Another vid

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

Just as I had posted the other vid, a new bunny attacked :-) A bit more angsty bunny, hope you like the result.
Since I now have two RD vids, I have made a page for the fandom, and added pages for each of the vids with lyrics.
http://ancalime.slashcity.net/
As usually go via the main vidpage. Please do not distribute the vid without asking or give anyone a direct link to it, use link as above.
Enjoy!

Comments

[erinptah]

Very sweet. Very nice.

You need a better title font. The thick bright red letters would work on a smaller video, but you've got large, high-quality clips here. Do something more subtle.

I liked the use of transitions; the fade-takes worked well and flowed nicely. I felt like the camouflage-transition in the beginning worked, but thinking back on it, it feels gimmicky; it didn't fit in with the rest of the vid. (But if you did more transitions like that throughout the vid, it would feel gimmicky.)

Good song choice, good clip choice with the Ace clips, and I'm glad you didn't overdo it with the kiss.

(I've just been reading on metafandom about vidders never getting feedback, so I'm working on it. Hope you don't mind.)

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I don't mind at all, I really wish more people would take that to heart as you do. It is almost depressing sometimes - I counted 120 downloads for one vid, and not one of them bothered to tell me what they actually thought of the vid...
It is specially gratifying that people take time for constructive criticism. I do suspect it is a little as with fics, that people hesitate to criticize, and I have to say, from what I have seen in fandoms, with good reason. I have seen again and again fandom writers claiming that crit is good and then go off in a huff and never want to write again, if people actually come with some. One needs to establish that one actually can handle such things graciously, before people will start to do it.
I am glad you liked it, and again thanks for telling me what you thought was not so good. I rarely change the vid once it is posted, but it is very important to know which of the things I try that works for people and which doesn't.
He, it is so easy to overdo the kiss, isn't it? I resisted the temptation :-)
The beginning and end was done the same on purpose, to create the idea that this is someone thinking. Possibly way to subtle... It is clearly the type of transition I would not use inside the vid, as it would take too much attention from the actual clips. Unless some very specific effect was required, of course.

[erinptah]

Eh, this is the first time I've bothered - usually I'm too busy/lazy ^_^; I'll start doing it more now, though. You're encouraging.

Set up some kind of message board on your site, or even a simple comment box - SiteGadgets or SparkLit should have something like that. It's a big threshhold to cross to actually email somebody, but leaving a typed note that doesn't require registering for anything is much less intimidating.

Also, have you tried putting your vids on YouTube? Good exposure, easy comment structure, and people can add your vids to their favorites, so the views-to-favorites ratio gives you some idea of what people think of a given video.

(Of course, your company includes a cat flushing a toilet, but I actually found that amusing, so it's all good.)

"Someone thinking"? That's actually interesting, but definitely too subtle. I didn't catch it at all.

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

Guest book - If you scroll down you see I have one. I occasionally get feedback there.
YouTube - you don't want me start ranting on that ;-) I actually think I have made one comment on that on this forum already.
Sufficient to say, I think fanvids on YouTube are a very bad idea and may have serious repercussions for all vidders who use Internet.
And there is no way I am going to distribute my vids with such bad resolution anyway. It is bad enough that I can not have everyone see them in the quality I make them in. A little fixed idea of mine, this ::G::