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So in September 2013 Vienna Teng released a new album (you can listen to it for free on Bandcamp, and if you’re not familiar already I seriously cannot recommend it strongly enough), and I and a few of my friends went absolutely bananas over it. I at some point happened to noticed the section of my friend group that was collectively losing their shit over this album and the section of my friend group who were vidders intersected nicely, and there was quite a lot of discussion of vidding various tracks on twitter, which led me to An Idea.

I was really enjoying the album as a whole, which doesn't often happen to me, and I thought it would be cool if we could get enough people together who each wanted to vid one of the tracks and put together sort of a vid album.

I threw the idea out to a few people, and their response was gratifyingly enthusiastic. :D We managed to get everyone a song they were happy with and inspired by, I think, though we didn't *quite* manage to cover all 11 tracks without some doubling up, though we did get there! :D

We agreed pretty quickly that we'd much rather have it be across a range of fandoms, as that would make it more diverse. Plus, I think we'd have struggled to pick one common fandom!

Basically I am extremely lucky in knowing some very talented people, and we’d like to present our vid album.

Level Up by kaydeefalls, fandom: Sleepy Hollow.
In the 99 by cosmic_llin, fandom: The Hunger Games (Movies).
Landsailor by raven, fandom: Multi-fandom.
Close to Home by usuallyhats, fandom: Orphan Black.
The Hymn of Acxiom by beccatoria, fandom: Sleepy Hollow.
Oh Mama No by chaila, fandom: Wonder Woman.
Copenhagen (Let Me Go) by cosmic_llin, fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Flyweight Love by such_heights, fandom: Thor (Movies).
The Breaking Light by such_heights, fandom: Pacific Rim.
Never Look Away by purplefringe, fandom: Doctor Who (2005).
Goodnight New York by chaila, fandom: Bunheads.

ETA: So, some of us went to Nine Worlds Geekfest in August 2014 and wound up talking to the Daily Dot about the Project and why we think Vienna Teng is so popular with vidders, and they wrote a lovely article! Which Vienna Teng then linked to on her Facebook and Twitter! So that was pretty cool. :D

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Dear Festividder,

Hi! :D

First off, thank you so much for making me a vid! I can't wait to see what you come up with! The stuff below is mostly meant to help, not hinder, optional details are optional. I'd much rather see the vid of your heart than have you get hampered down with the below.

Like there's a couple of things that I'd be less keen on receiving but I'll try to be clear about flagging those.

(Also a lot of this is fairly shamelessly copy/pasted from previous letters. ;D)

Music

I've been introduced to so much music I adore that I may never have discovered but for vids so I don't want to rule anything out. Possibly not famously faily artists or songs like Blurred Lines or like, Chris Brown maybe, but other than that, go wild!

I particularly adore Taylor Swift, Dar Williams, Vienna Teng, Emeli Sande's 'Our Version of Events' album, and female vocalists/singer/song-writers in general. I've also recently got very into Delta Rae, Dessa, First Aid Kit, and Sara Bareilles. I also really love musicals. I used to feel weird about them being used for vids when I connect them to their show but I've seen enough vids with musical theatre songs now that if you have an idea, I want to see it!

The most important thing is that the song be right for the fandom/character/vid, and seriously, some of my best beloved music has come to me through vids soooo...surprise me! :D

General

I am far more interested in female characters, and with a few of the requests below I am actively less interested in the guys. This is quite a binary way of looking at it and I will point out anyone who is outside that binary I either do or don't want a vid about but with say, Critical Role and Wheel of Time, I would adore a vid about almost any lady but don't care so much about say, Rand, or Liam O'Brien and Sam Riegel as I do Moiraine, Laura, Ashley, and Marisha.

Tonally for Festivids I'm variable depending on source but I think with the exception of Wheel of Time lean more to the upbeat. I love found family as a trope, people doing their best to do the right thing and trying to change the world for the better as best they can within their own sphere, be it little or big, character studies are great, ship vids are great, "yay we love this source" is great.

Fandoms

The Adventures of Tintin and Adaptations [UMBRELLA]

OK I know what I just said about female characters, don't worry. With this one you really can't go wrong. If you're looking for ideas, usuallyhats made me an incredible one for Festivids last year that was basically everything I wanted. I just want more. Shenanigans would be lovely, Haddock/Calculus/Tintin would be lovely, how great Snowy is and how hard his life is would be lovely. I asked for the umbrella but the books and cartoon are my childhood favs. But I'd also love to see what you did with the whole umbrella. I haven't seen the live action film but it looked like good vid fodder. I think I'd be less interested in something only about the film but if you have an idea, go for it! There's also a radio play series that's excellent but harder to vid.

