BSG Vids: I require your assistance, kind people!

[beccatoria]

Warning: Vid-oriented, potentially egotistical naval-gazing follows! :D

BSG is ending, and hopefully I'll get a chance to learn how to vid other shows but at the same time, I really like the idea of my backlog of vids standing as some kind of visual archive of my Battlestar experience, and the more of the show I can filter through my perspective via vids, the better. I especially want this because so much of my love affair with vidding is tied up in my love affair with this show, it seems right to mark it this way.

So I'm looking for help. Suggestions on what I haven't vid-babbled about yet. It's not quite a call for prompts, more a call to identify segments of the show (character-wise, thematics-wise, plot-wise) I haven't said anything about yet. Although any thoughts on what you'd do with that kind of vid would be welcome as they might jumpstart my brain. Because these are probably not going to be things I'm all that comfortable and familiar with, or I'd have vidded them already.

So screw it, yes, I suppose I am asking for prompts, just...prompts I probably will not be fulfilling any time soon as I have other vidding projects; prompts I may not ever fulfill, and prompts I will almost certainly twist to my own nefarious purposes? But if you'd be willing to take a second to say, "Hey, you know what you never vidded?" I'd be totally grateful.


VIDS

Fast Car: General overview of seasons one and two.
My Vampire Heart: Boomer, Athena, Helo, Tyrol.
Devils & Dust: Cylon/Religion-centric overview of seasons one and two.
Jesus Walks: Laura Roslin, religion, politics.
Hallelujah: Lee Adama, Laura/Lee relationship, Laura Roslin (note: I really consider this to be my Lee Adama vid. While it's ostensibly about a 'ship, it's completely from his perspective and one of the reasons I love that 'ship is that it brings out the Lee I love best.)
Hummingbird Song: Kendra, Cain, Gina, Razor episodic, violence.
Ghosts: Caprica Six, Caprica/Everyone Who Never Loved Her (too long a list to type out!), love.
Tricks: General overview of season 4.0.
there's a war going on for your mind, laura: Laura Roslin, Cylons, Cylon Hybrid, religion, violence, politics.
Dolled-up in Straps: Gaius Baltar, Head Six, Baltar/Head Six.
About Today: Bill Adama, Adama/Roslin (eeew, yes I typed it, partly because I think this is probably the closest I could ever possibly get myself to making an A/R vid, so I'm kind of desperate to fit it on my "done it!" list...)

VIDLETS
Scar: Kara Thrace, Sam Anders, Scar the Cylon Raider, Kara/Sam, Kara/Scar, Sam/Scar, cylons, rebellion.
The Book of Kara: Kara Thrace, Leoben Conoy, Kara/Leoben, religion.
Rumour: whore-centric season 4.0 overview, humour, sex.
Manifesto: Natalie, Galen Tyrol, Kara Thrace, politics.
Memo: Re: Revolution: Bill Adama, Cylon Centurions, rebellion, violence.
Traditional Cylon Lullaby: Athena, Hera, cylons, possibly reproduction?
Five Loves Six Found: Caprica Six, Natalie, Gina, love, violence, cylons.
I want to be Evil: Tory Foster, Laura Roslin, Laura/Tory, politics.
Saul Tigh: A & B: Saul Tigh, Saul/Ellen, cylons.
Televangelism: Gaius Baltar, Laura Roslin, religion, technology.
Sunday Bloody Sunday: Mambo Remix: Cylons, humans, Cylons/Humans, humour, violence.
I have weird memories of you: Final Five, crossover, cylons.

JOINT PROJECTS
The Tomorrow Project: with cyborganize. Episodics for season 4.0. Variously covering: cylons, religion, technology, humour, violence, politics, slash, crack, and all of Leland and Lance's daddies.
Ladies' Choice: with asta77. Gaius Baltar, Lee Adama, Sam Anders, Karl Agathon, humour, sex.



Things I already know I haven't done (but would still be open to ideas about):

- Full-length Kara Thrace vid (I know I've vidletted her a bunch of times, but I want at least one full-length vid for each of the seven credited cast members). I've always planned on doing a vid for Kara, but...she's so fascinating in terms of the show's plot and mythology, I need to wait until her story is finished before I can do this, I think. But...this item probably stands alone in that I'm not stuck, just choosing to wait.

- D'anna. I do have some vague idea of a song I could use for her, but...we'll see. (Vid or Vidlet).

- Gaeta. I have...no ideas here. And I don't want to seem like I'm just jumping on the bandwagon of being interested now he's dead. I always liked him well enough, but he never really jumped out at me. (Vidlet?)

- Dualla. Same as Gaeta. I like her and all (actually I like her significantly more than I like Gaeta) but I just...I can't think of a good thing to say about her. So much of her plotlines were tied up in the quadrangle of doom or her very messy death and I just...I don't want it to look like I only made a vid because she died horrifically or something. (Vidlet?)

- Sam Anders, maybe? I've vidded him both for comedy and as part of the final five, but his only play as Sam was in the last third of Scar. I love him there, but maybe he deserves some screentime of his own? (Vidlet? Or a vid about him and something?)

- Ellen Tigh. Given her recent meteoric rise in importance. Although that's probably one best left on the backburner until the end of the series.

