Festivids ambivalence

[bironic]

Aaaah I don't know what to do about Festivids this year. For the first time, there's a full set of sources I want to request -- movies that have been in my Dear Festividder letters round after round -- and almost nothing I'm psyched to offer or have ideas ready to go for or that wouldn't be a lot of work when I'm determined to really dig into the editing of this long-term auction vid over the winter. It's hard to spark new ideas without seeing people's requests, too.

I basically have to decide by tomorrow morning, because after that I'll be offline and/or busy at this out-of-town conference until signups close.

What to doooo? Sign up with a loose list of sources I know and default if necessary, maybe. Or go in knowing the likelihood of producing a mediocre vid. I'd forgo signups and simply treat hunt after people's letters are posted, except I really do want to receive a vid. :/ :/ :/

From the sound of Twitter during the nominations period, I'm not the only one feeling lukewarm this round. True/False for you?

Comments

[seekingferret]

I'm excited for Festivids! I have a ton of new fandoms discovered while making Warning: Might Lead to Mixed Dancing and I get to request they get turned into full vids instead of just getting two seconds in my vid. And there's enough things in the list that I find interesting to offer.

I think helping with tagmodding also helped- I've been thinking about fandoms and Festivids a bunch for the past couple weeks because of that.

[bironic]

Makes sense, yeah. And now I remember you talking a little at VVC about the potential Festivids sources from your dancing vid! I enjoyed the exuberance of your Dear Festividder letter.

[seekingferret]

:)

Also, watch this, I found it while in the process of rejecting IWTV, and it gives me life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5NFl4B9FQ

[bironic]

what... is that

wow.

p.s. still chuckling in disbelief, plus thank you for the earworm. :)