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The editing in Winter Soldier is so good. There's so much work that goes into making something that flows and looks so action-y and epic. It can be easy to miss these details at all. It can be much harder to quantify its impact or explain its emotional resonance. This was edited together into a 3 and a half minute scene from likely hundreds of hours of footage. 10-12 and 16 hour days in the edit bay. Working with the director and team of editors and more to get to this final version. So many notes to review from directors and the studio and go back to the timeline and incorporate. IMDB shows that Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt were the main film editors on The Winter Soldier. Robin Buday and Cassie Dixon were the second assistant editor Thomas Calderon was the first assistant editor. These are just a few of the people who worked on the post-production side who helped bring this scene together, not even getting into the production crew and other people on set that day. The end credits are very long for a reason. Such a spectacular scene. AND! omg, the person who put this Britney version up on YouTube -- Micki Reese -- and put it to Toxic! Gets all my love forever. They have a great eye and ear. My fanvidder heart is so happy. But it's just another testament of how well-constructed the scene is that it ends up syncing like this. Fun, so much fun. I love it.

If anyone would like a primer on "why do film cuts work?" and "why does this feel like a good action scene?" (or emotional scene, or tense scene), have I got the recommendation for you!: In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch. Less than 150 pages and it's best book to pick up on the subject. This is pretty much film editors bible, the best foundation you could read. The Rough Cut (also on YouTube)- a film editor podcast that also includes timeline tours of the software the film editors are using. You get to see see the layers of video and audio tracks and learn who these editors are and what skills and ideas they bring to the process to execute the directors vision. It takes so much to reach the final, polished and approved version of the film/episode that we get to see. Some episodes feature editors who worked on Star Wars, Marvel, Mission Impossible, Ted Lasso, What We Do In the Shadows and so many more. It's full of expertise, industry knowledge. Cool details about the things they're working on. I highly recommend checking it out if you're remotely curious how something like this gets made. signed, you friendly neighborhood fanvidder and film enthusiast who loves action films and video editing kuwdora

goat fight. non-negotiable.

#moviedora #squeedora #marvel #feel free to send me an ask about some of my other favorite contemporary action editors #though it might take a century for me to reply because of adhd brain #but i love action films and editing a lot #aw heck i need to rewatch talitha's Problem winter soldier vid now mmmmmmmm

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i spent $32 on this fucking bowl at the moma and at first i felt bad buying it bc it was so expensive but ive had a terrible day today and every time i look at my lil bowl im like :o) you know what. i can get through anything with this bowl by my side

#the joy tag #forever reblog #queuedora

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THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO FOR ME RN ARE YOU KIDDING i literally do not have the money for this why do you choose APRIL OF ALL MONTHS

#big mood about this. i let my own art shop lapse because of the price and my current order volume. #less than a month - TAX MONTH - to make a change like this is grotesque auughghh it's so fucked up #reblogging for reach and solidarity #signal boost #art boost #art

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Shop , Patreon , Books and Cards , Mailing List

#ooh here we go. kate's art always comin' when i need it #mental health #mental health art #art #art favorite #illustration

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Meve/Reynard centric Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales Fanvideo

Music: Snow Patrol - The Lightning Strike

#HOLY OMG #jsdfijsdifjasjfj SNOW PATROL VID #THRONEBREAKER!! #oh my god MEVE #MEEEEVEEEEE #omg reynard's FEELINGS #this is fucking incredible #aw holy fuuuuuuck #the editing is so good! #waaahHHH losing my midn #jsfisjdfsljk #I LOVE THIS #witcher recs #thronebreaker #meve #reynard odo #vid rec #queuedora

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new work: nothing greater for a man to get

newest fill for @vrsos 🙏

foltest/roche, explicit, blasphemy, confessional sex, worldbuilding, inappropriate use of religious metaphors

It takes a moment for him to recognise his commander in the lean figure he passes in line, cowled head bowed low over a little scrap of paper prayer. Without his trappings of office, Vernon Roche is easy to glance right past, a trait no doubt he’s cultivated under Thaler’s abusive verbal teachings and makes use of on a regular basis during his more clandestine dealings. He looks plain, underfed and average, rather than the deadly knife Foltest has made of him. Foltest slips into line behind him, grinning beneath the cover of his hood. “I didn't take you for a religious man,” he says, gripping him by the elbow and steering him out of line. Vernon has better presence of mind than to start a fight in a temple, but the way he goes stiff and electric means he's restraining himself beautifully. He whips around as Foltest yanks him into the shadows, a snarl on his face and then his eyes go very wide and round at the sight of Foltest beneath his ragged cloak. “Your Majesty?” he gapes.

