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festivids this round, ah ah ah. This would not have been possible without a two-week winter break at work and, you know, not being able to go anywhere or see anyone.
absternr and I matched on two fandoms, so I was excited to vid for her.
Death Is the New Sex
I knew straight off that I wanted to try vidding Aniara, the existentialist Swedish sci fi film I loved last year, hard as it might be. The opportunity was extra sweet becauseabsternr said in her letter that she'd requested the movie after seeing it on the nominations list, which was my doing. I just needed a song and the confidence to try editing something that needed to descend into a frenzy of different emotions and actions. Spotify paid off in the song hunt; it had introduced me to "Death Is the New Sex" not long before and thought it might work for this project.
It was a bit tough to sit with these characters' existential crises day after day while dealing with my own and, uh, the world during a pandemic, but the editing itself went really well. There was more storytelling up front than expected. Although the frenzy part didn't turn out as frenetically paced as envisioned—I'd been thinking something more like Long Night's Journey Into Day—I'm happy with how things came together.
With immense thanks tomarginaliana for finding clean footage. Making the first draft when half the clips had hard-coded captions was difficult because they distracted the eye and made the footage seem busier than it really was.
P.S. Gotta love a project with clip categories like "screaming," "cults," "dancing" and "makeouts."
P.P.S. Although there are many spoilers in the vid, the ending is not among them. Clips from the end of the movie do not appear anywhere in the vid, and the end of the vid is taken from several different places in the movie.
Watch on the AO3 or
Music: Tunng (edited)
Content notes: existential crisis, depression, alcohol, drug use, nudity/sex/orgy, depictions of religion and cults, suicide, murder, gun violence, blood, babies, spoilers, dead bodies, security officers who may look like police, explicit language in the song
Audiovisual notes: shaky cam, brief flickering light
Calling All the Monsters
I'd also been playing with the idea of vidding Los Espookys, an HBO comedy miniseries about a group of delightfully morbid friends in Mexico who do horror special effects and come to discover that the supernatural is more real than they knew. (Well, Andrés and Tati knew.) I didn't have any song ideas, but Spotify came to the rescue again with playlists of Halloween songs.mollyamory and arduinna were kind enough to provide files so I didn't have to screen-grab the whole show, and I was able to draft the vid in a day. Just a fun little romp through Renaldo's geeky love of horror and the team's adventures in staged and not-so-staged effects. My one regret is that I couldn't crop out the subtitles on the shot of the werewolf makeup reveal because they were right over her hand/mouth.
Watch on the AO3 or
Music: China Anne McClain (edited)
Content notes: Comedic horror/gore, the worst of which is a fake severed head and blood spray from a fake severed arm
Physical notes: None
festivids this round, ah ah ah. This would not have been possible without a two-week winter break at work and, you know, not being able to go anywhere or see anyone.absternr and I matched on two fandoms, so I was excited to vid for her. Death Is the New Sex
I knew straight off that I wanted to try vidding Aniara, the existentialist Swedish sci fi film I loved last year, hard as it might be. The opportunity was extra sweet because
absternr said in her letter that she'd requested the movie after seeing it on the nominations list, which was my doing. I just needed a song and the confidence to try editing something that needed to descend into a frenzy of different emotions and actions. Spotify paid off in the song hunt; it had introduced me to "Death Is the New Sex" not long before and thought it might work for this project.It was a bit tough to sit with these characters' existential crises day after day while dealing with my own and, uh, the world during a pandemic, but the editing itself went really well. There was more storytelling up front than expected. Although the frenzy part didn't turn out as frenetically paced as envisioned—I'd been thinking something more like Long Night's Journey Into Day—I'm happy with how things came together.
With immense thanks to
marginaliana for finding clean footage. Making the first draft when half the clips had hard-coded captions was difficult because they distracted the eye and made the footage seem busier than it really was.P.S. Gotta love a project with clip categories like "screaming," "cults," "dancing" and "makeouts."
P.P.S. Although there are many spoilers in the vid, the ending is not among them. Clips from the end of the movie do not appear anywhere in the vid, and the end of the vid is taken from several different places in the movie.
Watch on the AO3 or
Music: Tunng (edited)
Content notes: existential crisis, depression, alcohol, drug use, nudity/sex/orgy, depictions of religion and cults, suicide, murder, gun violence, blood, babies, spoilers, dead bodies, security officers who may look like police, explicit language in the song
Audiovisual notes: shaky cam, brief flickering light
Calling All the Monsters
I'd also been playing with the idea of vidding Los Espookys, an HBO comedy miniseries about a group of delightfully morbid friends in Mexico who do horror special effects and come to discover that the supernatural is more real than they knew. (Well, Andrés and Tati knew.) I didn't have any song ideas, but Spotify came to the rescue again with playlists of Halloween songs.
mollyamory and arduinna were kind enough to provide files so I didn't have to screen-grab the whole show, and I was able to draft the vid in a day. Just a fun little romp through Renaldo's geeky love of horror and the team's adventures in staged and not-so-staged effects. My one regret is that I couldn't crop out the subtitles on the shot of the werewolf makeup reveal because they were right over her hand/mouth.Watch on the AO3 or
Music: China Anne McClain (edited)
Content notes: Comedic horror/gore, the worst of which is a fake severed head and blood spray from a fake severed arm
Physical notes: None
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Date: Feb. 7th, 2021 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 12th, 2021 08:38 pm (UTC)Your Amiara rec last year nudged me to watch it. What an acid trip. Your vid manages to capture all the complicated feelings, amd with the perfect song choice!
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Date: May. 6th, 2023 11:57 am (UTC)