Vid at AO3: Put It On Me, Under the Skin Vid

I watched Under the Skin quite a while ago, and had vague plans to vid it ever since because it's a beautiful show with interesting themes. The thing that interested me most to put into a vid was Shen Yi's difficult relationship to art -- his desire to control it, to make it a useful tool that he can employ safely for a targeted purpose, and art's continued refusal to comply with his attempts to gain control. The way the show pulls out those themes and emotions of what creativity can feel like, is very compelling to me, and so are the visuals of the show, which are put together with a lot of care and attention to detail.

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Vid at AO3: Aaj, RRR vid

I think I had decided that I wanted to make an RRR vid before I'd even seen the movie -- just the trailer, and the visuals in it, made me want to get my grubby hands in there and work with these spectacular images. I have found that especially with movies, I tend to end up making "recap" vids -- pick a song that gets at the core of the movie, and try to pull all especially memorable moments into a short timeline to distill the essence of the film, if you will, into a three or four minute recap. The essence of RRR seemed to be "beautiful people starring in amazingly choreographed action and dance scenes while defeating British colonialist powers", which was relevant to my interests.

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Here's the recs for the second half (part one is here)! Again, if you have the time, go watch them all, but if you need a place to start:

Kill a Vampire (Save Your Hood) [Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)]
This vid is very well edited and the song choice is god-tier genius.

You are the Blood [La Reine Margot | Queen Margot (1994)]
This vid goes VERY HARD which is what fascinated me about it, but warning for gore.

New Rules [Baba is You (Video Game)]
I don't know this game, but it was satisfying to watch this and figure out how it worked as I was watching.

Summer in the City [Bombay Rose (2019)]
Love a vid to a classic song, and this source is beautiful.

Another One Bites the Dust [Atomic Blonde (2017)]
The editing in this is on point, great use of tracking shots in action scenes.

Satisfied [The Good Place (TV)]
If you have Tahani feelings, this is for you.

Like It's Dynamite [阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming)]
This vid uses the movie's aesthetics very pleasingly, also there is SNAKE.

How Fucking Romantic [Much Ado About Nothing (2011)]
Not that I didn't like all the '93 Much Ado vids this year, but this is the production of my heart, and this song choice + editing is great.

try your best [Taskmaster (UK TV) RPF]
Look, I know, it's more Taskmaster, but this one is SAD. Also funny. Also just, you know, Taskmaster.

A Little Bit of Sunshine [Big Trouble in Little China (1986)]
This is delightful and has great action vidding.

Last Laugh [The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)]
Was happy to see three (!) vids for this source this year, it was very hard to pick a favorite but this one worked best for me.

Can't Get Enough [Taskmaster (New Zealand TV)]
More Taskmaster, but this time in New Zealand!

This Fantasy World [Mythic Quest (TV)]
Cute DND lesbians!

Queen [Lil Nas X (Music Video)]
Lil Nas X being shiny!

Gloria [Bandits (1997)]
THIS ONE WAS FOR MEEE it's so good, I loved this movie so much as a kid (teenager), and this captured the vibe so well.

Rich Friends [기생충 | Parasite (2019)]
More Parasite! Showcasing the parts of the movie where the Kim family gets to have fun! (Also showcasing the murder.)

Octopus! [My Octopus Teacher (2020)]
It's an octopus! There's a second one for this source that's also very cute, it's a little sadder than this one, though. This first one is just happy.

Lung [The Company of Wolves]
This vid is WEIRD AF in all the best ways, warning for some creepy shit.

It's Gonna Be Me, Turn the Lights Off, Hell And You [What We Do in the Shadows (TV)]
There were three WWDITS vids and they're all great in different ways!

Amina Hussein and the no good, very bad Muslim punk band [We Are Lady Parts (TV)]
What it says on the tin! This is a song compilation giving insight into the different characters and now I want to watch the show even more.

Too Darn Hot [In The Heights (2021)]
This does a lot with very little footage.

Go High, Go Low [Lil Nas X (Music Video)]
Lil Nas X being snarky on Twitter.

