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:
YouTube link removed, thanks to a scary Cease & Desist from BabyCow about my Boosh vids.
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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]

Vid Title: Save Yourself

Artist: Stabbing Westward

Fandom: The Lost Boys

Summary: Michael and Star. Not exactly a love story.

Rated: 15, same as the movie

File Size: 18.1 MB in Real, or 9.8 MB in Windows Media Player

Format: Real and Windows, but please don’t upload this video elsewhere. It’s such bad manners.

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If you’ve dropped by to have a look at the music vids here, I’d have to suggest that you watch In The Hall of the Mountain King (Needful Things), Holding Out for a Hero, and Pump Up The Volume as your first few downloads. They’re my most recent, and also the best I’ve done. I’ve gotten better at vidding over time, so the further back you go, the more amaturish the vids are. That said, Bad Reputation is much better than Every Day I Love You Less and Less.

Something that baffles me is why November Rain Part 1 has 65 downloads, but Part 2 only has 29. Do people only watch the first half and not care about the second half? I really should have edited the song better, so it was all one video. I think maybe that can be my next project.

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?

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).

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.

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 María, 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 María 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.

Commentary on “In The Hall of the Mountain King” (Needful Things vid)

I know you probably have to be a big name vidder, like here’s luck to really necessitate a commentary, but I was pretty pleased with the Needful Things vid, so I thought maybe a commentary might be in order, especially since I get a fair amount of emails about vidding – very few about my vids, but plenty asking for technical help. This sort of implies that my vids don’t really speak to anyone on an emotional level, but every so often someone will think “Wow, that was cool, wonder how she did that”, which is still odd, since I rarely use special effects (Pump Up The Volume aside).

So, on to the commentary.

First of all, music. I trimmed the song a fair amount, the full song was over five minutes, and while there was plenty of source material to use, I thought I’d probably be repeating myself, and would tire a viewer with a sea of faces all reacting to seeing the object of their desire (in this fandom, literally an object, not a person) offered to them, or the “pranking” of other Castle Rock residents.

I thought the final two minutes would suffice. I chose the music because it starts slow and friendly but gets aggressive, and trimming it to two minutes gave enough of each.

I initially started the vid with a sweep-over of Castle Rock, and the approach of Leland Gaunt in his car. This didn’t work for a number of reasons; first of all, you cannot actually see into the car, and therefore get no personal link; secondly, the clips are actually quite boring, no matter how you cut them; and thirdly, the music is tentative to begin with. Gaunt is in no way hesitant in his approach to the town.

It’s the residents that are wary of approaching him, and there lay the key. Nettie’s scattered personality matched the music perfectly (which is probably why it’s used in her pranking scene in the movie itself). I knew I wanted Nettie and Brian to feature quite heavily in the vid, since they are my favourite characters, and it was only when I actually sat down with all the clips I noticed how the shots mirrored each other.

So, I stole an idea from here’s luck: intercut the scenes as closely as you can (as seen in the fantastic fight scene in “Come On” and also in “Superstar”). Only, I couldn’t get it right, so I cheated and used cross-fades between them. The shot of Nettie crossing the road had to be slowed down, I wanted to see her approach the shop, but she was striding quite briskly. It took me a lot longer than it should have to understand why that intro seemed so clunky. Eventually, I realised Nettie was causing the problem, she was moving too fast for both the music and the rest of the clips, once I slowed her down, the intro smoothed out nicely.

It’s actually only this second I’ve realised that Nettie walks across the road before peering through the window. Pretend I have a reason for that.

For awhile the scene were Nettie reaches out to touch the ornament, then pulls her hand back, and where Brian reaches for the baseball card, then pulls away, were intercut (find a vidding guru, steal everything from her), but it just never worked. Most probably because, while the scenes do mirror each other nicely, the shot of Brian is from the waist up, whereas Nettie’s is a close-up. The overall look of both clips were just too different.

After Brian and Nettie have been won over, the music becomes more definite, so at this point I stopped the cross-fades (which worked when the music was lighter) and showed a quick cross-section of residents, all eyeing up their Needful Things. The shot of Buster looking at the Winning Ticket game was something I really wanted in there, the light was so pretty, so I sped it up to 170% so the shot wouldn’t drag.

Something I love about vidding this movie was the amount of non-verbal scenes, it was all silent reaction. It’s such a nice change from vidding Boosh, where I’ve had to do some pretty sharp cuts to avoid talky-face (or have just had to live with it).

As the music gets even more intense, we see a new side of Gaunt, the one that wants a trick as part of the payment. I love the smile on his face when he shows Hugh the knife. I’m less keen on the speed of the clip where Gaunt throws the apple to Brian, but I never found a way to speed it up without making it look really odd, so in the end I trimmed it as much as I could and left it.

And randomly, we have a quick shot of Nettie making a fuss of Raider (the dog) for context on the next shot – Hugh pulling out the knife while with Raider.

As the music kicks off, we have Nettie slamming a pink slip on Buster’s wall. I wanted to start with Nettie, since I’d started with her and Brian to begin with.

The slashing of the tires was a happy accident, both stabbing in and pulling out hit the beat perfectly as I laid it down on the track, no tweaking, no trimming. I randomly get one of those per vid, where the action fits the music perfectly without any further trimming or moving around. That was this vid’s.

