Pausing the Snowflake Challenge for a day so that I can continue posting vid announcements! Today I'm posting the first vid I've ever done for a vid exchange.
When I was first in fandom (yeah, this is one of those "in my day" posts) I don't remember there being any vid exchanges. I also don't think VividCon existed, or if it did it was maybe a year old? So there were hardly ever deadlines for vidding. I have made vids for other people, for their birthdays or just because they were the ones that inspired the vid. But generally speaking those were due whenever. Which was good because my computer was sooooo slooooooow.
Jump forward to 2018, and suddenly I had a deadline to submit vids to VVC. And that was absurdly daunting. But I managed! And I went, and I met a lot of amazing people and got really excited about vidding again.
And then I found out about vid exchanges! I mean, I knew about them (I've beta'd a couple of vids for equinox and festivids in the past), but I never really thought that I could do it. But last year I bit the bullet and signed up for fall equinox. And it was such a great experience! I got two amazing vids made for me (a beautiful haunting Pan's Labyrinth vid by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sweetestdrain and an adorable Monsters, Inc. vid by dirty_diana ), and I had so much fun making this vid for cupidsbow . Having been the one to request Dirk Gently to the fandom list I was really excited to get this request. I was worried about finding a song but it just kind of popped up in my spotify the day after I got my assignment. And everything flowed from there. Suzie is a fun character to vid, and this whole process went smoothly. I submitted the final vid two days ahead of schedule! (Of course, this has not happened since. The last vid I made kicked my butt. It's nice to remember that sometimes these things flow, though).
Here it is on AO3, with lyrics. Feel free to comment wherever you prefer!
When I was first in fandom (yeah, this is one of those "in my day" posts) I don't remember there being any vid exchanges. I also don't think VividCon existed, or if it did it was maybe a year old? So there were hardly ever deadlines for vidding. I have made vids for other people, for their birthdays or just because they were the ones that inspired the vid. But generally speaking those were due whenever. Which was good because my computer was sooooo slooooooow.
Jump forward to 2018, and suddenly I had a deadline to submit vids to VVC. And that was absurdly daunting. But I managed! And I went, and I met a lot of amazing people and got really excited about vidding again.
And then I found out about vid exchanges! I mean, I knew about them (I've beta'd a couple of vids for equinox and festivids in the past), but I never really thought that I could do it. But last year I bit the bullet and signed up for fall equinox. And it was such a great experience! I got two amazing vids made for me (a beautiful haunting Pan's Labyrinth vid by
sweetestdrain and an adorable Monsters, Inc. vid by dirty_diana ), and I had so much fun making this vid for cupidsbow . Having been the one to request Dirk Gently to the fandom list I was really excited to get this request. I was worried about finding a song but it just kind of popped up in my spotify the day after I got my assignment. And everything flowed from there. Suzie is a fun character to vid, and this whole process went smoothly. I submitted the final vid two days ahead of schedule! (Of course, this has not happened since. The last vid I made kicked my butt. It's nice to remember that sometimes these things flow, though).Here it is on AO3, with lyrics. Feel free to comment wherever you prefer!
