Dear Festividder
Oct. 24th, 2021 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosDear Festividder,
Thank you for making me a vid!
I have one thing that I put outside the cut tag, because I have a couple visual triggers:
1) Super fast flashes of lights or colors that have high contrast. Almost all vids are fine for me, but some that intercut scenes for two or three frames at a time can trigger this. It depends on the amount of contrast between the two scenes – stutter cuts are fine between two similar scenes, but not between one dark green and one bright red lit scene, or between a nighttime and daytime scene. Strobe lights (in the source) or strobe light effects (in the vid) can also trigger this. These have to be very fast to bother me - it really is like the strobe light effect.
2) Frame rate fuckery - when a show or a vid plays 24 fps footage in 30 fps or vice versa. So, like, when a film puts footage at the wrong frame rate to make it feel awkward or tense, which is super common in action films these days. (For example, the Bucky/Steve knife fight on the street in Winter Solider.) It can also happen by accident, if footage at one frame rate is put into a project with a different frame rate, or sometimes when a show needs to stretch or compress footage and they do it by duplicating every third frame. Some people can't see this at all, but to me it looks stuttery.
If you're concerned about either of these, please feel free to run a sample bythingswithwings. She can also explain them with examples if that would be helpful.
The rest of this post is additional details if you're interested!
General Preferences: I really enjoy the diversity of vidding styles and genres at festivids and I look forward to seeing your style! I'm down for: any rating, outside source (including crossovers), still footage, dialog included in the vid, critiques, action, deep character studies, shippy vids, action vids, dance vids, slash, femslash, het, gen, canon pairings, and non-canon pairings.
Things I love: people who put care into the work they do; building communities and found families; history and places being related to people and feelings; queer people; joy; speculative fiction; eating the rich; fighting for justice; people supporting each other.
Music: I am happy to watch vids to all kinds of music! I love vids to instrumentals (a ton of fun to vid also), to dense lyrics-heavy songs, to hip hop, to weird indie music, to fun dance songs, to classics, and to things I've never heard of before. I also like vids to non-music, like spoken word pieces or sound effects.
That said, I'm hard of hearing in a way that makes it difficult to understand lyrics that are mumbly or obscured by the instrumentation. (I hear volume and instruments and melody fine.) I'd appreciate it if you offered subtitles, especially if you intercut dialog and song lyrics.
The Great Canadian Baking Show (TV) [reality TV]
The Canadian spinoff of The Great British Bake Off, with Canadian themes (Montreal bagels) and ingredients (birch bark syrup and seaweed and saskatoon berries) and a truly stellar number of interesting, thoughtful, awesome contestants.
SADLY dreamwidth won't embed videos for the CBC, but you can meet the bakers of season 3 here
Request details: Soooo I did make a vid for this show last year for Festivids, but due to timing and source availability I was only able to use the first two seasons. Season 5 is airing now! And seasons 3 and 4 had many great bakers and many great running around with cake montages and many disastrous bakes that weren't in my vid! I love the energy in the tent and the way the contestants help each other and laugh together. I love the delightful and surprising successes, the way sometimes a technical bake just comes out and the baker doesn't even know why. I love the energy of the judges, especially Bruno (his little laughs and his delight in new flavors) and Rochelle (her astonished faces at amazing bakes). In season three, I particularly like Colin, Chris, and Jodi. In season 4 I particularly love Sheldon, Tanner, Anjali, Mahathi, Oyaks, Raufikat - all such interesting bakers! Season 5 just started but I'm already prepared to love them all. I'd just like something sweet and fun about this show and these great bakers!
John Boyega RPF [multi]
John Boyega is an actor, a producer, and an activist. I first saw him in Attack the Block (amazing) and then I was thrilled when he was cast in Star Wars. He's a really excellent actor, and he always has interesting things to say about his work.
Request details: So here is the deal: there is a fucking shitton of terrible, racist content and comments about John Boyega that gets in the way of any search you do for him (or shows up in the comments). So all I want is a vid about John Boyega being awesome. It could be about his acting, his activism, his interviews, his critiques of Star Wars and Star Wars fans, or that time he played with puppies to promote Pacific Rim. I just want more good content about John Boyega to exist on the internet. Give me "John Boyega trolling racist fans was great" or "John Boyega and Oscar Isaac are cute about each other" or "John Boyega's powerful commentary on racism." Just something good about John Boyega please.
