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___...come and take me home...___
Lucky You | .avi (720x540, 41 Mb), .wmv (720x540, 28 Mb)
_{Source: 'The Ring', owned by Dreamworks
Song: 'Lucky You' by Deftones
Extras: Lyrics, Credits, Notes, and Remix}

- Lyrics
- Timeline, Pre-Outline, Post-Outline
- Stuff learned while making Lucky You

Credit and Acknowledgements: Much love and buttprints and hugs to sisabet and sockkpuppett for being lovely betas and hearing me whine about getting source and being spazzy...

Extra: Lucky You - The Worry Remix (.avi, 37 Mb)

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___...break the silence.__
Why | .wmv (320x240, 20 Mb), [mirror via forked]
_{Source: 'Smallville', owned by WB
Song: 'Why' by Stabbing Westward
Extras: Lyrics, Credits, and Notes}

Dedicated to iykwim for the iconspaces and to ciceqi for the PotC fic and the PotC CD that, yes, you sent me, ya nut. =) ::hugs::

- Lyrics
- 'Why', ficlet-style
- Outline, influences, thoughts, and WMM tech notes
- What I learned from making 'Why'

Credit and Acknowledgments: Great oodles of thanks must go to sisabet for the beta, for advice and suggestions and encouragement and being a major goddess with source clips. Also, I got the concept for a certain sequence from her "Without You I'm Nothing", AND she's the one who got me back into Smallville fandom with the same and as such I'm also blaming this vid on her.

Thank you inkbug for the contrast-check and the sound-check and for you and your glee. I knew that you'd give the vid a chance even if it came out sucky, you are like my long lost fan-twin or something and I just *knew* that I could bounce anything off you.

And thank you sockkpuppett, for the DivX and the final timings-check! Save my brain, why don't you. ;)

Influences, concepts, and parallel thoughts about the vid are found from and can be explained by thamiris's "Mirror, Mirror": Gazing and the Formation of Identity in Smallville and rageprufrock's On Asylum.

Credits and Acknowledgements: A Big Thank You to absolut3destiny for pointing me towards the song in the first place! Thank you laurashapiro and morgandawn for some lovely narrative betas, and thank you lierdumoa for being a second set of eyes and ears!

In The Breakdown | .wmv (640x480, 15 Mb)
_{Source: 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', produced by Focus
Song: 'Let Go' by Frou Frou
Summary: Some things need to break.}
Extras: Vidder process notes.


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( Lyrics )

( Vidders Notes )

Concept Genius: jackiekjono
Hired Minion: permetaform

Result?

The Holy Egoism of Genius | .avi (640x480, 32 Mb) | Yousendit Mirror
_{Source: various James Bond movies
Song: 'The Holy Egoism Of Genius' by Art of Noise featuring John Hurt
Summary: "A work of art, or an effort to create beauty, will always be regarded by some as a personal attack."}
Extras: Vidder process notes.


Credits and Acknowledgements: Thank you to jackiekjono for having such a kick-ass idea and being such a great partner about this. Thank you lierdumoa, morgandawn, and laurashapiro for beta-work and bearing with me whilst I spazz.

( Vidders Notes )

( if you have problems watching the vid... )

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Please consider using a download manager like FlashGet, you can restart downloads if your connection gets broken and not have to worry about partial files.

Please right-click and save as! (all feedback and critique are adored and will be responded to)

Welcome Home | .wmv (624x346, 36.1mb) | .avi (624x346, 43.9mb) | mirror here (thank you paranoidangel_!)
_{Source: Stargate Atlantis (Spoilers up to The Siege III)
Song: "The Blood of Cu Chulainn", by Mychael and Jeff Danna
Summary: Her, city}

Thanks: Much love and thanks to aurora_84, nel_ani, and sisabet for the feedback and advice, and also to lierdumoa and absolut3destiny for audiencing! =D

( Vidder notes )

(I would recommend using VLC Player to play the vid, it's free, or you can look at this guide. Also, apparently there's a compatibility problem with playing the vid in Quicktime.)

Notes part 2: The wierd and uncomfortable feeling that occurs before the music starts? That's on purpose; it was my goal that Atlantis is creepy and uncomfortable and wrong...until the expedition came, woke it up, and let it breathe.

Notes part 3: Wow!



