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amediaThe DC-Slash Con 2022 vid show, held last night (July 30, 2022), was truly a well-assembled collection of high-quality vids: kudos for Aaron for the terrific selection! SO many great vids, including several that made me want to start watching the show they were based on right now.
I had some favorites I'd like to mention--I'll write up something more comprehensive later, but I want to get some first impressions down now.
N.B. AARGH, I am going through the list and in order to keep this post reasonably doable tonight, I am skipping SO MANY EXCELLENT vids!!! These are not necessarily the best--they're the ones that made a big impression on me.
As is traditional, the opening vid by Aaronantium and Kerguelen racked up a gazillion different clips that had the audience excitedly typing out the fandoms in the chat window. After the vid show, instead of splitting into separate room parties, we persuaded Aaron to show it again, and then again with the sound off and slowed down so we could identify ALL the fandoms. (Even Aaron wasn't sure what they all were!) It turned out there were SIXTY-THREE! I was especially tickled by the shot of Harris & Dietrich from Barney Miller and the clip with Perry the Platypus & Dr. Doofenschmirz from Phineas & Ferb.
I don't watch SPN, nor do I intend to, but hawkland/sidewinder's Destiel vid "Practical Arrangement" (to the song by Sting) still gave me feels. The conflict between the narrator's pretense of a dry, unemotional argument for a marriage of convenience and the deep longing he's trying not to reveal was echoed by the characters, their actions and expressions, with smooth precision.
In addition to due South, I've been getting a lot of pimpage directed at me for Slings and Arrows, a dark comedy that takes place backstage at a Shakespeare theatre company. None more convincing than Noxelementalist's hilarious vid to the evil version of the theme from The Muppet Show!!! I'm sure it's even better for people who know the fandom, but I enjoyed it immensely.
Jamie, who does the REVELCon vid show, supplied an Untamed vid that I loved to itty bitty pieces, a study of Wei Wuxian to a song I hadn't heard before call "Anti-Hero" by Sekai No Owari. The clip choices and song lyrics were a perfect match and made for a great commentary on Wei Wuxian's character as set against the deeply flawed self-righteousness of the cultivation world.
Kandy Fong made a brilliantly comic vid for "Our Flag Means Death" by editing together a medley of Gilbert & Sullivan tunes from HMS Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance. I love G&S and I've seen OFMD, and the combination of the two was *chef's kiss*. Especially since she used the version sung by the Gay Men's Chorus of San Francisco, which altered a few lines from "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore" to make them even more a propos to Stede and even funnier.
Diana Williams did TWO vids in the MDZS/Untamed universe and I loved them both! One was a gently funny-turned-touching vid to Weezer's cover of "No Scrubs," with Lan Wangji as the narrator and Wei Wuxian as the scrub. The other was a wildfire combination of "Planetary Go!" by My Chemical Romance, featuring both Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, in a vid loaded with kinetic energy and excitement.
Kerguelen's Tatort Muenster vid "It Takes Two" did such a great job matching clips to the meaning of the lyrics *and* the mood and flow of the song, it made Boerne and Thiel look like an actual couple on the show. I mean, to those of us wearing slash goggles, of course they are! But this vid made the pairing look like canon.
I liked the Karate Kid movies a lot when they came out, but I've never seen the sequel tv show Cobra Kai. That has to change! Findmeinthealps' vid featuring Johnny and Daniel coming together again, fighting again (figuratively and literally), reaching a difficult rapprochement, sprinkled with flashbacks from the movies, suggested just the kind of enemies-to-lovers narrative that I enjoy--and how incredibly cool that they set it all to the tune of "Hit Me Baby One More Time"!!!
I listen to a Pandora BTS station at work pretty often, but I haven't seen most of their songvids. Franzi's exquisite vid "Six Burning Petals" created an eerie and melancholy mood with its juxtapositions of dreamlike visuals with a haunting instrumental, "Yumeji's Theme" by Shigeru Umebayashi.
Imagine a Cherry Magic vid that set aside the pesky minor angst and focused purely on the sweetness and kindness between Kurosawa and Adachi. Diana Williams made that vid! Her vid to "Marry Me" by Bruno Mars had me smiling happily throughout. Lovely clip choices that worked perfectly with the lyrics.
I've heard Aaronantium explain the premise of the anime Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-Kun, and his super-catchy and super well-cut vid to "Handclap" by Fitz and the Tantrums sealed the deal - I wasn't the only one to ask for it to be included in a DC Slash binge-watch!
And there were many more wonderful vids that I hope to cover in a longer report someday soon!!!
I had some favorites I'd like to mention--I'll write up something more comprehensive later, but I want to get some first impressions down now.
N.B. AARGH, I am going through the list and in order to keep this post reasonably doable tonight, I am skipping SO MANY EXCELLENT vids!!! These are not necessarily the best--they're the ones that made a big impression on me.
