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I realized through my last poll that people who are here for the vids have the least crossover interests. I don't have any new vids at the moment, nor vid meta, but I could always ramble about my own vids...
From making 'The Fragile'
What I knew from the moment I heard this song.
1) start with a shot of Leeloo being "created" to intro the song
2) first chorus = first meeting
3) the reaching up to her hand has to be *somewhere*
4) it's all about "*two* saving the world"
5) that last shot
Biggest initial mistakes about the vid
1) color scheme - I thought it was bright and pretty enough, but sisabet pointed out that it's far too mellow. She'd pointed out some other options, the one I finally based the color scheme of the vid on is the naturally super-saturated shot at 2:50...The 'darkness' and 'roughness' of the song needed something equally burnt-out and gritty to sustain it or, at times, something blinding bright to match the power of the song.
2) inclusion of all 4 stones exploding in sequence (rather than simutaneously) - Initially they were all present, linearly, but it made the vid drag and added nothing to the storyline. But I wanted all four stones in because they *matter* dammit, because it's the *elements* because she's *elemental* and she and him together are the last part, the light that destroys the darkness. However the inclusion of all four stones sequentially was much too long; so I did it simutaneously.
3) transparencies = fair game - too many transparencies just created blurryness and confusion, as noted by betas. I headdesked (whined internally) and cleaned up the clips and fades. Finished product was better for it. ::blows kisses to sisabet and lum::
4) that I'd include faces of the President and the priest to increase 'dramatic tension' - the point of the vid is "You can't save the world alone". I didn't *need* the other worried faces to tell the story I was trying to smoosh into 4 min.
Best things I've learned through this vid
1) How to handle color - The intensity of color as related to emotion
2) Internal motion - fight scenes are infernal to get on beat, thank god she was already doing it to 4:4...take the clip, cut it at the point of maximum extension of movement, stick it on the beat-in-question
3) Creating random chaos in Non-linear Editing - 1/2 of creativity are accidents (the other 1/2 is *recognizing* the *good* accidents) so more accidents = better results.
Hardest Things About The Vid
1) Learning premiere
2) Cutting the song
3) Squishing movie into 4 min, and cutting out The Funny
From making 'Lucky You'
What I knew from the moment I heard this song.
1) I needed to scare people
2) I needed to include both deaths
3) I needed to include the picture shots
4) I needed the horse blood
5) I needed the "reaching for the arm" scene
6) I needed the creepy loft
7) I needed to increase the sound at certain points
8) I was insane for even attempting this
Biggest initial mistakes about the vid
1) The POV - initially I worked without a POV, and there was no concrete way I could frame the vid without having some sense of a POV, even though it ended up being second person omniscient.
2) Goal - Initial goal was just to scare people, and I later realised that I needed another goal besides just trying to scare people, 'cause otherwise I had really no clue what I was vidding. I ended up trying to explain the role of family, and being lucky in it, or not (as the case might be).
3) That I'd split up the storyline of the protagonist and her husband from the protagonist and her son - Initially, the girl would die, then the father around the middle of the song, then the son would be threatened. I later realized that it's all one interconnected story about family, there was no way they could be separated. Also, it means creating two climaxes in the song, with the husband's climax only slightly less than the son's, and the song itself doesn't support this. What it *does* support is a quick early peak and then steady rising, and since the girl's death already took up the early peak, I *had* to merge both the husband's and the son's storylines into one story that follows the upping of tension.
4) Some of the scenes weren't what I'd imagined - the arm grabbing scene I'd imagined from a totally different perspective and I had to completely re-imagine huge chunks of the vid because I was going off memory, and I'd *refused* to watch the movie all the way through again.
Best things I've learned through this vid
1) Mood is All About The Sound. - No really: the vid isn't half so scary without the ambient sounds and the sound effects I've added to the sound itself.
2) Fear is Threat is Unexpectedness. - Threat: the moment of death itself isn't so scary as the *approach* of death, or rather the unpredictable approach of death. Unexpectedness: motion and color lulls the mind into expecting certain things to move certain ways or appear in places at a logical pace. If you take that logic away (jump cuts, color changes, speed changes, direction changes) the eye is started and thus the mind is startled, and if this startledness, this unbalanceness, is maintained then there's this perpetual sense of Threat because what is coming is unpredictable and what if it is a scary moment? ie. "What if it's *that* shot?" (and it doesn't matter what *that* shot might be) Thus, Unexpected -> Threat -> Fear.
