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LVI's 'Video of the Year' Tournament!
Every year LVI members vote to determine the Best Video of the Year. Vote here during the tournament, or poke around to see past votes.
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Here, every year, the best vids from each category on LVI are found and awarded shiny trinkets. Come in and vote!
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| LVI's Featured Member for August! |
Author:
LVI Council ::
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:20 am
LVI's first Featured Member is.....Dennis (DJC Productions)! 
Dennis has been a member of LVI for over 3 years. He's always made excellent videos - in fact, every single video he has posted here has received both a Gold VP & CP! That's really incredible!  Here is our interview with Dennis!
1) What got you interested in vidding?
I took a media productions class my junior year in high school. I had never edited a thing in my life and the first time I edited a vid in that class I was hooked. I used to go there during all my free periods to edit. I ended up saving all my money and buying a new Mac and editing equipment because I wanted to do it all the time. That's when I really discovered You Tube and started vidding my favorite shows and movies.
2) Do you have a tip, trick, or technique you'd like to share?
This might just be something that everybody already does but it's something that I've done ever since I started vidding, and it's really helped me to keep my vids as organized as they can be.
I like to make sure that I get all the clips that I want to use for a vid in my timeline before I even start editing. This way I know where every possible clip is and I don't have to go searching. It's also really helpful for me to be able to find connections and parallels between clips when I have them all laid out in front of me. It's an especially useful technique for character studies or large ensemble vids and makes it a lot easier to make the best possible vid I can.
I also always go into a vid knowing how I'm going to begin it and end it. I think those are the two toughest and most important things to figure out in a vid. Once I have that figured out, it makes it a lot easier to fill in the middle.
3) What are your favorite current fandoms?
Nothing will ever compare to Lost for me but there are still a few good shows out there that I like. I just got into Sherlock which is really good. Homeland and Game of Thrones are probably the two greatest shows I've seen in a long time. I also like Mad Men, White Collar, Burn Notice, Falling Skies, Community, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, and I just started Breaking Bad.
4) What was your first vid and what is your favorite vid you've done?
My first vid was a Harry Potter vid set to Carly Comando's "Everyday". It was a piece of sh*t.lol
My favorite vid I've done is one of my most recent one's "Lost-Light at the End of the Tunnel". I'm just really happy with the way it came out and the response it's gotten. I feel like it really portrays how I viewed the show and why I loved it so much.
5) Do you have any goals as far as skill improvement or dream projects?
I'm always trying to find ways to get better and learn new stuff all the time. I've learned a lot from just watching other vidders and how different techniques have come and gone. I don't think I'll ever just be satisfied with my editing.
A dream project would be to edit something professionally and have an audience see it. Getting feedback from a crowd would be amazing.
6) How important do you feel that effects are in a video compared to having a good storyline?
I guess it depends on the tempo your going for but I've never been a big fan of effects. I think you can achieve even more in a vid by using minimal to no effects and really focusing on how the clips relate to the music. Videos that achieve that are much more effective in my opinion.
I'm not sure you need a storyline as much as you need organization in a vid. You need to make a vid make sense somehow. Whether it be through finding connections or having the ending relate to the beginning in an interesting way. I think the most important thing is to try and convey an emotion. If it's an epic, intense type song, my objective is to give people chills with the way I edit it. If it's a slow emotional type song, my objective is to make people cry. If people tell me I've done those things, then I feel like I succeeded.lol
7) And finally, a question not vidding-related - if you could meet any celebrity, living or dead, who would it be?
Off the top of my head I would have to say Christopher Nolan because the guy's just a genius and my favorite director.
And Blake Lively for very different reasons.
Featured Videos:
LOST-Light At the End of the Tunnel - a gorgeous ensemble video.
Failsafe-Desmond Hume - an excellent character study that is beautifully edited.
Everything In It's Right Place - a very cool, fast-paced vid showcasing a bunch of different movies!
Congratulations, Dennis!
(Don't know what the Featured Member is? Read here to learn more.  )
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| LVI's Featured CM for August! |
Author:
LVI Council ::
Posted:
Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:19 am
LVI's first Featured Council Member is.....Heather (Uruviel)!
Heather has been an exceptionally active member of LVI for over seven years. She rose from being a beloved member, to an integral Council Member, to now being the Moderator of our favourite website.
As the longest running Council Member of LVI, creator of over 200 videos, and the highest voter on the site, Heather was the clear first choice for our first Featured CM interview. 
1) What got you interested in vidding?
I started out making vids of gymnasts and figure-skaters. I remember being bored with just making graphics, and I got the idea to put together video clips with music – I didn’t realize this was something that was fairly popular around the internet! Then I moved onto vidding Lord of the Rings, then Lost and that’s when I found LVI!
2) Do you have a tip, trick, or technique you'd like to share?
I always print out the lyrics to the song I’m vidding to, and use that as a guide to keep up with the storyline, and also to just make notes about the vid, even timing cues. I use a separate audio program while I am actually putting the clips together in Vegas.
3) What are your favorite current fandoms?
I think my favorite fandom will always be Lost, especially when it comes to vidding. I also love Lord of the Rings and Twilight. I really want to get into vidding The Vampire Diaries and Fringe.
4) What was your first vid and what is your favorite vid you've done?
My very first vid was about Michelle Kwan to the song Fields of Gold. I thought it was really good at the time, but it was not very technical, lol! My favorite vid, that’s a tough one! Probably End of the Summer, it sums up the ending of Lost pretty well, or You Don’t See Me, I’ve just always liked this vid so much!
5) Do you have any goals as far as skill improvement or dream projects?
As a vidder, you can always improve in many ways. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a vid to have the “look”, meaning coloring-wise, that I want. As for dream projects, there are many, many songs that I’d like to vid to that could be make really epic vids, but I always kinda shy away because they feel too big, if that makes sense. Hopefully soon I’ll take a stab at some of them!
6) What role does beat-use play in your vids? Is it something that comes natural to you, or something you have to really work at?
Beat use is really important to me, I think it makes a vid look very cool. There is such a thing as too much beat use, but I try to always hit most beats in my vids. It really depends on the song, if it’s a song I know well, the beat use is pretty easy. Definitely doesn’t come natural, if you’ve seen my early vids, lol. When I started playing bass, that taught me how to follow the timing better.
7) Do you tend to hear a song you want to vid and then come up with something to vid to it? Or do you come up with a vid idea and then hunt for songs?
I go about this both ways. Some of the time, I have an idea for a vid, a certain ship or character, and then search for a song that will work. Other times, I hear a song that just screams “VID”, and usually go straight to work on it. Every now and then, I put my Ipod on shuffle and try to vid the first song that comes up!
Featured Videos:
Afterlife - A beautiful AU Charlie/Claire video where he sees his heaven.
One More Day - A wonderful look at many of the memorable ships of Lost with some cool AU scenes thrown in.
Last Stand- A bittersweet Despenny vid showing the lengths he'll go to so they can be together.
Thank you, Heather! You're a vital, and much-loved, part of LVI!
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