End of Year Vidding Meme 2017

[anoel]

For vid links: My Vids.

January
Body High (Ghostbusters)
You're So Beautiful (The Get Down)
Dance (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
Crash (Bound)

April
Sort Of (Faking It and Supergirl)

August
Weird People (Multi)
Carry That Weight (Star Wars)

October
Be Mean (True Blood)
Down The Rabbit Hole (True Blood)
Titanium (Wonder Woman)

December
Mermaid (The Little Mermaid)

Total Vids: 11

My favorite video this year (of my own)
Titanium because it came out similar to how I saw it in my head and I LOVE Wonder Woman so much and it was so much fun to make. I even enjoyed clipping, CLIPPING o_0 Also it means a lot to me because that movie and song meant so much to me while I was going through hard times.

My least favourite video this year
I like all my vids this year so this question doesn't really apply. I am bummed I wasn't able to make the longer version of Body High that I had planned.

Most successful video
In terms of kudos and comments, that would be Titanium which isn't surprising considering Wonder Woman's popularity.

Video most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion
They were all appreciated fine IMO so I'm not answering this.

Most fun video
It was so fun to vid all the action scenes and pretty shots in Titanium and I had a fun time making it so let's say Titanium. Although in terms of content, Dance was pretty fun.

Video with single sexiest moment
This is always so impossible. Holtzman's gun lick in Body High or Pam pushing Tara against the wall in Be Mean or any of the many times Diana fights in Titanium (esp in slow motion? Let's say Be Mean because that whole vid was hotness for me.

Biggest vid fail Vid procrastination mostly with Crash being made in about one day.

Hardest video to make
Carry That Weight because it required a lot of work and external source in which bessyboo helped me immensely. I also made it while going through intense depression so that made it even harder.

Most unintentionally telling video
Sort Of or Carry That Weight with the former being more intentional.

Things I've learned
Hard to say this year but I got better at working with text and external source as well as just cutting faster in general

Things to work on
Starting earlier and getting big multifandom ideas done well as well as being less of a perfectionist so I can get vids finished.

Vid projects I definitely want to get finished this upcoming year
I will get my Festivid done and I would like to vid at least one vid for TGIF/F, a Club Vivid vid for VVC and a Premieres vid for VVC. Beyond that, we'll see.

Resolutions for 2018
My biggest resolution is to finish the vids above in time for the deadlines. Honestly I don't see myself vidding as much next year because I want to focus on other life stuff and I'm having trouble feeling connected with fandom and getting meaning from vids. Vividcon ending was a huge loss to me and it's made me feel really disappointed about the vidding community and I'm reconsidering how much effort I want to put into vidding anymore. It makes me sad though.

Comments

[lilly_the_kid]

I still LOVE the beautiful True Blood vids you made for me!!! :D And heh, I also made 11 vids this year :)

[anoel]

Awww I'm so glad you do :D I'm glad you requested the show so I could finally have the motivation to catch up on it.

[aurumcalendula]

I love Crash and I’m in awe of the fact that you made it in a day!

[anoel]

I'm so glad you do! It was a very intense process to make it but I'm glad I did :)

[chaila]

Aw your post-VVC vid feels are sad. But at the same time, I understand wanting to focus on other things. My vidding community has always essentially been entirely online (at least to me) and is pretty unaffected by VVC ending, but I think we all feel changes and shifts that make us question whether we're getting everything out of it that we used to. <3

[anoel]

I still think you should come to VVC this year (last chance!). But yeah, I think even if VVC wasn't ending, I would still want to do less vidding so it's not all about that. But it really made me question how much I was putting into vidding and the community and whether it's been making me as happy as it used to. It's hard for me to do a lot of things at once so I think I need some space to try some other things.

[grammarwoman]

*HUGS* We should make the vids we want to see in the world, but only if it makes us happy. This hobby is frustrating enough without tidal waves of bad feelings.

[anoel]

Yeah, I feel lately I've been feeling like I need to make vids more for other people and expectations of myself and that I need to have a vid at a con versus being genuinely happy while doing it. I also feel like vidding takes so long and that I'm just not getting enough out of it right now. I miss the feeling of vidding from pure joy and shippiness and I hope someday I can recapture some of that. But we'll see what happens! I just don't want to force things so much.

*hugs back*