bingo card hereerererrrrreee now i actually have to do the isengrim one lol

#sass writing the horny blasphemy i want to see in the world #truly outstanding work #foltest #vernon roche #witcher recs #queuedora

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new yennskier fic! pre/post thanedd missing scenes. some kind of disaster - chapter 1 yennefer/jaskier ~7k. Missing scene, flashback. Banter, hurt/comfort, angst and pining, more tags on ao3. That storehouse looked like it probably had food, but he'd watched Ciri and Geralt on the ferry. She really loved spending time with Geralt. He clearly was enjoying spending time with her. Jaskier loved that for them.

"You two go and have some last minute father-daughter time. I'll stay here and supervise Yennefer to make sure she gets this shield in tip-top shape," Jaskier said brightly. Yennefer rolled her eyes at him, but she gave Geralt a Meaningful Stare that Jaskier found interesting. Not lust, not quite yearning, but maybe trust? Maybe they really had worked some of their shit out. Jaskier filed that detail away for later.

"I would like to put in an order for turtle soup and maybe some roasted wild boar while you're out there." Jaskier said to Ciri, earning him a laugh.

"Rabbit stew it is," Geralt said.

Jaskier tipped his head back in exasperation and Ciri gave him a companionable shoulder-bump before bounding off with Geralt. "At least keep your noses open for any wild truffles!"

"There aren't any truffles on the island," Yenenfer said.

"Why must you dash my hopes and dreams of extravagant morsels?" Jaskier sighed.

"I'm overdue for tormenting the bard," Yennefer said, not bothering to hide a smile.

"Well, I wouldn't want to deprive you," he muttered reflexively.

read on ao3

#yennskier #yennefer #yennefer of vengerberg #jaskier #twn #witcher netflix #my fic #my witcher fic #omg posting a thing #wip momentum #not quite wip armageddon but ahhhh omg

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MOOD!

#i have been soooo strong this week #i wanted to start like two new wips and i DIDNT #i'm focusing on the current three/four wips #ahhhhhhh and my vid wip languishing too but anyway #the creative process #the writing process #the vidding process #yep this checks out

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[image description: a digital sketch of yennefer, jaskier and geralt from the witcher netflix series. jaskier is in the middle, with his eyes closed and a pleased smile on his face, his hair is grown out to around is ears. he's holding the neck of his lute to his chest. on his left yennefer is kissing his cheek, her hair pulled back into a sort-of bun. she's wearing a dark dress and has a hand resting on jaskiers neck. on his left, geralt is kissing his other cheek, hair half tied back and falling over his neck. he's wearing a dark shirt. the word "pleased" is written above jaskier with an arrow pointing to him, and there's a small heart next to each of them. /.end id]

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i dont actually have any art ideas tonight so im gonna go to bed and read but here's a random geraskefer (now that is a fun ship name to say) doodle bc i had a reference pic i wanted to use

#❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #💋💋💋 #geraskefer #jaskier #yennefer #geralt #witcher fanart #queuedora

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~ 30 m. screenshot study

#oooooh this is so lovelyyyyyyy #geralt #the hexer #wiedźmin #witcher fanart #queuedora

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ghostwriter.

find me on instagram!

#holy fucking fuck #wow #just #omg #i love EVERYTHING about this #art #illustration #holy fuck so cool #queuedora

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Льдистым днём друг к другу прильнём

Вместе пойдём ко дну ❄💙

#❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #forever reblog #yenralt #yennefer #geralt #witcher fanart #queuedora

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How to Finish

I drew this poster for Jon Acuff and his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas about how to complete creative and life goals.

#forever reblog #the creative process #the writing process #queuedora

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when jorge luis borges wrote in a copy of beowulf that he was working on translating, “beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.”