::bounces and glomps everyone::

Thanks to everyone who'd nominated and voted for me at the Stargate Fan Awards, it won for Weir's catagory!

http://permetaform.livejournal.com/319048.html

Wow! ::bounces and glomps everyone::



Thanks to everybody who'd nominated and voted for me at the Stargate Fan Awards for Welcome Home, it won for Weir's catagory!


In other vid-like news, take a look at this. It's a guy who took the video of him randomly banging at instruments and editing the sounds together so that it's actually music!

Okay, so instead of whining at my computer, I'm taking a break from exporting by re-posting my keyframes tutorial that I'd accidentally deleted awhile ago....


Contents:
- Basic Concept
- General Method
- Specific Method (Adobe Premiere Pro screenshots)
- Specific Method (Final Cut Pro screenshots and example clips) Written and imaged by dzurlady

( Keyframes: Basic Concept )

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( Read more... )

Okay, so this might be me going off the super-excited end, buuuuut, lookit!

eHow: Clear Instructions on How To Do (just about) Everything

It's a How-To Wiki!!!

Remember way back when when we were talking about getting a vidding wiki up, because it was a far too muti-pronged situation for any one site/person to be able to keep up with all the changes/innovations/problems-people-run-into?

Can we just use their engine to host vidding information you think? Have any ideas on possible pro's/con's? (It's far too late for me to be coherent/logical, so have at.)

[edit] aww, this:

"post or transmit any Content that infringes a third party's intellectual property rights, including but not limited to, trademarks, copyrights, patents, rights of publicity or rights of privacy;"

from the Terms of Use probably negates the idea.

Thoughts?

Many talented vidders are up for auction for vividcon here! The list of vidders up for auction AbsoluteDestiny, Andraste, Killa, Laura Shapiro, SDWolfpup, and Sweetestdrain! Go see! =D ::bounces::

lithium_doll is hosting a charity auction!



"All money raised will go to RAINN, an American organisation for rape, abuse and incest victims. The charity is the favoured organisation of Maria "Danzy" Delgado, in whose memory this auction is taking place." You can bid on a vidder, a fanartist, or a writer to make a fan product to your specifications, highly neat, go take a look!

Also, the anonymous comments page for the Escapade 2006 vidshow is available here, if you hadn't been able to comment on a vid seen at Escapade yet. Awesome idea, frankly, and would totally love to see this for other vidshows too. =)

Late to the show, but I put my name in sdwolfpup's Anonymous Vidder Meme where you can leave feedback for vidder's anonymously.

I would *adore* concrit and knowing where I can improve, my thread is here.

askjdk. So like...was attempting to prep for vidder_weekly post and stumbled upon this vid and WHY HAS THIS NOT BEEN RECCED MORE??

gah, I'm like, teary. It. Like, it's this slowly cut vid, but done just...beautifully with care and attention towards mood and movement and meaning. It's very heavily context-based I think, or rather that it's all the more powerful if you know the context of both Firefly and SGA and I just. ::wibble:: I. That. Wow.

It's bittersweetness in a bottle, that's what it is. It's family and joy and just fucking up so much and yet they try. And I'm watching it for like, the 5th time now and I'm still getting choked up:

Fix You by kitakatzz

So I saw a couple vid Year In Reviews on my flist and thought that it was good idea to reflect on this past year's vids sorta to take stock of older vids and figure out where I'm at and perhaps where to go next. Also vid-chatting is relaxing for me (for the most part) and I'd just finished a final and am coming off post-test-high.

It got kinda long. ::wry grin::

Below the individual cut-tags for the vids are notes on my learning goals going into the vid, surprising stuff that I learned while vidding, and other miscellaneous process notes. The Learning Goals are less formal "Goals" than it is me going, "I'm sorta scared of this vid because I have to learn [x]". The Process Notes are less step-by-step technical stuff than it is me going, "Oh wow, that was painful! ::fond reminsce::"

( After Midnight ('Saiyuki') )

( Moment Couldn't Break ('Jeremiah') )

( Sunburned ('Hero' vid) )

( How Soon ('Gattaca') )

( In The Breakdown ('Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind') )

( The Holy Egoism of Genius (James Bond movies) )

( Soy - The *Other* White Meat ('Once Upon A Time In Mexico') )

( Welcome Home ('Stargate Atlantis') )

