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So I'm doing it again. I've signed up for:
So if you've ever wanted me to make a vid for you, or others (vids, fics, graphics and a whole lot more are available) go over and check it out. Also, if you do something fanish and want to help out RAINN, you have until, I think, March 14th to sign up.
So if you've ever wanted me to make a vid for you, or others (vids, fics, graphics and a whole lot more are available) go over and check it out. Also, if you do something fanish and want to help out RAINN, you have until, I think, March 14th to sign up.
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But at least it's all for a good cause.
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Also, Is your icon a quote from something? It sounds familiar... (Jack in SG-1 or someting?)
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When I first got it, I just liked it because it was true. We're talking, so true that born and raised Texan speaks with a Canadian accent. *points to self* It's all that damn Canadian TV and various Canadian actors. Anyway, I've since been told that it's a quote from something, but I'll be damned if I remember what it is that people squee at me when they see it.
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Granted I *have* done some vids quickly, but it generally takes a minimum of a week for me. Depends on the fandom, the song, and whether I have an outline. I find it's much faster to vid, if I've written it out on paper first. Helps me keep the POVs straight, and gives me a better flow to the vid. Otherwise I just grab scenes that fit the lyrics and I don't have an overall feel to the vid.
Actually I think that was one of my problems with this vid, I wrote out an outline, but included season 3 in it (but there were bitrate problems with the downloads I had, so decided to keep it mostly season one with a bit of season two). When I changed my materials I had to deviate from the outline, and then got kind of lazy, and ended up with that POV problem you pointed out.
When I first got it, I just liked it because it was true.
CANADIANS DON'T ACTUALLY SAY ABOOT!!! :P
Sorry, it's just one of those things I don't get. I've only ever once heard someone say aboot, and it was because she tripped and it just came out wrong. :P Unless you're a French Canadian or a Newfie, really, I generally can't tell accents. ON TV unless someone has a regional accent I can't tell the difference between Canadian and American actors (with a few exceptions). I just don't get how so many Americans say we talk differently. We grow up watching American TV, we don't actually speak all that differently (except for the eh thing, that's totally true).
Sorry, random rant, and not actually directed at you, more that there's this one yahoo group that constantly brings it up. Also, I remember an old boss of mine telling me that Canadians say, I can't even remember the word now, but that we say it wrong. He could barely speak English and he was correcting mine! Maybe I just don't notice accents enough for me to be able to tell the difference.
Although, Newfies may very well say aboot, I've just never heard it. Do you watch Due South? This whole thing made me think of a quote from it:
I understand your dilemma. In Canada, we have more than a passing familiarity with confusion. We're comprised of 10 provinces and 2 territories communicating across 6 time zones in 2 official languages. The English don't understand the French, the French don't understand the English, and the Inuit, quite frankly, couldn't give a damn about either of them. Added to the equation is the Assembly of First Nations, with a total of 633 separate Indian bands speaking 180 sub-dialects among their 50 linguistic groups. And as if that weren't enough, there are some fisherman on the east coast with a remarkably whimsical accent--
*whew* sorry you had to hear this, I just needed to get it off my chest.
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Most of the time, this is what I'm doing...grabbing clips as I go. But I listen to a song probably over a hundred times, consciously thinking about various scenes that I'll use before I even start, so I guess I work longer on it, but I don't consider that the same. I think since my memory is close to being photographic (not quite, but once I see something, I can recall it pretty easily), I don't have to sift through the scenes as much...I know what I'm looking for.
CANADIANS DON'T ACTUALLY SAY ABOOT!!! :P
That is something else that I've noticed. It's not that you're(? you seem Canadian...I've never paid attention if you ever mentioned it) necessarily saying "aboot"--it's just that there is a difference in vowel quality. But that's how American's over dramatize it so that it seems more foreign...or they try to mimic something that's extremely subtle and they overdo it. I don't remember where it was...I think it was an SG-1 ep where Amanda Tapping said something and then RDA almost parroted it, but you could hear the vowels clearly and they weren't the same. Maybe it was an interview. Don't remember. Anyway, if you can ever find a quote where they say something back to back and they both say something with the "ou" dipthong...you might hear it.
I don't know...I do hear accents and I tend to pick them up extremely easily and I've grown up in Texas where you have that twang thing going (not very much, but you can definitely tell the redneck kids) while I grew up with a former journalism major (Mum) who had most accent trained out of her voice, so it was obvious from an early age. Nine times out of ten, I can't tell a Canadian actor from an American one (unless I just know), but there are some words that will clinch it for me.
Although, Newfies may very well say aboot, I've just never heard it. Do you watch Due South? This whole thing made me think of a quote from it...
I used to watch Due South all the time. But they stopped airing it here. I noticed that it's up for download on one or two communities and I want to grab it before too long, but my internet connection here at the dorm has fallen to an abysmal speed (we're talking 30 kb/s total). I do remember hearing that quote when I watched it all those years ago and I didn't get it at the time (I was young), but now it cracks me up. I need to go back and watch it again if only for that!
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That's how I started out. But at the time, I *really* knew the footage. When I first fell in love with Queer as Folk, I fell hard, but it took me a long time to get into the fandom. And when I did start I started with vids. Which meant that by the time I started vidding I knew the episodes inside and out. I can't say the same with any other fandom though. I love SGA, but most of that love is firmly routed in the fandom. A lot of the episodes I've only seen once. I know them through episode tags, but again, that leads me "Oh I should use that scene that doesn't actually exist outside of fanon" :P
I also started with Windows Movie Maker (Oh god kill me!) and you could only vid chronologically so I'd have this whole great storyline in my head, and then when I actually got to the part I'd end up placing a scene that maybe I'd seen more recently, or something like that, and I'd end up changing the POV or destroying any semblance of a POV in more cases :P
I don't know, about a year ago, I went on this vidding meta binge, and it just got me thinking, and organizing my thoughts more, so now I find writing my ideas out on paper and completing the vid there before I even touch my computer means I end up with better vids. I'll admit to only being a mediocre vidder, so I need all of the tricks I can get. :P Otherwise my vids go from "good" to "forgettable" and sometimes even to "bad". Now, if only I had the time to actually sit down and *do* some of the vids I've finished on paper, I have like 6 in the waiting. :P
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Yes I am, lived here all my life (other than short vacations and my year in China.)
