shati

Source: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Song: Radioactive (Imagine Dragons & Kendrick Lamar)
Content notes: lots of flashy video game lights; persistent gore; no elcor; surprisingly few dragons; ironically, spiders

Summary: Welcome to the new age.

Thank you to agonistes, thirdblindmouse, and some_stars for betaing!

Download link

( StreamingCollapse )

I virtuously wrote this post on Wednesday, then left my laptop (and as a result, the actual vid file) in Boston. I was going to add more that wasn't just a list of flycam tragedies, but then...I did not.

In the end, the real epic struggle was the process of getting footage. Even though it's like 90% cutscenes! An incomplete list of things I did for this vid:

( SpoilersCollapse )

I used fraps to capture footage, the DAI Cinematic Tools to get lost inside walls and start screaming, and a save editor I will find again someday to get the Divine variations and to edit demon Alistair into existence.

This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!

Fandom: Avatar: The Legend of Korra
Music: Uptown Funk, Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson
Length: 4:29 (74.9 MB)
Content notes: No standard notes apply probably

20 years ago, I made a vid for Club Vivid. Sometimes I can still hear its voice...

Download link (Tumblr post)

Probably 80% of the reason this exists is I wanted Iroh to be the dragon who wants to retire, man. The other 20% is day drinking. (Maybe it was night. Club Vivid vids were due this past winter, right? All of February was a single hideous night.)

I think lost the video project when I got home, then found it, then tried several different streaming hosts, was denied, lay down and wailed, uploaded it to archive.org, saw weird artifacts, and decided everything was ruined instead of checking back after it had more time to process. A noble history. I would like to take this opportunity to thank morgandawn, who I think looked in the fanvid tag and reminded me that I had not finished...this post? anything? I am not finished. I can't retire. man.



This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!

I was going to post my Korra vid first, in the order they actually played, but, fun fact, I have no idea where it is. The greatest threat is not hardware or format obsolescence, it's me. I am the threat.

Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena
Music: Memories of the Heart Already Gone, Titus Jones
Vidshow: Challenge 2015 ("Memory")
Length: 03:44
Notes: Strobe

Download link (and Tumblr post)

I've had this song in mind for years, but I abandoned it as too much a retread of familiar ground after making my vid for last year's Premieres show (and after the realization that I've technically already vidded one of the component songs in the mashup). But then the Challenge theme was memory, and if we can't weirdly reuse structural generalities, clips, and even music from previous vids for a vidshow about memory, when can we? Answer: when it is not an anonymous vidshow! Maybe next year I should vid Supernatural.

[2015 VVC Challenge: Memory] Memories of the Heart Already Gone from shati on Vimeo.

This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!

Recipient: rhea314
Fandom: Mawaru Penguindrum
Music: Look Around You, episodes: Water, and Ghosts
Length: 03:50
Content notes: I think no standard notes apply

Summary: Have you worked out what we're looking for?

Download link

look around you: penguins from shati on Vimeo.

( Vid notesCollapse )

This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!

Recipient: trelkez
Fandom: The Craft
Music: Semi-Charmed Life, by Third Eye Blind
Length: 04:07
Content notes: I prefer not to give content notes (viewer proceeds at their own risk: could be anything), Physical triggers (e.g., epilepsy or migraine: strobe lights, bright lights, "stuttery" cuts between 2-3 stills), Other: suicidal imagery, a shit ton of creepy crawlies

Summary: The 90s called.

Download link

shati semicharmed from shati on Vimeo.

(May add a 1280x720 option later!)

( Vid notesCollapse )

This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!

Recipient: Rhea314
Fandom: Mawaru Penguindrum
Music: Once Upon a December, by Deana Carter
Length: 03:31
Content notes: I prefer not to give content notes (viewer proceeds at their own risk: could be anything), Physical triggers (e.g., epilepsy or migraine: strobe lights, bright lights, "stuttery" cuts between 2-3 stills)

Summary: To not be chosen is to die.

Download link

Thank you to skygiants for -- not just betaing, but for the 5 or 6 times I think I basically turned to her and said "but why were the children in boxes" out of the blue and she gamely tried to piece together the sequence of events in Penguindrum. And for not mocking me when I thought the Princess of the Crystal being rude made sense for one beautiful day.

So much of the process of this vid was just trying to work out what the show is even about. I'm still not completely sure, but I'm...more sure...about what I'm not sure of...now.

This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!

the secret of climbing up on solsbury inish from shati on Vimeo.

This is a vid mashup of my Challenge vid for VVC this year to Solsbury Hill. I think this more accurately captures my own feelings about seals stealing babies, which are: awwww.

I just remuxed it, I didn't adjust the timing at all because attaching cables seemed like a herculean intellectual effort, so there's a lot of instrumental trailing off at the end.

This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!

Source: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Adolescence of Utena
Music: Where is My Mind, Yoav ft. Emily Browning
Length: 04:39
Content notes: Choose not to warn, strobe

Once upon a time there was a princess, and she was very sad.

Download link (49.3 MB)


Where is My Mind - VVC premiere from shati on Vimeo.

AO3

For the Vividcon Premieres show.

This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!

Source: The Secret of Roan Inish
Music: A Dream Within a Dream, The Glitch Mob
Length: 05:14
Content notes: various people kidnapped

Download link


dream within a dream - vvc challenge from shati on Vimeo.

Summary: What the sea will take, the sea must have.

Thank you to skygiants for betaing!

This year's Challenge theme was: Gift. For some reason what really spoke to me on the subject was seals absconding with a baby and then giving him back years later. They gave him back!

This was a formative childhood movie for me. I'm just not sure what it formed.

I enjoyed the, um, diversity of reaction to the seals/selkies, and conversation after the show about selkies.

(My premiere will be up after I get home, I had a tragic mixup about where I had the project file saved. /o\)

This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: the Series
Music: We Are Complicated, Raheemdaplaya (Taylor Swift & Avril Lavigne)
Length: 02:47

Download link


complicated - vvc femslash show from shati on Vimeo.

Many thanks to yhlee, jetpack_monkey, and par_avion for betaing!

Made for the Femslash vidshow at Vividcon.

"#this sounds like the act 1 finale of a teenage lesbian jukebox musical"
-- tumblr user lovecatcadillac, re: the mashup

This entry was also posted at Dreamwidth. It has comments. Reply wherever!