Lego Masters (USA TV) [reality TV]
A reality television show in which teams of Lego builders build things like moving parade floats, bridges that can withstand the most weight, and castles built up and out from sheer cliffs. It's partly about aesthetic, partly about story, and partly about engineering - what problems can be solved with technic!
Request details: I find this show delightful and charming, and I used it as a pandemic comfort-watching show - people building interesting things and then, sometimes, putting them on shake plates to see if they'd withstand earthquakes. I really enjoy the creativity of the show and I think it would make an absolutely beautiful vid!
MONTERO album music videos [music video playlist, safety]
The music videos for Lil Nas X's album MONTERO - including "Montero," "Someone to Love Me," "That's What I Want," etc. The music videos are all different genres but do something really interesting together!
Request details: Bring me a vid in which Lil Nas X kills and dethrones Satan and then walks down the aisle and gets married to an electric guitar, please! I think there are a ton of cool elements in these music videos and I think they'd be really interesting together. There's this set of queer and Black themes that are sometimes wistful and sometimes nostalgic and sometimes vehement and I just want all these Lil Nas Xs - kissing in the locker room, giving his past self encouragement to go proudly to prom, dethroning Satan, being married to an electric guitar by Billy Porter, dancing in the prison shower - to go into a vid together. I would also be into a vid that thinks about the genres of the different videos - and the different aspect ratios - and does something interesting to put those different genres together!
Rūrangi (2020) [movie, safety]
Rūrangi is a trans-led film about a trans guy, Caz, who moved to the city when he finished high school. Now he's going back to his rural hometown, where he reconnects with his best friend, his father, and his high school boyfriend. Also, like, it's a whole fucking film about Caz going home to his childhood hometown and his deadname never appears in the whole film.
Content notes: Suicide (offscreen), some transphobia
Request details: I loved this movie slash miniseries - it really felt trans- and queer-made, to me, like even when it deals with transphobia and suicide it felt like it was coming from within the community. I would really love a vid about Caz rebuilding his relationships, especially with Jem and Anahera. I'd also like a vid about Caz's activism, which includes his trans activism in Auckland and also the moment when he uses his activist knowledge to support his father's chemical fertilizer-related activism. I don't know if there's enough footage for it, but I think something about Anahera's attempts to learn Māori would also be really interesting.
Saturday Church (2017) [movie, safety]
Saturday Church is a queer film about a fourteen year old kid, Ulysses, who likes to wear heels and stockings, and who meets some queer and trans kids who go to an outreach program (run by Joan, played by Kate Bornstein). Also it's a musical? And one of Indya Moore and MJ Rodriguez's early roles?
Content notes: homophobia and transphobia; family rejection; coerced underage sex work.
Request details: Okay so I think there's a really beautiful vid to be made from this film: it's about discovering queer community, it's about dancing, it's about people trying to help Ulysses. I really liked the lighting and the framing, especially in some of the happiest moments like the kiss, or the moment when Ulysses first looks at himself in the mirror after putting on lipstick. I find the songs really awkward - so straightforwardly repeating the thing that was already in the dialog - but I think they're framed interestingly and there are a lot of fun visuals there. There is a bunch of sort of classic queer sadness narrative in it too, though, and I think that's important - there's a reason that these kids are homeless or runaways - and I think it's fine to include it but I'd rather not, like, dwell in the details of Aunt Rose being a jerk. I don't really want to give that a ton of time. I'm looking for more beautifully lit moments of finding community.
Taskmaster (NZ TV) [tv, panel show]
The New Zealand version of Taskmaster! There have been two seasons so far, both filmed in the studio and at a much bigger Taskmaster house. Season 1 is a little shaky, but season 2 is GOLD, thanks in large part to David Correos, a contestant who always goes big.
Request details: I know a bunch of people have requested Taskmaster UK vids, but I'd love to see a vid for this group of chaotic hilarious contestants as well! I don't really care about Jeremy Wells at all - least interesting part of the show - but I am delighted by Paul Williams as the taskmaster's assistant, once he hits his stride, and I love that group of incredibly weird chaotic delightful season 2 contestants. I'd love a vid of just like 100% hijinks (by contestants) and deadpan horror or puzzlement (by Paul). Bring me David Correos lying in a bathtub of onions and apologizing for being too mean in his diss track, please!
