Vidding Meme! :D

[beccatoria]

Shamelessly stolen from frayadjacent and chaila! Give me a number (or a few) and I will try to answer things! Some numbers are missing because my intelligent predecessors went through combing for questions they didn't think they'd be so interested in, but I'm, um, lazy, so I just copy-pasted one of their lists and ran with it. YAY ME.

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-vid.
2. Is there a genre or style you've yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
3. Is there a genre or style you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole?
4. How many vid ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
5. Share one of your strengths.
6. Share one of your weaknesses.
7. Point to a section from one of your favorite vids you've made and explain why you're proud of it.
8. Which vid was the hardest to make?
9. Which vid was the easiest to make?
11. Is there a section of canon above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
12. What's the best vidding advice you've ever come across?
13. What's the worst vidding advice you've ever come across?
14. If you only could vid one show/movie for the rest of your life, which show/movie would it be?
15. Do you work mostly from start to finish, or do you vid sections out of order?
16. Do you use any tools, like clip notes or storyboards?
18. Describe your perfect vidding conditions.
19. How many times do you usually revise your vid before posting?
20. Choose a section from one of your earlier vids and talk about whether and how you'd do it differently now. (Person sending the ask is free to make suggestions).
21. If you were to revise one of your older vids from start to finish, which would it be and why?
22. Have you ever deleted one of your published vids?
23. What do you look for in a beta?
24. Do you beta yourself? If so, what kind of beta are you?
25. How do you feel about collaborations?
26. Share three of your favorite vidders and why you like them so much.
27. Do you accept prompts?
28. Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your vids being canon compliant?
30. How do you feel about crack?
31. Which is your favorite site for posting vids?
32. Talk about your current vids in progress.
33. Talk about a comment or review that made your day.
34. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?

Comments

[beccatoria]

FOUR NUMBERS?! Ooooh, fine. :p

2. Is there a genre or style you've yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

I'm sure I'll think of some others in a minute, but right now I'll say constructued reality in the sense that there is no video source (rather than constructed crossovers, which I have done). Like, I am impressed with the way people have vidded comics or stuff like Night Vale and would like to try something like that at some point.

8. Which vid was the hardest to make?

Probably Small Blue Thing for Fringe. I kept trying to isolate blue and red colours and change them into each other as a recurring theme to tie into the alternate universe being associated with them/the Olivias from each universe.

It's one of the more technically fiddly vids I've done, but I did it when I had way less know-how than I do now. It was one of my learning curve vids.

Shoutout to Hands Away because the parts of that which I was responsible for were mega complicated, but I was covidding and basically creating source for someone else, so I had less to do and more liberties in terms of timing/what parts of the footage I could use.

12. What's the best vidding advice you've ever come across?

It's a cliche, but basically to just...jump in and do it. You need to work out what kind of vidding you enjoy, what works for you, all these things, but you can't if you don't just start doing it. And getting that buzz of "10 seconds of footage! Oh my god, let me rewatch them endlessly!"

19. How many times do you usually revise your vid before posting?

Not many but that's partly because of how I vid. I go linearly but I revise endlessly as I'm going. So like, I'll be vidding and readjusting and revidding a ten second segment before I'm happy with it and I move on. By the time I have a full draft, I've been rewatching and building on it as I go for a long time.

I do sometimes rejig things in a major way after getting that first draft, but to be honest not as often as I used to. Partly I think that I developed the style and approach I did because I spent so long working with editors where it was REALLY hard to go back and fix things I just hated having to do it. I'd like to say that I developed vidding skillz to compensate but I'm sure I haven't and sometimes my vids would benefit from more revision.

I do make minor changes quite frequently after I've got a full draft, but I view it all as part of the same ongoing process so it's hard to say like, how many times I do it.

I guess I approach vidding more like sculpting rather than writing. You dig the vid out of the source, but carefully, because once you lay a clip down, going back on that choice isn't a decision to be made lightly. Like, to be pompous and artistically pretentious about my own impatience. :p

[goodbyebird]

oooh, you know Festivids allows for those sources this year, right? I would loooove to see what you'd do with a comics vid :D

I def agree with 12. *pointed glance at self*

And 19 makes a lot of sense. If you're constantly reworking as you go, there's never really a first/second/etc draft.