Huh, so I made 7.5 vids this year, more or less (How Soon is 0.5 of a vid). Or 6.5 if you consider that two vids were started in 2004, which is still good considering that 2004 would still only have either 3 or 4 vids to its count...I'm slowly vidding faster! yay! =D

I still have to practice more comedy vidding though, and anime vidding. And I want to vid rap and to vid JohnRodney (or rather, *finish* my vids for them). I need to relearn both vidding heavy effects and encoding with Xvid 'cause I'm woefully out of practice with both ever since my old laptop's started complaining that I was stressing out its tiny tiny brain. I also want to improve my vidding speed, which might be taken care of by my next project (which is my Insane December/January Vidding Project, but unofficially so), and perhaps vidding a reaaaaally long song and seeing if I can sustain interest over the entire length. I'm still having trouble wrapping my brain around vid narrative, but that's an ongoing thing, and semi-connected to that being that I want to be able to better handle vid AUs.

In any case this vidding year has been, if not entirely an *easy* trip, a worthwhile and pleasant one on hindsight. I expect next year to be just, if not more, insane, especially 'cause I finally think I'd be able to handle vidding Madroad Driving. =D Which is, y'know, surpising as fuck to me, 'cause I've been sitting on this vid-bunny for two years now because I've literally been *afraid* to vid it.

...then again, I might have just jinxed myself with that statement.

We'll see.

so I'm in vid-farr, never you mind finals season 'cause I just went to two study groups and I think I'm going to be fine.

But, see, I find myself keyframing 10 lensflares to follow missile paths, 'cause you know, it's just not *shiny* enough. (and it'll be more visible 'cause I'd timed it to the missile swooshes and, heh, vidding's like pushing me to newer and greater heights of analness)

Which is entirely plausible.

That is, until it occurs to me that I'm keyframing TEN lensflares over THIRTY EIGHT frames. o.o

::headdesks:: Stupid vid. Why are you confounding my inherent lazyness?

LJ Backup - In case LJ ever disappears on us, created by isilya from the discussion here.

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Also, f1renze is hosting a vidder friending meme! Go see! =) Pimp your fave vidders or the meme itself.

And wistful_fever's thinking of starting up a vidding newsletter (sorta like how sga_newsletter is, but with different 'articles' divided by topic and searchable by tags), but she's looking for moderators. Logistics are still being hashed out in the comments there, jump in if you have any ideas!

AND! I think the_reel is looking for reccers/reviewers, and I would if I could, but I STILL owe people reviews from...way too far back. _{(::headdesks:: I suck so much)} But it's an awesome project and you only need to do two recs and two reviews per month, which is manageable no? =D

- That making a slashy vid is remarkably hard 'cause it keeps getting deranged into schmoop on me. ::le sigh:: Heh, I remember making Gravity and inadvertantly having it be hella schmoopy Barbossa/Jack, which scarred me horribly and I've never deleted a render so fast before or since. ::twacks mcshep vid:: Stop. Schmooping. (though I love it so, will save a version of teh schmoop on my harddrive so I can love it and pet it and call it George, which reminds me, I NEED TO VID GREY'S ANATOMY...hey, does anyone have any covers of "Don't Fear The Reaper"??)

- My computer really really hates me. ::pets poor lil 256 RAM:: there there, the feeling is mutual. (::cries bitter bitter tears of not being able to do effects until last::)

- Talky-face is absurdly difficult to avoid in SGA. o.0

- Visual metaphors really really help OMGSOMUCH. (I was debating using either Flying Pjs or Things Going Boom, but then I thought about it. And really? Being mcshep and being SGA, both the relationship and the source are amenable to both. Simultaneously. BWAHAHA!)

[Previous Posts - Initial and Thursday and Friday]
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There's been a messenger meme going around which seems sensible. =) I'm twistedpaper04 on Trillian/AIM and kanzeyori on Y!M, if you see me feel free to talk to me but I don't often appear 'cause I get distracted all easily and once I get on any messenger I have to be prepared to waste 5 hrs. or more, which is difficult to find sometimes.

Meanwhile!

( Saturday Morning )

( Action Vidshow and Panel )

( Lunchtime! )

( Vidding History: Discussion )

( Horror Vidshow )

( Aesthetics: Visual Composition )

( Anime Panel )

( Dinner-ish time and pre-/post-Premieres )

[Sunday: wherein there is vids premiering and panels and I spazz. And also singing!]

so I'm back home and with the VividCon-Has-Exploded-My-Brains reactions, not that I could be coherent anyways, and floating on a bubbly high and.

