date: Wednesday, July 11 2007time: 12:12pm
feeling: sore
listening to: November Rain by Guns N' Roses
category: Updates
I've updated a fanvid I made a few years ago, November Rain. As always, feedback is craved, since there have been over 300 downloads and not a single person has given me any form of feedback. Those are not good odds! All the same, I'm proud of the vid, and it was fun for me to do. So, enjoy!
date: Sunday, July 08 2007time: 6:18pm
feeling: quixotic
listening to: November Rain by Guns N' Roses
category: Music Videos
This vid has been remastered, using higher quality clips and editing the bits that I was never particularly happy with. Things have changed a little, and it is now one vid instead of two. See below for download details.
Vid Title: November Rain
Artist: Guns N' Roses
Fandom: The Mighty Ducks
Clips from: D1, D2, D3 and Don't Cry and November Rain by Guns N' Roses
Summary: This is an AU vid, in which Casey and Bombay were married and Charlie is their son. This vid (or vids) deals with their break-up and Bombay's self-destruction that follows it, not to mention Charlie's reaction. See the Notes for more details.
File Size: See below (by the download links)
Format: Real and Windows Media
Notes: I can't exactly remember what my thought process was, but I eventually challenged myself to make a video based on Without You by Del James (bear with me on this), using only footage from The Mighty Ducks, and the Without You music videos by Guns N' Roses (for the non-rabid GN'R fans, that's Don't Cry, November Rain and Estranged).
The story of Without You is ultimately about the self-destruction of a man who appears to have everything, but still manages to screw it up. Theoretically Gordon could be that man, he's rich, he's well educated, he's loved, and he could screw it up easily and lose everything. This vid tried to explore that. I have had to use footage from Don't Cry and November Rain by Guns N' Roses because, obviously, Casey and Gordon never got married in the Ducks fandom (but did in my mind, I love that pairing), and so forth. Any questions, hop over to the forums and ask there. I'll answer in great detail, I assure you.
If the vid didn't make sense, try reading the commentary.
Feedback: Always welcome. If you liked it, tell me. If it didn't make sense, let me know, your opinion will not break me. I have never actually had any feedback on this vid, despite there being over 300 downloads. Was it really that bad?
New Version:
Watch at YouTube
[Download Real (49.7MB) | Downloads so far]
[Download Windows Media (14.1MB) | Downloads so far]
Old Version:
Vidding Commentary
[Part 1 (8.13MB) | Downloads so far, 343 at the time of publishing the remastered version]
[Part 2 (12.9MB) | Downloads so far, 279 at the time of publishing the remastered version]
date: Monday, June 11 2007time: 6:18pm
feeling: busy
listening to: No Rain by Blind Melon
category: Updates
Well, I've updated the Queertet layout, in nice simple blues. Not only is this new layout more friendly to browsers with settings larger than 1024x768, but it's also neater and cleaner.
Additionally, I've fixed a load of broken links and uploaded almost 900 caps from D2. I've updated the archive and installed a forum. I hope that this goes down well. I miss this site being a cool place, instead of a broken one.
If you run into any problems or crash into a broken link, just let my know by emailing me or posting a comment here.
date: Thursday, November 09 2006time: 5:17pm
feeling: accomplished
listening to: South Park on DVD in the background
category: Updates
The comments feature on the blog now works, and still has spam protection. I'm a very happy bunny. In theory most links should work now. If they don't, leave a comment.
date: Sunday, November 05 2006time: 11:11am
feeling: annoyed
listening to: Superbeast by Rob Zombie
category: Updates
Currently the comments option appears to be down. While trying to make it spam-proof, I seem to have made it comment-proof as well. Unfortunately, CodeGrrl.com, the website that holds every single answer to life's questions, is down, and I can't get help with it. Then again, nobody's really commenting. I'd rather be spam-proof for the time being. After all, if anyone needs me, they can email.
date: Monday, October 30 2006time: 12:00am
feeling: accomplished
listening to: Need To Destroy by THC
category: Updates
Well, I know I haven't actually uploaded all of this yet, but we're getting somewhere... finally!
Things are being moved over to this blog, and also, when I can fact it, I'm moving the fic from the automated archive at queertet.co.uk to the new archive.
