my pop video project

[erilyn]

With many thanks to all those in fandom who share footage and photos, to glendaglamazon, withdiamonds, eponymous, marrymehowie, daisydust for encouragement, suggestions and clip help, and especially trumpeterofdoom for listening to me drone on about this more than any one person should have to, and for making many useful suggestions (which I didn't listen to enough).

The Joy of Pop
Why I love Nsync and Backstreet Boys - eighteen minutes of song, dance and extreme dorkitude.
+ avi - 113 meg
+ wmv - 40 meg

Backstory: About a third of those attending the fan gathering get__together in NZ were pop fans. I decided to try making something for us to watch, that hopefully other fans could enjoy watching too, even without knowing the groups or the context of footage. Mind you, I'd done virtually no video editing before, didn't have a clear idea of what I was making, didn't want it too slash focused (didn't want to exclude non RPS fans) and wanted to limit myself to reasonable quality footage, as where we were having the gathering has a bigass screen. Over the month or so that this project consumed my brain, I did question my sanity a fair bit, and my ideas on what I was making kept changing, so I'm not claiming I achieved these goals ;) But I'm reasonably satisfied with how it turned out.

While I was making it, glendaglamazon suggested I ask about the sparklecon footage party. withdiamonds and marrymehowie kindly accepted, and barring any issues (::crosses fingers and toes that the dvd works::), hopefully they will watch it this weekend at the party.

I put in and took out more clips than I ended up using (and struggled to keep it group-centric when it was turning into a Chris and Brian lovefest, I swear) and might ramble at length another time about the making of this (there are two things I had to do that I impressed myself with, though they really aren't that cool *g*). But for now I'll shut up!

I hope you enjoy, and would love to hear your reactions/thoughts on it :)

Comments

[nopseud]

That is absolutely fabulous. I think it's makes a great introduction to the fandom; I was thinking that a bit more interview footage might be good, but thinking about it again, as you say a lot of the enjoyment of short clips of that depends on already knowing more about the context or the people, so I think you hit a good balance. It made me squeak out loud with glee several time, but especially at the end. You definitely deserve a Chris hug for this :-)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! One of the things with clip choices was I was also trying to keep it to about 15 minutes or so (18 minutes isn't so bad *g*). Watching it with a mixed audience, I felt that the performances went on a bit long for the non-pop fans (which I'd suspected, but was kind of over it, and couldn't bring myself to cut it *g*) and that more goofiness might have been needed.

It was interesting trying to decide what to include, so much stuff that I thought of needed more context, or to show longer clips than I wanted to use (or the video quality wasn't very good). I wibbled about including the BSB Oprah clip, just cause of the sheer amount of backstory (and ensuing events) that gives that appearance it's real impact, but couldn't not include it and figured people who don't know the other stuff can still enjoy hugging.