#shoot week

[mayasbishops]

"There have been characters I've been able to grow from and take a little bit from. Playing other people brings you closer to yourself." SARAH SNOOK T Australia • The New York Times Style Magazine

[ducktracy]

is having Paul Frees talk over 50 seconds of stock footage an easy way out? yes. but i don’t care because this is amazing and appeals to me greatly

[ao3commentoftheday]

know your audience

I do a lot of writing and presenting in my day job, and I also mentor other people who do the same job but are newer to it. One piece of advice I come back to again and again is "know your audience."

Not sure what to include in your presentation? Well, who are you presenting to? What will that group care about? What's relevant to them? You should include the things that will matter to them and have an impact on them, and you can skip the stuff that doesn't apply.

This is the same philosophy I apply to tagging on AO3. I don't tend to write stories in order to please an audience, but I do tag them to ensure that the people who click in are the people who will actually enjoy it when they read it.

That means that I tag:

the ship or ships that are the focus of the story

the character or characters who are central to the story

the tropes or plot devices that are important to the plot of my story and that I think someone out there might try to search or filter for (or filter out)

I might tag ships or characters or tropes etc that aren't central to the story if I think there's still enough of them in there that someone who is a fan of those things will still get something from reading my work.

If someone is specifically searching something out, filtering for it etc, then I don't want my story to end up being a disappointment for them. I want it to be a delightful surprise - or at least a generally good time.

Tagging your work in order to get the broadest possible readership means that you're also going to bring in a lot of people who aren't in your audience. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather play to a smaller venue full of friendly folks instead of a packed arena full of people who don't know why they're there.

This is just my own philosophy, of course, and not me trying to force everyone to do what I do. I just hope that this might be helpful to folks who get confused or overwhelmed or uncertain when they're trying to tag their works on AO3.

[ovytia-art]

POV: You’re the tenth ghost that’s shown up this week

[violecov]

Sketch of plane juju saving Mobei Jun :DD

He is cool when he is against the wall, and can't be denied

[waterghostype]

i thought this was a beautiful nonbinary lesbian but it’s just morro from ninjago

[reel-em-in]

[04/04/2022 - 09/04/2022] For Crimes Forgotten Shoot

Monday 4th - The Bings, Prisoner’s Woods

This day was a little bit more troublesome as I was having to use 744T sound recorder, which isn’t one I have much experience using. I tried my best to learn as much as I could by reading the manual, but I definitely do better at learning things through physical practice rather than book learning. Plus Wingman doesn’t work with this device... deeply upsetting as it makes naming files take so much longer. And I love an organised filing system and meta data to create sound reports from. I had to do an actual physical sound report! What is this? The olden times?

This location was the closest to the road of our Bings locations. This meant quite a bit of holding for various vehicles (tractors, lorrys, cars). Though they did tend there were often long periods without vehicles so it was definitely workable with.

The other issue was that due to it being a wooded area there were also plenty of birds, though I was able to get clean dialogue and I reckon I can just avoid more bird heavy sections of my atmos tracks. 

I also managed to get some great audio of a tree that was creaking in the wind! I’ll be saving that one for my little sound library!

Wednesday 6th - The Bings, The Wasteland 

We managed to source a Mix Pre 3 from this day onwards. That made me a happy man. That’s right, I could use Wingman now!

This day had less issues with road and animal noises and more of an issue with wind. Though I am confident that I have good coverage of everything we shot.

The other issue I had on this day was a little bit more rogue... there was a bee that was obsessed with the shotgun mic. And it had an uncanny ability of deciding to try it on with the microphone over dialogue. I’m not sure what the draw was really, perhaps it thought it was a very large bee because of the wind cover? Whatever the reason... it was a little bit infuriating.

Thursday 7th - The Bings, The Wasteland

Our final day at the Bings was also good for sound! I was able to get plenty of wild tracks of the key on the rocky ground, chains, crawling on gravel, and the dragging of the weights. 

Once again it was quite windy at times but I managed to get good coverage and I am confident in my post production abilities. 

Saturday 9th - Glenshee, The Informant’s Time Loop Reset

Glenshee was difficult at times, but also incredibly fun. It was windy, and throughout the day you could see snow approaching, it would blizzard for a while, and then go back to being clear. Difficult for continuity, but also giving us one of my favourite shots where it begins to blizzard as The Informant begins his vigil after he is given his mission from The Warden.