You may wonder why I'm doing this. Well, even if you don't care, I'm going to tell you. I'm absolutely in love with DreamHost, and I really don't see the need to pay for loads of domains hosted with various different companies now that I've found one that will let me have many domains, all hosted on one package. So, slowly I'm moving the domains that I already own over to DreamHost. They really are brilliant hosts, I can't say enough good things about them.
date: Friday, October 27 2006time: 1:01am
feeling: quixotic
listening to: November Rain by Guns N' Roses
category: Vid Commentaries
Commentary on "November Rain"
Well, I did one commentary, and enjoyed it so much (ego-masturbation really puts a smile on your face) that I thought I'd try to explain November Rain. Also, given that the vid is nearly a year old, I'm also probably going to say what I should have done to make it more successful. This is because at some point, I will probably remaster the vid in higher quality clips, and tweak a few things that bothered me.
November Rain is probably an idea that backfired on me. Axl Rose decides to turn Del James' short story Without You into a music video and spends the next ten years explaining himself. Sarah, thestalkycop, decides to do exactly the same and wonders why she has to explain herself. What's the definition of insanity, again? Something about endlessly repeating the same task, but hoping for different results?
Background
Well, first we need backstory, which has slowly been lost as I've uploaded these vids to various sites, changed the sites, changed the host, etc. You can read Without You by Del James online.
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses released three videos, Don't Cry, November Rain and Estranged, which were meant to be The Without You Trilogy, based on the short story, Without You by Del James. Don't Cry opened the story, November Rain continued it, and Estranged was meant to answer any lingering questions. The did not pan out due to a separation between Axl and his then-girlfriend, Stephanie Seymour. Estranged instead became "Part IV of the Trilogy!", and no longer answered any questions. Thankfully, there are copies of the story online, which you can read, if you want
Or you can take my word for it that the story is about a man who appears to have everything but never quite gets love right, and it's because of this that he self-destructs. My vid and Del James' work have that in common, the rest is different.
I decided that Gordon was quite self-destructive (drink-driving [D1], going against what he knows is best to satisfy others [D2]), and I wanted to vid an AU where Gordon was married to Casey and Charlie was their son, based on Without You by Del James, and using footage from the Ducks movies and from the Without You trilogy by GN'R.
I trimmed the song heavily, since it's almost nine minutes long (8:57 to be exact), and made it into two parts. This was clearly a mistake, my download counter tells me, as only half the people who downloaded part one bothered with the second part. I don't get it.
The first half dealt with Gordon's self-destructive behaviour, the second showed his death and the fall-out that was caused to his son, Charlie.
(Technical aside: My drive died, taking with it all of my files, with few back-ups recent enough to contain my working files, so my technical information is guesswork mixed in with things I distinctly remember doing while making this vid).
Part 1
I love the Ice Festival, it's such a pretty backdrop.
I love the moments of non-connection they have there, they're both really into each other in the movie, but they're both really awkward, and the look Casey gives him before walking away really does seem to fit the line:
when I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
Technical Tweaking: Gordon looking over to Casey is in real-time, but there's a point where I razored the clip, I believe that it's at the point where Casey looks down, unable to meet his eyes, and slowed it down, though by how much, I really do not know.
This is the first time I use the fade-to-black trick, which I learnt at the vidding community at LJ. aj2k at LJ made an awesome vid to The Crow (to "Why?" by Stabbing Westward) and I asked her how she managed to get the fade to black. While we were using different programmes (I'm on Adobe, she's on Ulead), I managed to get the gist of it.
What I do is set the clip on the timeline on Video Track 1 and cut the single frame that I want to pause on. I drag it out to the desired length, and right click on it. I click on "Frame Hold" and chose to hold it on the "In Point". Above the frozen frame, on Video Track 2, I lay down a black image (a .bmp works perfectly) of exactly the same length, and use the rubber-band to sort out the transparency (invisible at the start of the frozen clip, 100% visible at the end of it). And that's it, a simple freeze-frame, fade to black. Later on, I use the same trick for fade-to-white, this time with a white .bmp.
I seriously recommend downloading aj2k's vid, because it really does show that slow songs do not have to be dragged down by slow clips. Had I not seen that vid, then November Rain would have been a very boring vid to watch.