Thank you for making me a vid!
I have one thing that I put outside the cut tag, because I have a couple visual triggers:
1) Super fast flashes of lights or colors that have high contrast. Almost all vids are fine for me, but some that intercut scenes for two or three frames at a time can trigger this. It depends on the amount of contrast between the two scenes – stutter cuts are fine between two similar scenes, but not between one dark green and one bright red lit scene, or between a nighttime and daytime scene. Strobe lights (in the source) or strobe light effects (in the vid) can also trigger this. These have to be very fast to bother me - it really is like the strobe light effect.
2) Frame rate fuckery - when a show or a vid plays 24 fps footage in 30 fps or vice versa. So, like, when a film puts footage at the wrong frame rate to make it feel awkward or tense, which is super common in action films these days. (For example, the Bucky/Steve knife fight on the street in Winter Solider.) It can also happen by accident, if footage at one frame rate is put into a project with a different frame rate, or sometimes when a show needs to stretch or compress footage and they do it by duplicating every third frame. Some people can't see this at all, but to me it looks stuttery.
If you're concerned about either of these, please feel free to run a sample by
thingswithwings. She can also explain them with examples if that would be helpful. The rest of this post is additional details if you're interested!
General Preferences: I really enjoy the diversity of vidding styles and genres at festivids and I look forward to seeing your style! I'm down for: any rating, outside source (including crossovers), still footage, dialog included in the vid, critiques, action, deep character studies, shippy vids, action vids, dance vids, slash, femslash, het, gen, canon pairings, and non-canon pairings.
Things I love: people who put care into the work they do; building communities and found families; history and places being related to people and feelings; queer people; joy; speculative fiction; eating the rich; fighting for justice; people supporting each other.
Music: I am happy to watch vids to all kinds of music! I love vids to instrumentals (a ton of fun to vid also), to dense lyrics-heavy songs, to hip hop, to weird indie music, to fun dance songs, to classics, and to things I've never heard of before. I also like vids to non-music, like spoken word pieces or sound effects.
That said, I'm hard of hearing in a way that makes it difficult to understand lyrics that are mumbly or obscured by the instrumentation. (I hear volume and instruments and melody fine.) I'd appreciate it if you offered subtitles, especially if you intercut dialog and song lyrics.
The Great Canadian Baking Show (TV) [reality TV]
The Canadian spinoff of The Great British Bake Off, with Canadian themes (Montreal bagels) and ingredients (birch bark syrup and seaweed and saskatoon berries) and a truly stellar number of interesting, thoughtful, awesome contestants.
SADLY dreamwidth won't embed videos for the CBC, but you can meet the bakers of season 3 here
Request details: Soooo I did make a vid for this show last year for Festivids, but due to timing and source availability I was only able to use the first two seasons. Season 5 is airing now! And seasons 3 and 4 had many great bakers and many great running around with cake montages and many disastrous bakes that weren't in my vid! I love the energy in the tent and the way the contestants help each other and laugh together. I love the delightful and surprising successes, the way sometimes a technical bake just comes out and the baker doesn't even know why. I love the energy of the judges, especially Bruno (his little laughs and his delight in new flavors) and Rochelle (her astonished faces at amazing bakes). In season three, I particularly like Colin, Chris, and Jodi. In season 4 I particularly love Sheldon, Tanner, Anjali, Mahathi, Oyaks, Raufikat - all such interesting bakers! Season 5 just started but I'm already prepared to love them all. I'd just like something sweet and fun about this show and these great bakers!
John Boyega RPF [multi]
John Boyega is an actor, a producer, and an activist. I first saw him in Attack the Block (amazing) and then I was thrilled when he was cast in Star Wars. He's a really excellent actor, and he always has interesting things to say about his work.
Request details: So here is the deal: there is a fucking shitton of terrible, racist content and comments about John Boyega that gets in the way of any search you do for him (or shows up in the comments). So all I want is a vid about John Boyega being awesome. It could be about his acting, his activism, his interviews, his critiques of Star Wars and Star Wars fans, or that time he played with puppies to promote Pacific Rim. I just want more good content about John Boyega to exist on the internet. Give me "John Boyega trolling racist fans was great" or "John Boyega and Oscar Isaac are cute about each other" or "John Boyega's powerful commentary on racism." Just something good about John Boyega please.
