burning at the centre of time

I must confess to not having a ton of experience with a goodly proportion of the fandoms on offer this year, thus the shortness of the list at the moment. sheepish rhi is sheepish.

Anyway, these are recs that will appeal to everyone, not just you vid aficionados. I promise.

Doctor Who (old skool)

Another Girl, Another Planet (Ace)
This is all about Ace, and it's therefore necessarily full of attitude and charm and blowing shit up and beating Daleks with a baseball bat. You may think you know this story, but the vidder makes it work well, particularly with the music, which is delightful. My only complaint is that there isn't moar footage from Ghost Light.

Awake My Soul (Sarah Jane)
I saw azarsuerte mention this more than once as she was the recip, and finally went to watch. Yes, it is deliberately manipulating you into wonder and amazement and weepiness. No, I do not care. It starts slow, but hits its stride about a minute and a half in and doesn't let up.


Maru the cat (YouTube)

Outside the Box (Maru/boxes)
This manages to tick the boxes of being absolutely ridiculous and hilarious while being moving almost to tears. This vidder knows hir stuff, and points have to go to Maru's human for the source material being so good.


Moulin Rouge

Ooh La La! (Christian/Satine)
Having been subjected to Goldfrapp's 'Ooh La La' about twenty million times lately in car adverts, I came into this a sceptic. I walked out stunned. It's rhythmically brilliant and heartbreakingly wonderful, and now I remember why I paid to see the film five times even though I was a high school student.


Master and Commander

Ship of Fools (Maturin [Aubrey/Maturin])
I really appreciate the gorgeous film work of Peter Weir and his team, and I also really appreciate vidders who use classic rock artists to great effect. This is a gorgeous tribute to Stephen Maturin. Old school TR people, I advise you to watch only when you're in an okay frame of mind, as it is possibly a bit painful.

RP and other stuff set on hold while I finish tweaking my Festivid submission.

ma festivid let me show you it

Howdy! Thanks for doing what you do, you are great. I may just start here for now and carry on a bit more tomorrow. And how much do I love that someone nominated Born in Flames? I love you, Born in Flames person!

A few general things to start with: I'm a big fan of classic rock and music produced between 1963 and 1989 in general, though not exclusively by any means. (My last.fm charts are here.)

This does not mean you need to use my favourite music, but I really appreciate vids that are done to songs that the vidder loves, and to songs which are fairly rare in vidding, just like these fandoms are rare.

I'm also deeply appreciative of critical and revisionist fanworks, so don't hesitate to go there if you like.

I'm not super fond of fluff, though you'll notice that some of these vid choices lend themselves well to sweetness and/or crack, and I've said as much.

Carrying on:

( reruns all become our history, to borrow a phrase. )
Thanks so much,
Rhi xx

Title: Cold War
Vidder: Rhi (rhivolution/rhipowered)
Fandom: Merlin (BBC) (series 1 & 2)
Music: Janelle Monáe, "Cold War"
Warnings: non-graphic violence, brief scene of domestic violence
Length: 3:35
Summary: Struggling against Uther's anti-magic bigotry is as hard on Gwen and Morgana as it is on Merlin; in fact, perhaps even harder.
Notes: Made in Final Cut Essentials with the help of VisualHub, for the wiscon_vidparty at WisCon 35. Beta by futuransky, with special thanks to astro_noms.
( disclaimers, download, streaming embed, and lyrics. )

Could anyone really quickly beta (read: in the next 24 hours) my Morgana/Gwen vid? I will love you and give you credit and kittens, though I do not guarantee I will make all of the changes you specify.

it is donnnnnnnnnnne.

Dear self,

Next time you think you've converted all your AVI files to Final Cut ready DV, actually make sure you have instead of just making MORE AVI FILES.

[sighs as this fanvid has already been delayed, is coming together quickly, but needs to be faster]

This will be gorgeous, if it ever gets done.

Love,
you

Title: Parallel Lines
Vidder: Rhi (rhivolution/rhipowered)
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Music: Lindsey Buckingham, "Love Runs Deeper"
Warnings: none
Length: 3:29
Summary: Sometimes love runs underneath the stories we know.
Notes: Made in Final Cut Essentials with the help of ffmpegx and VisualHub. Made for tellitslant and carawj's Femslash show at Vidukon 2011. Beta by leyenn. English subtitles will be available tomorrow, my head is a bit dozy at the moment. Watch this space!
( disclaimers, download, streaming embed, and lyrics. )

Seeing as I'm still jobless, I have time to actually do a bespoke vid for WisCon so that some little bit of me will be there. BUT I CANNOT CHOOSE.

So, precogs breaking my heart, aka I deconstruct Spielberg? Or Morgana and Gwen raging against the Uther machine?

Or am I completely off base entirely?

As giandujakiss commented today, you get really thinky about stuff when you make a vid, and in the case of Festivids, you can't say anything until later. Sigh. Not sure if anyone cares, mind, but I do, so I'm writing it.

This may be a bit disjointed, me having been up until 3:45. Sorry. It turns far more into Star Trek meta than notes on a vid, so read if you're interested in that instead.

Notes on 'Resistance'
( Hello, darkness, my old friend. )

Does anyone want to look over the draft of the vid I'm gifting to tellitslant? (Don't worry, it's not a secret.)

Star Trek: TNG, Beverly/Deanna mostly, no particular triggers. Lindsey Buckingham on music.