On the beat, I cut to Gordon at work, looking thoroughly depressed. The brilliant thing about November Rain (the song) is that it's such a layered song, which means that there's plenty of beats to hit, and if you're a bit crap, like me, then there's plenty of chances to accidentally redeem yourself.
I then cut to him sleeping on Hans/Jan's couch, hoping to imply that he and Casey were having problems, and in the previous scene she had asked him to move out. (Just like the movies, while Hans is not in the second movie, Jan is very interchangeable with Hans. In the vid I use the mentality that they both live there at this point, not that it's clear, but not that it matters).
but darling when I hold you,
Fade to white, followed by a colour-washed and blurry scene of them kissing. I wanted to pause the kiss before it really got going, because this vid is about a the failings of the relationship, so each kiss they share throughout this vid is paused as their lips meet.
I added a Gaussian Blur set to 1.5 and the colour wash is done one of two ways, and since I've lost everything I had on my drive I cannot confirm, so I'll give you both ways that I work with colour washing:
1) Adding a "Tint" filter (in the "Image Control" folder), to about 50%, leaving some colour, but washing it out a little; or
2) duplicating the clip, and setting it on Video Track 2, setting it to black and white (again, in "Image Control") and using the rubber band to make it about 50% transparent.
I get the feeling it was the first one, because for that vid, I remember only having one track for most of the time.
don't you know I feel the same
Lyrically, it doesn't make sense to cut to Charlie, but I do it anyway. Axl is a genius, but even his vids aren't lyrically driven, they're emotionally driven, and if that's good enough for Axl Rose, it's good enough for me. This clip, in my eyes, represents Gordon telling Charlie that he and Casey are getting a divorce, as this conversation happens, they're both thinking of happier times (flashback to a kiss, and I wish I'd colourwashed and blurred it for context, I don't know why I didn't).
Charlie goes running out. Gordon moving in time to the beat was a happy accident, which I like.
nothing lasts forever
The first sign of Gordon falling apart, drink driving, literally.
and we both know hearts can change
Casey walking away, paused and faded to black. I like the look on her face, she doesn't want to walk away, but it's the best thing she can do.
Then we have a cut to Gordon at Hans' place, where I'm trying to imply that he went for counsel, and a couch to sleep on, it was a nice clip to use, nobody is talking and Gordon looks wrecked (in the movie, he's just finished talking about his dad).
Next up is the scene in which Gordon is shouting at Charlie for not cheating (in the movie). Some of these clips I've used for location as well as content (like the one above), but this one was purely to show a failed connection between Gordon and his son, which shows clearly on their faces as Charlie storms out. Also, I liked Gordon looking down in the previous clip, cutting to Charlie looking up, however, a stray frame ruins the image, something I didn't notice when I exported it, and now it's too late to sort it out.
I did try and get Charlie throwing his stick and his pads down to hit both beats, but after hours of fiddling around, I gave up and let just one hit the beat and the other very nearly hit the beat.
and it's hard to hold a candle
in the cold November rain
I got to use my favourite cross-fade, Gordon looking depressed, fading into him walking alone in the snow. I always do a cross-fade there. It always shocks the hell out of me when I watch the movie, to see it as a clean cut because I've faded it so often.
Another cross-fade to Gordon lying on the snow, overlayed with his memories (I hope that's clear) of good times with Charlie.
Overlaying is very simple, you put your main clip on Video Track 1, your second clip on Video Track 2, and use the rubber band to change the opacity. That's the fiddly bit, getting the right opacity so that both clips are clear, and given the colouring and lighting of each clip, the right about changes every single time.
we've been through this such a long long time
I used a fade-to-white (this time the white image would be on Video Track 3), without a freeze-frame, and cut to Gordon knocking on Casey's door, and Casey's reaction to who's behind it.
just trying to kill the pain
A shot of Hans showing Gordon a picture he has and I really cheated on this one. I took a screen cap of Gordon holding the picture, and inserted a black and white screen cap of him hugging Charlie into the frame, instead of the picture of Gordon and his Dad. Since it was a still frame and this vid is quite motion-driven, I zoomed in on the picture. Gordon walks away looking hurt.
