Interview with BlairWaldorfQueenB
1. How, why, and what made you decide to start vidding?
I started vidding in March 2009 because i was on youtube & i was watching these incredible fan made Chuck & Blair (Gossip Girl) videos, & i decided i wanted to make my own fanvideos.
2. What fandom did you first vid?
The fandom i started with was Gossip Girl, my first video was a Chuck & Blair video.
3. What program did you start out on?
I started on Windows Movie Maker
4. What program do you use now?
I now use Sony Vegas 10 to edit my video.
5. What is your inspiration for vidding?
It depends, it can be an episode of one of my favorite fandoms, a song i hear & think of what fandom/couple/character it would fit, or it could be another vidders' video. But mainly it's music that inspires me.
6. What comes first? the music for the idea or the idea for music?
The idea for the music.
7. What type music do you like to vid to? Pop, rock, dubstep, etc.
I'm very random about that, i usually only vid dubstep songs in a collab I'm in. So i'd have to go with Pop, or Rock.
8. Canon or AU vids?
Canon for the moment, i suck with AU videos.
9. What is your favorite type of vid to vid? Drama, action, character studies, etc.
My favorite type is depressing/angsty, I have no idea why i want to show emotions, i want to make the audience FEEL, & i love using voiceovers, & they work best in an emotional video, it gives it more impact, & helps tells the story, or emotion i'm going for.
10. What are your favourite Pairings/Characters to vid and why?
My favorite pairings to vid are; Chuck & Blair, Damon & Elena, pretty much every TVD couple.
Chuck & Blair are my OTP of all my pairings, I love them so much, I've loved them since the beginning of gossip girl, & still love them. Also they are the reason i make fan videos.
Damon & Elena; even though I'm a Stefan/Elena fan too, most songs i want to vid, fit Damon & Elena more, plus for some reason i know their scenes/voiceovers like the back of my hand, so it makes it easier for me to find what i want to use.
11. Do you use a Beta?
Sometimes, not very often, usually only if i can get my friends to help.
12. Do storyboard or make notes (what's your vidding process)?
I don't really have one, i hear a song, & in my head, my mind starts piecing together what scenes would work with this lyric or that, & what voiceovers I should use & where. I don't know I don't really have one.
13. Do you, or have you been, involved with collaborations?
Yes. I'm in so many collab groups, & i host collabs myself, pretty much I'm a collab whore. I don't vid much cause I'm such a slow editor so i don't upload a full video often, but with collabs i feel active & i get to vid, even if the parts i'm doing are only like 8 seconds long, it's something fun to do, & sometimes participating in collab parts helps with my vidders' block and/or inspires me to make a video.
14. What is your favorite vid that you have made?
I'd have to say my favorite video of mine is my: The Secret Circle "Set Fire To The Rain" video, because i worked so hard on this one, I made it for Vidders4aCause, & it's the first cast video I've ever made of any fandom I vid.
Link to vid on youtube
15. Who is your favorite vidder?
SmokeyFiizz for sure, They make the best videos ever, the effects they use are mind blowing & original.
16. Are there any vidders who inspire you?
Lots way too many to name but here are a few offhand; SmokeyFiizz, Lostalongthewayy, Bumcrackmosh182, Chucklovaaa, Dazzleme7, ParadiseDaniFM1, Gaby0189x, xDwLLisax, SoniaRocksx18, TinyCherry30, JennynQa, schokokeks1189, chemattraction, fatallyxfagile, there are more I just can't remember them all
17. What is your favorite video that you have seen (not including your own)?
Oh this is a hard one, uhm... I'd have to say i that it's a tie between SmokeyFiizz's "& Nothing" supernatural video;
SmokeyFiizz for sure, They make the best videos ever, the effects they use are mind blowing & original.
16. Are there any vidders who inspire you?
Lots way too many to name but here are a few offhand; SmokeyFiizz, Lostalongthewayy, Bumcrackmosh182, Chucklovaaa, Dazzleme7, ParadiseDaniFM1, Gaby0189x, xDwLLisax, SoniaRocksx18, TinyCherry30, JennynQa, schokokeks1189, chemattraction, fatallyxfagile, there are more I just can't remember them all
17. What is your favorite video that you have seen (not including your own)?
Oh this is a hard one, uhm... I'd have to say i that it's a tie between SmokeyFiizz's "& Nothing" supernatural video;
Link to vid on youtube
The effects and everything about this video is mind blowing. The other one is Doode25's "Losing Your Memory" A Bobby Singer tribute;
Link to vid on youtube
This video made me cry literally it was so beautiful & heartbreaking & the best Character's Death Tribute I've ever seen.
18. What is your favorite thing about the vidding community?
My favorite thing about the vidding community is the people i've met by vidding, the friends i've made, who are more my friends than my real life ones. That's my favorite part of the vidding community is the incredible vidders/people you meet by making videos :D