I am now awake enough to write a navel gazing Process Post about festivids. Master list of vids is here so you can skip all my ramblings and go straight to vids.
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sisabet and absolutedestiny (who are LYING LIARS WHO LIE, btw), some_stars, jetpack_monkey, bironic, and anoel. Y'all made my festivids so freaking special and every one of you made things I will treasure forever. Seriously, it's not just that I got these vids, it is that they were all aimed straight to my specific heart in ways that...just..*flail*. YOU GUYS. *bursts into tears*
So yes, blather about vids I made. This is long. You have been warned.
Stand By Me So. When I was doing my offers I was really careful this year to only offer for things that I would be truly thrilled to get as an assignment and not just 'eh, I could make that'. Even within that list, though, there was a very short list of sources that I didn't even dare hope I'd get, but really wanted. Stand By Me was in that list. AND THEN I GOT IT. I very nearly burst into tears and jumped on a plane to kiss the mods. You see, I have FEELINGS about this movie. SO MANY FEELINGS. I have FEELINGS about it's place as one of the best coming of age movies in that genre. I have FEELINGS about nostalgia, both in the story itself and the meta nostalgia that comes with being 12 myself when it was released. I have FEELINGS about Wil Wheaton's tiny face, and even more FEELINGS about River Phoenix that are very much wrapped up in his being the first significant celebrity death of my generation. I have FEELINGS about the themes of grief and loss and the power of friendship and childhood and struggling to be free of expectations and boxes. SO. MANY. FEELINGS. I didn't have a song yet, but I did havesisabet which is how I usually handle these things. And she did have a song she wanted me to listen to. And I promptly burst into tears and started waving my hands around and was, like YES, THAT. Amazingly, I did not actually have the DVD (I don't know, I think I lost it at some point), so I had to order it. I listened to the song on constant repeat for the four days I waited for it to arrive and unlike when I usually make vids I could SEE IT. A rough draft of three quarters of the vid was down on the timeline within a few days of the DVDs arrival. I was kind of terrified, because I knew legoline loved the movie with the same kind of intensity I do, and I wanted to do right be her and it. I hope that I did. Because, FEELINGS.
Shine: Okay, so up there? When I saidsisabet is a LYING LIAR WHO LIES? You have no idea just what a LYING LIAR she is. NO IDEA. Seriously. Because, okay, she cornered me about five minutes after the assignment letters went out freaking out because she said she'd been assigned sweetestdrain and she didn't know how she was going to keep it from her (YES, I KNOW). My suggestion was she make a treat and claim it as her main assignment. Except, she's in grad school and she was freaking out she wouldn't have time to finish two vids (YES, I KNOW). So I...and I am still boggling at this, volunteered to make a treat vid that we would claim was hers as a cover so sweetestdrain would not get suspicious (YES, I STILL KNOW). I'd already had plans to make a Thelma and Louise treat if I had time, so we went with that since she had a Dolly Parton song which would lend veracity to the misdirection. and it was a perfect song for what I wanted to do with the movie. Because I have just about as many FEELINGS about Thelma & Louise as I do about Stand By Me. I am less able to be coherent about it, though. Because. That movie. I will just point to the vid because that's what I have to say about it, right there. And then reveals happened this morning. And I looked at who made the vids I got, and went HEY, WAIT A MINUTE. And realized just how badly I had gotten played in what I thought was me helping to play someone else. Yes, you guys. sisabet managed to get me to make MY OWN DISTRACTION FROM THE TRUTH. I barely even know what to do with that level of festivids jujitsu. So I'll just step back and admire it.
Beetlejuice: By this point I really, really needed a break from the heavy emotions of the previous two vids. Also, I was not ready to stop looking at Geena Davis face, because...GEENA DAVIS. I have been in love with her for as long as I can remember. Also, in my head a Beetlejuice vid is sort of like a sequel to Thelma & Louise because that ends with them going off a cliff in a car, and Beetlejuice starts with the car going off the bridge. If you just mentally substitute Susan Sarandon for Alec Baldwin (and lets face it, you wanted to do that anyway) it totally works. In my head. iTunes magic 8 ball shuffle actually gave me a song on the third try, which never EVER happens to me. But the second Bad Moon Rising started playing, I started giggling and was like 'yes, that's it'. However, I kind of got stuck halfway through finishing it and needed another project to distract me (obviously I did eventually get back to it and it made it in by the deadline). Which is how....the next thing happened.