but lovers always come and lovers always go
A shot of Casey walking in and looking pleased to see him and Charlie, followed by a shot of Casey hauling Gordon around by his lapels.
and no ones really sure who's letting go today
Smiles between the family, again, not lyrically driven.
walking away
Casey walking away in disgust, followed by Charlie looking hurt.
if we could take the time to lay it on the line
A quick shot, which I'm never sure makes sense to anyone but me and Carla, of Gordon in court. I tried to imply divorce here, but I really don't know if it worked, since I've had very little feedback on this vid, and what I have had is from people who've been involved in me vidding, and giving me clip suggestions... so, let me know.
I could rest my head
just knowing that you were mine
A flashback of Casey looking down as Gordon and Charlie muck about in the snow (that sounds pervy, doesn't it?).
all mine
Followed by a scene of her nervously looking down from the same window as Gordon approaches. Or at least, that's what I tried to imply, by colour-washing and blurring the previous shots to imply flashback. Now I'm reviewing, I think flipping the order of the shots might make it clearer, Gordon approaching, then present-day Casey looking nervous.
so if you want to love me
then darling don't refrain
Casey hesitant at opening the door, and Gordon on the other side. I wish I had slowed down the image of Gordon, because I think it is too quick to really appreciate.
A shot of Gordon at Jan/Hans' place, looking at picture, and Jan catching him. It wasn't a clip I planned on using, but I found it while searching for something else, and it worked for me. This is followed by two shots of Gordon alone. I have to admit, these are mostly fillers, and I apologise for that.
or I'll just end up walking
in the cold November rain
I promised myself I would not go literal on the "November Rain" lyric, but I found myself doing it anyway. My reason was actually more than "Argh! No clips!", I have to say. I liked the pan down of the bus sign, which reminded me of the Estranged video by Guns N' Roses (which panned down the sign for The Rainbow).
We have another shot of Gordon at Hans' place, and a flashback (colourwashed and blurred) of their wedding, which is a piece of footage from the GN'R vid.
do you need some time [beat]
on your own
In the GN'R vid, a flashbulb goes off in time to the beat, and I thought it was so damned nifty I'd use it myself.
do you need some time [beat]
all alone
Shots of Gordon trying to connect with Charlie, as well as Casey trying to slam the door in Gordon's face. The door hitting the beat, because, damnit, I like hitting beats. It makes me feel like a real vidder.
everybody needs some time [beat]
on their own
Being rejected by Casey, after an attempt to reconcile drives Gordon to drink driving (or at least, that was my intention), and attracting the attention of the cops, with their lights hitting full beam on the beat.
don't you know you need some time
all alone
Gordon's arrest, and there we pause Part 1. When I remaster this vid, I'm either going to mix the vids together to make one large vid, or I'm going to find a better place to pause the vid, because Gordon looks really silly in the freeze-frame there.
Part 2
We open in the same place as Part 1, at the Ice Festival, and this part of the vid tries to address what went wrong, and the ultimate destruction that the break-up caused Gordon.
and when your fears subside
and shadows still remain
We have Gordon leaning in for a kiss with Casey, cutting to a kiss for Michele, and back to Casey, who walks away.
Then I intercut Casey walking away and turning back to Gordon, with when Gordon bumps into Marķa, the motion worked nicely.
I know that you can love me
A shot of Gordon and Casey happy together with a freeze-frame fade-to-white. Something I've not mentioned is the different colours in the fades. Fade-to-white is for happy shots, and fade-to-black is for the sad shots. It's really that simple.
when there's no one left to blame
Once more, Gordon and Marķa sharing a moment, then cutting to Charlie, who is older now, knows the truth, and is not happy with his father's actions, he walks away leaving Gordon at the lake. (This time, the location was important, though I think only Carla picked up on that).
Another quick shot of Charlie looking disappointed in Gordon. It was a temporary spacer, but I liked the way Charlie glanced down in time to the music, so it stayed.
so never mind the darkness
we still can find a way
A series of flashbacks to happier times, Gordon approaching Casey at the Ice Festival, kissing her before he got on the bus, kissing at the festival... As I mentioned before, I stopped all the kisses before they could really start, because this is a vid of non-connection between two people (three if you count Charlie).
