I Whine, Therefore I Am

[sisabet]

I am so mad uninspired it hurts. sockkpuppett says it is post vid letdown and she's probably right - I had post-vid afterglow kinda extended for a while there so I thought I had gotten a get out of letdown free card. Nope, just delayed.

I'm not really uninspired so much as not able to pull anything together. There is like this short-circuit from my brain to the project and I am not having much luck translating what I see in my head into the timeline. Which is frustrating as I have the fricking Firefly vid clipped, conceptualized and ready to go. It is a simple vid without any complicated effects or tricks - and it is just what I need right now.

So, maybe another project? I have an Angel/Spike vid on hold that I watched the other night and then I had to take a moment and just go "The hell?" - WTF am I trying to say? I think it is mainly Angel and Spike have a lot in common and it sucks to be Angel and these are things that have already been said and shown and vidded and I am tempted to just trash the entire timeline, except there are three sequences I love more than coffee and I can't. I think I need to watch "The House of the Dead" trailer more - I wanna make it look kinda like that. Just not now.


There was a 24 hour period there where I thought I had the perfect song to vid "The Butterfly Effect" to but now I realize that I just really want to vid both that movie and that song and that combining the two may not be the best solution to my problems. Also, I think I ripped off "The Butterfly Effect" for "Without You I'm Nothing" - well, not the movie (I just saw it this weekend) but the trailer. I was obsessed with the trailer for a while there. What bugs me is I did not know I was doing it. I need to be more focused on what I am blatantly stealin ::cough:: being inspired by. But surely Clark and Amy Smart are one and the same. They used sun/light points to transition between scenes in the movie, but not in the trailer and I did that in my vid as well - since I didn't know that they were doing it in the movie, I don't really know what this means - other than maybe when messing with levels you should use bright focal light points as transitiony fades between scenes and this is just a general rule that I lucked out on cause Lex fading into the sun was so pretty I wanted to see it in other places? I think this is the Glow=Mmmm factor.

So much is dependant on freaking luck. Or is it dependent? It is too early for spell-check (I let my spell check sleep in) and speaking of - I have to be at work to meet the new VPs and ADs and what nots and where-for-alls. Which means makeup and a suit and heels and gah. I liked the old ADs and VPs and I am taking their retirements/deaths/promotions personally. They all abandoned me.

ETA: Hey - this is cool. frillybunny made "Whatever" icons. It's like the vid - only in icon form.

Comments

[elynross.livejournal.com]

I try to think of the uninspired periods as "fallow" periods -- the varying amount of time my brain seems to need to lie undisturbed while it regathers its energies and nutrients after the crop has been picked. So to speak. It's frustrating, but I try to turn the period itself to good use, feeding my head good, inspiring things -- episodes, stories, movies, books and things not specifically related to fannish things. Kind of a recharging. And you did a double dose of harvesting! I adore Whatever, and I hope Lum passed on my incoherent laughter, but I really owe you some thoughtful feedback on "Without You" -- which will take several more viewings. I think this vid was something you'll look back on and realize it was a major vidding evolutionary point for you, so it makes even more sense to me that your head and your inspiration will take a little bit of time to refill. Just don't stint on the nourishment!

[llaras.livejournal.com]

I have the fricking Firefly vid clipped, conceptualized and ready to go. It is a simple vid without any complicated effects or tricks - and it is just what I need right now.
I always need that. But I know I'll enjoy whatever you end up working on, so yay!