#poetry #queuedora

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mmmmm, I tend to forget that tumblr could be a place where I actually, you know, write blog posts and whatnot. like i used to back on dreamwidth. about fannish and nonfannish things. or even hiccup out more of my short-form whimsy like I used to on twitter. I mean I'm still generally blogging about nonfannish things at my dreamwidth and talking occasionally about my vid projects there since that's where I've always chattered about those wips. I don't bother really talking about my witcher wips over there. but tumblr has taken up this space in my head as space where I glom onto all the pretty posts like beloved scrapbooking material and stuff my queue for a whole year. and just rolling around in the ask games and wip posts from everyone else. not writing more posts of my own. me writing posts here...a thing I want to do and yet I don't. I have a giant list of half-written recs posts and other fannish and nonfannish things waiting for me to finish. but my brain keeps stalling out because of a lot of reasons (stress life stuff fucking with my focus). but this has been on my mind.

this has been your musing kuwdora. or: musingdora.

#blogdora #it's also quite possible i've posted this very thing before last year or the year before. i can't actually remember #and have trouble tagging my own posts ppfpfhtht #suppose i could start creating some polls like i always say i want to do and then don't #follow through. easier said than done #having a rough few days that are actually a rough few years but man i'm still trying to embrace and spread joy where i can. #but also i should probably let myself be heard and seen a little more #and not let guilt and fatigue and sadness hold me down

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“I never really thought about it in those terms. Like it was something in the DSM that I could sit down with a psychyatrist and talk about. And I think what, now looking back on it, I think what happened really had to do with – I had played Hamlet at Stratford, Ontario not that long before we started shooting the show, and the experience of that, because I was inside Hamlet for about a year or longer. We did ninety shows or something over the course of one long season. And I did get quite loopy doing it. I mean some of it was just general feelings of insufficiency and ‘I am absolutely incapable of pulling this off. I should quit.’ In fact I tried to quit after the first preview, I think, or dress rehearsal. I was crying and phoned the director saying ‘I can’t do this. You know I can’t do this. Call up Colm Feore. He still remembers the lines!’ But along the way of playing it, I got to a point where I was really paranoid. Because along the way, you absorb all of the things he has because it just overwhelms you. You can’t, it’s not a part that you can leave anywhere. And I think: ‘Everyone in this company is actually trying to kill me. All the other actors are trying to kill me.’ And then it kind of metastasised from there to the point where I was having these weird, I don’t know if I would call them hallucinations, they weren’t exactly like that, it was full blown and quite real. And I’d be on stage when this was happening. As an example with ‘How all occasions do inform against me’ I had this weird, I could see that I was in like a bar, an old tavern, with big beams and posts, and I could see Shakespeare at a long table with some food in front of him, and out of the middle of this conversation with some other people this speech came. And I’m thinking yeah that’s probably how it happened, it fell out of him, parts of it. Because at the end of it somebody said ‘Well that’s good, Bill’ and he said ‘Hm, yes it is. I must remember that.’ And then I’d be back on stage. And then that got worse because I would black out, and I don’t mean faint or anything, but just disappear and wake up in the middle of a scene and not know where I was. And that was showing. To go through all of these things in front of two thousand people is really kind of uncomfortable. But the person who saved me was Brent Carver who has recently died, but he had played Hamlet a couple of times, once at Stratford, and he was not in the company, but we would run into each other if we were switching over from matinee to evening. He would say: ‘How are you doing?’ And I’d say ‘Well, I don’t trust any of these people’ and he’d say ‘Yeah, that’s gonna go on for a while.’ and I’d say ‘Now I’m blacking out.’ ‘How long has that been going on?’ ‘About a week and a half.’ ‘That’ll probably last another week. You’ll be okay.’ And then I kind of was. So that’s a very long way to say that when it came to Geoffrey’s madness, it was just that. That stuff. It’s all very real, but it’s not in the DSM. Does that make sense? I know typically research goes into all this with psychiatry and then I thought about it, and you know that’s kind of limiting. I know what it means to be inside theatre that makes you go somewhere else.”

— Paul Gross, on the nature of Geoffrey Tennant’s madness in Slings & Arrows, interviewed by Emily Nussbaum, October 2020. (See the full cast and crew interview here).

#i was starting the third sentence of this when i pinged this as paul gross talking about acting and slings and arrows #anyway yeahhhhh #slings and arrows #performance art #shakespeare #queuedora

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“Ain’t youth meant to be beautiful?”

#gasp #omg #just omg #the white and red is too perfect #love her eyes. that kohl and emerald. so good #ciri #witcher fanart #queuedora