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[skygiants]

Over the past two weeks I have gone straight from a professional conference to a wedding to VividCon, lugged my roommate's oversized suitcase across four cities, hung out with innumerable incredibly delightful people, seen an equally large number of really stellar vids, visited at least six used bookstores and bought at least ten Gothic novels.

Now I am home and exhausted, so I'm just going to leave my rushed but heartfelt VividCon premiere here and go to bed:

Title: Clean Light (music by The Mowgli's)

"Clean Light_" (Watch on Vimeo)

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(with thanks to aquamirage for valuable early feedback!)

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

!!!

I am falling asleep so also cannot be coherent, but:

look at them!!!

(also A+ song choice *wiggles eyebrows*)

[skygiants]

In 2015 I didn't yet know why I needed cheerful songs about the apocalypse! Thank you for your extremely relevant musical choices :DDDDD

[kate_nepveu]

<3 ! So many character arcs! I feel like Peridot recounting Steven at the Cluster, "and Steven was all, '_My feelings!!_'"

[sovay]

Over the past two weeks I have gone straight from a professional conference to a wedding to VividCon, lugged my roommate's oversized suitcase across four cities, hung out with innumerable incredibly delightful people, seen an equally large number of really stellar vids, visited at least six used bookstores and bought at least ten Gothic novels.

That all sounds good, except for the suitcase, and I hope you can sleep at least metaphysically for a week!

[edit] I like that vid a lot, also the song itself.

[skygiants]

It has all been lovely! I am looking forward to a great deal of sleep in my own bed!

Also, thank you. :D The song was a gift from kate_nepveu from a playlist exchange in 2015!

[sovay]

The song was a gift from kate_nepveu from a playlist exchange in 2015!

I had to hunt it down; it's been stuck in my head.

Do you hear songs and feel that they fit certain fandoms, or do you have vid ideas and see what music matches, or something completely different?

(In most cases where I have thought of vidding something, it's because either a song reminds me of a movie/show or vice versa. Because I don't vid, however, I don't know if this is akin to the unrealistic ways people who don't write conceive of writing.)

[skygiants]

No, that sounds similar to how I conceive of it! (I mean, I didn't-vid but thought about vidding for many years before I actually started doing it.) Songs often remind me of movies/shows, but when I really start wanting to vid them, it's usually because I've started linking very specific imagery up to very specific lines such that I have a kind of proto-vid that plays in my head whenever I hear the song.

I have done the reverse a couple times, too -- here's a vid idea, now I'll find a song that matches it -- but in both cases it was for an assignment and a deadline. Also a fun experience, but something I'm a lot less likely to feel inspired to put in the work to do on my own.

[sovay]

Songs often remind me of movies/shows, but when I really start wanting to vid them, it's usually because I've started linking very specific imagery up to very specific lines such that I have a kind of proto-vid that plays in my head whenever I hear the song.

That sounds extremely useful for when you need to sit down and start putting the vid together.

[cofax7]

OMG YAY! ::flails like kermit::

That was WONDERFUL. YAY.

(I need a Garnet icon...)

[skygiants]

Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it :D (I TOO need a garnet icon)

[aamcnamara]

That was VERY heartfelt and delightful!!

[skygiants]

Thank you!! Too many gem character arcs to have feelings about, too little time in a three-minute song >.>

[brainwane]

What a lovely vid that gets at the yearning and the love that Steven Universe gets so well. I particularly enjoyed your use of the Thanksgiving episode and of Garnet's backstory -- a thing I cherish about Steven Universe is the emergence of understanding and love between people who are very unalike, and I see that so much there.

[skygiants]

Thank you so much for this lovely comment -- I am really glad you liked it! This, too, is one of the things I value very much about Steven Universe.

(... and I wish there was more footage of the Thanksgiving dinner that didn't involve everyone moving their mouths a lot in non-conducive-to-vidding talkyface. >.>)

[opusculasedfera]

I love this vid. It's exactly the mix of terrible feelings and hopefulness that I get out of the show, and I'm all over emotions now. The way you used the backgrounds and the panning shots was so perfect. I love how it emphasises the fact that everyone's journey is about something bigger than themselves, but the way they see that something is often very specific, it's not just the universe in abstract. I have no idea if that made sense, but I adored the vid!

[skygiants]

Ahh, thank you so much for this lovely comment!! This is very much what I was trying to do and I am really really glad that it worked for you. :DD

[sandrylene]

Yay, you are home! I hope you catch up on rest soon. :)

And I love your vid to tiny pieces. <2

[skygiants]

Thank you!! I also hope this. :D (And thank you for the compliment, too! <3)

[hokuton_punch]

THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL ;o; MY HEART IS FILLED WITH JOY

[skygiants]

Thank you!!! :DDDDD

[starlady]

Aw, that was great!!

[rosefox]

Here via kate_nepveu; this is fantastic!

[musesfool]

♥♥♥

[bride_of_lister]

I saw this vid on Tumblr and had to track down a download!

The vid captures so well the steady character driven optimistic tone of Steven Universe so well! That these really are characters with pasts and futures and the importance of all of that on their relationships with each other.

I cried, I smiled and now I'm gonna go show it to all my friends and give them feelings too! <3

[beerbad]

I totally cried watching this at VVC and I'm totally crying watching it now. Wonderful work <3