Wow.

I AM SO GLAD I WENT. And yet there were so little time, and me running around to try to perhaps meet people and just. Wow. Premiere's this year was FANTASTIC, with awesome range and stylistic complexity and they make me want to babble at length about narrative compositions and mood-driven versus event-driven organizations and draw up charts and just wiggle in delight.

AND I MET sisabet and sockkpuppett! My vidding mommies! And I thought I had more time with them, but turn around and the weekend was over and good goddamn I'm figuring out next year better. or something. or at least working out how to be less tongue-tied around them.

Also! Also! I met silviakundera! Who's work made me start writing again and whose Butter And Pigtails and Legends has forever imprinted themselves on my brain.

And just the whole entire con I swear I was spazzing at people and being all amazed and in hindsight I'd probably fangirled too much, but, dude seriously?, if you want to meet cool people every single one of the people at vividcon are just awesome and intelligent and interesting.

::blinks:: I should probably work through this in a more logical way, eh?

( Thursday )

[Friday: in which there is squee and vids and dancing in the night!]
[Saturday: And Teh Brain Exploded!]

co-vidded with lierdumoa for Vividcon's Challenge Vidshow.

Credits and Acknowledgements: Thank you morgandawn and linzeems for being such great betas

Moment Couldn't Break | .avi (640x480, 29 Mb) | .wmv (320x240, 10.0 MB)
_{Source: Jeremiah
Song: 'I Gotta Get Through This' by Daniel Bedingfield (acoustic version)
Summary: Why is it that love and dying are wrapped up together?}
Extras: Vidder process notes.


( Lyrics )

( Vidders Notes )

spaggel drew fanart for vids during BAScon and ours was one of them! ::LOVES HER LIKE WHOA::



( if you have problems watching the vid... )

Critque will be adored, so will comments.

...has exploded my brain.

WOW.

WOW.

Vid Rec

(Peter Pan) ::cough:: dude, just go watch this. it. ::flails:: heh. Vidder has balls.
My Heart Belongs To Daddy by sofiaaifos

Fic Recs

(Saiyuki, 58) Fluffy goodness!
Disposables by karotsamused

(Wild Adaptor, KuboToki) Nice characterizations; Heart goes squish.
At First by monkeybarrel

(Trigun, W/V and W/other) This...see, it's the little things which breaks you...
Little or Nothing by uiggu

(QAF, Brian/Justin) Wherein you see JUST how ...um... singularly intense? Brian Kinney can get about hisself. XD Hilarious if only to watch the train-wreck...
International Brian Kinney Day by durendal

(HP, various) She leans forward and stares at him. “I would never wish misery upon you.” / He frowns at her. “It disturbs me when you are sincerely earnest.”
Theory and Practice by lalejandra

Amusing
- Mawwaige by zoethe; ie. rules of thumb regarding marriage...

Thought Provoking
- So, today I want to talk about symbols. by matociquala; On the deciphering "the reader's 50%".
- A Question of Faith by runefallstar; beautifully said, and heartwrenching
- A personal history of anime and manga (the culture shock side) by oyceter; ::wibbles:: makes me nostalgic and gooey, 'cause I found slash by way of yaoi, and it's all like, "Let There Be Fandom" and initially there was darkness but bit by bit I looked and looked and then, Lo, it WAS. =D
- The good, the bad, and the overly educated by cereta; on media over which it's hard to squee over in mixed company.

[compelled by discussions stemming from previous vid thoughts post]

From discussions it has increasingly become clear that the issue of Point of View in vids has been mixed up into various things:
1) the Point of View of the characters in the vids
2) the Point of View of the audience (ie. 50% of a vid*)
3) the Point of View of the creator (ie. the other 50% of a vid. ie. artistic intent)

*_{What I mean by 50% of a vid is that a piece of art is both the created product and the viewer's response to the product, one cannot exist without the other. A vid, as a artistic product, exists in that space between the artist and the audience. (or as my roommate quotes: "God exists not in one man, but in the process of connection from one person to another")}

And dude, all these three things are NOT equal. The 'Point of View of the audience' cannot and should not be absolutely controlled by the creator (which could also be called "literalism", the *bad* kind). The 'Point of View of the characters' is an artistic construct, it's a narrative device, it's arbitrary; there exists forms of art that do not demand Point of View in it's construction, such as certain music and some genres of the painting and poetry and the like. A 'Point of View of the characters' is part of a narrative style and is internal to the story-world (the diegesis) of the artistic product.

