Vid challenge: 2010 Eid ka Chand fest

[dhobikikutti]

Greetings all! I hesitate to bury this announcement amidst the deluge of lovely post-Vividcon vid announcements, but since I figure even a day or two might make the difference between a tight deadline and an impossible one...

eid_ka_chand, which I co-mod, is running its annual Eid al-Fitr challenge! We welcome fanworks of all kinds focusing on fictional Muslim characters, and we would be especially excited to see vids.

The master list of fictional Muslim characters features a number of visual sources to choose from, and I personally will be happy to aid and abet you in tracking down something shiny and easily viddable, both song- and source-wise.

The challenge goes live between 10th and 12th September, which is, admittedly, a very tight turnaround for making a vid. But if you consider it a run-up for festivids and even manage to make a teeny tiny little vidlet, you'd be making many of us very happy, and also creating recruiter bait for a new fandom.

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Comments

[laurashapiro]

I would love to do this but there's no way I can be ready with it in time for the challenge. I just vid waaaaay more slowly than that -- I have to sit on songs for ages!

That said: I am totally open to/interested in vidding Muslim characters and would love to have you toss me a few movie/song suggestions so that I can let them percolate. It would be good to have some new stuff in the hopper.

Off to look at the character list now...

[dhobikikutti]

It is a short time, I know. Still, a vid at some point is better than one not at all, so tell me what sort of stuff you are interested in vidding? Or I am on chat - this user name at gmail, if you would like to talk there.

[laurashapiro]

I lean toward character-based vids or Big Statement Vids. At the moment I'm more interested in character-based stuff (I tend to flip-flop). I love to do character studies. I'm not generally a shippy vidder. Does this help?

Music-wise: must have a discernible melody! Harmony is a big bonus. I prefer almost every other instrument to guitars. I don't like screamy vocals. My favorite songs to vid are those that have a lot of built-in structure and, ideally, lots of variation in the arrangement. Totally open to music from pretty much any culture or country as long as these basic needs are met.

Feel free to fling things at me. (: