubbornly refused to go back to normal speed. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen--probably because my OS is so old that everything malfunctions lately. Anyway, I had to use those clips sped up, and I can't not see them that way, but apparently no one else seems to notice it.
Hardest video to make:
Battleflag, because of the reason above. Intellectually it was Chase You Down, because I couldn't find my way in with it, until killabeez made a suggestion to me and the light went off above my head.
Easiest video to make:
All We Do, because it was one goddamn fandom with one aspect ratio, although interesting I had another tech failure there too, because my discs have some kind of processing error in a couple scenes and they have that digital drag effect I haven't seen for years.
Most unintentionally telling video:
I never really know what this means, but I suppose Battleflag showed how angry and helpless and hopeless I feel about my future in this awful world, and how much I wish there was a useful resistance.
What's Next?
I'm doing a vid for the Fandom Loves Puerto Rico auction for minim calibre. This will be an interesting challenge since it's a NOTP for both of us and it's to a band I never listen to--it could have very entertaining results, and I'm really scared of the stalker fans for this particular pairing.
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Date: 2017-12-31 07:55 pm (UTC)I'm finding vidding a lot harder to follow now that it's moved primarily/directly to YouTube, which is not somewhere I hang out.
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Date: 2017-12-31 09:19 pm (UTC)(it could also be subtitled "Everything Steve Rogers Has Ever Let Go Has Clawmarks In It," couldn't it)
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