Mythbusters: I've had Mythbusters set to record on my DVR for...well, ever. I mean it's a show which basically gives a bunch of science geeks a large budget and permission to answer every 'what if' question they ever came up with at 3 am while stoned. What is not to love? Never thought I'd vid it, though. Until I was reading Dear Festividder letters while listening to Warren Zevon, and in a moment of pure kismet hitthingswithwings request for a vid about Buster's tragic life at pretty much the exact moment Pitiful started. Yeah. I still wasn't gonna do it on account of I didn't have any of the source, and there are a LOT of episodes to go through, and I honestly didn't think I had the patience or the technical skill to pull it off, no matter how much the idea made me giggle. And then Discovery ran a Mythbusters marathon on Christmas day. And right after Grant Imahara wrote physics equations on the side of the Speed bus and SEALED MY DESIRE TO STALK HIM INTO SUBMISSION AND MARRY HIM...ahem...um...they ran the episode in which Buster is hurled from a tree catapult. A tree catapult. This did not actually make it in the final vid, but it did seal my fate. Thankfully, absolutedestiny was there to help me bash the source I downloaded into shape, because...I swear whoever did the early season encodes was just randomly mashing buttons and my avs files were constantly on the verge of committing suicide the whole time as a result. So. Yes, that happened. And I am just going to note right now that you all need to be really grateful I did not find the appropriate footage to imply that Buster is Kari's baby daddy. Because I considered it. Hard. Y'all were one properly angled belly shot away from this being a reality. We are not, however, going to talk about the moment towards the end of working on it where I kind of lost my mind and had a mental breakdown in which I burst into actual tears over a clip of fake dripping blood, which I didn't put in the vid because I was, like, BUSTER HAS FEELINGS TOO...and I meant it. Shhh...I said we weren't talking about it. *facepalm*
Legend of Billie Jean: Basically, in the near eleven years we have been friends I have never once been able to keep a secret fromsisabet. Never. I think the longest I ever lasted was 2 hours and that was only because she was at work at the time. This was my attempt to finally do it! And kicking patriarchy in the balls is always my idea of a good time, so Legend of Billie Jean was the perfect choice. And it worked out really nicely, on account of I was not able to finish the least secret Fresh Prince treat vid EVER that I was also supposed to make for her. Somehow, I did actually manage to keep this secret until this morning. However, given the twisty levels of multi-level deception I was on the recieving end of (sisabet has never had a problem keeping secrets from me), my tiny attempts at being a Lying Liar who Lies pale in comparison. Well played, sisabet. Well played.
So that is the story of my festivids, if anyone was even interested :D
Also I need to take this moment to thank by name
sisabet and absolutedestiny (who are LYING LIARS WHO LIE, btw), some_stars, jetpack_monkey, bironic, and anoel. Y'all made my festivids so freaking special and every one of you made things I will treasure forever. Seriously, it's not just that I got these vids, it is that they were all aimed straight to my specific heart in ways that...just..*flail*. YOU GUYS. *bursts into tears*So yes, blather about vids I made. This is long. You have been warned.
Stand By Me So. When I was doing my offers I was really careful this year to only offer for things that I would be truly thrilled to get as an assignment and not just 'eh, I could make that'. Even within that list, though, there was a very short list of sources that I didn't even dare hope I'd get, but really wanted. Stand By Me was in that list. AND THEN I GOT IT. I very nearly burst into tears and jumped on a plane to kiss the mods. You see, I have FEELINGS about this movie. SO MANY FEELINGS. I have FEELINGS about it's place as one of the best coming of age movies in that genre. I have FEELINGS about nostalgia, both in the story itself and the meta nostalgia that comes with being 12 myself when it was released. I have FEELINGS about Wil Wheaton's tiny face, and even more FEELINGS about River Phoenix that are very much wrapped up in his being the first significant celebrity death of my generation. I have FEELINGS about the themes of grief and loss and the power of friendship and childhood and struggling to be free of expectations and boxes. SO. MANY. FEELINGS. I didn't have a song yet, but I did have
sisabet which is how I usually handle these things. And she did have a song she wanted me to listen to. And I promptly burst into tears and started waving my hands around and was, like YES, THAT. Amazingly, I did not actually have the DVD (I don't know, I think I lost it at some point), so I had to order it. I listened to the song on constant repeat for the four days I waited for it to arrive and unlike when I usually make vids I could SEE IT. A rough draft of three quarters of the vid was down on the timeline within a few days of the DVDs arrival. I was kind of terrified, because I knew legoline loved the movie with the same kind of intensity I do, and I wanted to do right be her and it. I hope that I did. Because, FEELINGS. Shine: Okay, so up there? When I said