A shot of Brian throwing the apples. Oh, wait, I lied about my random happy accident, the TV exploding was another one. Actually, I wasn’t going to use that clip, it was on the tail end of the previous clip, but it fit so well that I kept it, even though it does seem to drag a little.

The section of clips following that, up until Nettie finds poor Raider all strung up, was actually harder than I thought it would be. There’s actually not that many “pranks” shown in the movie, and not all of them are visual (such as Polly being made to think that Alan is embezzling money). I can’t for the life of me remember why I didn’t use a clip of Buster finding the pink slips though.

There are a few clips of the town going mad (window smashes, Alan seeing residents attacking each other), although as someone mentioned on imdb, why are they doing this? Why are they looting? The whole point is that Gaunt uses people to play pranks, so that the victim will assume it’s the person they’ve had issues with in the past. Naturally, they go nuts at that person, they don’t go out looting…

Ooops, back to the commentary.

Wilma sees her smashed windows and goes for the meat cleaver, I love the lightning flashes in that scene. Tips on hitting the beat by here’s luck, “This is the sort of thing that became absurdly easy once I figured out the trick to it: place the frame with the point of impact three frames *before* the frame where the beat actually falls.”

And once more, I steal from here’s luck. I think the fight scene of “Come On” is absolute genius, I’ve read the commentary hundreds of times in the vague hope that her talent will rub off on me if I just read about it enough. Wilma slams Nettie against the fridge, Random Guy goes in for a punch with another random guy, Nettie ducks the punch, Random Guy slams other random guy to the side, and Nettie and Wilma go flying over the table. I think I flipped one of those clips to make it synch up.

Using here’s luck’s method of hitting the beat I had Nettie bring the cleaver down on one beat, and them falling out of the window, to land heavily on the next.

The next bit of music fit Buster’s suicidal insanity brilliantly. J.T. Walsh is a god.

Boom, lightning hits the church steeple. Boom, church blows up. Two well-hit beats.

Alan gets out of his car, this was a spacer before the next explosion. Since the vid never pays much attention to Alan, he could be a lunatic with a gun for all the viewer might know. Either way, it works. If you know the story, he’s trying to stop the insanity, if you don’t, well, a crazy has just gone and armed himself.

Four more explosions hitting the beat. The second needed setting to 99% speed to last the correct amount of time, as did the fourth, but overall, I was quite lucky with the speed of things.

Well, that was fun. If I ever make another vid I like so much, I might do it again.

New video, this time to Needful Things.

Vid Title: In The Hall of the Mountain King [commentary]

Artist: Sconosciuto/Edvard Greig

Fandom: Needful Things

Summary: A very short summary of the film, set to music? I think that’s the best I can do.

Rated: R – same as the source material, for a certain doggie scene. My apologies.

File Size: 18.7 MB – it’s very pretty quality.

Format: Real. Why? Because there’s hundreds of copies of Hero all over the net, thanks to YouTube, and I like to keep track of my vids – also, Real is far easy to deal with than Quicktime. I should have chosen this format years ago.

Notes: Again, I state this vid is rated R because of a quick flash of nastiness. It’s not on there long, so I can’t imagine people will be disturbed, but don’t say you weren’t warned.

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Vid Title: Pump Up The Volume

Artist: MARRS

Fandom: The Mighty Boosh

Summary: Dancing, lots of it.

Rated: U, same as the show

File Size: 20.2 MB – again, a large file because it’s in Quicktime.

Format: Quicktime. Why? Because there’s hundreds of copies of Hero all over the net, thanks to YouTube, and I like to keep track of my vids.

Dedication and Thanks: Again to Maestro, who threatened to kick my arse if I didn’t finish this soon. This vid has been on my computer for months – even before Hero – waiting for the final 18 seconds to be put on. I have now done this. Enjoy.

Notes: There is no disclaimer on the vid itself. I feel bad about this, but cannot face rendering it again (once you see it, you’ll know which five-second segment took over an hour to render). I own nothing, not the song, not the clips, nothing.

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Artist: The Kaiser Chiefs

Fandom: The Mighty Boosh

Summary: When I vidded Hero, I found it really hard to find shippiness, and thought to myself that it must be so much easier to do a fighting vid. This vid proves me wrong. Muchas fighting between Vince and Howard. Once again, I aimed for comedy, and once again, I’m not sure I got there.

Rated: U, same as the show

File Size: 27.4 MB – this one’s huge because I used large clips. I will be uploading the re-mastered Hero vid soon too.

Format: Quicktime. Why? Because there’s hundreds of copies of Hero all over the net, thanks to YouTube, and I like to keep track of my vids.

Dedication and Thanks: Maestro, queen of all that is flamey and penguiny. Her *hard stares* really got me through this. The fear of Maestro was far stronger than the urge to leave this alone and come back to it later.

Notes: Oh, by the way, feedback does not suck, so… yeah. Leave some bitches. Uh… nice bitches.

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Artist: Bonnie Tyler

Fandom: The Mighty Boosh

Summary: Vince/Howard, even though I started it as a general vid rather than a shippy one. The first verse is Howard’s point of view, second is Vince’s.

Rated: U, same as the show

File Size: 6.6 MB

Notes: Oh, by the way, feedback does not suck, so… yeah. Leave some bitches. Uh… nice bitches. (Here’s where I offend people before they get the reference).

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Vid Title: November Rain [commentary]

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: 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!

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