Other than the weather, there were some times where the road was quite problematic in that there was an increase in traffic, though it was still a very successful day for sound. I also managed to get even more wildtrack of chains rattling which will come in useful. 

When we wrapped for the day in Glenshee the cast and the majority of the crew went home. Leaving a small group of us to camp overnight. I kept the sound kit with us overnight as I made the call to get the atmos tracks for this location once it was only a skeleton crew left which would limit the amount of people I would need to get to remain silent for an extended amount of time.

As I was recording some atmos the following morning whilst everyone else had gone to the ski centre to grab coffee, and I picked up some strange noises that sounded like synthetic material like a coat but after glancing around I couldn’t work out the source... that is until a guy paraglided into our camp. So that was a new experience, and lead to a pretty amusing audio recording as I try to explain what I just witnessed.  I had a good conversation with him and the rest of the group returned before he left (thankfully or else who would have believed me?) which just goes to show... I always manage to make friends. 

[biblically-accurate-dca]

@vanweek2024 day 6 - spare

vanny goes bowling !

[orcelito]

showing off the commission i got from @ruporas for my fic, In the Next Life!

i'm still so incredibly excited about this. it's been some months since the story event that caused these scars, but i wanted SO BADLY to be able to see what they'd actually Look like... & Here They Are.

ruporas rendered the scars So Well, i just cant stop Looking at them... there's a Fresh & a Healed version, which ruporas was kind enough to give me without additional charge (Thank U Again😭😭) so i get to see what it looks like at different stages.

Lichtenberg Figures. in terms of actual scarring, lightning strikes that people survive don't tend to leave permanent scars, but the lichtenberg figures that they (usually temporarily) leave behind are just So Cool... Now, what happens when you get someone who can survive an amount of electricity/lightning that would be Frankly Lethal to any normal human person?

This :]

[jojo-schmo]

Metadede Week Day 4: Swap

I got a little.... ambitious with this one and needed to split it in two hahaha. The ideas just kept coming uncontrollably!!

I gave them a Parallel/Clone/Non-specific hostile alternate version of themselves to fight here. Happens a lot in the games, huh? What would happen if these two had to utilize the others' weapon? Dedede's is just a powerful and large hammer, but Galaxia is a sword with many special properties...

This scenario is going off of my theory that Dedede is an excellent conductor of the elements- which is why he often utilizes the elements around him in boss battles and why elements/beings like Dark Matter or other possessive elements seem to flow through him so easily

Galaxia is shown to utilize lightning, especially in the anime. And there was that whole thing in the show where the sword may destroy anyone deemed an unworthy wielder...

But I'll elaborate more in part 2 hehehe >:3

Part 2

(Also shout out to @das-a-kirby-blog for being the op of the Dedede's powers theory that I piggybacked off of :D You are cool and rad!!)

[nattikay]

[...] He presses a quick peck to her lips before crouching down until he’s level with her stomach. He leans forward and peppers kisses around her belly button, rubbing soothing circles against the extended skin with his hands. “And I missed you too, littlest one,” he whispers. “I wanna give the baby a kiss too!” Neteyam says, crowding against Jake to leave his own kiss on the curve of Neytiri’s belly. Jake laughs and scoots over, making room for the baby's big brother to show his love. Kiri shifts and leans into Neytiri’s side, causing Neytiri to wrap an arm around their daughter. Kiri places a hand on her mother’s belly and pats it gently as if reassuring the baby that she’s there and ready to be the best big sister possible. Lo’ak pushes himself under Jake’s arm and curls into his side – his little arms tight around Jake’s neck. He doesn’t offer to kiss or touch Neytiri’s belly. Out of all the kids, he’s the one struggling with the idea of a new sibling the most. Jake thinks it’s just because Lo’ak has been the baby for as long as he can remember and is afraid of his place in the family being usurped. Jake hopes that once the baby is born, Lo’ak will realize that he isn’t being replaced and grow to love his new sibling. [...]

-Chaos Theory by WriterInWhite

this scene was just sooooooooo cute, I had to draw it!! 😭 this is the kind of fic we need more of plz fandom im begging

[monsieur-kazzle-dazzle]

my heart can't take it anymore

[non-un-topo]

Thinking about the sniper duo

[gothducky]

The scarlet bloom flowers once more You will witness true horror

[youngstalactites]

inspired by this exact manga panel from trimax:

Vashwood week: day 6 “light”

[mintypsii]

leaked scenes from the new animated one piece guys trust me