Then I cut to him kissing Michele again, followed by a clip of Casey walking away in disgust, which I had already used in the vid. Previously it was cut slightly different and slowed down, this time it's at full speed.
Once more, Gordon at the lake. Again, his sighs and gestures hitting bits of music that I hadn't even intended to.
'cause nothing lasts forever
Gordon alone in his house in LA. Carla, my bestest friend and muse, said to me "I like the way you have that shot of Gordon in LA before cutting to the car scenes from GN'R, which are also in LA." Carla credits me with too much intelligence, I had forgotten that both were located in LA, I just liked the shot of Gordon alone, and thinking things over.
even cold November rain
Charlie and Gordon have a moment, and in Sarah!world, this moment was when Gordon apologised to Charlie for putting him through the pain of the divorce. Gordon may have made peace with Charlie, but not himself, and this scene is intercut (on the guitar whines) with shots of Gordon drink driving, though this time he's driving with a purpose.
Getting the impact of the hug to hit the beat was actually harder than I thought it would be. It was hard to judge where the impact actually was in the clip, so I spent hours moving it around one frame to the left, another frame to the left, three to the right, and finally I think Adobe took pity on me, because it finally slotted in.
I know that Gordon is driving a different car to the one in the Don't Cry clips, but please just go with it, this is a heavily constructed reality, and Disney did not provide much that led towards a man's suicide!
I've intercut with the music, rather than on beats, and it seems to work, though it was hard going, since the Don't Cry footage was obviously cut to that music, not November Rain, but eventually it all came together.
As the car crashed, I put four very tiny clips of Gordon hugging Casey on the beats, intercut quickly with the crash, then the explosion, which I had to slow down to fit the music.
The music changes now for the grand finale, which is just a brilliant way to end a song. Axl's an effing genius.
After that it was footage of Hans' funeral intercut with November Rain footage. Since the colouring was different, I had to wash out the colours, using the Tint method, mentioned above.
The November Rain footage was easy to synch up to the beats, since it was filmed for that very purpose. Magic.
Sometimes I cut on the guitar whines, sometime not, because when they sped up the cuts would have been too quick to really make the point.
I intercut Charlie on the lake talking to Bombay with the funeral scene, which is actually set on the lake too! I'm sure only Carla picked up on that, but yes, the lake scenes have been deliberate. Charlie is not only cut up about his father's death, but also the fight on the lake.
I had to get Charlie to walk away before the rain, because there's no rain in Ducks footage.
With the beat before the first "don't you think that you need somebody", I had Charlie smash his hockey stick, with Casey's reaction to his behaviour. From then on we see a lot of Charlie's bad behaviour mostly hitting beats.
I especially liked going from him pushing Adam, to him pushing... is it Russ...? in the locker room.
Carla suggested the ice-touching as a scene, because I was floundering there, and I have to say, it works well, things are spiralling out of control... oooh, it's like a visual metaphor, I'm so deep.
don't you think that you need somebody
Shots of Charlie alienating his friends further, and causing Fulton to walk away (I love that shot, I'm a F/C shipper). I wish I hadn't used Charlie shouting at Hans, because it's just talky-face, though I tolerate him shouting at Fulton... this could be my shipper values clouding the issue.
One shot that always bugs me is when Charlie throws his helmet against the penalty box wall. In the timeline, that hit a beat, but on exporting it looks entirely random.
I wish I'd used a cross-fade between the ice-touching and the flowers on the coffin.
Overall though, I'm still pleased with this set of vids, even if Carla and I are the only people who watch and understand them.
Seriously though, if you've watched November Rain, then please tell me what you think. I don't think I've had more than one piece of feedback about it, and poor old adamandcharliedude is completely overworked as my only vid-feedbacker.
date: Thursday, October 26 2006time: 11:23pm
feeling: angry
listening to: A Narnian Lullaby by Harry Gregson-Williams
category: Updates
So, I lost a huge amount of work when my drive died. The most recent back-up of my site that I can find is from December 2004. This is most distressing. The reason the site is not online fully is because we moved from Lycos (Worst Webhosts In The World Ever) to DreamHost (Best Webhosts In The World Ever!) and I had planned a huge overhaul on the site, so only uploaded the main pages.
