Awesome reports, tagathon, and *omg* SG1 vid

[unadrift]

I realized today that I haven't checked my f-list for what, a week? How does that happen? Okay, so I was away for the weekend, and then Doctor Who seriously distracted me, but still, huh?

That which stayed unnoticed (among other things):
The Meet the Hewletts and Meet LJ friends event reactions. tacit_uk posted her wonderful take on our fannish days here. Plus, there are puppy and kitten pictures! naye's report on the Hewletts event is very detailed (She took notes!) and just as awesome.

That which has taken too long:
Finally, I posted the sign-up entry for the Season Five Tagathon are open over at sga_episodefic. I'll participate too, it's only fair. *g* Writing a tag for every episode this season is going to be a real challenge. I never signed up for anything before -- I'm curious how I'm going to do fannish work under pressure. I really can't tell.

That which I always neglected:
Vidding. I'd forgotten how much I love it. We watched so many really good fanvids during our fannish long weekend. I never thought I was particularly good at vidding until naye got positively excited about this SG1 vid I made a while ago. Without knowing it was actually mine. I blushed. Seriously, very deeply. Because I know that she has very good taste. It made me rethink my decision to give up vidding, and boosted my motivation, even though my #&@%ing computer drives me totally crazy with its slowness and trashing of files. The result was a Doctor Who vid, and two days of serious fun.

I never really advertised that SG1 vid from a while ago. I had to correct that:

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Title: Fiction
Music: Nik Kershaw
Fandom: SG-1
Notes: The truth is stranger than fiction. This vid was inspired by 'Citizen Joe' and 'Wormhole X-treme'.

Watch on YouTube
Download (80MB)

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ETA: Oh my god, I've been nominated! Look:



Isn't this unbelievably awesome? Well, it is to me, anyway!

Comments

[naye]

Thank you! That's all I needed to pimp it - hopefully it can get some of the feedback it so richly deserves, now. ♥

I know I babbled on about it when I saw it the first time, but I really do have to say some of this again...

I LOVE the intro! I love how you've managed to take a collection of pretty - hm. Average? clips, and made them fit the music SO well, and really - it draws you in, draws you to the characters, even though there aren't any explosions or hugs or anything really extreme like that. (My favorite bit is how Teal'c's blowtorch goes out as the drumroll fades in. Or maybe how you introduce the characters - and the gate! - one by one, and then have them all together. Mmm.)

The same is true of the interludes - you make them interesting, and more than filler.

And I utterly adore the story of the vid - but you knew that already! The "If they made a film of the book of the memory" - eee~! It's so, so perfect, because you've got Joe with his book, watching the film that - uh. Whatshisname. Him made based on the vague memories he had of everything he knew about the Stargate.

I find it so cool that the vid comments that - comments Joe's journey and experiences, and then it goes into things like "If someone had told you you'd be where you are today You'd of thought they were crazy and laughed in their face" and it's SO TRUE when you look at Daniel who started out as the geek and turned into a soldier, and Jack who started out as a stubborn soldier going against the man, and turned into - well. The man!

Also! It makes me GRIN when "the truth is stranger than fiction" and it's BETTER than fiction, because you have Wormhole-Sam, and then real Sam, and she is radiant and smart and so much better than any fantasy you could put on a TV screen. ♥

Oh, I have such MASSIVE love for this! Thank you so much for sharing it!!