Lego Masters (USA TV) [reality TV]
A reality television show in which teams of Lego builders build things like moving parade floats, bridges that can withstand the most weight, and castles built up and out from sheer cliffs. It's partly about aesthetic, partly about story, and partly about engineering - what problems can be solved with technic!
Request details: I find this show delightful and charming, and I used it as a pandemic comfort-watching show - people building interesting things and then, sometimes, putting them on shake plates to see if they'd withstand earthquakes. I really enjoy the creativity of the show and I think it would make an absolutely beautiful vid!
MONTERO album music videos [music video playlist, safety]
The music videos for Lil Nas X's album MONTERO - including "Montero," "Someone to Love Me," "That's What I Want," etc. The music videos are all different genres but do something really interesting together!
Request details: Bring me a vid in which Lil Nas X kills and dethrones Satan and then walks down the aisle and gets married to an electric guitar, please! I think there are a ton of cool elements in these music videos and I think they'd be really interesting together. There's this set of queer and Black themes that are sometimes wistful and sometimes nostalgic and sometimes vehement and I just want all these Lil Nas Xs - kissing in the locker room, giving his past self encouragement to go proudly to prom, dethroning Satan, being married to an electric guitar by Billy Porter, dancing in the prison shower - to go into a vid together. I would also be into a vid that thinks about the genres of the different videos - and the different aspect ratios - and does something interesting to put those different genres together!
Rūrangi (2020) [movie, safety]
Rūrangi is a trans-led film about a trans guy, Caz, who moved to the city when he finished high school. Now he's going back to his rural hometown, where he reconnects with his best friend, his father, and his high school boyfriend. Also, like, it's a whole fucking film about Caz going home to his childhood hometown and his deadname never appears in the whole film.
Content notes: Suicide (offscreen), some transphobia
Request details: I loved this movie slash miniseries - it really felt trans- and queer-made, to me, like even when it deals with transphobia and suicide it felt like it was coming from within the community. I would really love a vid about Caz rebuilding his relationships, especially with Jem and Anahera. I'd also like a vid about Caz's activism, which includes his trans activism in Auckland and also the moment when he uses his activist knowledge to support his father's chemical fertilizer-related activism. I don't know if there's enough footage for it, but I think something about Anahera's attempts to learn Māori would also be really interesting.
Saturday Church (2017) [movie, safety]
Saturday Church is a queer film about a fourteen year old kid, Ulysses, who likes to wear heels and stockings, and who meets some queer and trans kids who go to an outreach program (run by Joan, played by Kate Bornstein). Also it's a musical? And one of Indya Moore and MJ Rodriguez's early roles?
Content notes: homophobia and transphobia; family rejection; coerced underage sex work.
Request details: Okay so I think there's a really beautiful vid to be made from this film: it's about discovering queer community, it's about dancing, it's about people trying to help Ulysses. I really liked the lighting and the framing, especially in some of the happiest moments like the kiss, or the moment when Ulysses first looks at himself in the mirror after putting on lipstick. I find the songs really awkward - so straightforwardly repeating the thing that was already in the dialog - but I think they're framed interestingly and there are a lot of fun visuals there. There is a bunch of sort of classic queer sadness narrative in it too, though, and I think that's important - there's a reason that these kids are homeless or runaways - and I think it's fine to include it but I'd rather not, like, dwell in the details of Aunt Rose being a jerk. I don't really want to give that a ton of time. I'm looking for more beautifully lit moments of finding community.
Taskmaster (NZ TV) [tv, panel show]
The New Zealand version of Taskmaster! There have been two seasons so far, both filmed in the studio and at a much bigger Taskmaster house. Season 1 is a little shaky, but season 2 is GOLD, thanks in large part to David Correos, a contestant who always goes big.
Request details: I know a bunch of people have requested Taskmaster UK vids, but I'd love to see a vid for this group of chaotic hilarious contestants as well! I don't really care about Jeremy Wells at all - least interesting part of the show - but I am delighted by Paul Williams as the taskmaster's assistant, once he hits his stride, and I love that group of incredibly weird chaotic delightful season 2 contestants. I'd love a vid of just like 100% hijinks (by contestants) and deadpan horror or puzzlement (by Paul). Bring me David Correos lying in a bathtub of onions and apologizing for being too mean in his diss track, please!
