searching for a brave soul

[frayadjacent]

Vidders! As part of the feedback panel I'm planning at VidUKon, I'd like to include a practical session where we watch a vid and talk about what kind of feedback we'd give (positive and also probably concrit?).

So, I'm looking for a brave person to volunteer a vid. The benefit is you will get lots of feedback on it! If you're not at VidUKon, I'll take notes on the feedback and send it to you, unless you don't want me to.

Two requirements:
 - The vid should be at least a more or less complete draft, i.e. no large gaps in the timeline. Totally completed vids are fine too!
 - Please, only vids for which no standard warnings (as defined by Festivids) apply. I'd like the panel to be as accessible as possible to people with triggers. Feel free to ask me if you're not sure!

If no one volunteers I'll just use one of my older vids, but of course it would be awesome if someone had something they wanted to submit for this. :D

Comments

[thatyourefuse]

I'd be delighted for people to pick apart this one, but I don't know if the slightly obscure fandom is an issue?

[frayadjacent]

Fantastic! Thank you!! :D :D

[such_heights]

You're very welcome to any of mine if you'd like!

[frayadjacent]

Oh, awesome, thank you! I might use one of your DW vids -- it would be interesting to do one that uses a source that many in the audience will be familiar with, and another that uses source that many probably won't know?

[beccatoria]

What an awesome idea! I feel genuinely annoyed I won't have anything draft-like to submit. As such_heights said, you're welcome to use anything in my back catalogue if you're stuck for stuff, but I think it'd be super cool if it was someone who was actually looking for current advice...

[frayadjacent]

Yes, that would be the awesomest. I'd have loved to do something like this when I was starting. It makes me wish I was also doing a Vividsection panel! Maybe another time. :D

(I did do something similar online at Vidpub once; it was a pretty cool experience!)

Thanks for offering up your vids! I'd been meaning to double check that playing vids during a panel would be OK -- I assume now it is! How soon should I send them to y'all? Or can I just, like, hook up my laptop to the projector for a minute? (That probably is a bad idea.)

[beccatoria]

Yeah showing some vids is fine! Once we had a panel that was a mini vidshow and then a short discussion.

We did an actual dvd for that, but in general people do just plug in their laptops, that's not a problem. There's a cable at the hotel for it. The sound is not usually as good because you use a different speaker system, but it's totally fine for demonstration purposes.

If you'd prefer dvd stuff, then send it to me and I'll make one. Like, upload to mediafire or something (our server's closed to public uploads now). It will almost certainly miss the printing deadline so it won't have a fancy official cover or anything, like it'll be suuuuuuper basic, but it'll totally play, if that's easier for you.

[frayadjacent]

Thanks! If I select the vids on time I might go with the DVD option so that sound won't be an issue. When would you need it by (ish)?

[beccatoria]

If you don't care about what the menus look like (i.e. you're happy with it looking super plain generic) then like...maybe a week before? I mean, it probably takes me maybe 10 minutes to prepare the stuff for the DVD per vid,then maybe half an hour to an hour (depending on how many vids are on it) to build the .iso file, then another half hour to burn it to disc. So like, I can do it in an evening, especially if I'm not messing about with custom menus. The only thing is that you'll be travelling and in case I run into problems or I need a replacement video file or something, it's probably better we don't do it at the last minute? But like, I could, you know. I've been doing so much re-encoding for the con, I'll probably be doing it in my sleep... ;)

[frayadjacent]

Sounds good, and if for some reason I don't have it in within a week of the con, I'll just plan to play them on my laptop. Thanks so much for the help!

Lol I definitely don't need fancy menus. :D Thanks again!

[ghost_lingering]

I have a vid in progress that you could use that's on it's firstish draft. Timeline filled but I don't consider it done. Inception, Mal-POV. About a minute and a half. The theme is sort of "Inception is gaslighting and really fucked up" but I don't think there are any warnings needed beyond saying "this is about the fucked up premise of the film". There are some flickering bits but I want to take those out anyway if you want them gone for physical trigger reasons.

ETA: wait, I just reread and maybe I misunderstood. I think I thought this was about beta feedback? But if it's about general feedback to posted vids then this probably isn't what you want.

[frayadjacent]

Hm, can I get back to you? Because I really like the idea of being able to give feedback to someone who's specifically looking for it, but yeah, the panel will probably focus more on feedback for finished vids (which I probably wasn't clear about at all in this post). It's only because of time constraints, not because I don't want to talk about beta feedback too!

[ghost_lingering]

Yeah, no worries -- I was the one who misunderstood your intent. But if you do wind up wanting to touch on beta feedback then it's absolutely yours.