3) Motion is most gut-punching not only on *beat* but on *measure*. - If a major motion ends within a measure, end it at the half-way point.
Hardest Things About The Vid
1) Learning how to create fear.
2) Figuring out POV
3) Clipping the source
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Priorities by Chash - Gargoyles. OMG! Gargoyles fic!!!! ::LOVES::
Bush's Supporters Are Willfully Misinformed - What's scary about this is that it implies that not only are people being misinformed, but there is resistance *against* the possibility that they are wrong. Upon some thought, perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised...What's interesting tho, is that this might indicate how *both* conservatives and liberals have stopped believing in mass media. What would be interesting is to actually track down where each group ends up getting their news, and if/how it affects political views.
Can you imagine Koumyou Sanzo playing hacky sack? Can you imagine it NOW? ::just grins:: (do NOT read the other threads if you don't know the complete Kami-sama arc)
How to become an obnoxious internet cam whore (via iibnf) Barely prevented self from snorfling tea the wrong way, just sayin'.
Meta on the presence of subtext - ie. Do you realize that male writers who write male characters in a "Sex Sells" atmosphere are writing "attractive" characters? As in characters that they think/find attractive? ::massive lightbulb:: 'cause it like, guys/writers/producers/actors are creating these characters that the audience might find attractive...and thus these guys are possibly creating characters that has characteristics that *they* find attractive...do you see where this is heading? o.o dude.
The Pants Game has arrived, Again! - favorites from this go around:
Various Art - Holy SHIT this stuff is good! If you get a grey box in place of the picture, click on it and it'll be unlocked...
[]
Happy birthday and belated birthdays to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
laragoth, angieloki, gatewaygirl, ladysorka, novembersmith, angstymcgoth, annexia_lex, and jackfan2! May the only blue in your days be that of the sky! =)
What I knew from the moment I heard this song.
1) start with a shot of Leeloo being "created" to intro the song
2) first chorus = first meeting
3) the reaching up to her hand has to be *somewhere*
4) it's all about "*two* saving the world"
5) that last shot
Biggest initial mistakes about the vid
1) color scheme - I thought it was bright and pretty enough, but sisabet pointed out that it's far too mellow. She'd pointed out some other options, the one I finally based the color scheme of the vid on is the naturally super-saturated shot at 2:50...The 'darkness' and 'roughness' of the song needed something equally burnt-out and gritty to sustain it or, at times, something blinding bright to match the power of the song.
2) inclusion of all 4 stones exploding in sequence (rather than simutaneously) - Initially they were all present, linearly, but it made the vid drag and added nothing to the storyline. But I wanted all four stones in because they *matter* dammit, because it's the *elements* because she's *elemental* and she and him together are the last part, the light that destroys the darkness. However the inclusion of all four stones sequentially was much too long; so I did it simutaneously.
3) transparencies = fair game - too many transparencies just created blurryness and confusion, as noted by betas. I headdesked (whined internally) and cleaned up the clips and fades. Finished product was better for it. ::blows kisses to sisabet and lum::
4) that I'd include faces of the President and the priest to increase 'dramatic tension' - the point of the vid is "You can't save the world alone". I didn't *need* the other worried faces to tell the story I was trying to smoosh into 4 min.
Best things I've learned through this vid
1) How to handle color - The intensity of color as related to emotion
2) Internal motion - fight scenes are infernal to get on beat, thank god she was already doing it to 4:4...take the clip, cut it at the point of maximum extension of movement, stick it on the beat-in-question
3) Creating random chaos in Non-linear Editing - 1/2 of creativity are accidents (the other 1/2 is *recognizing* the *good* accidents) so more accidents = better results.
Hardest Things About The Vid
1) Learning premiere
2) Cutting the song
3) Squishing movie into 4 min, and cutting out The Funny
What I knew from the moment I heard this song.
1) I needed to scare people
2) I needed to include both deaths
3) I needed to include the picture shots
4) I needed the horse blood
5) I needed the "reaching for the arm" scene
6) I needed the creepy loft
7) I needed to increase the sound at certain points
8) I was insane for even attempting this
Biggest initial mistakes about the vid
1) The POV - initially I worked without a POV, and there was no concrete way I could frame the vid without having some sense of a POV, even though it ended up being second person omniscient.
