WisCon Vid Party: Call for Playlists!

[eruthros]

We are calling for themed playlists for the WisCon 46 Vid Party! Themed playlists are due April 30th.

We would like to invite you to curate themed vid playlists (10-22 minutes long) to play at the party. As a vid playlist curator, you will choose a theme and pick vids that fit the theme. You are welcome to write a short introduction, which we will include in online and printed programs.

We are open to playlists that connect in some way to WisCon’s goals of exploring gender, race, sexuality, class, disability, and other social justice issues in speculative fiction. The social justice concept might be visible in the sources themselves, in the argument or narrative of the individual vids, in the characters the vids choose to focus on, or in the way the vids are assembled in the playlist! We don’t want to limit you: if you think the theme and playlist work for WisCon, we’d love to see them.

We welcome the inclusion of videos from any remix / fan video / fan edit tradition. The individual vids on your playlist do not have to be limited to sources that strictly fit definitions of science fiction or fantasy, but the overall playlist should be connected to social justice and speculative fiction.

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Next steps:

If you would like to make a playlist, please let us know in the comments below. If you already have a theme planned, include that in your comment - vidders may want to submit premieres to your playlist. Once you have completed your playlist, submit it to vidparty.wiscon@gmail.com.

If you have a vid in process that's a perfect match for a playlist mentioned below, please comment to let the playlist curator know! The curator will need to include this vid on their playlist when they submit (list the download link as "premiering vid"), and the vidder will need to note that this vid is for a playlist in the "notes" section of the premiere submission form when they submit the vid.

WisCon Vid Party: Call for Volunteers!

[eruthros]

Hi all! We're so excited about the hybrid WisCon Vid Party we're planning this year, and we're looking for help to make it the best it can be. We need assistance with several different tasks, including:

Subtitling

The WisCon Vid Party airs all vids with subtitles, which means we have to create subtitles for any vids that don't have subtitles already. runawaynun leads the subtitling team and is amazingly skilled at this work!

However, we'd like additional volunteers to assist with:

• Basic subtitling: if you can create an srt file, we can send you a list of vids to caption.


• Subtitling for video issues: some video types don't open in Jubler, so if you are able to subtitle in other software that would be very helpful. If you can only subtitle a few vids, but you can handle things like atypical file types and codecs or variable frame rate, let us know and we'll send the problem files your way.


• Subtitling for complex subtitle situations: recent WisCon Vid Parties have included vids that already contain embedded subtitles (for non-English language sources) or embedded text (comics vids, some styles of youtube vids, etc). These may require coloring or animating subtitles to make them visible, or editing the subtitles to be visible below the main image. If you know how to make and export vtt subtitles or other animated subtitles, or if you're comfortable editing video and subtitles to air the subtitles below the video, we'd really appreciate your assistance. If you can only subtitle a few vids, but you can handle competing text information, let us know and we'll send these specific vids your way.

If you can assist, please comment here or email vidparty dot wiscon at gmail.com.

Content Notes Screening

The WisCon Vid Party prints and shares playlists that include a set of ticky boxes for vid content notes. sasha_feather organizes the content note checking, to make sure that every vid on the list is screened before the show for the various content notes. For example, we have four different ticky boxes for things that are often described as just "physical triggers" - strobing or flashing effects, extremely fast edits, stutter edits, and shaky cam. Filling these out for all vids means that we need volunteers to screen vids in advance of the Vid Party and ticky the appropriate tickies.

If you can assist, please comment here or email vidparty dot wiscon at gmail.com.

Suggesting Vids

If you don't want to make a full playlist, but there's a vid or two that you think would be perfect for WisCon, let us know via the Vid Suggestion Form.

In this form, you can suggest vids for three different kinds of playlists:

• Know of a vid that has you singing along every time? Suggest it for the singalong.


• Know of a vid that has you chair dancing whenever you watch it? Suggest it for the dancealong.


• Thinking about that vid that WisCon needs to see, but don't have a whole playlist to go around it? Suggest it for the community-built playlist and we'll try to fit it into a the show.