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Weekend miscellanea
1) Does anyone have any advice for getting into a fandom in another language? I am thinking of making the jump to reading in Spanish, but I don't know where to start. (Besides, you know, typing 'fanficción' into search engines. On the one hand, I would never do that in English; on the other hand, my Spanish reading comprehension is low enough that I will never know if I'm reading badfic)
2) Vidding is continuing to make me think thinky thoughts about narration and mood and, to be real eloquent, stuff. You know, one of the things I was the most pleased about with Backdrifters was how hard I tried to be consistent with color and lighting: I cut out a lot of clips I started with because there was too much natural daylight. And as a result I got a vid that is about 50% invisible unless I turn my monitor up, but it sure is even.
But Torchwood makes that really easy: Torchwoody stuff is almost all filmed in seriously gray surroundings, and half of every episode seems to take place at night. Doctor Who does not make it so easy. Even if I throw out Season 1 - which I have, I'm working mainly from Season 3 right now - I'm finding it really difficult to keep the colors even.
And by the way, when I say crack, unfortunately this is not the funny crack, which is a project I consigned to the WiP folder as soon as Sam Tyler, Evil Mastermind came along. No, once again, my poor vidding subjects have lots of feelings, deep deep feelings. Some day I will produce something that isn't angsty at all.
Also: I said I felt like the POV was a little wobbly in Backdrifters, but now (looking at it from the perspective of the bigger, messier project I'm in now) I feel like I did an okay beginner's job of handing it off from character to character. Now I'm in the middle of a massive bad shared POV and I'm just not sure I've got a plan to handle it.
It took me two months to make Backdrifters, though, and both of the vids I made after that were episodic and fairly easy. I guess I'm okay if I spend a while doing this one. Especially since
3) I never really understood how people could not have time for fandom stuff, and then I, you know. Got a real job. It turns out eighteen academic hours != forty-hour work week. I've been coming home too sleepy to face real tv shows, so I've been watching That Seventies Show streaming on the theory that I couldn't possibly find subtext in it.
You know where this is going. As of this morning I have written 1500 words of Hyde/Foreman, and I'm showing no signs of stopping. At least I'll have something to post!
4) There's months to go, but I am sort of excited about meeting up with the Torchwood team again. They are ridiculous and dysfunctional and I met them before I met the Doctor and just sort of accepted their warpedness at face-value. And I find myself missing them, apocalyptic fuck-ups and all. (ETA: do I need to add a sanity disclaimer when I talk about fictional characters this way? Or do you, dear friendslist, also think of presently off-air dramatis personae as if they were colorful acquaintances of yours who have been on a long vacation in another country?)
5) I have been listening to so much podfic. I will make a rec list soon, because finding a good story paired with a good reader is pretty great.
6) Hi! How are you? The internet sure has been quiet lately.
2) Vidding is continuing to make me think thinky thoughts about narration and mood and, to be real eloquent, stuff. You know, one of the things I was the most pleased about with Backdrifters was how hard I tried to be consistent with color and lighting: I cut out a lot of clips I started with because there was too much natural daylight. And as a result I got a vid that is about 50% invisible unless I turn my monitor up, but it sure is even.
But Torchwood makes that really easy: Torchwoody stuff is almost all filmed in seriously gray surroundings, and half of every episode seems to take place at night. Doctor Who does not make it so easy. Even if I throw out Season 1 - which I have, I'm working mainly from Season 3 right now - I'm finding it really difficult to keep the colors even.
And by the way, when I say crack, unfortunately this is not the funny crack, which is a project I consigned to the WiP folder as soon as Sam Tyler, Evil Mastermind came along. No, once again, my poor vidding subjects have lots of feelings, deep deep feelings. Some day I will produce something that isn't angsty at all.
Also: I said I felt like the POV was a little wobbly in Backdrifters, but now (looking at it from the perspective of the bigger, messier project I'm in now) I feel like I did an okay beginner's job of handing it off from character to character. Now I'm in the middle of a massive bad shared POV and I'm just not sure I've got a plan to handle it.
It took me two months to make Backdrifters, though, and both of the vids I made after that were episodic and fairly easy. I guess I'm okay if I spend a while doing this one. Especially since
3) I never really understood how people could not have time for fandom stuff, and then I, you know. Got a real job. It turns out eighteen academic hours != forty-hour work week. I've been coming home too sleepy to face real tv shows, so I've been watching That Seventies Show streaming on the theory that I couldn't possibly find subtext in it.
You know where this is going. As of this morning I have written 1500 words of Hyde/Foreman, and I'm showing no signs of stopping. At least I'll have something to post!
4) There's months to go, but I am sort of excited about meeting up with the Torchwood team again. They are ridiculous and dysfunctional and I met them before I met the Doctor and just sort of accepted their warpedness at face-value. And I find myself missing them, apocalyptic fuck-ups and all. (ETA: do I need to add a sanity disclaimer when I talk about fictional characters this way? Or do you, dear friendslist, also think of presently off-air dramatis personae as if they were colorful acquaintances of yours who have been on a long vacation in another country?)
5) I have been listening to so much podfic. I will make a rec list soon, because finding a good story paired with a good reader is pretty great.
6) Hi! How are you? The internet sure has been quiet lately.
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