mini dvd commentary meme

[such_heights]

Via chaila, this looks about the right speed for my brain this week, which is made of fuzz and ill and allergies.

Mini-DVD Meme: Pick any section of a vid or a paragraph or any passage less than 500 words from any fanfic I've written and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet of what I was thinking when I made or wrote it, why I wrote it, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the vid or fic, and anything else you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

Fanwork Masterlist.

Comments

[chaila]

From New Directions:

Suki stands in front of the mirror, studying the paint on her face, the lines and colours a familiar badge of honour. She's proud of her heritage, the mantle she took from her mother and the battles she's shared with her sister warriors, but she's not sure she recognises herself underneath the painted mask any more. She's done so much, and proved herself as a warrior a hundred times over, but now the world has changed and there may be no more battles left to fight. What place is there for a Kyoshi Warrior when a hundred years of war have finally turned to peace?

She thinks she might like to teach, to help pass on the traditions she learned at her mother's knee, which still have value even if their purpose no longer exists. The people of Kyoshi Island should never forget the war, and never forget the soldiers that never came home.

[such_heights]

Suki! <3

So I love Suki in the series but she doesn't get a huge amount of character development - which is fair, she's not in that many episodes, and she does get to be awesome. But I think her progression is interesting - from protecting Kyoshi Island, to helping refugees, to leaving all that behind and going off with the Avatar.

One of my biggest bulletproof kinks in fiction - and something I touch on all the time in my fic, I think - is the idea of what happens after the adventure, and the thought that maybe you can't quite go back to how things were before because you've changed and your home's changed. And I think that particularly applies to Suki on the show because of the ways in which war has shaped her upbringing and her culture. But if anyone could figure out how to negotiate that change whilst maintaining continuity and links with her community and so on, I think she'd be a good bet.

[chagrined]

Can I be a bit troublesome and instead of a specific work, request a little bit of commentary on ~your~ feelings on vidding animated source, versus live action? :) If you must link to one fanwork, then maybe the first animated vid you did? (Which from looking at your fanwork masterlist I ~think~ is the Finding Nemo one? but correct me if I am wrong! Although maybe there are also some differences btwn 3D animation and 2D animation like with Avatar, heh. Which could be a thing too! If you think so.)

[chaila]

Suki! I love how you filled in a lot of that development in these couple of paragraphs.

[such_heights]

Of course!

I didn't find vidding Finding Nemo to be particularly different to working with live action source, although that is possibly in part because I was working with limited footage and was doing something fairly simple, namely a linear character study.

Vidding Avatar was definitely a different experience, though! I really enjoyed it, and it was super interesting to see the way the footage just responded differently to how my usual sources would. The way motion works is quite different, because there are a lot of moments of stillness, which might be relatively short or quite long, which is cool and useful for doing stuff like crossfades and overlays, but other times meant I ended up needing to add quite a lot of motion. All of which I really liked because it forced me to expand a bit as a vidder, which is always a good thing. I should vid some more Avatar some time!