[Hero Vid] 'Sunburned' vid notes

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What I learned from making 'Sunburned'
What I knew from the moment I heard this song.

1) Screaming clip at the climax of the song
2) lots of water images
3) lots of image 'runs'
4) the elements
5) Emperor pov.
6) Had to somehow focus on the culture war.
7) God, but this is gonna be obscure. ::headdesks::

Biggest initial mistakes about the vid

1) PICvideo Lossless might be a good preview codec for Premiere - IT ISN'T. It's slow like molassas at the north pole.
2) That I could finish in a week - ::wry grin:: well, I know better now. Also, I need more RAM. I really really do.

Best things I've learned through this vid

1) slowing down my cutting speed - self-explanatory, and am still working on this

2) practicing using avisynth - the most useful tool EVER. ::bounces::

3) the pretty is your friend. except when it isn't - sometimes it's hard to get meaning and content when things are too shiny. One must learn to live with this fact if one insists on having shiny things in vids.

4) subtlety is your friend. except when it isn't - see above. replace 'shiny' with 'subtle'.

Hardest Things About The Vid

1) PICvideo Lossless is the SLOWEST PREVIEW CODEC EVER. ***EVER***.
2) Getting the timing right on the lens flare when she screams was a pain in the buttock. Worth it tho.
3) Vidding that last really fast run of images. I'd briefly expanded to 6 tracks just to *organize* all the colors. Insanity. and also? Take into account #1...

Random Thoughts and Comments

Making this vid was SO. FREAKING. FUN. I was putting down a clip, and cheering and putting down a clip and cheering. Didn't hurt that I adored the song, and in fact I think this is the fastest vid I ever made. I think I finished the bulk of it in 5 days (over Winter Break) and then just sat on the thing picking at timing issues for 2 months. Made this on avisynth which is a GODSEND 'cause I couldn't have kept the quality so high otherwise. Also, it exists for the most part in only 3 video tracks; I think that's a record for me.

Originial Thoughts On Vid

Ripping Details About Hero
stream process video - 720x480 16:9
NTSC
29.97 fps
Interlaced

Initial Outline

[red black]
"Come let the truth be shared" [green falling]
No-one ever dared [speechface]
To break these endless lies [attacking school]
Secretly she cries [standing in arrowed hallway]

[red]
She burns like the sun
And I can't look away
And she'll burn our horizons, make no mistake

[blue and white]

[green]
"Come waste your millions here",
Secretly she sneers
"Another corporate show",
A guilty conscience grows

[green blue black]
I'll feel a guilty conscience grow
I'll feel a guilty conscience grow

[red and white]
She burns like the sun [stabs]
And I can't look away [sliding down]
And she'll burn our horizons, make no mistake [twirls, turning to red]

1& 2&a [green]
3& [stabbing red]

1& 2&a [green]
3& [stabbing blue]

1& 2&a [green]
3& [dropping sword white]

1 2 3 [stabbing white]
1& 2 3[scream]

[elements]
1 2 3
1& 2& 3&

>1 2 3
>1& 2& 3&

>1 2 3
>1& 2& 3&

1 2 3
1& 2& 3

[black]
And I'll hide from the world [hit with pommel]
Behind a broken frame [advisors approach]
And I'll burn forever [slashes hand]
I can't face the shame [nameless turns around]

[all]
And I'll hide from the world [surrounded, looking blank]
Behind a broken frame [arrows shooting, army block]
And I'll burn forever [arrows falling on school, curtains falling, books

falling]
I can't face the shame

[falling swords?]
[fade on alone, erased]

Comments

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

green--jealousy!! Jealousy--corporate--sneer!!!!!!!!!

::is. so. slow.::

I think it's because i never paid attention to the lyrics while watching, just the SOUND--that seeing the outline puts a LOT more in perspective for me.

just WATCH me loop it -again- and get my roomie to kill me, -again-. XD XD worth it for you and your vid, babe.

[permetaform]

hee! aww! ::glomps::

[oboros.livejournal.com]

once again the insight to your mind is SO cool to see! Thanks for sharing the outline with us.

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=D ::hugs:: I'm just glad it's interesting!

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btw, ICON LOVE!