Self-Curated Vidshow Challenge: cupidsbow

Order	Vid Title	Vidder	Fandom	Artist	Runtime	Why I chose it	link to vid
1	Blue Planet	cupidsbow	Blue Planet	"I Get Around" by The Beach Boys	02:09	This is my favourite of all the vids I've ever made.	vid on DW
2	Fire	cupidsbow	Enemy Mine	"Fire" by Barns Courtney	03:25	This vid is the culmination of many of the lessons I've learned from earlier vids, in terms of both the use of audio and the techniques and effects used to cut it together. Good job me. pats myself on the back :)	vid on DW
3	Movin' On	cupidsbow	Supernatural	"I Love Rock and Roll" by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	03:34	My first significant constructed reality vid, in which I brought together canon and non-canon sources to tell a new story. This is where I learned about framrates, re-colouring, masking, and other issues/techniques related to mixing visual sources - I basically had to edit this twice to be able to render it, because I was such a n00b with framerates when I made it. It also taught me that if you can convince people of your main conceit (the red car) in the first third, you can cheat a bit later in the vid (using different models of red cars) and people will still go with it.	vid on DW
4	Lift	cupidsbow	Ocean's 8	"Discotheque" by Augusto Alguero	02:09	I love heists, and I love the energy of this song and how well it matched the shenanigans in the movie. This big challenge with this vid was capturing eight characters in two minutes, as well as the heist.	vid on DW
5	Bonfire Hearts	cupidsbow	Asoka	"Bonfire Heart" by James Blunt	01:26	The only copy of this source I could find was a) expensive, and b) had obviously been converted poorly from one framerate to another, so it was jerky no matter how I tried to clean/fix it. I really worked hard to minimise the effect in the vid itself, and I love how this vid turned out despite the remaining flicker.	vid on DW
6	We Must Be Killers	cupidsbow	The Defiant Ones	"We Must be Killers" by Mikky Ekko	02:39	I colourised this source myself. I still can't believe I did that, or how well it turned out! There's a whole post about the colorisation process linked from the main post if you're interested in how I did it. My advice: don't try. Hahaha.	vid on DW
7	Almost Lover	cupidsbow	Ever After	"Almost Lover" by A Fine Frenzy	04:27	This wasn't a popular vid when it came out, but I've come to love it more and more over time. It's a Turn Left on the story of Cinderella, in which there is no happy ending. I love Cinderella, but the pain of this alternative ending hits me where I live, and seems to grow in effectiveness the older I get. I wish it had the same effect on others that it does on me, but I'm really glad I made it, even if it has an audience of one.	vid on DW
8	Gorgeous	cupidsbow	Hugh Jackman	Jaguar XJ x350 Gorgeous TV Commercial based on "Steamworks" by The Presents	01:48	Hugh Jackman makes me laugh, and I wanted to capture that Aussie goofiness.	vid on DW
9	Bury Me Deep in Love	cupidsbow	The Sapphires	"Bury Me Deep in Love" by Kylie Minogue (feat. Jimmy Little)	03:05	There aren't enough Indigenous stories on film, but this is a lovely movie, and I tried my best to do it justice in the vid. There are things about it I'd do differently now, but overall, I still love the obvious affection that's captured.	vid on DW
10	Laughing With	cupidsbow	Supernatural	“Laughing With” by Regina Spektor	02:24	My most ambitious one-source vid to date. It captures a lot of the things I adore about Supernatural.	vid on DW
11	1941	cupidsbow	Torchwood	"Sing, Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman (1987 remaster)	01:40	One of the first vids I ever made, and one of the few from that era I still occasionally rewatch. This was made in Windows MM when it was still a non-linear editor, and I pushed my baby vidding skills and the tool as far as I could. There's also the beginnings of my love for constructed reality here, as I use outside sources from 1941. It all works surprisingly well, and there's not much I'd change.	vid on DW