Aerials [Babylon 5]
This vid is very metal and epic. Don't think I've really seen System of a Down vidded before!

Edge of Midnight [Stevie Nicks (Musician) RPF]
Very impressive RPF clip sourcing and editing in this.

Thank you to the vidders, their betas, their cheerleaders, the mods, and everyone who worked on tech on the challenge as well as the watchalong. Festivids! \o/

Festivids reveal happened! We watched the first 70 (!) vids in the watchalong server yesterday, so here's my first load of recs. No shade on the other vids, which were also all amazing, but since there are 149 vids in the collection, this might help with having somewhere to start.

Losing Gravity [Threesome (1994)]
Cute 90s threesome poly rel!

I Knew You Were Trouble [Miss Sherlock (TV)]
Excellent messed up delightful Miss Sherlock vid, poor Wato, poor Sherlock.

Short Skirt Long Jacket [What's Up Doc? (1972)]
Zany 70s slapstick fun vidded to one of my favorite songs ever.

Made of Stone [Rūrangi (2020)]
Sad queers being sad; I'm told that the movie has a happy ending, the vid also ends on an uplifting note.

Money (Makes the World Go Around) [Muppet Treasure Island (1996)]
Muppets, I dunno, I loved it but it's muppets so ymmv.

Me and Bernstein down by the schoolyard [All the President's Men (1976)]
THIS WAS A GIFT FOR MEEEEE AND IT'S SO GOOD, I love these journalist bros.

At Last [Salt Fat Acid Heat (TV)]
Food porn.

How Death Comes [The Green Knight (2021)]
Very trippy and atmospheric Green Knight vid, watch Dev Patel behead a tree.

All Star [Taskmaster (UK TV) RPF]
Obligatory Taskmaster vid #1

Grace Kelly [Catch Me If You Can (2002)]
Leo scamming Tom Hanks by being many people and just wanting someone to tell him he's doing a good job! Also amazing animated intro.

I'm An Animal [Various Vet Reality Shows]
Many! Cute! Animals!

Sugar Town [Diner (2019)]
Very weird vid but nice aesthetics, movie is apparently also highly weird.

Don't Worry Be Randall [Infinity Train (Cartoon)]
This one (as with many of these) I don't know the source, but THE VIDDER MADE THE WATER BLOB LIP SYNC THE LYRICS

Song Spirit [Kisima Ingitchuna | Never Alone]
No idea what the source is (apart from "it's a video game and the people who make it") but it's SO BEAUTIFUL, please watch this.

The Climb [Moana (2016)]
Obligatory Moana feels

Birdhouse in Your Soul [The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)]
THIS ONE IS ALSO FOR MEEEE and it's great, it made me relive all my movie feelings.

Work Song [기생충 | Parasite (2019)]
Very effective use of this song.

A Shot in the Dark [Only Murders in the Building (TV)]
This is apparently an apartment building of New Yorkers solving crime together? Or something? I want to watch it, the vid is great, they seem like chaos gremlins.

Chandelier [Phantom of the Opera (Synetic Theater 2020)]
Lesbian Phantom of the Opera with a lady phantom!

People Like Us [We Are Lady Parts (TV)]
Amazing anthem vid for this show that I haven't watched yet but really need to watch.

Don't Stop Me Now [Taskmaster (UK TV)]
Obligatory Taskmaster vid #2

No Place Like Home [Multifandom]
Rural queers! Gays on a farm!

Milkshake [Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)]
Karen Gillan and Michelle Yeoh (and others) kicking ass in a highly stylized way.

Also there are THREE LOST TOMB REUNION vids that you should all go and watch! Tomb gremlins!!

Are we doing vidding year in review? I'm doing vidding year in review!