So now what I'm trying to do is work with the 2004 content, and the vaguest hints of databases that I have. I regularly backup my databases, as CodeGrrl tells me to, however, I saved to the D drive, which is the drive that died. I still have the C drive, which is a pitiful 40GB drive, and now I'm trying to work on that.
I'm trying desperately to get organised, so please bear with me.
date: Tuesday, December 20 2005time: 10:22pm
feeling: quixotic
listening to: November Rain by Guns N' Roses
category: Music Videos
Vid Title: November Rain [commentary]
Artist: Guns N' Roses
Clips from: D1, D2, D3 and Don't Cry and November Rain by Guns N' Roses
Summary: This is an AU vid, in which Casey and Bombay were married and Charlie is their son. This vid (or vids) deals with their break-up and Bombay's self-destruction that follows it, not to mention Charlie's reaction. See the Notes for more details.
File Size: Part 1: 8.13MB | Part 2: 12.9MB
Notes: I can't exactly remember what my thought process was, but I eventually challenged myself to make a video based on Without You by Del James (bear with me on this), using only footage from The Mighty Ducks, and the Without You music videos by Guns N' Roses (for the non-rabid GN'R fans, that's Don't Cry, November Rain and Estranged).
The story of Without You is ultimately about the self-destruction of a man who appears to have everything, but still manages to screw it up. Theoretically Gordon could be that man, he's rich, he's well educated, he's loved, and he could screw it up easily and lose everything. This vid tried to explore that. I have had to use footage from Don't Cry and November Rain by Guns N' Roses because, obviously, Casey and Gordon never got married in the Ducks fandom (but did in my mind, I love that pairing), and so forth. Any questions, hop over to the forums and ask there. I'll answer in great detail, I assure you.
If the vid didn't make sense, try reading the commentary.
A Repetition of the Plea on Built This Way: Please give me some form of feedback. I feel that Carla and adamandcharliedude are overstretched as my only vid-feedbackers. Come on, tell me if you loved it, hated it, whatever. Just let them have a break from being the only people to comment!
date: Thursday, October 27 2005time: 3:03am
feeling: grumpy
listening to: Dawson's Creek in the background
category: Writing Stuff
I'm so sick of going to ff.net and seeing truckloads of Mary Sue fics ? and worse, seeing them praised to the rafters.
- I'm making a big list of all the overused plot lines in order of irritation:
- New girl at Eden Hall
- New girl at Eden Hall who fancies Adam
- New girl at Eden Hall who is an enforcer and "tames" Fulton or Portman by treating them like shit
- New girl at Eden Hall who treats everyone like shit and is best buddies with all Ducks
(and to be fair, Charlie/Adam angst should be on here, I'm bloody sick of that ?ship and regret posting the first fic of it)
- Now a list of things that generally happen in the above mentioned stories and never cease to piss me off:
- Averman disappears, only to seldom show up to swoon over the new girl (god forbid they give him the funny lines, despite the fact that he is funny)
- Luis becomes a slut who treats women badly or slides back into the Caveman era
- Goldberg only thinks about food ? in the pigging out sense
- Fulton and Portman get out done in the toughness (both on and off the ice) scale by the new girl
- Everyone fancies the new girl
- Dwayne, Russ, Ken, Goldberg and Averman (aka the non-fangirled Ducks) vanish
- Connie and Julie befriend the new girl
- Connie and Julie hate the new girl because she's prettier/tougher/a better player etc. than them
- Coach Orion swoons over the new girl's playing abilities (he's not the swoony type)
- The new girl angsts and faffs around getting a load of attention.
Why the hell don't writers just think before writing? It's so damned repetitive.
And why do there have to be Angsty Sues? There are two girls on the team already, why don't they write from their point of view occasionally?
Julie is single ? this gives writers the perfect opportunity to ?act out' their fangirl fantasies about their favourite Duck. All we really know about Julie is that she's an A-student, there's plenty of room for expanding her character ? though I will happily shoot the first person who gives Julie a gothic makeover and turns her into Gothic-Slut-Julie-Sue.