What I am, in the end, tripping over and flailing myself into icky inksplats in vidding discussions is the bit regarding the 'Point of View of the creator', that other 50%, and the exact naming of it. It's, of all three, the most necessary (I think) and inherent in art itself; there would be no art if no artist felt that they did not have a worthy thing to convey. (Which is probably why most successful artists are somewhat arrogant assholes and aren't delicate flowers, but that's a discussion for another time.) But thus the 'Point of View of the creator' is so inherent to art itself that I think it's taken mostly for granted in discussions of artwork, so when Point of View is usually spoken of (in most discussions of art that I participate in) it's in regards to the characters within that artwork and *not* to an external awareness or outlook such as either an omniscient or an artistic Point of View.

Usually in general fandoms, when there's discussion of the 'Point of View' of the creator, it's usually labeled something like author or artist 'intent'.

And it's the naming of the vidder's intent as 'POV' that tripped me up in the end in vidding discussions.

The problem with calling it 'Point of View' instead of vidder 'intent' is that not only that at least lierdumoa and I got massively confused during discussions of vidding Point of View, but that Point of View practically implies narrative and a narrative logic to the vid. This is crippling when you're attempting to make a vid non-narrative; it's crippling when you don't naturally work in strict narrative format. It's the round peg into a square hole syndrome; it just won't work unless you're willing to let it hurt.

(luckily I'm a vidding masochist, as lierdumoa can attest)

The specific labeling of vidder's authorial intent as "Point of View" was actually detrimental to me for certain stages of a couple vids; in fact some of the most fun vidding I've had is probably from my first vids where I didn't worry about vidding rules and in Hero vid which I'd conceived as a visual kata and not really as especially narrative. (The narrative I've pieced together only after I had a chance to sit back and take a look at it.)

Incidentally, this is why I'm almost afraid to give newbies advice sometimes, because for every new vidder who has an element to their style on which I can give decent advice there's about 2 or 3 vidders for whom I *know* that any advice I might give them will steer them towards choices that might make *me* happier, but might not be the best for them or their vid or their vidding style.

'Cause, really, I would rather see a kick-ass unique vid that makes me like the vid despite myself rather than seeing a mediocre vid that's panderingly similar to what I usually like. And the kick-ass vid would be kick-ass *because* it would be in that vidder's own style, *because* that's where their artistic soul/inclination/intent resides, *because* creating things in one's own style brings out the absolute best in one's creativity and talent.

Just look at Picasso.


Meanwhile, I'm off to rail at vid some more. (t-minus 2 days. _{and counting})

[edit] Note, just because the vidder didn't give the vid a narrative and didn't give the vid a character POV doesn't mean that they don't exist. It just means that narrative or the character POV might be in that 50% contributed by the audience.

[post provoked by tartanshell's post here; I've written a subsequent post here]

So: Point of View in vids.

[edit: definition via Dictionary.com here, "The attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of literature, a movie, or another art form."

...I am referring to POV as a vehicle of vidding logic as used by a vidder, NOT to it's appearance or lack there-of in a vid, and not referring to possible POV of the vidder themself, which I label more along the lines of authorial intent. Major apologies for lack of clarity on this topic the first time around.]

Is it really necessary? (regaring the use of it by a vidder in the process of constructing a vid) 'Cause yanno, everyone makes POV out to be a big deal and yet if you ask audiences I bet that about 50% of the time more or less they get it wrong anyways, and yet the vid *still* works.

And if the vid still *works* despite the POV not being discernable, is point of view necessary in the creation of it? Tricky thing here is, of course, that about 90% of the detail and craft (? I don't know a better word for this that might sound less pretentious) in a vid is subconscious. There was that analogy awhile ago about fic-writing being like leading a blindfolded audience down a tunnel so that they might get to the end and then see the light. Dude, vidding? Vidding is like hurtling your audience down a black tunnel on a runaway train going at 100mph; most of the details that make the ride the most effective aren't even conscious; which, hell, no wonder most people are stumped while leaving feedback.

But that's another discussion.

