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I really enjoy your and mlyn's vid, Ready Steady Go. It's one of those vids where it's so obvious, why hasn't anyone done this before? But still wonderfully executed, fun and fast-paced.

I am going to watch them all, but at this point have seen Flash Dance and Ready, Steady, Go - Good God! They are fantastic! I watched RSG first, and was absolutely transported - in a trance - it was amazing. Of course I noted with happiness the inclusion of the Pros - particularly Bodie flying over the Capri... Then LFN - Wow. Incredible how you've captured and reduced the footage to bring out the strong true flavour. The zinging down and dirty heat, the extreme attract and equally extreme repel, the undeniable *gorgeousness* of the two of them. Love your vids, love love love them. Thank you!

"I Remember" is incredible! I am confused as hell now but I found it visually stunning. It's a sensory overload towards the end with the tunnel into various times/places. I am intrigued enough to go watch the whole of Charlie Jade.

Thanks.

I really enjoyed "Well Well Well" because Book is rarely featured so prominently in Firefly vids. I also thought the pacing fit very well with the music and you did a great job of putting together the TV clips and the movie ones (I've noticed people working with two formats like that have mentioned how tricky it is to make them look the same when one is widescreen and the other full, so to have it be so seamless is really impressive). A really nice mood on this one.

As for "Ready Steady Go"...Dude! You've got The Driver! ( I don't think he was ever called anything else, was he?) Those were excellent short films, and now that you've done it, I find myself surprised I haven't seen him around before. I really enjoyed how you had such a variety of sources--I was thinking at the very beginning "I wonder if they'll have Bullitt in this?" and then there it was. Awesome. The way the shots were matched up was excellent, too.

Nice use of clips.

I’ve only just managed to watch I Remember so this comment will be slightly incoherent with wow. But wow! And I must have that source. And aside from the pretty, (the very, very pretty) I love how it draws you into the main character’s experience because I began watching the vid being interested and curious and trying to figure out what was going on but by the point where the paper folding acts as a metaphor for the universes (and I absolutely adore the juxtapositon of such a trivial action with the end of all worlds) collapsing I was caught up emotionally, running through the endless tunnels with him and the SFX of the universes blending had become less shiny than terrifying.

Oh and I’d just begun to figure out the ubiquity of water in all the imagery when it ended with that single drop. I can see I need to watch this many more times.

i really like the femme nikita vid, and i've never even seen the show. but the song was awesome, the energy to the vid was great, and i absolutely got a sense of the characters' dynamic. really great to watch. thanks -- tally

Wow, I've never even heard of Charlie Jade, but now I absolutely have to watch it as soon as possible. The vid is incredibly intriguing, with fantastic editing and amazing use of beautiful visuals.

Now I can't wait to learn the context for everything. *g*

these are all great (i even like the ones for fandoms i don't even RECOGNIZE, with is awesome), but i wanted to say something specific about 'ready steady go': it's an extremely exhilarating vid. the music is perfect for the subject, and the pacing is very, very well-executed. it makes me feel as if i'm watching teh WORLD'S BEST CAR CHASE SCENE. which is exactly what it IS.

i also like the fact that it focuses on action, instead of emotion. not that i have anything against emotion, my god, but sometimes a balancing palate-cleanser is the perfect thing. also, it's a good reminder that grrl-fans don't just want aww-hearts-and-flowers, which hollywood seems to think we do.

okay, now i'm rambling. thanks for the vid, it perks me right up. i'm going to go watch it again.

::waves:: My kids (teen boys) are very familiar with vids for anime shows, but they didn't think the same idea would work for live action shows. Your Ready, Steady, Go vid really had them going though. (And yes, my stock rose, because hey, I knew all the clips as fast as they did.) So, yes, I liked it, but I think they were the tougher crowd and you won in a walk.

I loved "Ready Steady Go." It was one of the highlights of Club Vivid for me. So much fun!

I have just finished downloading Charlie Jade because of "I Remember" -- it's been a long time since a vid based on new-to-me source gave me such a complete and immediate jolt of "Wow, I have to see that show NOW."

I need to rewatch the vid again (several times) to be able to better articulate why it's working so beautifully for me, but I wanted to go ahead and leave not-terribly-articulate feedback right now. You had me at the song (god I love that song), and then the vid itself is such a great match for the song -- the postapocalyptic lyrics fill in a lot of the story blanks for me, and the starkly beautiful visuals are such a terrific match with the music, spare and darkly lush by turns, all ominous bassline and jangling guitars and weird harmonies. Those first three clips give me enough of the basic premise of the show to make general sense of the rest of the vid even where I didn't know enough to parse specific details. I just... I feel like I'm completely flailing here, so, in conclusion: WOW.

