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[hatman]

Okay, flist...

I've got a few L&C vid ideas that have been sitting on my "to-do" list for quite a while now. I have general ideas of what to do with them, but just haven't been able to motivate myself to actually get started.

What should I do about that?

Post the song titles here (perhaps in an flocked post) and see what you guys think?

Pass the suggestions along, see if anyone feels like doing them?

Try working with someone (and seeing if I can get them to do all the heavy clip-finding work... ;) )?

Leave them on the "to-do" list, and see if I ever find the motivation?

Forget about them?

Something else? (And no, sorry, "Just knuckle down and do them!" is not an option.)

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Comments

[laramoon.livejournal.com]

I think "forgetting about them" would be a real shame...

Sometimes, sharing ideas can help - at least it usually does for me - in figuring out where to go from your original concept and how to finish the project. I often just start typing in someone's MSN window (usually the same someone *lol*) and while I'm telling her my ideas, things start jumping out at me. Discussing ideas - unless you're trying to go for the surprise factor and you don't want to spoil that for people - can be a productive approach to a project.

Passing the suggestion along... well, that's one idea, but in my own experience, it can come with a certain degree of disappointment because the result might not be what you had in mind. It depends how attached to the original idea you were, to begin with.

Working with someone can be a lot of fun. Especially if you can find someone who'll share your "vision" for the song (or your sense of humor, I suppose). Also, if you share your list of songs, then perhaps you'd find that someone else might have ideas for that too and that could lead to a collaborative work.

As for seeing if you can get someone else to find the clips, well, hey, that's what friends are for -- I spend hours harassing Jessi with idiotic questions like "is there a clip somewhere that has Superman using his X-Ray vision?" *lol* Two or more heads are always better than one for this sort of thing - some people will remember scenes or details better than others. I'd never have finished anything if I'd tried to find all of these by myself. All my vids are basically team efforts. hehe!

Whatever you decide you want to do in the end, I'm sure you'll find plenty of people who'll be more than happy to help out. (You know where to find me if you need me, anyway -- usually around and always glad to answer questions instead of watching my other machine running automated tests... *lol*)

[catherinebruce.livejournal.com]

Hmmm!

You can break the list down, to songs that you WANNA WANNA do, and songs you just wanna see done.

And you can also work with someone, or just bribe someone who is very bored and always wanting more clips anyways to get them for you.

No forgetting them, though! That would be diabolical!

[schnuffichen.livejournal.com]

Can't give you a proper advice on that as I'm suffering from the same. There are two songs that I'd like to do, I started a trailer some weeks ago and there's a half-done song sitting on my hard drive for more than half a year now :(

So... if you find a good solution, I'm always glad to hear it ;)

(yes, that was a completely unnecessary comment... just wanted to show that I read it and, well, made up my mind and came up with... nothing ;))