But that's how American's over dramatize it so that it seems more foreign...or they try to mimic something that's extremely subtle and they overdo it.
That? Makes me feel a lot better. Totally takes the steam out of my argument :P
Nine times out of ten, I can't tell a Canadian actor from an American one (unless I just know), but there are some words that will clinch it for me.
Yeah it's the same for me too. Every once in a while I'll hear an actor say something and I'll go "I think they're Canadian" but for the most part, I don't know unless I'm told. I got through 10 seasons of SG-1 before I found out (as in I was told) that Amanda was Canadian. But I have run across people who are like "Oh I know, within like 2 seconds if they're Canadian, it's soooo obvious!" I just kind of shake my head at those people and think, you probably don't even notice half of them. It's just one of those things that turned into a pet peeve of mine. Which is weird, I love Canada, I'm intensely patriotic, I'll go and see a movie, just to support either a Canadian effort, or a Canadian actor, I often relish in the stereotypes and enjoy laughing at Canada's expense, but this one thing just seems to piss me off. I'm not sure why.
I used to watch Due South all the time.
Yeah me too. I keep meaning to go back and watch them again. I watched them when they were originally airing, and since went back and watched the Ray V eps, but the online fandom seems to love Ray K a lot more. It seems like a fun fandom, and I wouldn't mind joining it, but I have this thing about not being in a fandom unless I know the canon... My room mate recently bought season 1 on DVD, maybe I'll rip it and put it on my webpage. I'll let you know if I do, so you can download it if you'd like.
I watched it all those years ago and I didn't get it at the time (I was young), but now it cracks me up.
It always kind of boggles my mind when I hear about how popular Due South is with non-Canadian, especially those who are also non-Americans. So much of the humour is Canadian humour, that if you're not from Canada, I can't help but think you're missing out on half of the show. I guess that says what a good show it is though, when people can love it and still miss out on the cultural references.
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If I'm gonna vid something, I'll make sure that I do know the footage really well. I think that might be what's keeping me from doing more vids--I don't know the footage as well as I would like. Even when I did the episodic vid, I watched the ep three times and listened to the song for probably three hours before I even tried to start. And when I was doing a collaborative vid with my ex-roommate, she did the vidding and I told her what clips to use. I knew it so well that I could name episode and clip title.
I also started with Windows Movie Maker (Oh god kill me!) and you could only vid chronologically so I'd have this whole great storyline in my head, and then when I actually got to the part I'd end up placing a scene that maybe I'd seen more recently, or something like that, and I'd end up changing the POV or destroying any semblance of a POV in more cases :P
*raises hand* Yeah...still there. And when I first *really* started working with it, it would crash every two minutes, so I had to save after *everything*. But I'm stuck with MM since I can't afford any other software and it works for what I do. I won't pretend to say that I'm one of the good vidders or writers...I'm cool with just having people tell me that it was a decent effort. Although I had someone tell me they were downloading a vid to put on their iPod to watch whenever and that made my day in a big way. I guess I just look for those little vindications.
That? Makes me feel a lot better. Totally takes the steam out of my argument :P
At least it's not a malicious thing. But I can tell you that it can get annoying even from this side. Even when I use the subtle dipthongs (I'm a natural mimic, so I usually either don't realize it or can't help it), I'll suddenly have people over doing it and I want to hit them. So I can totally see where you're coming from. It also reminds me of when people get the Texan accent totally wrong. Did you ever watch The Sentinel? They had one episode where Jim was supposed to be undercover as a Texan businessman and Blair was coaching him in the accent and I was ready to throw something at the TV because it was so...bad. And not Texan.
I got through 10 seasons of SG-1 before I found out (as in I was told) that Amanda was Canadian. But I have run across people who are like "Oh I know, within like 2 seconds if they're Canadian, it's soooo obvious!"
I managed to find out sooner than that, but it was through reading her IMDB page and going, "she is?" Then not long after, I picked up the sensitivity to the vowels and heard it. I think she masks it a lot in SG-1 because I've heard her use it more in interviews and other movies. That, and when you're watching a show that you *really* like, you're not listening for stuff like that.
People who use the "it's sooo obvious" excuse get to me, as well. I used to know someone who claimed to be able to tell what US state and Canadian province someone was from after hearing them speak in one scene or something like that. Had I known them in RL, I probably would have hit them. Granted, if you listen to some people in every day life, things like expressions and unconscious pronunciations will give them away in a heartbeat, but an actor in a TV show is so hard to place that it's not worth it to try. Or you cheat and ask them about a Brit using an American accent or an American using a British accent and see how confident they are after that.
My room mate recently bought season 1 on DVD, maybe I'll rip it and put it on my webpage.
I actually keep meaning to check at Hastings to see if I can rent it. I couldn't keep it, but I could at least watch it. Or I could figure out how to burn be able to contribute a lot more toward the cause. ;)
I guess that says what a good show it is though, when people can love it and still miss out on the cultural references.
It probably helps that a lot of the references are either obvious enough that you can understand that there's something there or you can just take away a good story. That is one thing that I remember: there were always good story lines.
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