Critical Role (Web Series) RPF

So I love these doofuses with my whole entire heart, they've been my primary fandom for coming up on 6 years now and I've never been this monofannish for this long. I've never requested them in festivids before so this is uncharted territory.

As I said above, while I adore all of them and would be very happy with an ensemble vid about their beautiful faces and how much they love each other, I wouldn't want a vid focused only or even primarily on any of the boys.

I would be overjoyed if you were to do a "ladies of CritRole" vid, and included people who've guested at the table, I'm very slowly working on one of my own. (Depending on how you felt and what you chose I'd love to see the various nb folks make an appearance too but leave it up to you to handle that in a way that doesn't invalidate their gender.)

A theme in my vids I'm not getting tired of anytime soon is how they've come from where they started, charting their success, etc.

Something that incorporates the stories of the campaigns would also be lovely, or something that explores the storytelling medium. Really, anything, these are just a few ideas if you need them, the only hard thing here is "not just the guys, please".

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) [SAFETY]

I was delighted with this movie, I can't get over what a good job it did of being an excellent movie and a good D&D movie. You can't go far wrong here, really. (Well, possibly not Simon/Doric. They're fine, I just don't want a whole vid about them.) Found family and team shenanigans would probably be my top choice but if there's enough footage a Doric or Holga character study would be amazing. Again, usuallyhats made an incredible vid for this movie that is a great steer on what I'd love.

If you can somehow vid how well the movie embraced the fact it's a D&D movie I'd be thrilled but again, it's just an idea, excited to see anything!

Exandria Unlimited: Calamity (Web Series)

I was about to explain this to you but if we matched on it you know what it is. ;D

This mini campaign was incredible, for my money it might be the best thing CritRole have done to date. I love everything about it. Really anything you wanted to do would be fine. The caveat about not focusing only on the guys applies but otherwise, anything, genuinely. I love the characters, I love the players, I love the worldbuilding, I love every single story choice, I love the tone and message, I love what an amazing, hopeful, inspiring story they made out of something to which you knew the ending, you can't go wrong.

The Wheel of Time (TV)

OK I requested this last year and loved the vids I got but I have since gone feral for it and require even more.

Where to start? I love Moiraine, anything about her, her and Siuan, or her and Lan would be amazing. OR BOTH. I love both those relationships a lot and a vid about either or somehow with the limited footage we have, both, and how they relate to each other and Moiraine would be incredible. Or anything about the sacrifices she's made, yes delicious. This is the only fandom where I am not looking for lighter tone necessarily. (Though it does have its moments so if you're inspired, go for it.) I also love Alanna and her policule, and Egwene, and Nynaeve, and Elayne. (I ship them as a policule.) I'd love to see a vid about the choices and sacrifices everyone I've just listed and then some has had to make, the White Tower and the situation is fucking them all over pretty hard. (Loial's line in the finale about the heroes of today!) Absolutely fucking loved Verin too, would love a vid about her and the Brown Ajah. I'm also obsessed with the idea that the show is presenting the Light and the Dark as very literally black and white but then doing so much interesting work with how people can do awful things in the name of the light and great things in the name of the dark, so a vid on that would be incredible.

Less interested in the Two Rivers boys, so wouldn't be keen to see a vid focused on them, though obv as part of an ensemble, absolutely. I'm also not so bothered about the canon het ships, namely Egwene and Rand and Nynaeve and Lan.

Also, this show is fucking gorgeous so anything showcasing how the one power is wielded, or the scenery and cinematography would also be lovely tbh.

Title: Mineshaft
Fandom: Hamilton
Character/Pairing: Aaron Burr
Music: Mineshaft - Dessa
Content notes: I don't think so?
Summary: I've been here before, I know where it goes.
Notes: Turns out I have a lot of Burr feelings.
Download: here |173 mb
Also on: AO3 | Tumblr



Took me an entire year to notice a formatting error, so here, have last year's festivid that's been lurking under last year's Vidukon premiere, because I am good at this sort of thing.

Title: The Call
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Character/Pairing: Ensemble
Music: The Call - Regina Spektor
Content notes: I'don't think so.
Summary: Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
Notes: So I made a vid about hobbits. But it's also a little bit about purplefringe. Last time I re-read the books, she mentioned that she had plans to make a hobbits vid, she just needed a song. I was very excited for her to do that and did try to find her one, but to no avail. After she died, I kept thinking about all the vids she would never make, this one chief among them. And when I found a song, it felt like the thing I wanted to make, a little bit for her. It's obviously not the vid she would have made, it could never be that, but I'm glad I've made it all the same.
Spoilers: All 3 books and films.
Download: here | 209 mb
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Title: Odds Are
Fandom: Critical Role
Character/Pairing: Ensemble
Music: Odds Are - Barenaked Ladies
Content notes: ...Major character death is obliquely referred to. *eye dart*
Summary: "Odds are we gonna be all right."
Notes: I still love their faces.
Spoilers: Both campaigns, up to 108-ish of 2.
Download: here|193 mb
Also on: AO3|Tumblr

Hi dreamwidth!

