My Year in Vids (2020)
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beatriceeagleMm Yeah | Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DIS (women in Trek)
Burn, Burn, Burn | A:TLA (Zuko character study)
Little Gods | Titans (intergenerational trauma and found families)
Kill For You | Titans (Hank/Dawn critique)
Get This Feeling | Multi (queer rep in children's TV)
Under My Skin | Multi (traumatic injury in sci-fi/fantasy)
Waiting | Batman Comics (Alfred Pennyworth character study)
Oblivion Upon Us | DC Comics (the existential terror of DC's continuity reboots)
Plus six vids for the Star Trek vid album that I haven't released yet, and one Festivid vid that hasn't been revealed yet.
My favorite video this year (of my own)
Little Gods. Titans is a really visually rich source for vidding—tons of visual matching, a lot of intentional visual metaphors—even if it's too damn dark to see, sometimes. I'm really proud of some of the visual matches and sequences I was able to make with that vid, and I'm still really obsessed with the themes that I was examining.
Least favorite
Waiting is the first comics vid I've ever made, and I'm still not able to get the visual effects that I want out of still images. There are sequences in that vid that I like a lot, and I think that I got better in Oblivion Upon Us, but this is still an area where I'm finding my footing.
Most successful
Burn, Burn, Burn (everyone loves Zuko) but I suspect that Get This Feeling will surpass it at some point.
Video most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion
Kill For You is my least watched vid ever, but that's what happens when you vid a couple no one cares about in a show not that many people watch. I do think it's a good vid, though! But also, Under My Skin has under 100 views, and I think that's a great vid.
Video with single sexiest moment
Kill For You, technically, but it's in a context where the sexiness is being heavily critiqued. Honestly, I find the shot in Little Gods where Dick zips up Kory's dress to be unbearably sexy, but I'm probably biased.
Most fun to make
Get This Feeling pretty much made itself, and even the part of vidding that I usually dread, source acquisition, was fun, because I got to do all this research on queer rep in children's TV.
I also had a lot of fun making my Festivid this year, but shhhh, that's a secret.
Hardest video to make
Technically, it was Waiting. So many word bubbles to erase. But emotionally, I almost gave myself a panic attack while making Little Gods.
Most unintentionally *telling* video
Little Gods.
Things I've learned
I learned the basics of comics vidding. I learned how to erase credits text from clips. For Under My Skin, I spent a full day figuring out how to track a mask to a moving object (for a single two-second-long shot, no less). For the first time ever, I edited music to be shorter/more applicable to my vid. I used sound from the source video for the first time ever.
Things to work on
I want to get better with comics vidding, since I have a feeling I'll be doing more of it. And I'm always in search of better match cuts and movement.
Resolutions for 2020
FINISH THE STAR TREK VID ALBUM.
Burn, Burn, Burn | A:TLA (Zuko character study)
Little Gods | Titans (intergenerational trauma and found families)
Kill For You | Titans (Hank/Dawn critique)
Get This Feeling | Multi (queer rep in children's TV)
Under My Skin | Multi (traumatic injury in sci-fi/fantasy)
Waiting | Batman Comics (Alfred Pennyworth character study)
Oblivion Upon Us | DC Comics (the existential terror of DC's continuity reboots)
Plus six vids for the Star Trek vid album that I haven't released yet, and one Festivid vid that hasn't been revealed yet.
My favorite video this year (of my own)
Little Gods. Titans is a really visually rich source for vidding—tons of visual matching, a lot of intentional visual metaphors—even if it's too damn dark to see, sometimes. I'm really proud of some of the visual matches and sequences I was able to make with that vid, and I'm still really obsessed with the themes that I was examining.
Least favorite
Waiting is the first comics vid I've ever made, and I'm still not able to get the visual effects that I want out of still images. There are sequences in that vid that I like a lot, and I think that I got better in Oblivion Upon Us, but this is still an area where I'm finding my footing.
Most successful
Burn, Burn, Burn (everyone loves Zuko) but I suspect that Get This Feeling will surpass it at some point.
Video most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion
Kill For You is my least watched vid ever, but that's what happens when you vid a couple no one cares about in a show not that many people watch. I do think it's a good vid, though! But also, Under My Skin has under 100 views, and I think that's a great vid.
Video with single sexiest moment
Kill For You, technically, but it's in a context where the sexiness is being heavily critiqued. Honestly, I find the shot in Little Gods where Dick zips up Kory's dress to be unbearably sexy, but I'm probably biased.
Most fun to make
Get This Feeling pretty much made itself, and even the part of vidding that I usually dread, source acquisition, was fun, because I got to do all this research on queer rep in children's TV.
I also had a lot of fun making my Festivid this year, but shhhh, that's a secret.
Hardest video to make
Technically, it was Waiting. So many word bubbles to erase. But emotionally, I almost gave myself a panic attack while making Little Gods.
Most unintentionally *telling* video
Little Gods.
Things I've learned
I learned the basics of comics vidding. I learned how to erase credits text from clips. For Under My Skin, I spent a full day figuring out how to track a mask to a moving object (for a single two-second-long shot, no less). For the first time ever, I edited music to be shorter/more applicable to my vid. I used sound from the source video for the first time ever.
Things to work on
I want to get better with comics vidding, since I have a feeling I'll be doing more of it. And I'm always in search of better match cuts and movement.
Resolutions for 2020
FINISH THE STAR TREK VID ALBUM.
