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Dear Festividder
Oct. 14th, 2012 08:43 pmDear Festividder,
Thank you for signing up for Festivids! And thank you for choosing one of these great sources to vid. (Or more. Don't limit yourself on my behalf.)
After submitting requested fandoms, I realized there were two telltale themes involved, both of which are huge narrative kinks for me.
( Competence and Identity Play in Archer, The West Wing, Dead Poets Society, Threesome, The Colbert Report, Overboard, Oceans movies, Scarecrow & Mrs King )
Music: I personally enjoy geek rock (They Might Be Giants, Dead Milkmen, Weezer, BNL, Devo, Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton) but am certainly open to other genres. I like vids that tell a story (or make a point, or tell a joke, or some combination thereof), and songs that tell a story lend themselves pretty well to that.
Final Word of Advice: Cut the song shorter to fit the vid you're making rather than stretching the vid to fit the song. "That vid would've been great if it'd been 30 seconds shorter" is such a sad thing for vid-watcher to have to think. Make your vid and roll credits!
Thank you for signing up for Festivids! And thank you for choosing one of these great sources to vid. (Or more. Don't limit yourself on my behalf.)
After submitting requested fandoms, I realized there were two telltale themes involved, both of which are huge narrative kinks for me.
( Competence and Identity Play in Archer, The West Wing, Dead Poets Society, Threesome, The Colbert Report, Overboard, Oceans movies, Scarecrow & Mrs King )
Music: I personally enjoy geek rock (They Might Be Giants, Dead Milkmen, Weezer, BNL, Devo, Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton) but am certainly open to other genres. I like vids that tell a story (or make a point, or tell a joke, or some combination thereof), and songs that tell a story lend themselves pretty well to that.
Final Word of Advice: Cut the song shorter to fit the vid you're making rather than stretching the vid to fit the song. "That vid would've been great if it'd been 30 seconds shorter" is such a sad thing for vid-watcher to have to think. Make your vid and roll credits!