I made TWO festivids this year, both CritRole, big shock I know!

Title: Can't Stop The Feeling
Fandom: Critical Role
Character/Pairing: Ensemble
Music: Can't Stop The Feeling - Megan Nicole
Content notes: N/A
Summary: "Got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good soul in my feet."
Spoilers: N/A
Download: Mediafire|377mb
Also on: AO3|Tumblr



Title: D&D 101
Fandom: Critical Role/Handbooker Helper
Character/Pairing: Ensemble
Music: Do Re Mi - Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music
Content notes: N/A
Summary: "Don't know how to play? They'll show you the way."
Spoilers: N/A
Download: Mediafire|Dropbox|176mb
Also on: AO3|Tumblr

Hello friends, it is that time of year again where I belatedly solicit vid recs from you all.

This year I decided to make a vidshow about how much I hate capitalism. (I'm not kidding.) The working, and probably actual, title is "Be Gay, Do Crimes".

So that being said I'd like your vids on this theme. I'm pretty open to interpretation but I mostly want to attempt a vid show on queers and marginalized folk doing what they gotta to survive under capitalism/the patriarchy/etc.

Fandoms I'm considering, an incomplete list:

- Leverage
- Black sails
- Oceans 8
- Carmen Sandiego (new, old, or both)
- I'd take a suitable Mighty Nein/Critical Role vid if there was one that was about them being criminals/trying to carve out their niche enough
- Person of Interest
- White Collar
- Firefly
- Farscape
- Orange is the New Black
- Killing Eve
- Cabaret
- The Matrix
- Bitch Planet
- Saga
- Six of Crows
- Hustle
- Blackpool
- Circus (it's a shitty 90s movie about a heist)
- Legends of Tomorrow
- St Trinian's
- Bandidas

I'm not the most coherent I've ever been right now so if this doesn't make sense, please let me know and I'll be happy to try and clarify. The list of fandoms is not set in stone but hoping showing my working will prompt other suggestions.

So yes, seeking vids in the above fandoms or vids you think do what I'm talking about.

Thank you! <3

This year I over-achieved and made TWO premieres, one is my actual premiere, and one was to go in the vid-show I co-VJe-ed with odessie.

Title: Get Lucky
Fandom: Critical Role
Character/Pairing: Ensemble
Music: Get Lucky - Daft Punk
Content notes: N/A
Summary: "We're up all night to get lucky."
Notes: I just really love their faces.
Spoilers: No, actually, this source is hard to spoil with visuals/vids.
Download: here|266mb
Also on: YouTube|AO3|Tumblr

Get Lucky from silly_cleo on Vimeo.

Password: getlucky

Title: Never Look Away
Fandoms: Dance, Multi-fandom
Sources: Annie (2014), Ballet Shoes, Billy Elliot, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bunheads, Center Stage, Critical Role, Dancing With The Stars, Dirty Dancing, Farscape, Firefly, Flashdance, The Good Place, Hairspray, Kiki, Little Miss Sunshine, Mass Effect, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Moulin Rouge, One Day At A Time, Orphan Black, Practical Magic, Pride, Rent, Save the Last Dance, Singin' in the Rain, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Strictly Ballroom, Strictly Come Dancing, West Side Story, The Worst Witch, Xena
Music: Never Look Away - Vienna Teng
Content notes: N/A
Summary: "I want the storm inside you awoken now."
Notes: This is my love letter to dance.
Spoilers: N/A
Download: here|232mb
Also on: YouTube|AO3|Tumblr

Never Look Away from silly_cleo on Vimeo.

Password: neverlookaway

Title: Ready for the Storm
Fandom: Mass Effect trilogy
Character/Pairing: Jane Shepard
Music: Ready for the Storm - Dougie Maclean
Content notes: Nothing beyond what's in the games. Some explosions, physical triggers-wise, but not particularly fast cuts.
Summary: "The lighthouse will keep shining out." (Or, Shep is the bravest little toaster.)
Notes: Thank you so much to beccatoria for the clips, to usuallyhats for technical help and endlessly patient beta-ing, and walkthegale and cosmic_llin for beta-ing and cheerleading! <3
Spoilers: Very big ones for all 3 games!
Download: here (3:48, 135MB)
Also on: YouTube|AO3|Tumblr

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