2) Goal - Initial goal was just to scare people, and I later realised that I needed another goal besides just trying to scare people, 'cause otherwise I had really no clue what I was vidding. I ended up trying to explain the role of family, and being lucky in it, or not (as the case might be).
3) That I'd split up the storyline of the protagonist and her husband from the protagonist and her son - Initially, the girl would die, then the father around the middle of the song, then the son would be threatened. I later realized that it's all one interconnected story about family, there was no way they could be separated. Also, it means creating two climaxes in the song, with the husband's climax only slightly less than the son's, and the song itself doesn't support this. What it *does* support is a quick early peak and then steady rising, and since the girl's death already took up the early peak, I *had* to merge both the husband's and the son's storylines into one story that follows the upping of tension.
4) Some of the scenes weren't what I'd imagined - the arm grabbing scene I'd imagined from a totally different perspective and I had to completely re-imagine huge chunks of the vid because I was going off memory, and I'd *refused* to watch the movie all the way through again.
Best things I've learned through this vid
1) Mood is All About The Sound. - No really: the vid isn't half so scary without the ambient sounds and the sound effects I've added to the sound itself.
2) Fear is Threat is Unexpectedness. - Threat: the moment of death itself isn't so scary as the *approach* of death, or rather the unpredictable approach of death. Unexpectedness: motion and color lulls the mind into expecting certain things to move certain ways or appear in places at a logical pace. If you take that logic away (jump cuts, color changes, speed changes, direction changes) the eye is started and thus the mind is startled, and if this startledness, this unbalanceness, is maintained then there's this perpetual sense of Threat because what is coming is unpredictable and what if it is a scary moment? ie. "What if it's *that* shot?" (and it doesn't matter what *that* shot might be) Thus, Unexpected -> Threat -> Fear.
3) Motion is most gut-punching not only on *beat* but on *measure*. - If a major motion ends within a measure, end it at the half-way point.
Hardest Things About The Vid
1) Learning how to create fear.
2) Figuring out POV
3) Clipping the source
[]
Priorities by Chash - Gargoyles. OMG! Gargoyles fic!!!! ::LOVES::
Bush's Supporters Are Willfully Misinformed - What's scary about this is that it implies that not only are people being misinformed, but there is resistance *against* the possibility that they are wrong. Upon some thought, perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised...What's interesting tho, is that this might indicate how *both* conservatives and liberals have stopped believing in mass media. What would be interesting is to actually track down where each group ends up getting their news, and if/how it affects political views.
Can you imagine Koumyou Sanzo playing hacky sack? Can you imagine it NOW? ::just grins:: (do NOT read the other threads if you don't know the complete Kami-sama arc)
How to become an obnoxious internet cam whore (via iibnf) Barely prevented self from snorfling tea the wrong way, just sayin'.
Meta on the presence of subtext - ie. Do you realize that male writers who write male characters in a "Sex Sells" atmosphere are writing "attractive" characters? As in characters that they think/find attractive? ::massive lightbulb:: 'cause it like, guys/writers/producers/actors are creating these characters that the audience might find attractive...and thus these guys are possibly creating characters that has characteristics that *they* find attractive...do you see where this is heading? o.o dude.
The Pants Game has arrived, Again! - favorites from this go around:
"Have you any idea as to how Black got in your pants?"Court Says Whales, Dolphins Cannot Sue Bush - ...yeah, I don't know either.
"Many, each as unlikely as the next." -Snape & Dumbledore
"This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive in my pants." -Jabba the Hutt on Boba Fett
Boromir - My father is a good man, but his pants are falling, and the people lose faith.
Various Art - Holy SHIT this stuff is good! If you get a grey box in place of the picture, click on it and it'll be unlocked...
[]
Happy birthday and belated birthdays to
laragoth, angieloki, gatewaygirl, ladysorka, novembersmith, angstymcgoth, annexia_lex, and jackfan2! May the only blue in your days be that of the sky! =)
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As for the dolphins and whales from that particular court of appeals in San Fran...I'm still waiting for the Big One to come and tear California off along the San Andreas fault, making it a big island. It would probably make everyone on both sides happy. :) KC
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but then it'll be just like Hawaii! =D
btw, loved the new part of Keep It Simple!
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I live to serve! Glad ya liked it. :) KC
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...it'll still have no earthquakes? XD
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