As is traditional, the opening vid by Aaronantium and Kerguelen racked up a gazillion different clips that had the audience excitedly typing out the fandoms in the chat window. After the vid show, instead of splitting into separate room parties, we persuaded Aaron to show it again, and then again with the sound off and slowed down so we could identify ALL the fandoms. (Even Aaron wasn't sure what they all were!) It turned out there were SIXTY-THREE! I was especially tickled by the shot of Harris & Dietrich from Barney Miller and the clip with Perry the Platypus & Dr. Doofenschmirz from Phineas & Ferb.
I don't watch SPN, nor do I intend to, but hawkland/sidewinder's Destiel vid "Practical Arrangement" (to the song by Sting) still gave me feels. The conflict between the narrator's pretense of a dry, unemotional argument for a marriage of convenience and the deep longing he's trying not to reveal was echoed by the characters, their actions and expressions, with smooth precision.
In addition to due South, I've been getting a lot of pimpage directed at me for Slings and Arrows, a dark comedy that takes place backstage at a Shakespeare theatre company. None more convincing than Noxelementalist's hilarious vid to the evil version of the theme from The Muppet Show!!! I'm sure it's even better for people who know the fandom, but I enjoyed it immensely.
Jamie, who does the REVELCon vid show, supplied an Untamed vid that I loved to itty bitty pieces, a study of Wei Wuxian to a song I hadn't heard before call "Anti-Hero" by Sekai No Owari. The clip choices and song lyrics were a perfect match and made for a great commentary on Wei Wuxian's character as set against the deeply flawed self-righteousness of the cultivation world.
Kandy Fong made a brilliantly comic vid for "Our Flag Means Death" by editing together a medley of Gilbert & Sullivan tunes from HMS Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance. I love G&S and I've seen OFMD, and the combination of the two was *chef's kiss*. Especially since she used the version sung by the Gay Men's Chorus of San Francisco, which altered a few lines from "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore" to make them even more a propos to Stede and even funnier.
Diana Williams did TWO vids in the MDZS/Untamed universe and I loved them both! One was a gently funny-turned-touching vid to Weezer's cover of "No Scrubs," with Lan Wangji as the narrator and Wei Wuxian as the scrub. The other was a wildfire combination of "Planetary Go!" by My Chemical Romance, featuring both Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, in a vid loaded with kinetic energy and excitement.
Kerguelen's Tatort Muenster vid "It Takes Two" did such a great job matching clips to the meaning of the lyrics *and* the mood and flow of the song, it made Boerne and Thiel look like an actual couple on the show. I mean, to those of us wearing slash goggles, of course they are! But this vid made the pairing look like canon.
I liked the Karate Kid movies a lot when they came out, but I've never seen the sequel tv show Cobra Kai. That has to change! Findmeinthealps' vid featuring Johnny and Daniel coming together again, fighting again (figuratively and literally), reaching a difficult rapprochement, sprinkled with flashbacks from the movies, suggested just the kind of enemies-to-lovers narrative that I enjoy--and how incredibly cool that they set it all to the tune of "Hit Me Baby One More Time"!!!
I listen to a Pandora BTS station at work pretty often, but I haven't seen most of their songvids. Franzi's exquisite vid "Six Burning Petals" created an eerie and melancholy mood with its juxtapositions of dreamlike visuals with a haunting instrumental, "Yumeji's Theme" by Shigeru Umebayashi.
Imagine a Cherry Magic vid that set aside the pesky minor angst and focused purely on the sweetness and kindness between Kurosawa and Adachi. Diana Williams made that vid! Her vid to "Marry Me" by Bruno Mars had me smiling happily throughout. Lovely clip choices that worked perfectly with the lyrics.
I've heard Aaronantium explain the premise of the anime Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-Kun, and his super-catchy and super well-cut vid to "Handclap" by Fitz and the Tantrums sealed the deal - I wasn't the only one to ask for it to be included in a DC Slash binge-watch!
And there were many more wonderful vids that I hope to cover in a longer report someday soon!!!
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Date: 2022-08-01 09:04 pm (UTC)[also, I have the song from your vidshow stuck in my head now, so...thank you for that ;)]
Anti-Hero
Date: 2022-08-03 01:16 am (UTC)Have you done a vid show report for RevelCon 32 yet? I’m sure our Vidder’s would love to see your thoughts about all the vids we showed. Some were new to RevelCon and I thought their vids were really good.
Re: Anti-Hero
Date: 2022-08-08 02:50 am (UTC)Alas, no! *hangs head* And it was SUCH a good show! I hate letting people down - it's one of the reasons I banged out this short report while the vid show was fresh in my mind. I went to four conventions last summer and I am SO far behind on con reports/vid show reports that I'm about to lap myself!!!
Weirdly enough, I should have a little more free time once the semester begins. And I did take detailed notes on the vid show.
Re: Anti-Hero
Date: 2022-08-08 02:17 pm (UTC)Comment from Kandy Fong
Date: 2022-08-03 03:24 am (UTC)It was a great vid show. the high quality of the individual vids meant that I enjoyed watching it all, even the fandoms I do not watch. Amedia was being modest but her vid Cardiac Arrest was wonderful. It featured the other pairing in Cherry Magic and was very well done. She picked just the right song and illustrative clips for that couple.
--Kandy Fong