vividcon post mortem!
Sitting in O'Hare, eating terrible food at sports bar as excuse to have quiet table to type at. Flight so far not canceled!
Quick post-mortem:
vid by me:
Watershed
right-click download MP4, ~34MB
Morgana awakening.
Merlin BBC, to Watershed by Vienna Teng
I'll be looking into getting all my vids up streaming soon, but for now it's just the download. This vid was mostly made last year, had to be suspended for lack of source to do what I really wanted, and then I managed to finish it up in time for the con thanks to season 2 source. \o/ Also and not unrelated, the trailer for Merlin season 3 makes me HAPPY. :D
vids of my heart:
eta: now posted!![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1)
sweetestdrain's amazing amazing amazing auction vid for me, Adam Lambert to Janelle Monae's Tightrope, ♥ ♥ ♥ -- SO AMAZING. I have been BURSTING with glee to share this vid ever since she sent me the first draft and I will link it and jump up and down at you all as soon as it is up and you will all be VERY HAPPY with me, seriously. It *dances*, you guys. The whole vid just swings its hips and bops its head and twirls and beams at you in exactly the way the Adam in my head does, and it is so very sparkly. \o/
eta: now posted!sisabet's genius Clark/Lex vid to Bad Romance. OMG. It is like, the vid of the strange and complicated space where these characters live in my head, a melange of the gloriously cracked-out Silver Age (Lex in his purple and green!), Superfriends and the Legion of Doom, the post-Crisis reboot with LexCorp, the movies, the Superman cartoon, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, and Smallville. And, haha, I can identify where every single clip in this comes from. possibly I know that I know this because I harassed sisabet until she manually gave me the vid so I could watch it twenty times in a row on my tiny laptop and make other people watch it and, um. HAPPY
Panels:
hollywoodgrrl's panel on Soviet Montage Theory was awesome, and I loved the Battleship Potemkin clips especially (heee, and her slides on whatsisname -- "hair full of video editing secrets"). ♥ Hopefully she will post the full presentation!
deepad's panel on vidding as choreography! Amazing amazing stuff, totally felt dead-on to me as a way to view vidding, and she has said she will be posting some resources for anyone who is interested in checking out more about choreography techniques and thinking about how to apply that to vidding.
dualbunny's panel on structure was also terrific, getting insights into how other vidders work, and now I would like someone to run a challenge where vidders write up a short description of their process (eg, "I vid linearly from start to finish, I tend to put in intercutting sequences, etc") and then get matched up to trade processes, and have to make a vid trying to follow someone else's process.
Vid review: Had an awesome time doing this withf1renze! ♥ and we reviewed ALL THE VIDS.
(awesomeness due to hyperbole and a half)
I thought the chunking of 5-6 vids together worked really well -- it let us give each vid a chance for discussion while still allowing the conversation to flow naturally and make connections without wasting a lot of time on the overhead of "okay, the three minutes on this vid are up". We went with dividing vids up on a spectrum of character focus -- from single-character study vids to relationship vids to ensemble vids to thematic (no-character, in a way) vids, and then also discussed comedy and a couple of vids that hadn't naturally fit into any category.
I'd really like to see the chunking preserved in future vid reviews, but I think it would be really interesting to see alternative kinds of categories -- one thing that might also work interestingly would be to just divide the show into chunks linearly along the playlist, which would allow for a conversation that would be more about comparing and contrasting very different vids. (Especially sincemelina123 and lapillus always do such an awesome job arranging the vidshow playlist).
Okay, and it is now time to go board my flight, so I will post this and dash! Yay awesome happy con! ♥
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Quick post-mortem:
vid by me:
Watershed
right-click download MP4, ~34MB
Morgana awakening.
Merlin BBC, to Watershed by Vienna Teng
I'll be looking into getting all my vids up streaming soon, but for now it's just the download. This vid was mostly made last year, had to be suspended for lack of source to do what I really wanted, and then I managed to finish it up in time for the con thanks to season 2 source. \o/ Also and not unrelated, the trailer for Merlin season 3 makes me HAPPY. :D
vids of my heart:
eta: now posted!
sweetestdrain's amazing amazing amazing auction vid for me, Adam Lambert to Janelle Monae's Tightrope, ♥ ♥ ♥ -- SO AMAZING. I have been BURSTING with glee to share this vid ever since she sent me the first draft and I will link it and jump up and down at you all as soon as it is up and you will all be VERY HAPPY with me, seriously. It *dances*, you guys. The whole vid just swings its hips and bops its head and twirls and beams at you in exactly the way the Adam in my head does, and it is so very sparkly. \o/ eta: now posted!
sisabet's genius Clark/Lex vid to Bad Romance. OMG. It is like, the vid of the strange and complicated space where these characters live in my head, a melange of the gloriously cracked-out Silver Age (Lex in his purple and green!), Superfriends and the Legion of Doom, the post-Crisis reboot with LexCorp, the movies, the Superman cartoon, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, and Smallville. And, haha, I can identify where every single clip in this comes from. possibly I know that I know this because I harassed sisabet until she manually gave me the vid so I could watch it twenty times in a row on my tiny laptop and make other people watch it and, um. HAPPYPanels:
hollywoodgrrl's panel on Soviet Montage Theory was awesome, and I loved the Battleship Potemkin clips especially (heee, and her slides on whatsisname -- "hair full of video editing secrets"). ♥ Hopefully she will post the full presentation!deepad's panel on vidding as choreography! Amazing amazing stuff, totally felt dead-on to me as a way to view vidding, and she has said she will be posting some resources for anyone who is interested in checking out more about choreography techniques and thinking about how to apply that to vidding. dualbunny's panel on structure was also terrific, getting insights into how other vidders work, and now I would like someone to run a challenge where vidders write up a short description of their process (eg, "I vid linearly from start to finish, I tend to put in intercutting sequences, etc") and then get matched up to trade processes, and have to make a vid trying to follow someone else's process. Vid review: Had an awesome time doing this with
f1renze! ♥ and we reviewed ALL THE VIDS. (awesomeness due to hyperbole and a half)
I thought the chunking of 5-6 vids together worked really well -- it let us give each vid a chance for discussion while still allowing the conversation to flow naturally and make connections without wasting a lot of time on the overhead of "okay, the three minutes on this vid are up". We went with dividing vids up on a spectrum of character focus -- from single-character study vids to relationship vids to ensemble vids to thematic (no-character, in a way) vids, and then also discussed comedy and a couple of vids that hadn't naturally fit into any category.
I'd really like to see the chunking preserved in future vid reviews, but I think it would be really interesting to see alternative kinds of categories -- one thing that might also work interestingly would be to just divide the show into chunks linearly along the playlist, which would allow for a conversation that would be more about comparing and contrasting very different vids. (Especially since
melina123 and lapillus always do such an awesome job arranging the vidshow playlist). Okay, and it is now time to go board my flight, so I will post this and dash! Yay awesome happy con! ♥
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OMIGOD. Just knowing such a thing exists has brightened my day.
I can't compare to previous years, but I thought the categories in vid review were helpful in giving a framework for discussing the vids, a starting point of sorts. That may have also limited what was said about them somewhat by focusing the discussion on one aspect, but again, I don't know how it's worked in the past, so that may not be true.
Edited at 2010-08-15 03:15 am (UTC)
it's so beautiful & kind of heart-wrenching.