How I vid

This is mostly for sockpuppet who is fuddled by my creative process.

1) I hear a song. This is no stretch. I listen to 5 different radio stations over the course of my daily hour-long commute. Of course, this means every now and then, I get Shania Twain on three of them, but that's big broadcasting. I also have a list of songs, with vid ideas, that I keep. And I have a huge media library. Gotta love 5c song downloads from Europe. (that's how I got "Elusive Lover")

2) I have a vision. I know that sounds pretentious, but sometimes i can see the whole vid just unroll above my steering wheel as the song plays. Sometimes, it's just a "O! That is so Luke & Han!" moment.

2a) I have a concept. "The dissonance and ba-ba-ba in Happy Together make it sound ironic. What if I made it a vid about dysfunctional relationships?"

3) I check my media library to see if the clips I'm visualizing actually exist. Unfortunately, there are not nearly enough Leia and Lando clips to make "Time of the Season" into anything passable.

4) I get the lyrics for the song and time out the lines. I may put little notes about what i want to happen on each line in this.

5) I make sure I have all the clips.

6) I put it together. (a weak 4 words to describe the process of swearing, saving, sweating, swearing, crashing, driving the household nuts with endless repetition, trimming, swearing and saving)

7) I put it out for beta downloads. I clean up stray stuff and try to alter confusing or dull patches.

None of this applies if I'm doing a challenge or commissioned vid.
In the latter case, I am very constrained. In the former, the challenge limits my music selection which limits my clip selection.

Take the Luck challenge for VividCon. (please do)

I had to find a song about luck. I bounced around "Hey Baby let's go to Vegas" "I feel lucky" "luck be a Lady" "Good run of bad luck" and "You are my lucky star" (I thought a Han/Luke to that, which is sung by the Muppets and Mark, would be a bit much)

I settled on one, and decided to make a multifandom western poker game.
I hunted high and low and COULD NOT find my copy of the Gunsmoke episode "Whelan's Men." And Miss Kitty winning at poker would have just made the vid.

So I reconceptualized. What about Simon and Simon? I have over a dozen tapes, maybe a hundred eps. I don't have a hundred hours to glean clips, and my vidcapture equipment isn't working too well.

So a third reworking was in order. And it seems to be working out, if rather silly.


This brings me to another topic: use of metaphor in vids
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