sisabet is a LYING LIAR WHO LIES? You have no idea just what a LYING LIAR she is. NO IDEA. Seriously. Because, okay, she cornered me about five minutes after the assignment letters went out freaking out because she said she'd been assigned sweetestdrain and she didn't know how she was going to keep it from her (YES, I KNOW). My suggestion was she make a treat and claim it as her main assignment. Except, she's in grad school and she was freaking out she wouldn't have time to finish two vids (YES, I KNOW). So I...and I am still boggling at this, volunteered to make a treat vid that we would claim was hers as a cover so sweetestdrain would not get suspicious (YES, I STILL KNOW). I'd already had plans to make a Thelma and Louise treat if I had time, so we went with that since she had a Dolly Parton song which would lend veracity to the misdirection. and it was a perfect song for what I wanted to do with the movie. Because I have just about as many FEELINGS about Thelma & Louise as I do about Stand By Me. I am less able to be coherent about it, though. Because. That movie. I will just point to the vid because that's what I have to say about it, right there. And then reveals happened this morning. And I looked at who made the vids I got, and went HEY, WAIT A MINUTE. And realized just how badly I had gotten played in what I thought was me helping to play someone else. Yes, you guys. sisabet managed to get me to make MY OWN DISTRACTION FROM THE TRUTH. I barely even know what to do with that level of festivids jujitsu. So I'll just step back and admire it.Beetlejuice: By this point I really, really needed a break from the heavy emotions of the previous two vids. Also, I was not ready to stop looking at Geena Davis face, because...GEENA DAVIS. I have been in love with her for as long as I can remember. Also, in my head a Beetlejuice vid is sort of like a sequel to Thelma & Louise because that ends with them going off a cliff in a car, and Beetlejuice starts with the car going off the bridge. If you just mentally substitute Susan Sarandon for Alec Baldwin (and lets face it, you wanted to do that anyway) it totally works. In my head. iTunes magic 8 ball shuffle actually gave me a song on the third try, which never EVER happens to me. But the second Bad Moon Rising started playing, I started giggling and was like 'yes, that's it'. However, I kind of got stuck halfway through finishing it and needed another project to distract me (obviously I did eventually get back to it and it made it in by the deadline). Which is how....the next thing happened.
Mythbusters: I've had Mythbusters set to record on my DVR for...well, ever. I mean it's a show which basically gives a bunch of science geeks a large budget and permission to answer every 'what if' question they ever came up with at 3 am while stoned. What is not to love? Never thought I'd vid it, though. Until I was reading Dear Festividder letters while listening to Warren Zevon, and in a moment of pure kismet hit
thingswithwings request for a vid about Buster's tragic life at pretty much the exact moment Pitiful started. Yeah. I still wasn't gonna do it on account of I didn't have any of the source, and there are a LOT of episodes to go through, and I honestly didn't think I had the patience or the technical skill to pull it off, no matter how much the idea made me giggle. And then Discovery ran a Mythbusters marathon on Christmas day. And right after Grant Imahara wrote physics equations on the side of the Speed bus and SEALED MY DESIRE TO STALK HIM INTO SUBMISSION AND MARRY HIM...ahem...um...they ran the episode in which Buster is hurled from a tree catapult. A tree catapult. This did not actually make it in the final vid, but it did seal my fate. Thankfully, absolutedestiny was there to help me bash the source I downloaded into shape, because...I swear whoever did the early season encodes was just randomly mashing buttons and my avs files were constantly on the verge of committing suicide the whole time as a result. So. Yes, that happened. And I am just going to note right now that you all need to be really grateful I did not find the appropriate footage to imply that Buster is Kari's baby daddy. Because I considered it. Hard. Y'all were one properly angled belly shot away from this being a reality. We are not, however, going to talk about the moment towards the end of working on it where I kind of lost my mind and had a mental breakdown in which I burst into actual tears over a clip of fake dripping blood, which I didn't put in the vid because I was, like, BUSTER HAS FEELINGS TOO...and I meant it. Shhh...I said we weren't talking about it. *facepalm* Legend of Billie Jean: Basically, in the near eleven years we have been friends I have never once been able to keep a secret from
sisabet. Never. I think the longest I ever lasted was 2 hours and that was only because she was at work at the time. This was my attempt to finally do it! And kicking patriarchy in the balls is always my idea of a good time, so Legend of Billie Jean was the perfect choice. And it worked out really nicely, on account of I was not able to finish the least secret Fresh Prince treat vid EVER that I was also supposed to make for her. Somehow, I did actually manage to keep this secret until this morning. However, given the twisty levels of multi-level deception I was on the recieving end of (sisabet has never had a problem keeping secrets from me), my tiny attempts at being a Lying Liar who Lies pale in comparison. Well played, sisabet. Well played. So that is the story of my festivids, if anyone was even interested :D
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That is the most awesomely accurate description of Mythbusters I've ever heard.
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My buttons, you have them on speed dial.
Also: the Shine story is even more hilarious than I thought it would be.
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The Shine story is more hilarious than *I* thought it would be, considering until this morning I thought it was an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT STORY.