Festivids 2016 entry: "Rock This Town" (The Pirates of Penzance)

Title: Rock This Town
Source: The Pirates of Penzance
Music: "Rock This Town", Stray Cats
Vid Download Link: 125 MB at Sendspace

AO3 link.

Summary: The Pirates of Penzance are gonna rock this town.

A Festivid for thingswithwings

Notes: OK, first of all: AAAGGGGHHHHH!!! I completely failed to do my due diligence, and entirely missed the fact that PoP was a Festivids entry. Last year. TO THIS SAME DAMNED SONG. I am still embarrassed as hell about this, so my apologies to everyone who very politely did not rake me over the coals for making such a fundamental mistake. It made me want to delete it and remake the entire vid overnight to some polar opposite piece of music.

So that happened.

But BEFORE that, ( A song and dance about a song and dance movie )

I am so happy that even with my enormous faux pas, a bunch of enthusiastic people left wonderful comments on the original Dreamwidth post. Thank you for letting me know that you all found it as joyful and fun as I did.

( Vid here! )

( Rock This Town Lyrics )

Festivids 2016 entry: "Level Up" (Spy)

Title: Level Up
Source: Spy (2015)
Music: "Level Up", Sway ft. Kelsey
Vid Download Link: 65 MB at Sendspace

AO3 link.

Summary: Susan Cooper: Analyst. Secret agent. BADASS.

A Festivid for awkwardlyary

Notes: I was feeling cocky about how easy my assignment came together, and how much time I had left to make some treats. Then I saw several posts asking for pinch hits and thought it would be nice to help out. On awkwardlyary's list was "Spy", which I hadn't seen but had heard many enthusiastic reviews about, and given it was a lot of the same people involved as "Ghostbusters", I had to try it out.

I loved the movie, from the humor, to Cooper's evolution and build to total badass, to the fact that the star was a woman of size and yet there were no fat jokes. Such a basic thing, yet such a revelation to witness! I googled for songs about leveling up to see what felt right; the first hit wound up being the one I used.

I had fun pulling together the opening credits. I got to learn all sorts of new tricks, from tinting to splitting and freezing. I may yet graduate to using 5% of all the options available in Sony Vegas Pro. :) Everything came together pretty smoothly, aside from having to mess with the speed of several clips. Filmmakers just love their slo-mo moments of awesome, but they don't translate very well to fast-paced vids.

I'm pretty pleased with how it all turned out, considering it was basically a week from claiming the pinch hit to finishing up the vid.

Many thanks to the wonderful comments on the original Dreamwidth and LJ posts.

( Vid here! )

( Level Up Lyrics )

Festivids 2016 treat: "Satellite" (RPF - Chris Hadfield)

Title: Satellite
Source: RPF - Chris Hadfield
Music: "Satellite", Dave Matthews Band
Vid Download Link: 85 MB at Sendspace

AO3 link.

Summary: These are the voyages of Col. Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut, science educator, and generally cool dude. (Description shamelessly stolen from the requester.)

A Festivid treat for thirdblindmouse

Notes: When I was skimming people's wishlists with an eye for making treats, thirdblindmouse's caught my eye. I remember watching Commander Chris Hadfield's "Space Oddity" video and being completely charmed by it. I watched several of his videos after that and was always impressed by what a great human being he seemed to be, a nerd let loose in space who didn't lose his sense of wonder and appreciation for where he was.

I downloaded a ton of clips from Youtube, but I wound up mainly using the Canadian Space Agency's videos with a smattering of others. I chopped off a couple of verses from the song in the interests of delivering a complete vid in time for the deadline; I certainly had enough source material to go for days. When I was sick with bronchitis for weeks on end, I used this vid a way to wind down and mellow out before going to bed. I am quite fond of how it turned out.

I received wonderful comments on the original Dreamwidth and Livejournal posts. Thank you all for the happiness!

( Vid here! )

( Satellite Lyrics )