Connie is ambiguously single, people fight about whether she and Guy broke up. If you want angst n' romance, she's the perfect candidate. She's got years of backstory with Guy that has never been covered and if her relationship is over she'd be upset, if not maybe she's worried that it's all going wrong. Who knows. The point is, that if a girl is needed, a writer doesn't have to put an original character in. And if any of the Ducks was to go off the rails, in my opinion, it would be Connie. She's a bit bolshy in the films and a lot flirty in the books. If you want angst and bad stuff, this is the girl to go for.
Yes, I know I'm being very hypocritical, given that I have Terri, Annie and Aisha running around the fandom ? not to mention the horrible Celine from This Too. Terri was my first foray into the fandom, and I hate how much attention I gave her in the past, it makes me shudder. Annie was created to be a non-romantic, non-threatening outsider for Luis to talk to in Misconception, Aisha was necessary in Shoebox because Connie and Julie would not have fitted Aisha and Annie's roles ? I always had a plan when I wrote that story. And I really don't think Celine counts, since she was only a flashback character. I've decided that Abi from More Than Meets The Eye doesn't count because I hate that fic and wish I'd never started it. Also, I hate Abi. Ah, whatever, shoot me. I Sue up the fandom from time to time.
However, that doesn't make it right.
Bleh, I'm offering up my Characters to ducksues and seeing what happens.
date: Thursday, July 21 2005time: 1:13pm
feeling: artistic
listening to: Bad Reputation by Joan Jett
category: Music Videos
Vid Title: Ducks Behaving Badly
Song Title: Bad Reputation
Artist: Joan Jett
Clips from: D1, D2 and D3
Summary: Just like it says, Ducks behaving badly!
File Size: 12.6MB
Notes: Carla asked for me to vid to this song. I love this song, but lyrically it didn't fit. So I just let violence happen in time with the beat. Oh, and a little bit of a stripping Portman crept in there. Portman rocks. I like it. I think it's my most entertaining so far.
There appears to be a stray frame around the 1 minute mark. I have no idea why this is, because it's actually in the middle of a clip, and going frame-by-frame in Adobe, I still can't figure out what it is. *shrugs* It's a phantom flicker.
Please give me some form of feedback. I feel that Carla and adamandcharliedude are overstretched as my only vid-feedbackers. Come on, tell me if you loved it, hated it, whatever. Just let them have a break from being the only people to comment!
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date: Monday, May 30 2005time: 2:02am
feeling: drained
listening to: Built This Way by Samantha Ronson
category: Music Videos
Vid Title: Built This Way
Artist: Samantha Ronson
Clips from: D1, D2 and D3
Summary: Charlie and Adam, it's a bit angsty.
File Size: 6.23MB
Notes: This vid is only just over a minute long. Aside from anything, the copy of the song I was using actually died in the middle, so I just trimmed it off. Add to that there are actually very few Charlie/Adam moments in the movie, and if I did vid to the whole song, you'd only have 2 more minutes of pointless dirge.
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date: Tuesday, November 16 2004time: 8:20pm
feeling: blank
listening to: Estranged by Guns N' Roses
category: Updates
New layout. Not to go all fangirl, but is this not "teh hottnezz" or what? Also, we now have an automated archive of fan fiction. Actually, there's nowt in it at the moment, but that's where you come in. Sign in and upload your fic. It's like a mini-ff.net, only it allows NC-17 rated fics. Go here and check it out.
date: Thursday, October 14 2004time: 1:13pm
feeling: sleepy
listening to: Hands by Jewel
category: Updates
We now have an Adoption Page where you can adopt the Duck of your chosing. While the Awards here have closed, Flying Proud will be hosting an entirely different set of awards shortly. Believe me, it will not be an honour to be nominated!
Still fairly new is the Discussion Forum, where you can register, use your own avatar, post threads, do what you want. It's a bit barren at the moment, so please join up.
date: Friday, October 01 2004time: 4:04am
feeling: chipper
listening to: Wilder Than Her by Dar Williams
category: Updates
We now have a Discussion Forum, you can register, use your own avatar, post threads, do what you want. It's a bit barren at the moment, so please join up.
Also, a new music video, Run Like Mad - it's short but (hopefully) sweet.
I've taken down the voting form, we'll sort out the awards shortly.