Vid Round-up 2021

February
Ain't My Fault [Knives Out] (Festivids)
Chasing Cars [Lost Tomb Reunion] (Sundial Exchange)

March
Vexercises: The Lonely Shepherd/Bury a Friend [Sand Sea]

June
Snakes on a Plane [DMBJ] (VidUKon)

September
Choke [The Rebel] (Guardian Wishlist)

October
Bang! [DMBJ] (Fanworks)
9 to 5 [DMBJ] (Fanworks)

Total: Seven! One more than last, and highest-per-year since I started vidding. Being able to participate in the vidding community more by attending stuff virtually has definitely helped make me vid more.

( Q&A under the cut )

Hey hey, I hope everyone who celebrates end-of-year holidays had a good one!

Mine was quiet but decent. First year I got to have my own Christmas tree! We finally have space. :3 We didn't get around to buying lights before the lockdown, so we borrowed one string of lights from GF's grandmother and used another not-specifically-Christmas-one that we had lying around. The first has warm orange light, and the second a colder, blue light, which means we get an exciting two-level-effect on our tree. I don't actually hate it, though!

For next year, we need to get some filler ornaments. We have baubles, and a lot of big star-shaped ornaments that you can't hang too densely, but nothing to fill the gaps in between. This is no hardship; I'm quite looking forward to poking through Etsy (and maybe, if they manage to get the vaccine out till then, the 2021 Christmas markets).

I've been using my free time to work on my Sundial Exchange assignment. It'll be good if I manage to finish, but there's still a big chunk of work left to do, so we'll see. My recipient has a bunch of pretty good prompts, though, so even if I don't finish, I'm sure I can come up with something they'll like.

Everyone is doing their end-of-year fic round-up, but I still have two unrevealed Yuletides on the Archive, so I don't want to yet. I can do vidding, though! I'm not going to be posting any more vids in 2020. This also counts as my starterpack side quest. I'm participating to try and get a little more active on here. I am also considering the Snowflake Challenge, though I'll have to see if two challenges at the same time work out for me.

Vid Round-up 2020

January
Fleabag - Personal Jesus (collab with findmeinthealps)

April
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Roaring 20s

June
MCU Peter & Tony - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
Good Omens - Bad Romance

October
Guardian - Tik Tok (collab with findmeinthealps and neery)

November
The Lost Tomb Reunion - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Total: Six! There's one more that's finished, but it won't be published until January, so that's counting for 2021.

That is so many vids! I tend to average one vid per year, except for 2008, when I made five. Six is more than five! New personal record. I'm sure the cons I've been attending played a part, and also my ability to actually attend Fanworks, since it ran online.

( Meme Questions & Answers )

Whenever I go to Dreamwidth and scroll through it, I remember that I like it so much better than Tumblr, so here I am, back again. How have you guys all been?

( Infinity War spoilers underneath. )

In other exciting news, I'm going to Vividcon this year! Has anyone been? Did you enjoy? I'm so looking forward to it. :D

So, I have this thing where I end up on youTube from time to time and think about all the horrible videos I would make if I weren't so lazy. Most of the time, I end up with Lady Gaga songs, because Lady Gaga is fabulous and not enough people make videos of her songs. Things I think should be made include:

1) A Master video to Born This Way. It would contain all incarnations of the Master. Because baby, he was born this way.

2) A 1973 Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus/Judas video to Judas. Because . . . just because.

3) A Ten video to I Like It Rough. No explanation necessary.

4) An Arthur/Eames video to Speechless. Although I don't know how much Inception fandom would appreciate being mocked. (I love Arthur/Eames, and I love the fandom. But . . . well. A bit of mocking has never hurt any fandom.)

But there is nothing I can come up with that would be as beautiful as the video I embedded under the cut. It's Due South. And . . . it's gorgeous.

( Bad choices in choosing vidding songs taken to the extreme. )

And there's also this, which I've linked before, but am linking again, because it never gets old.

Duuuuuudes. I finished my vid. The 4:50 video of doooom that I started in May 2009 and that's set to The Noose by A Perfect Circle. AM I AWESOME OR WHAT.

I'm rendering it at the moment. I'd already rendered it, but my conversion prog is being a pain in the ass and won't convert video. I DON'T KNOW WHY. But I'm just rendering again and trying a second time. I finished my vid! I'm zen right now; a bitchy conversion prog can't annoy me.

