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Day 18: Where do you get the most inspiration for your vids from?

If I understood how this inspiration the works, I could streamline the process so much.  Basically two things normally have to happen: I love a source so much that I want to crawl up inside it and wallow.  Secondly? I get really obsessive with music. If I am obsessed with a song, sometimes I can't stop listening to it -- it is sad but in my younger years if I liked a song? I'd drive it into the ground and eventually ruin it for myself.

Now I'll listen to a song that I am becoming stuck upon until I figure out what it is about.  Hopefully, the song is about a fandom I am already in - but if it isn't, I will track down other people to try and make the vid happen.  Sometimes? I'll watch a show because I figure "this song might work."  I need help.

Huh. Basically the answer to this question is "I'm an obsessive fuck."


Day19: When you have vid ideas, do you sit down and start vidding right away, or do you write down the idea for further exploration later?

Depends? Okay, so I am in my car and alone and this is where MOST of my ideas happen.  I'm in my car and I've got a song on repeat and I am obsessed with this song.  Eventually, I will figure out the song's vid-purpose (at least for me). If the stars align correctly,  the vid's potential fandom will also be a current love. 

So, if that happens? I won't start vidding immediately -- but I will go into hyperdrive, listening to that song and vidding it in my head virtually all the time, chiefly while I am driving. I will miss exits.  I will automatically drive to the wrong place.  I will take the long way home.  I become very very strange if these things are all connecting and at a certain tipping point, I will start making the vid. 

If the vid is something I can possibly delay? I will delay it until I have a deadline looming or I come home drunk. Sometimes, I can't stop myself but over the years I have gotten very very good at "I'll do this later" and being able to shift the obsession over three feet.  I'll add the song to my "to vid" playlist and hope that I don't forget the idea.  Sometimes I do and I'll have to ask greensilver or sweetestdrain why I have this song in the playlist and hope I've discussed the idea with at least one of them.

I no longer storyboard (I think I stopped doing that in my first year of vidding, actually) and any notes I make, I'll just lose.  So, I get by on the strenth of other people's memories.

Day 20: Do you ever get ideas inspired from other people's stories, vids, or art in the same fandom?

Usually, if Luminosity is vidding, it makes me want to vid.  I don't know why, except she reminds me why I think this is a fun hobby?  Otherwise, yeah  I think other fannish works are all really important and very inspirational to me.  There is really nothing better than settling into a nice, meaty vid and surrounding yourself with amazing fanfic to have at the ready  when Premiere shuts down, or you are exporting.  I get all nostalgic just thinking about it. 

Without fanfic I am postive the following vids would not exist:  "Without You I'm Nothing,"  "Bad Romance,"  "Baby,"  "Here It Goes Again,"  "Peacekeeper,"  "Icebound Stream,"  "Alone,"  "Crazy In Love,"  "Turn You Inside Out,"  "Falling for the First Time," "Best Laid Plans" -  probably, at least a lot on my part - Lum was sending me soooo many fic recs at the time,   and "Weeping Willow."

The easiest way to pimp me into a fandom is to show me a solid, interesting, well made vid.  If it hits my bullet proof kinks, then I am a goner. If it piques my interest, I am a goner.  However, if I am vidding or am gearing up to immediately vid something?  I am physically unable to watch other people's vids in that fandom until mine is finished.   If I cave and watch?  I will most likely be killing my project.  Sometimes I can't even watch any vids at all when I am vidding because the stupid mental "I SUCK" mantra is very easy to start.

Art can sometimes just make me stare.  For hours.  And eventually I will gorge myself on fanfic and if the perfect song happens to occur right then? Nothing can stop me from making a vid.  Not even Photoshop Paint.


Day 21: Sequels: Have you ever created a sequel to a vid you made, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?

I love sequels.  I have a ton of sequels planned for vids and in the case of Bad Romance, I have a trilogy.  I am ridiculously excited about that, btw - because once the Bad Romance trilogy is finished,  I am gonna stop making any other vids and just spend time remastering the Bad Romance vids. 

Eventually I will have the technology to make the comic book Lex's eyes blink. Digitally. It will be amazing. Oh, and I'll want Jabba the Hut to appear in the first vid to add continuity to the others.  I have big plans.


Day 22: Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. Ifnot, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?

I love festivids so, so, so much.  I kinda thought I would when the concept was floated because, as a vidder, I've always been a bit jealous of my friends who participated in Yuletide.  It looked like so much fun! And you got to make a present for someone else that they specifically asked for and it was all about "I love this and you love this, too and YAY!" and and and... I don't write fic.  Well... I mean, I have.  It just didn't end well.  That would not be a nice present!

But I can vid! And I love small fandoms! I offered to vid 219 fandoms last year, I get so excited about Festivids. I am not exaggerating. Imagine a small dog fed only cake all day long and then taken right OUTSIDE the dog park.  That small pup will spazz less than me, over festivids.  It is just that much fun. I also like that it offers something to engage me with fandom during what I like to refer as the VVC off season, because come March -- I am pretty much VVC focused until, well, September? And Festivids just plugs in beautifully right in there and it is JUST SO MUCH FUN and really great vids come out of it.  It is just -- it is a great time to be a vidder and a vid watcher, frankly, and I meet the nicest people. 

So yes. You should also do festivids this year -- nominations and signups coming soon!


Day 23: When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?

I always post, if I am going to post a vid, to my LJ.  I very rarely cross-post to the vidding community or vividcon community because... okay, so I have some vid-self-esteem issues? And posting to comms kind of inflates those issues -- it is like "Hey lookit at me, I made a vid! It's over here!" and I start to freak out that people are tired of me or have no interest in me and I am stinking up everyone's flist waaaay too much.

I never think this about anyone else's crosspost. Just my own.  In the past year I've tried to post to LJ, youtube and starting in the past few months, AO3.  My website gets updated infrequently -- basically whenever greensilver gets tired of me not updating and does it herself. Which is what she did. And I don't know how to, like, fix it. It'll be fine.

Also, I have a dreamwidth account but I don't really use it yet. 

Day 24: Betaing: How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren't any major flaws in your vid? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?

Is this an offer to beta? Because I'm not even joking - I will FORCE this vid upon you.  I am a champion foister! 

I don't have a beta horror story other than the fact that my beta is really really super mean to me and then VIVIDCON STOLE HER!!! What really sucks for me is that I now have a version of her beta self in my head and she is even meaner than the real thing and SHE MADE ME LOSE RANDOM BATMAN in a vid and I really really liked Random Batman.

I have a group of people with whom I feel confident sharing vids when they are in that fragile developmental state -- they are smart people who can tease out a narrative from three clips set in darkness, and know exactly when to cheerlead. I haven't actually had a torturous, you must cut up this vid that you LOVE experience for years.  I also suspect I peaked a long time ago, so I dunno?

A good beta can take a concept and an idea and can help you pare down the execution until it is crystalline and clear. And vidding, my friends, should not ever be subtle.