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]

25. How do you feel about collaborations?

Love them. When they work well, with people you like, they're just the best. I honestly think that Hands Away is one of the best vids I've been a part of. It let me play with the technically intensive AU-creation stuff I wanted to experiment with while letting chaila edit in her beautiful, associative style while still having me yelling things like NO NO DO A SECTION ABOUT XYZ and I think/hope it was better for both influences.

Some of my formative vidding was vidding with a bunch of other vidders in a much looser coalition of BSG-type people who loosely self-identified as The Cylon Vidding Machine; a lot of my vids during that era were prompted directly or indirectly by those people and beta'd very thoroughly, which is collaboration of a different sort.

All my BSG-as-propaganda stuff (The Enemy Within and the Tomorrow Project) was done in a more directed collaboration with cyborganize acting as, well, director and writer, I guess? But definitely as a creative collaboration. On the other hand, I also got a real kick out of making Ladies' Choice with asta77 which was much more me vidding-to-order because she didn't have the know-how to do it herself and I really felt like I had gotten to do a cool thing for her, as well as making a vid I never would have had the idea for myself/different styles, etc?

I HAVE to mention VIDWAR: ROBOT APOCALYPSE when chaila and I declared VIDWAR on each other and made a series of challenges and responses and it was just the best ever and the most fun. Both the parts we told each other about and the parts we kept secret.

In that vein, I also feel like the crazy vidlet making month thing I did years ago counts too because vidding from prompts, in a short period of time...it's not quite a collaboration but I still feel it fits under that umbrella of co-creating; of accepting outside input.

tl;dr - group projects generally suck because you get assigned to idiots and can't do what you want. Group projects that develop naturally because of mutual excitement are the BEST THINGS IN THE WORLD and I think that vidding - something that fundamentally about reaching out and taking someone else's creative thing and making something new with it, is a wonderful medium in which to do it.

Collaborations are awesome. I should do them more.

15. Do you work mostly from start to finish, or do you vid sections out of order?

I work from start to finish almost always. I'm sure it's not the best way to go about it and is partly a legacy of using editors that made non-linear editing a nightmare (and I still have a program that doesn't make it as easy as it could be) but also I think it's just...me. I just...I go from start to finish. That's what makes sense to me. I keep meaning to try and do it in other ways, but nope. I can never get myself to do it.

I think part of it is also that I'm obsessive about timing as I go through. I CAN'T just fix it later. I can't. And that means that if I do bits later, I'm worried that by the time I get there I'll have settled into a different beat or cutting style at that point and I'll have to rejig everything ANYWAY and ARGH PANIC NOPE.

But also I think it's just because that's how my brain works.

You're one of the few other vidders I know who also does it that way (I mean I'm sure there are also others whom I haven't happened to hear talk about it, but you know). So. Fistbump of linearity.

[cosmic_llin]

Slowest reply ever but *returns fistbump*

Like, I think it's partly to do with having started in a program where I HAD to, but it just makes way more sense to me that way!