Lost Video Island

mistojen · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:36 am Post subject: Crossover Vids?

Um, so...I have a new OTP and only one of them is from Lost...so, if I was to give a crossover vid a whirl, would it be welcome here, or is that kind of frowned upon?

Polarbear · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:44 am Post subject:

Excellent question mistojen! Well we do allow crossovers as long as the majority of footage is from Lost and it is within the Lost universe eg. if you had Sawyer and Alex turning up in the Buffy universe with vampires and demons and stuff that would be a no no but if you had Buffy wash up on the island that would be fine.

Even if you go against my advice we will probably put it through it just isn't likely to get a CP. I <3 crossover vids by the way so I'll look forward to what you come up with.
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mistojen · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:57 am Post subject:

Ok, well...I'll test the idea, then, before I do it, because, to be honest, making vids is fun and it kills boredom REALLY well, but, the biggest reason that I do it is for the feedback, so...if it's not likely to be put through or watched by anyone, then I'll probably not put the work into it (I have a feeling it's going to take a LOT of work to put together...if I can find a song to use, even...)

My idea is that George from Dead Like Me has Shannon as a last reap, thus making Shannon the new Reaper. The pairing would be Shannon/Mason, and Mason would accompany her to the island to take the souls of doomed Losties. That's the idea, but I've yet to put a defined theme on it, so finding a song is out of the question for right now. Would that be a vid that can be posted or...no?

Polarbear · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:15 am Post subject:

Hmm I'm not sure. I love the idea though. Dead like me! I just watched that show all the way through recently. So I defintely don't want to deter you from doing it. It will be put through regardless sorry for suggesting otherwise it just might be automatically ignored for a CP if it has too much footage from the other show in.
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mistojen · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:57 am Post subject:

Yeah I JUST finished today, watching the ending of the second season--saw like ten minutes of it on Sci-Fi and had to run to Blockbuster and get all the DVDs to see what it was all about. Shannon and Mason are my new OTP. To be honest, I never get a CP, anyway, because my vids are still really amateur, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if this one didn't either

but I've been thinking about giving it a shot, so...at least maybe ONE person will watch it, then...?

Polarbear · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:17 am Post subject:

Daisy and Shannon are pretty similar so I could defintely see Mason going after Shannon. I will watch this for sure

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PsychoCynic · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

Mistojen, I'd definitely look out for that as well.

Like Paul said, Shannon and Daisy are both very similar so I could see Mason going after her. I think that's a very interesting idea!

Also, I don't think you exactly NEED a song. I remember watching an old vid where Mason was assigned to reap Locke and that vidder just matched up audio from Dead Like Me and audio from Lost to make it seem as if they were having a conversation. That could be another you could use.

In any case, make the vid! Do it! Do it! Do it!

Errr, sorry. Pay no mind to me.

Though, I really do encourage you to try it.

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mistojen · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject:

Whoa! Where's that vid?! I'm not real good with editing audio, though...therein lies my problem. I've only got four completed vids under my belt and I'm still feeling my way around WMM (I dont even have WMM2 so, somehow I think it might be even harder for me...)

Polarbear · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject:

I made a Sliders/Lost crossover a while back that never got a CP. I still had fun with it though so you should do it! One other thing you might want to look out for is telling a story but you seem to have a good idea of what is going to happen. Mine didn't have much of a story.
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Aislynn · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject:

mistojen · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject:

All right...so...would Hell (In The Afterlife) by the Squirrel Nut Zippers be way too cliche to be interesting enough to use...?

PsychoCynic · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

mistojen · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:01 am Post subject:

Hobbes · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:05 am Post subject:

My 2 Cents: if the vid is good, it will get a CP, regardless of rules and such. But the thing is, we're judges for Lost. We know the footage front and back, we know what skilled vidders can do with it, and thus we can judge fairly on it. A vid that has very little Lost footage falls out of our area of expertise

and thus it gets in a touchy area where we can't really be sure if we're judging fairly or not (it could go either way this way though). However, this means an unfair outcome for the vidder in question, so we'd rather vids try to keep their focus on Lost.

But by focus, I mean the vids should try and be central to the Lost Universe, like by the sounds of it, yours would be

. This is to try and discourage vids that aren't really about Lost, like a vid showcasing someone's favourite couples from all their favourite TV Shows, with about 20 seconds of Lost, showing up

(which has kinda happened). I hope you understand.

That all said, I think a good crossover can be awesome, as it adds some nice new twist to the story, and gives some originality. So go ahead with this, we'll be looking forward to it!

mistojen · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:12 am Post subject:

Thanks, Hobbes!

I'm currently putting a little something together. There will be as little Dead Like Me footage as I can manage with keeping the story in tact. I've got the first ten or fifteen seconds leading up to the character George reaping Shannon and then I'll be using as little DLM as I can as the character Mason guides Shannon through her reaps on the Island. I hope it isn't total crap when I'm done, since I'm still really new at all this and this is the first time I'm trying to do a crossover. It's hard as hell already!

I appreciate everyone's support in me giving this a shot. Here's hoping! *fingers crossed*

PS to those on the Council...thanks for my very first CP on Superbleeder! Glad my little brother talked me into submitting it, because I didn't think anyone would even WATCH it, let alone give it a CP.

Thanks thanks thanks thanks THANKS!!!