#lauras vids

[youcancallmekathyp]

wreck my plans // lockwood&lucy

"I'm begging for you to take my hand,  Wreck my plans, that's my man,"

                           Locklyle  Week Day 7: Free Day

[marksandrec]

Marks and Rec: Misc #2545

Percy is briefly surprised but unconcerned about this. (Dialogue from this post.)

[suaimhneas-gairid]

[natp20]

time for the witches to try out gentle parenting

[tafadhali]

Searching for a Former Clarity - an I Saw the TV Glow fanvid

There is still time.

Made for JennaFlare for Fall Equinox 2024. Cross-posted on AO3.

[supernaturalcharlie11]

The beginning of an animation that I started. Not sure if I should continue…

The song is: Rose and the stars from Pulp Musicals Searcher in the Shadow

[mag200]

laura jane grace at racket nyc, 3/9/24

[fuckyeahagainstme]

Laura and Dustin experimenting with crowd interaction while playing Those Anarcho Punks are Mysterious at a beach party in 2001. Uploaded by Jim Marshall Original poster unknown

[alexbkrieger13]

do you have a video of Pou's an Stacey's pre game routine with pou playing the puck into the basket?

[dailylaurajane]

grand gestures

paris campbell & laura jane grace

[youcancallmekathyp]

you are in love // alex&henry

[marksandrec]

Marks and Rec: Misc #2599

Suspicious. (Dialogue from Taskmaster.)

[dykefever]

whenever i'm reminded of skam a fever takes over me my heart starts beating really fast i can't breathe and i have to go watch even and isak or i'll fucking die

[sxftsigh]

i mean i guess it’s not really a laura bailey playlist if there isn’t a sara bareilles song in there somewhere

[movingtothemoon]

late to the flight - lottie + laura lee

[marshmallowgoop]

Every time I "finish" an AMV, I create a comparison like this.

The left side is the "effectless" draft—minimal transitions, zero coloring, limited text animation—while the right side is the "final" version I post online. It's a way to assess my work; where did the added effort elevate the edit, and where do my eyes find themselves drawn more to the draft because the "final" version is too busy, too overwhelming, too much?

I'm new to video editing. There aren't even 20 AMVs to my name, and I only seriously started a little over a year ago. My process involves a lot of struggling with what a "good" AMV is, a lot of wondering if I'm doing it all wrong—anxieties that were only exacerbated by a popular post that crossed my dash many months ago. It decried AMVs that don't edit with the full song as worthless, bad, garbage. The kids don't know how to do it right.

Not a kid, but maybe they've got a point!

Still, it was a disheartening sentiment to read. And while I might not know much, I think I am confident in knowing this: there are many AMV styles out there, and the shorter ones may certainly not be everyone's cup of tea, but that doesn't mean that they're devoid of love, time, effort, or passion. The video at the top of this post is hardly 30 seconds long, and it still took over 60 hours of spilling out ideas and cutting clips and learning new skills and scrapping new skills and tweaking transitions and coloring and recoloring and shaking my head and giving up and trying again.

Fan vidders, no matter the style they employ, are devoting their free time and energy to create. It'd be ludicrous to suggest that a movie is inherently inferior to a TV series, or a short story automatically meaningless compared to a novel.

The same should absolutely apply to fan videos.