Granted, POV *might* be inherent in vids just because of the nature of the music and the way most people listen to it. There's usually one singer and the POV is usually assigned to that one singer; but can't the vid be structured around something other than POV?

Is, then, POV just an organizing methodology?

'Cause I wonder too, if this methodology of most vidders is the best thing to have and/or advocate. And I use that term because organizing vids around a POV, for all it's usefulness, still simply a method, and thus still simply arbitrary. For all the usefulness, sometimes, of setting a specific POV for a vid, it's not really useful in the construction of semi- or completely omniscient vids. And it doesn't cover most non-narrative vids; it can't really help the character study, nor the meta vid, nor the multi-fandom vid, nor the mood vid, nor the movement vid.

'Cause not only are these vids based on different, but equally valid, aesthetics (which doesn't necessarily mean that the vid doesn't *work*, it just doesn't work the same *way*); but the process of organizing these types of vids around a defined, grounded, singular POV might possibly hurt them. In some ways I think that was part of why I was so completely frustrated with and destroyed over Gravity, because it was essentially a mood piece for my micro-fandom, or rather a mood vid with emotional arc. It's essentially a failure if you judge it in strict narrative guidlines, which for a long time I couldn't see beyond; and the only thing that allowed me to finish Gravity was by repeatedly giving up narrative and pretty much vidding in total abject despair of a decent product.

If nothing else, I think that, for me at least, I don't need a POV in the construction of a vid...but what I *need* is that end-reason or an end-goal or an end-feeling; that unshakeable *something* that is at the heart of a vid, and as long as that core reason is there, then I know how to structure the vid to get there. Because, see, for the most part I am assuming an audience at full rest and thus whatever vid I'm doing needs to take the audience to that end-reason. For The Fragile it's the feeling when Corbin shatters at the element pedestal, and they both get re-made into the weapon. For Lucky You it's that creeping shiver when the kid tells you it wouldn't end. For Sunburned it's the implosion of all effort and all color into empty grey. I'm not sure that the POV is so necessary as this knowledge of where the vid must go. [edit: on hind-thought I think what I'm getting at here is author intent]

Which is both a depressing realization and an invigorating one all at the same time; because even though it means un-learning and re-thinking my vid conceptualizing process, it means that there's more styles of vid now, to explore.

which: w00t!

[edited in multiple places on 7.8.5 for clarity]

Additional thoughts: Vidding without a POV doesn't mean that the audience can't bring a POV to the vid; it just means that it's constructed without one.

Second post here.

Okay, since I have very little internet access, I'll go ahead and rec this and explain it more later.

Note: these vids are very much non-traditional, and they're very much a non-traditional narrative. They *work*, but not in traditional ways.

Points of Interest for Star Wars vid:
- Han/Luke ::rolls in 'shippery ball o' happiness::
- meta/thematic style with slide transitions that WORK
- great use of light and motion, interesting mood and POV changes
- song choice that vidder has made me like despite myself
- counterpoint and musical irony (cuts *against* and counterpoint to the beat)

"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is available here, halfway down the page. _{(It's Angel's first vid and breaks various 'rules' of vidding in facinating ways.)}


Points of Interest for Multifandom vid:
- sci-fi apocalyptic creepy-cool DOOM ::inner geek is deeeelighted::
- meta/thematic style, with literary in-jokes
- great use of shape, non-conventional images, motion, and space
- song choice that vidder has made me like despite myself
- is the only multi-fandom vid that has made me feel anything except GF & TS Data's Dream

"In the Year 2525" is available here, at the beginning of the page. _{(It's Mudd's first vid and gave me neat shivers.)}

So I was watching various animes and me and lierdumoa were wondering why anime vids have perfect beatwhoring and yet almost no pacing whatsoever.

Then it hit me:

Teenage boys have NO SENSE OF FOREPLAY.

WHATSOEVER. (most of them, that is ::sends blessings to the enlightened few::)

Now think of the average anime vid. ::waits for it:: Doesn't that make so much more sense now? =D

Also, they've probably haven't been fandom trained in either
1) creating narrative (ie. rising-climax-ending)
2) subtlety (ie. looking for slash clues)

More on this later perhaps...but in essence the general anime vid aesthetic *is* sex. It's just sex via teenage guy.

d'oh. ::headdesks::

[lierdumoa: it's like the whole vid is coming...MAKE IT STOP.]