it's a magical world

Aaand it's time for my favorite meme of the new year: fannish creativity round-up!

I know it's meant for fics, but I'm including vids in here too. Since I've made roughly the same amount of each this year.

( 2010 writing/vidding round-up )

VIDDING, christ, stop eating my brain. I'm working on too many vids right now. One being a Merlin vid, of course. Because I already made a Gwen vid and a Morgana vid, so I've given up fighting the inevitable, and I'm making a Merlin-centric vid now. Except, do you know how difficult it is to pull clips for a Merlin vid? He's in EVERY GODDAMN SCENE, making lulzy faces, except trawling through every episode like this gets kinda boring, and then I get distracted by other characters.

Gwen's okay, see, because I'm like, sorry, already did your vid, and she's like, that's okay, I'll just hang out over here being awesome until you need me again. But Morgana? FUCK. She's all like EVERYTHING IS ABOUT ME ALWAYS, and it's really, really hard to resist that, because she's the most interesting character for me, and I'm like listen, I already did your vid, and she's like BITCH PLEASE. And then Arthur keeps being all, HEY IS IT MY TURN YET and I'm like DUDE, this is MERLIN'S vid so basically yes.

This is your brain on vidding, kids. Get out while you still can.

So I have over a minute of an Amy Pond vid edited using only her first episode.

Guys, I don't even know.

This song suits her character arc so well, it's not even funny. I'm just going on faith that it will continue to do so for the rest of the season, I guess? Although, honestly, giving the way I'm clipping this, I could probably make a complete vid out of four or five episodes, tops.

I have made a Who/Torchwood vid! I like finishing vids. It's a good feeling. I'm still going to sit on it for a bit, see if there are any more tweaks I want to make tomorrow -- it didn't turn out quite how I'd expected, but I'm not unhappy with that. I kind of wanted more of a narrative throughout, though. Hmmm. On the other hand, it's way less depressing in the end than I'd originally planned, which is probably for the best (though let me tell you, some of the clipping I did from Journey's End/Exit Wounds/CoE really kind of broke me, even if I didn't use them all). It's also way less about the Doctor himself and more about the Companions and how they're shaped and broken by him -- and in Jack's case, how he then transfers that over to his team as his own pseudo-Companions. And yet, again, much LESS dark than I'd originally intended.

Which is probably good, because the other vid I currently have on a low burn is all about the dark and creepy shit that happens in sci-fi media relationships, so I really didn't need to do two bleak-as-fuck vids in a row.

I'm getting more into multifandom vidding lately -- I like how relationships between different fandoms can parallel and illuminate each other. I stuck to the Whoniverse for this one, but the next is going to be Who/Torchwood/BSG/Firefly/X-Files, I think. It really ought to include Supernatural and Buffy, actually, but I don't watch either of those shows, so while I could get my hands on the source material easily enough, I wouldn't have the faintest idea which episodes to go to for clips.

Vidding: how I procrastinate when I have writer's block. At least it's some kind of productivity.

Oh, hell, I have another vid idea.

NO. STOP. Must finish directing class project first! Which also means, teach myself sound design + create sound design by the weekend. Fuck.

Vid!