Project: Improving at Vidding

[extrapenguin]

Discussion on the vidders discord revealed to me that aaronartium had done a vidding workshop that included videographic crit exercises. The point was to pick a vid, watch it, and then write down initial impressions (e.g. "zooms at the start give good energy", "POV gets muddled in the middle", "color grading makes timeline hopping easy to follow", to make some up), and then view it a second time. On the second viewing, you go into greater detail: in a table, write down the timestamp, what happens at the timestamp, and whether it's good, bad, or neutral, and why. Finally, write a list of things you want to emulate (or avoid) about the vid.

I won't be able to do one per week like for the original workshop, but perhaps one every two weeks/one every month? I think the first vids will be something by hollywoodgrrl and something by 1jonde1 (both on YouTube). If you have recs for Star Wars (OT, PT, ST, TCW, Rebels, SWTOR, KOTOR), Guardian (cdrama), or Legend of Yunze vids that a) are on YouTube/not age-locked on Vimeo, and b) do something interesting, give me a shout.

Not sure how public I'll make the whole thing (access list? just me?), but I think I'll conclude with a public list of vids I watched and what I want to emulate about each of them. Then I might even try putting that advice into practice, lol.

Comments

[china_shop]

That sounds really cool! :-)

There was a great new Zhao Yunlan character vid posted to sid_guardian just the other day, in case you missed it.

[extrapenguin]

Eh, not using that one - not only is it technique-wise something that I could already do, but I also don't like the music. *g* I want something I can learn from and which I can bear to watch on repeat.

[china_shop]

Ha, fair enough. For me, it's pretty close to my platonic ideal for a Guardian vid (maybe partly because of the lack of obvious technique; it feels old school in a way that works very well for me) -- but each to their own, of course. :-)

[extrapenguin]

For this, I'm trying to learn technique and expose myself to new styles, so as to expand the horizons of the kinds of vids I can make. It's one thing to know a technique and intentionally not use it; another to be unable to use it.

(I suspect my vid background comes from AMV vidding culture, even if the people who "officially" taught me vidding were the continuation of oldskool/Vividcon vidding culture. I like a bit of pizzazz!)

[wembley]

Do you mind sharing an invite? I think I'm in this server but I'm not sure. I've just gotten back into vidding and it'd be great to talk to more people about it!

[extrapenguin]

Link sent!

*has waffly thoughts about how communities have now moved from being out in the open to being behind closed doors*

[wembley]

Thank youuuu!

[shadaras]

If you're looking for vids, rachelmanija recently posted asking for multifandom vid recs and I saw a few Star Wars vids being recced in there; maybe you'll find them useful for this!

[extrapenguin]

I'll take a look. (I know Toy Soldiers is good, but alas, new Vimeo settings mean I can't watch it without creating an account. Can't recall the other two.)