Multi-fandom movie vid: Acceptable in the Eighties by Calvin Harris

[boomqueen]

Title: Acceptable in the Eighties
Song by Calvin Harris
Fandom: multi-fandom Eighties movies including The Babysitter's Club, Better Off Dead, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Breakfast Club, Can't Buy Me Love, Desperately Seeking Susan, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Fast Times as Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Flashdance, Footloose, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Ghostbusters, Heathers, Mannequin, One Crazy Summer, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, Splash, Teen Witch, Teen Wolf, Teen Wolf Too, Weird Science, and Who's That Girl.
Rating/Warning: PG/PG-13, but there are a LOT of bad clothing decisions...
Watch: Download and stream behind the cut (3:46 minutes, 33 MB).

Summary: The question isn't 'what are we going to do today?' The question is 'what AREN'T we going to do today?', or A Day In The Life of an Eighties Teen/Twentysomething


Download the .mov file (33 MB)
Stream at imeem or youtube

Credit and thanks: Many thanks to my fabulous betas: Mr. BQ, sundancekid, canadiangirl_86 and nebakanezer. Vidder's notes here. Leg warmer image is from fashion4all. Cross-posted to vidding, multividious, and fan_vids.

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Comments

[taragel.livejournal.com]

Boom you always do the most fun vids! I was so impressed with your amazing amount of sources here! All my fave 80s movies and then some. As I followed the storyline (which was also ingenious to follow sort of a whole day in the life of the typical teen 80s movie) I found myself wondering if you'd use clip X from movie Y and sometimes you did!

Really nice internal movement synching too on a lot of the clips, especially the ones involving fist pumps. Hee. (It's my goal to someday create a vid that has amazing internal synching on every single clip...sigh.)

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thanks Tara! It has pretty much all of my favorite 80s movies too (except Labyrinth--I tried but nothing from Labyrinth would fit with the rest of the clips, *SIGH*).

And thank you SO MUCH for noticing the internal movement. I've always admired that in other people's vids and this was the first time I really tried to achieve that. Big learning curve on this vid, I'll tell you!