12	Pourquoi La Lune	cupidsbow	La Voyage Dans La Lune	"Found Sounds" by Squad Car 37 Audio Productions and A Place to Be, edited and remixed by me with the Sounds of Neptune, John F. Kennedy's "Moon" speech, and excerpts of the Apollo moonshot audio recordings.	01:06	I wanted to make a Méliès vid, because of his works' place in SF film history, but the source itself was pretty difficult to make a whole vid out of, for reasons I discuss in more detail in the DW post. In short, the visuals are jerky and degraded, as you'd expect, and there's also some serious racism in his work too, which I hadn't realised before watching the whole sequence of The Voyage To The Moon. That's why I ended up making a more meta vid, on the relationship between technology and our dreams, and the ways in which we understand/shape the world.	vid on DW
13	Encore	cupidsbow	The One	"Encore" from The Grey Album by Danger Mouse	02:07	I made this for a vidding fest that has long since disappeared. The theme was Shades of Grey, and I wanted to make something that really foregrounded that in multiple ways. I chose remixed music - a track from The Grey Album, but also chose The One, which shows the same character on a moral spectrum across different 'verses. I love the vidding style in this - it's all sharp edges and I think it stands up well for how early in my vidding career I made it.	vid on DW
14	The Runner	cupidsbow	Teen Wolf	"Gravity Falls (Extended Theme Remix)" by Brad Breek & The Harlequin Hatter	01:40	One of the things I was fascinated by in Teen Wolf was the way Derek Hale was depicted as a survivor of the genocide being enacted by the hunters. I don't think the show really understood what they had created with his character arc, or they did, but backed away from it in later seasons. Anyway, I wanted to capture what it was like to be Derek Hale, always on the run, never able to rest, and this was the result. It uses found footage, as so many of my vids do, and I love those aspects a lot.	vid on DW
15	Miles to Go	cupidsbow	Vorkosigan	"Once There Was a Hushpuppy" by Benh Zeitlin	04:15	My ode to Lois Bujold and her Vorkosigan 'verse. I've wirtten a lot on this already in the main post and "making of" that's linked from there. It's one of my most ambitious vids, and overall I think it works well. It still gives me feels when I watch it.	vid on DW
16	s-Town	cupidsbow	Solo: A Star Wars Story	"Bibb County," Music From S-Town by Daniel Hart	01:34	I've vidded quite a few sources to instrumental tracks, and this is my most recent and favourite. I thought this character was poorly developed in the movie, and wanted to rectify that as best I could.	vid on DW
17	Wake	cupidsbow	Torchwood	"Juliet" by Russ Nixon, and The Tempest IV.1 read by Joseph Fiennes (from When Love Speaks)	00:57	The first vid I made that I truly loved. It remixed two audio tracks as well as editing visuals from several episodes of Torchwood and Doctor Who. And I did it all on a non-linear WMM editor and Audacity, which blows my mind. I still love this a lot. It gives me chills in the best way. If I were to remaster any of my early vids, it would be this one, because I'd love to make it shinier.	vid on DW

Content notes for this show:

Order	Vid Title	No standard notes apply	Physical triggers	Audio triggers	Graphic violence	Self harm	Other
1	Blue Planet		x
2	Fire		x	x			Major character death.
3	Movin' On		x				Semi-nudity and sex.
4	Lift		x
5	Bonfire Hearts		x				Character death, and casualties on a battlefield.
6	We Must Be Killers		x				Implied racialised violence, and a non-fatal shooting.
7	Almost Lover	x					Implied whipping, with the resulting injuries shown.
8	Gorgeous	x
9	Bury Me Deep in Love		x				Implied racial violence and war.
10	Laughing With		x		x
11	1941		x
12	Pourquoi La Lune		x	x
13	Encore		x			x	Major character death.
14	The Runner		x				Hunters with guns.
15	Miles to Go		x				There is an implied fetus removal (a surgical scene but no visuals of the fetus in situ), an injection being prepared, an implied infanticide, an implied mental disorder, a dead farm animal in the background of one scene, a collection of cadavas with various mutations, an interrogation scene, a dungeon, an aggressive seduction, a funeral procession.
16	s-Town		x				Major character death.
17	Wake		x				Jack being buried alive, implied death.