[saiyuki vid] After Midnight

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After Midnight | .avi (640x480, 30 Mb)
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_{Source: 'Genso Maden Saiyuki', produced by TV Tokyo, Dentsu, and Pierrot
Song: 'I Don't Know What I Can Save You From' by Kings of Convienience
Summary: The rain will stop.}
Extras: Vidder process notes.

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Credits and Acknowledgements: Thank you coffee_and_ink for brainstorming the vid with me and the narrative beta, lierdumoa for listening to me rant and rant and rant some more about this vid and for beatwhoring beta for me, thank you boniblithe for giving me a supplementary beta of it, thank you karose for looking it over and chatting about Saiyuki with me loooooong into the morning and for reminding me of why I was making this along with louiselux, misstressrenet, and ciceqi who were all lovely and rambled about why they loved Saiyuki when I needed it most. Thank you absolut3destiny for introducing me to avi-synth and post processing without which this would have been a granulated mess. In addition, much thanks must be given to coffee_and_ink, ciceqi, and louiselux for hooking me up with some episodes ::blows kisses:: this vid literally couldn't have existed without you!


I Don't Know What I Can Save You From by Kings of Conscience

<sub>You called me after midnight
Must have been three years since we last spoke
I slowly tried to bring back
The image of your face from the memories so old
I tried so hard to follow
But didn't catch the half of what had gone wrong
Said "I don't know what I can save you from"
I don't know what I can save you from

I asked you to come over, and within half an hour
You were at my door
I had never really known you
But I realized that the one you were before
Had changed into somebody
for whom I wouldn't mind to put the kettle on
Still, I don't know what I can save you from
I don't know what I can save you from</sub>


Blarg: I'm calling this done because the thought of working on this any more than I already have is making me want to stop vidding. Frankly this could be improved, and I need to integrate the footage that louiselux was a total rocking babe to supplied me with, but at this point in time and with my other commitments, I don't have the time to work on this. Even more important, I desperately needed the space on my laptop to work on RL projects and my VVC auction vid.

This is, if anything, THE vid that I WILL remaster, if for nothing but to stop me from cringing in dismay.

[edit] alee_gothphyle made Gojyo icons from screencaps from my vid!

Comments

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This was really lovely and neat and I'd never seen all the use of insets (?)--new to vidwatching. Captivated despite only familiarity with source material being the first volume sof the manga. :-p

oh wow thank you then, for leaving feedback, 'cause most people new to watching seem afraid to. Insets are as good a word as any 'cause I'm stumped myself as to what to call them.

The use of frames within frames was extremely neat: I especially liked the silhouetted-window juxtaposed with the more up-close interactions of red-hair and the orange?-haired woman, and the sequence toward the end where the inside frame cut to a door cut to a larger opening door to the sky.

=D yay! I'm glad you like them! The frames ending up to the door to the sky were almost an accident, I noticed that the door opening to the sky worked well with the music and so kept it and played around with that theme more...

The song had a strong recurring bass/rhythm, and the sequences dissolved/cut/infrramed/??? around it with an interesting variety, using it as a steady backbone, and this worked well for me.

Thank you! That was one of the points where I was nervous 'cause the cutting gets very very fast...

Recurrent punctuation with images of red--the blood-drops, the cut hair, the red-handled scissors, the apples, and that final grace-note of red falling-star. Or maybe my brain simply doesn't like other colors. :-)

XD Actually, I adore that you noticed all those, 'cause actually...red didn't really exist in the anime before I got my hands on it. It was either faded red or reddish orange or (in the case of Gojyo's HAIR) it was pink. ::CRINGE:: after awhile I couldn't stand it any longer and lierdumoa poked me and was all like "you KNOW how to do it, just do it already!" So I gave in and did.

=) I'm so glad you liked it! And that wasn't really incoherent at all!