Vidding Questions meme 2014

[kiki_miserychic]

I'm the terrible person that's posting a questions meme while I'm still working on the answers to the last one I posted. But I'm a follower and I'm jealous of everyone else getting into vidding discussions.

Give me a number (or several) and I will answer!

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?
10. Is vidding your passion or just a fun hobby?
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?
17. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
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?
29. How do you feel about smut?
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

[rhoboat.livejournal.com]

7 and 16, please!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

7. Point to a section from one of your favorite vids you've made and explain why you're proud of it.

I answered this above, but I'll answer it as many times as people ask it because I am feeling vain.

In When I am Laid in Earth (http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/219725.html), a Utopia vid, I'm super proud of :13-:25 because I didn't reframe anything and found all the points for transitioning in the source. The first is a graphic novel page from the Utopia manuscript that a character on the show created that transitions with that white circle perfectly over Jessica's entrance into the door, then the push in on the door opening to Jessica again, this time transitioning into the crumpled post it note of "utopia manuscript" perfectly. In the source Jessica's dad was thought to have put a secret into his manuscript for all of season one until the last scene where Jessica realizes that her father put the secret in her blood, hence all my transitions. Jessica is the manuscript.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

16. Do you use any tools, like clip notes or storyboards?

I have a bonkers amount of vidding journals. I've taken to putting notes in the notes section of my iphone too, then I can search for the term I'm looking for in my notes. I have strange little codes for things that I can pull up. These are the clip notes I took for an abandoned vid. (https://twitter.com/kiki_miserychic/status/509090895124529152/photo/1)

I usually have clip progressions in mind and things I want to be sure and include. For example, with ***Flawless () I ended up taking the walls of my kitchen for vidding notes. (http://instagram.com/p/l8mB5mIv_2/) Some vids I take notes for differently. Close ups of ***Flawless clip notes one (https://twitter.com/kiki_miserychic/status/509089210562015232/photo/1), two (https://twitter.com/kiki_miserychic/status/509088767211495424/photo/1), three (https://twitter.com/kiki_miserychic/status/509088983339773952/). Everything in my clip notes did not make it into the vid because I had a culling process for the progression of the vid. I needed certain things in certain places and had more than enough to work with.

Vidding idea notes I generally scribble down by hand in my vidding journal. These are some notes for my Hannibal vid (https://twitter.com/kiki_miserychic/status/509092367753019392/photo/1). Most of it didn't make it in the vid because so much of it was tangential to Abigail Hobbs. But I had the idea, so I wrote it down. I generally write down everything and then pick out what I want.