I am hoping to be able to post it and still get in on the rush of End of Time fanworks that have been flooding the fandom. I will be shameless and admit that I want as much feedback as possible for this vid, considering how much work I invested. So, when's the best time to post, do you think? Not during the weekend, obviously. Usually I'd say Monday around 3 pm EST, when people are getting back from lunch break and are starting to get bored enough at work to check LJ. But I'm not so sure with vids, since you have to download those and stuff. Any input?

Dude. I finished my vid. I didn't actually think that would still happen.

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Vidding is such a pain in the ass. I really don't know why I do it. Either you download the episodes, or you rip them. Ripping them takes forever. Downloading them is okay, but then you're probably going to end up with a set of episodes that have mismatching aspect ratios, frames per second, bitrates, codecs, and all the other shit that needs to match to make the vid look good. So you end up having to convert them all to one matching set of details. You need endless HD space to store all the episodes, you need some more HD space to be able to render in high quality, you either need a computer with an assload of memory, or a lot of patience while you render your vid every ten seconds to preview it (because without sufficient memory, the preview in the program lags, and it's impossible to see if it looks good or not)--and in the end, you're going to end up with something that looks maybe one tenth as good as it did when you saw it in your head.

I want one of those Power Macs they've got sitting in the editing suite at uni. Except I don't want to have to edit in Final Cut Pro, so I'd need a Mac version of Sony Vegas. Which doesn't exist. What pisses me off most is that the Macs in the editing suite won't write on my external HD, because it's formatted for Windows. Seriously? I mean, seriously? Wtf, Apple and Microsoft. You couldn't at least match up your HD formats? Macs can obviously read NTFS; how hard can it be to program them to write it? Compatibility is a good thing, believe it or not.

*throws hands in the air* TECHNOLOGY, PEOPLE. LET ME TELL YOU.

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( This is very, very ranty. As the subject line says, read at your own risk. )

ETA: Ahahahaha omg rereading this, I sound like the world's most spoiled brat. Creating my own problems, I'm doing it right. Never mind me. Have some diet cherry coke instead. *shares cherry coke*

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I just made pancakes. I had no eggs, so I had to make them without eggs, and the recipe put a ridiculously tiny amount of sugar into them, so I fixed that, and also, I threw some cocoa in there to make them more chocolate-y, and somehow, I managed to get some chili in there as well, so they were a lot more spicy than pancakes usually are.

BUT THEY WERE PANCAKES AT 1 AM AND THEY WERE TASTY. Om nom.

Remember how I was vidding The Noose? Well, I still am, but I decided to take a break and vid The Kill instead. It's a Dresden Dolls song, and ever since I heard it, I wanted to do something with it, because it's awesome. I'm kind of compiling a 3-minute-long watch-Ten-be-a-goof clipshow, and it is depressing the fuck out of me. TEN. Don't go. :( (Insert obligatory comment about how it's good that he's leaving now, because I don't want Moffat to get his hands on the character, etc etc. Still, the tenth Doctor era ending, it's like the ending of the best vacation of your life. You know it has to end, and you know if you were to drag it out, it could only get worse, not better, but still, you REALLY REALLY DO NOT WANT IT TO END.)

( Blah blah blah random things about neighbors and fanfic and uni. )

. . . there were no parentheses in the last paragraph. This seems like a good note to end this entry on, so that's what I shall do. HI GUYS HOW ARE Y'ALL?

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I futzed around with GIMP and Photoshop tonight. I wasn't actually going to post these icons, because there are exactly two of them, plus variations, but I made them from scratch--I make most of my icons from scratch, meaning I rarely use downloaded textures--and also, I just kinda like them. So they're getting posted. Feel free to skip.

( Co-dependency makes for interesting OTPs. )

I also wrote a teeny little bit today, about 500 words of a human!Doctor fic I've been working on, and I added a couple of seconds to my The Noose vid. I really like what I have so far of that vid, which is about two minutes of edited and cropped footage, but I need another three minutes. Idk if I can keep it interesting for that long. I can't edit the song to make it shorter, either, though. It's a solid unit; if I cut anything, it would sound really jarring. Oh well, all I have to do is keep working on it, and I'll find out.