- Various 'ships. I'm not fussed about vidding every 'ship because there are too many and honestly, if I can't vid my second favourite (Laura/Maya) due to lack of source, why should I care about the others! :p But I know that there are some fairly significant ones that I haven't touched like Kara/Lee, although to be totally honest, I'm not really sure what I could that's interesting with that one. But hey, I admire crackship vids, so if anyone has any out-there ideas, shoot. Also, I should probably be ashamed to admit, I kinda 'ship Chief/Sam a little, but no vidlet ideas are hitting me right now.

- That whole parents/children/reproduction/cylon/human mess. I've dealt with cylons and religion thing a million and a half times, but the other half of their obsession - babies - is something I've only skirted the edges of and it also ties into all the parent-child issues among the human characters. So like, at some point I want to make a big messy vid about parents and children and humans and cylons and how babies get made. But...I don't know if I ever will.

Halp?

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Gosh, it's hard to come up with something you haven't touched on at least a little. I'm very excited to hear you say you have a full-length Kara vid in mind for after the show ends. I think now that we know the end is coming there's a lot of stuff we're going to feel like waiting on vidding for till we see the resolution.

Since you mention Dee and Gaeta, lately I've been having a hankering (probably thanks to daybreak's recent vidlets and sabaceanbabe's Cally vid) to see ensemble-type vids featuring the lesser known peeps of Galactica. Maybe since you're worried about having enough footage on certain things, you could do an ensemble vid of some sort for the smaller peeps.

I also love crack!vids (Ladies' Choice is so fun) so you know, if you wanted to do something there, that'd be cool. Maybe since you're not that ship-invested, a shippy crack!vid is the way to go. You could do various people/vipers or various people/cigars (maybe a whole vid about phallic imagery if you combine those two! Heh.) Or what about Romo/pets. Or just Romo in general--he's a weird little character.

You always have interesting thoughts on Laura and Kara...what about a combo vid for them? Their similarities? Their differences?

OK I think I'm out of ideas.

just so you can turn me down...

[jo-lasalle.livejournal.com]

I know you hate the guy, but one vid I would personally love to see would be a serious Zarek/Lee vid -- in the sense of, Zarek's POV on Lee and what has him fascinated there, why he loves pushing Lee's buttons so much.

And the other thing you'll turn me down on for sheer insanity, but oh, it would be cool to see what you'd do with it... civilians. In the fleet. Not the ones we meet as crazies and fanatics. Just regular people and what's it been like there since the Cylon attack. (And no, I don't even know where I'd go looking for the footage; possibly on other shows...)

Have I ever mentioned how much I love there's a war going on for your mind, laura? I think I actually said so about Ghosts, but forgot with that one -- very bad of me! But now I've said it, I love that one.

[asta77.livejournal.com]

Sadly, not enough source material for Narcho/Lee either. I'm not even sure there is enough material just for a Narcho vidlet. But if you wanted to try... ;-)

I mentioned in one of my emails an idea for a Lee/Kara vid, but done for laughs.

I'd enjoy seeing a Sam-centric vid. I'm not sure about a theme, though I'd like to see something where he isn't defined by his relationship with Kara. Maybe you should wait until after 'The Plan' airs for this one. I can imagine there will be some interesting reveals about his character in that.

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

OMGOMGOMG! YOU WANNA VID SAM? DO THIS! DO IT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! (So I don't have to. And so it'll be good. With lots of thinky stuff.)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I almost want to give you some of my BSG vid ideas. Instead, I'm going to list off some types of vids you've not done for BSG. Fake trailer? Full on action? Vid based on a fic? Could be fun to play with.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Sam Anders deserves a vid. Sam rarely gets vidded without Kara. Who is this guy without her? Or rather who was he? I'm curious as to Sam Anders leader of the resistance on two planets. Not so much Cylon Anders, but that's up to you.

Tigh/Caprica. Vidlet? This strange little canon ship. I think you like it and the miracle baby. :-)

Caprica and babies. "I've got Hera." I think she will have Hera in the end. You can even put Natalie in there if you want. Hey! Six and babies! From neck-snappy Six in the mini to Head!Six to Caprica and her ultrasound. This would be awesome.

Obligatory Felix request. Maybe not vid him if you're not really feeling it? I can't think of anything. Maybe his life as a soldier like you did Kendra? Though there is more to him than that so I don't know.

The mutineers. Or those who died in the mutiny. What's their story? Are they evil or just misunderstood? Not so much Gage and Co. because, gods. But Kelly and Racetrack and Connor and Noel Allison. People with legitimate beef? I dunno.

Racetrack. I love what you were saying about her the other week. She's been everywhere. What's her story? I want to care about her but I just can't right now. Still she's one of the original Galacticans. And I really do want to understand her.

That's all I have for now. Sorry, no songs ideas, though.

[chaila.livejournal.com]

My vidding brain is worthless at the moment so I cannot help you, but I just thought I'd say that I admire that you already have an expansive catalogue of BSG vids, and your goal of being comprehensive.

I probably have like 6 BSG vid bunnies which may or may not ever happen, and fully FOUR of them are about LAURA. *facepalm* And the others will probably become about her too. *resolves to branch out*

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

I've been pestering everyone I can get my hands on to vid Gaeta to "Oedipus" by Regina Spektor, FYI. In which Adama is the father/king and maybe Galactica and its people is the mother/queen. But I'm finding myself without a lot of time or energy to vid lately. :(