What I have been doing: A vid!
Apr. 29th, 2012 08:29 pm40 space-themed movies and TV shows. 9 evenings and 2 Sundays of effort, consecutive. 3 minutes and 36 seconds of Club Vivid vid: COMPLETE. 4 hours before deadline, even. \o/
I have done nothing but go to work, vid, and sleep for the last week and a half. Now it is done, and I like it, and if all goes well people will dance to it at Vividcon, and now I can have my life back. ...And worry about the likelihood that someone else will make a similar vid before it premieres because the song is a new chart-topper and the concept is not a stretch from the lyrics, so by August it's not unlikely people will be tired of it. Whatever! At least it's not by Ke$ha, right?
I can't think of another fan project I've worked on with that length of sustained intensity. The one that comes close is probably A Princeton Odyssey, the 300-whatever lines of heroic couplets; and even that I only had about a week to do. I'm proud that I powered through on this despite source-acquiring challenges and a stressful couple of weeks at the office. I'm proud of my computer, too, for handling all the ripping, importing and editing with minimal errors; my last computer would have died five times over. This one deserves a hug. Or at least a break.
And so do I. :) Hello, celebratory scoop of ice cream and not sitting in the vidding chair anymore.
(At some point, dishes, food shopping [no more subsisting on takeout!], contacting family to confirm I'm still alive, catching up on TV shows, and putting away and/or returning to various loaners the explosion of DVDs across the apartment.)
Thank you, thank you, thank you to those of you who went out of your way to help, either with ideas or with footage:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cincodemaygirl, ellen_fremedon, deelaundry, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thingswithwings, nightdog_barks, synn. Did I get everyone? You are in the vid credits ... as you will see in a few months. Wow, it will be weird to wait.
I have done nothing but go to work, vid, and sleep for the last week and a half. Now it is done, and I like it, and if all goes well people will dance to it at Vividcon, and now I can have my life back. ...And worry about the likelihood that someone else will make a similar vid before it premieres because the song is a new chart-topper and the concept is not a stretch from the lyrics, so by August it's not unlikely people will be tired of it. Whatever! At least it's not by Ke$ha, right?
I can't think of another fan project I've worked on with that length of sustained intensity. The one that comes close is probably A Princeton Odyssey, the 300-whatever lines of heroic couplets; and even that I only had about a week to do. I'm proud that I powered through on this despite source-acquiring challenges and a stressful couple of weeks at the office. I'm proud of my computer, too, for handling all the ripping, importing and editing with minimal errors; my last computer would have died five times over. This one deserves a hug. Or at least a break.
And so do I. :) Hello, celebratory scoop of ice cream and not sitting in the vidding chair anymore.
(At some point, dishes, food shopping [no more subsisting on takeout!], contacting family to confirm I'm still alive, catching up on TV shows, and putting away and/or returning to various loaners the explosion of DVDs across the apartment.)
Thank you, thank you, thank you to those of you who went out of your way to help, either with ideas or with footage:
cincodemaygirl, ellen_fremedon, deelaundry, thingswithwings, nightdog_barks, synn. Did I get everyone? You are in the vid credits ... as you will see in a few months. Wow, it will be weird to wait.