Sleep time now. This was a long post about nothing at all. Can you tell that uni has started again? My posting rate has gone up significantly.

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Hello, vidders on the f-list--teach me your wisdom?

I spent three hours last night installing Sony Vegas on my desktop, because I want to make a vid that's been bugging me for ages. Every time I make a vid, though, I end up unhappy with what I come up with. It's not only not what I had in my head, it's not even an acceptable alternative. So I figured this time, I'd ask the internet for help.

How do you vid? Do you have imported, broken-down clips of the episodes in your media manager, or do you import only what you need? Do you storyboard your vid, or do you just go with your instinct and throw together what looks good? Do you match the images and the lyrics? Do you match the images and the music? Do you vid chronologically? Which transition do you use to gain which effect? What about effects/cropping/speeding up or slowing down a clip? In which format do you render your vids? Go on, vidders, tell me all your secrets. :D

( Here are my secrets. )

So... that's all I can think of. If you have any tutorials for vidding with Sony Vegas 8.0, I'd appreciate a link enormously. I want to finally figure out how to vid so I can be happy with what I come up with. >_>

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*peering suspiciously in the direction of the f-list*

Did any of you guys nominate Help for the Gallifrey Awards?

The internet's been paying me loads of attention last night. What's with that, internet?

I kind of want to make a Master/Doctor vid to Korn's Make Me Bad in the style of T. Jonsey's & Killa's Kirk/Spock vid 'Closer' - only much more badly edited, lol. First problem is, I'd need some high quality gay porn for that, preferably bondage, and I don't have any. (Hah hah, see what I did there? I totally just excused my surfing the net all night looking for gay porn with being an ~*artist*~.) Second problem is, I'm not sure I could pull it off, and if you don't pull off a vid like that really well, it just turns out completely ridiculous.

I feel so boring lately. All I do is post Nano in locked posts, and then whine about having to write Nano in the unlocked posts. Lol fail. There's been a whole lot of f-locking going on in this journal lately. There's always some reason to lock my stuff - I guess it's the fact that too many real life people are invading my internet life lately. I don't really mind real life people reading my journal, but I would mind if they started wanting to talk to me about it in a confrontational way. And, yeah, then there's the thing where I whine about real life people on my journal, so lately, those posts usually get locked as well.

( Some seriously long-winded tl;dr about f-locking and social taboos. )

I might have to revoke the opinion I've expressed to a couple of people that Supernatural's forth season is any better than the previous three. The funny episodes are getting funnier, but the srs bzns plot episodes are as ridiculous as ever. There are more funny episodes now, so maybe that raises the general average, but yeah. As soon as they try to do more than have the actors be a couple of huge dorks in front of the camera, they stumble back into the territory of terrible, stereotypical 'characterization' and boring, predictable plot lines. Oh, and the last episode turned this season's 'good' female character into a cheap slut by ( slight spoiler ). So, no surprises on that front. Stick with the dorky episodes, SPN. You do them a lot better than the serious ones.

Holy fuck, how is it 5am? How did that happen? Askjhf must go to bed. Lol, this entry is so gratuitous.

I finished my music sequence today in editing class. Well, actually after editing class, since in editing class, I was editing a boring, badly shot spaghetti western drama sequence. Lol.

Anyway, in case you're interested, it's a music sequence cut from footage of a sailing race to U.N.I.T. Rocks from the DW s4 soundtrack. YouTube quality is abysmal, as usual, but I hope you can make out at least the basics.

Thank you so much to lf2871 for uploading this for me!

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I have decided to give modding at ten_support a try. Lol inorite. But this means I can now modslap anyone who annoys me. Mwahahaha. (I keep saying things like that, but I've never actually had to ban anyone from any of the comms or sites I've modded so far. Lucky me, I guess. There are so many twats out there on the internet - any and all present company excluded, hobviously.)