I also wanted to say again how much I enjoyed "Digging in the Dirt" -- that's another one I want to rewatch and be more detailed about, but just to reiterate: I love how that vid manages both to sink us into Baltar's (self-involved, unreliable) psyche and yet to offer a sort of implied outside commentary on his self-involvement and unreliability. It makes me sort of sympathize with him and want to smack him at the same time. Baltar is not one of my favorite characters on the show, and for the length of the vid you make him absolutely compelling to me.

I confess that I was so burned out by the challenge show that I don't remember much about "Well Well Well" besides "Book! Yay!", and I was dancing too hard during CV (especially during "Ready Steady Go"! so much love for that song!) to catch more than a few frames of vids, so I can't speak to those yet, but I hope to have some time after school starts to watch properly.

In the meantime, thank you so much for making and sharing the other two. They will definitely be going in my already-overdue "Vids That Wowed Me at VVC post."

I've never even heard of that first show, but it looks amazing from your vid. Where would I look to find anyone proselytizing for it?

Yay! I borrowed a VVC DVD and got to see "I Remember" today! Wow, beautiful! Great vid! I loved how you summarized the series and kept the focus. I think this is a terrific recruiter vid, and everything I've heard from the con seems to back that up. Very cool. Yay!

Okay, watched "I Remember" yet again and watched the other vids, Miss Overachiever Vidder of 2007... *g* And WOW! They are all awesome.

"I Remember" is so good for Charlie (poor Charlie!). I love the way you wove the water and ice elements through the whole story. The clips for "history" and "sweet conspiracies" are just *pow* absolutely perfect! And it's such a beautiful vid... I think I said that before, but it is, so I'll say it again.

"Flash Dance" -- How can I forget how freakin' sexy Michael and Nikita are?? And yet sometimes I do, and then a vid like this comes along! I love the sex, the violence, the *them* being so *them*. I love how you used so much motion and kept it going, and then certain clips were gut-punch punctuation points. Cool, sexy, beautiful, terrific!

"Ready Steady Go" -- OMG, so fun! I love this. There needs to be more sexy guys in fast cars blowing shit up vids made to danceable songs. Or well, maybe there doesn't need to be because this one is PERFECT! Love. It. (And the first guy we see -- that's totally Satoshi Tsumabuki, isn't it? OMG. I love you and M'Lyn for making this vid.)

"Well Well Well" -- Excellent song choice! I love that it's a vid about Book. This was so moving, and I thought Firefly was pretty much dead to me, but Book...! Still gets me verklempt. This was beautiful and powerful.

And yeesh! If I'd known you were going to have 4 great vids at VVC this year, I would've asked someone to buy me a DVD set. Next year, tip me off, okay?! *g*

Somehow I managed to completely miss the Charlie Jade vid until I got my DVDs yesterday and I did a complete comb-through, and... WHOA. The vid... the music... the visuals... it all came out and hit me in the gut. It's gorgeous and I really need to watch this show now. So I think as a pimp vid it definitely achieved its goal most admirably. :D Thank you for sharing!

I can't seem to view the streaming version of the Charlie Jade vid, so I've just downloaded it. (Hearing about how it was getting other people interested in the show, though they'd never seen it, prompted me to pay more attention to the reruns on Space. Although it seems I only ever get around to it when they're nearing the end of the season.) I should think Charlie Jade must present its own kind of vidding challenges, since they use so many editing tricks throughout the series already.

Off to watch the vid now. :-)

The source for I Remember was completely unfamiliar to me, and yet that vid ended up being one of my favorites of the whole con. The editing was just incredible; you made the vid *move* in the coolest of ways. Great job!

For Well, Well, Well:
The quiet, steady progression of the vid is comforting even while it makes you reconsider aspects of characters. It's almost like a sick lullaby about faith.

Downloaded "I Remember" a couple of weeks ago, and never commented to say how totally awesome it is. Commenting now to say "Damn you!"/"Thank you!" for giving both me and my mother a brand new fandom :) We're currently up to episode 8 :D So, thank you so much for making this incredibly beautiful vid!

Re: I Remember

My god, the visuals are so striking and stark against each other. The music promotes this mood, which you push further with the footage. I can't believe I haven't watched this series. It's so harshly beautiful. There's so much information that you get across in the vid and there's so many strings that you pull through without being too confusing. The way you use the water have to be my favorite pieces of the vid.