1st of the year
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I just returned from a week in rural Tennessee, where my mom's boyfriend bought a house for them to retire to in a few years. It's perched on the side of a mountain abutting Cherokee National Forest. It felt like vacation as soon as I heard running water and smelled wood smoke. Beautiful land,* spacious home, largely off the grid, although the steep slope made me nervous. We saw turkeys and Carolina chickadees along with many neighbors' pets and livestock. Went for easy hikes, ate venison steaks, played games, sang along with my mom's guitar on Christmas Eve—she has adopted the bf's Italian-American Catholic traditions—and discussed the ups and downs of their relationship. I fired a gun for the first time; took out some bottles with buckshot. When in Rome...
*stolen, sigh
Festivids
Hauling my desktop (vidding) computer 800 miles proved worthwhile, as I squeezed in two productive editing sessions. The draft is nearly complete. I'd like to send that out for beta soon and try for a treat. It would be sad to break the streak of making at least two Festivids per round.
Vidding anniversary
May will mark the tenth anniversary of posting my first vid. I'm planning some short write-ups for the occasion that can be spaced throughout 2019, like "favorite opening credits" and "vids that never made it." Is there anything you'd like to know?
In memoriam
I was saddened to hear about the recent passing ofstardreamer. I had only just begun to get to know her here on Dreamwidth, where she was an engaged, insightful, compassionate commenter. It took longer than it should have for me to subscribe to her journal, which is when I learned that she had been struggling with pancreatic cancer for a while. It finally got the better of her in November. A real loss. Among other things, I'm sad I didn't finish the Midnight, Texas fic in time for her to read it; it's a tiny fandom and she'd said she was looking forward to it.
May her memory be a blessing.
I just returned from a week in rural Tennessee, where my mom's boyfriend bought a house for them to retire to in a few years. It's perched on the side of a mountain abutting Cherokee National Forest. It felt like vacation as soon as I heard running water and smelled wood smoke. Beautiful land,* spacious home, largely off the grid, although the steep slope made me nervous. We saw turkeys and Carolina chickadees along with many neighbors' pets and livestock. Went for easy hikes, ate venison steaks, played games, sang along with my mom's guitar on Christmas Eve—she has adopted the bf's Italian-American Catholic traditions—and discussed the ups and downs of their relationship. I fired a gun for the first time; took out some bottles with buckshot. When in Rome...
*stolen, sigh
Festivids
Hauling my desktop (vidding) computer 800 miles proved worthwhile, as I squeezed in two productive editing sessions. The draft is nearly complete. I'd like to send that out for beta soon and try for a treat. It would be sad to break the streak of making at least two Festivids per round.
Vidding anniversary
May will mark the tenth anniversary of posting my first vid. I'm planning some short write-ups for the occasion that can be spaced throughout 2019, like "favorite opening credits" and "vids that never made it." Is there anything you'd like to know?
In memoriam
I was saddened to hear about the recent passing of
stardreamer. I had only just begun to get to know her here on Dreamwidth, where she was an engaged, insightful, compassionate commenter. It took longer than it should have for me to subscribe to her journal, which is when I learned that she had been struggling with pancreatic cancer for a while. It finally got the better of her in November. A real loss. Among other things, I'm sad I didn't finish the Midnight, Texas fic in time for her to read it; it's a tiny fandom and she'd said she was looking forward to it.May her memory be a blessing.
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Date: Jan. 9th, 2019 01:53 am (UTC)Adding your question to my list. I never know what to talk about process-wise - maybe if I read more about other people's processes so there were things to compare and contrast. Could look through VVC notes, I suppose!
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Date: Jan. 9th, 2019 02:00 am (UTC)do you have song or source or concept first? why?
do you vid linearly or out of order?
do you do one draft or many drafts or work on a single draft and nitpick at it until it's done before moving forward with the rest of the timeline?
why do the extra work for multi-source? what makes you want to do these multi-source vids? what's it like being "known" for these big multi-vids when you have vidded everything from SGA to House and books and vampires and Robot Chicken and classic movies and RPF and.. okay I would have to look at your vid tag or AO3 to remember more than what's off the top of my head. but you get my point. your multisource babies take a lot of spotlight. how does that make you feel?
Feelings about what "going outside your comfort zone" means in vidding and what you could get out of it.
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Date: Jan. 9th, 2019 02:21 am (UTC)If you were to do a commentary on one or more of your vids, which would you have the most to say about?
How do you view your vidding arc over the years?
What's your balance between vidding for yourself and for others?
Have you ever quit on vids in progress? What makes or breaks a draft? How do you solve problems?
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Date: Jan. 9th, 2019 02:27 am (UTC)