We've put a 24 hour lock on the comm and are currently working on a proper set of rules and a layout for ten_support, and I'm hoping we'll be able to contain the woez and negativity a little when we go live again.

OMG GUYS I SLEPT FOR 12 HOURS. Body sez: stupid hooman, metabolizm needs da sleep. And apparently, I should always be sleep-deprived while vidding. You know that class I went to yesterday morning? It was an editing class (they actually let you make vids on uni time; I'm like, lolz too good to be true :D), and we were vidding a 40 second music sequence. The footage consisted of pretty pretty sailing boats doing a race, and we could pick our own music. I went with UNIT Rocks from the DW s4 soundtrack and cut it down to 40 seconds (well, 47 seconds). My vid ended up being all ~*dramatic*~ with the womenz crying and kissing their men goodbye before the men went to face the ~*dangers of the sea*~. Lol misogynist. But the footage had no womenz being kissed goodbye by their boys, and I think it was the male sailing teams doing the race, so, yeah.

Anyway, I'm not quite done with the vid yet - I'm missing about 10 seconds - but when it's done I'll try to render and steal it and upload it to youTube, because I'm liking it. And I will make all of you watch it! Oh yes! :D

I should go and do Nano now. My schedule says I need 1011 words today; that should be doable. The Doctor needs to get out of that cell. I'm with RTD on that: having him locked up is just boring.

Look at Donna's boobies. Aren't they pretty? Everyone on the internet should learn of the importance of boobies at an early age.

I am so mightily pissed off at everything right now. I know I shouldn't be, and I feel like a right idiot to let my hormones mess with me like that, but I've been the stereotypical time-of-the-month bitch today. I really don't enjoy it when this happens. >:(

I went to an open mike acoustic night today, because when we were at the open mike night last week, a few friends of mine decided that they were gonna get a band together and play. They did that tonight - they actually found a singer, two guitars and a bass player - and they butchered three songs. (They'd only practiced for, like, 2 hours in all.) After that we went to one of the guy's flat and had pizza. I don't think I was very good company, because the whole time, I was either making snarky side commentary on the open mike participants, or staring moodily into space and pondering every little problem I could conjure up and blew them out of proportion in my head. As I said - I hate it when that happens, hate it with a passion, especially since you're sitting there, feeling like the apocalypse is imminent, and you actually KNOW it's all hormones. Ack. Ick. Fuck this.

I got called a geek by my tutor today - multiple times. It was the first seminar I had with him. DIDN'T TAKE HIM LONG TO FIGURE THAT OUT. He asked us for musical character cues on TV programs, and I mentioned Rose's theme that she has in season one, which reappears in season 4 when she returns. He went o.O at me and said, 'You actually noticed that? I didn't notice that. I had to read about it. GEEK!'

I finished a Doctor/Donna vid to the Beatles' Help. I quite like bits of it, too. But I can't actually upload it, because all browser-based uploads are blocked on the halls network. I get that they're blocking P2P progs, but fucking browser-based uploads? What the hell? The guy who did our introductory seminar made a long speech about how TV is changing to an interactive medium, and how we should all go and upload content to youTube to get close to the audience. Yeah, well. I DID TRY. Fucking halls network. I'll have to go to an internet cafe tomorrow and upload it there. But I might actually bring this up with one of the tutors, because blocking youTube uploads is just a fucking joke.

I am going to go away now and stare angrily at the wall or something.

So I spent all day yesterday chatting on AIM and not doing any work. And I felt sort of bad about it, because after all they do pay me to work here.

So today, I came into work, sat down, and did my job. That was about two hours ago, and now I've got nothing left that I could do. At all.

This balance thing people talk about. I should try it one day.

In other news, I might be joining a RPG as Ten, and am ridiculously excited about it. And I'm vidding the most emo Master/Doctor vid, and it's eating my brain. I will have issues posting the vid, though - it's so EMO.

And I want to write Donna/TARDIS. But let's leave that for another entry.