[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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and everything made it very strong as the "darkest point" of the video, with the blackness closing in on everything and choking off possibility for life and love and positive connection, only negative connection of echoing the past and associations with hurt and death.

::squees::


And then the way you followed that with opening everything up with the silhouette of the bell-ringing for sunrise and leaving the full frame open and bright and renewal and sunlight

::nods:: incidentally, that scene is sorta like the Death tarot...in that it's as much 'change' as 'endings' as 'death'. The woman (who was a youkai sent after the scripture) let herself be killed with her sisters (blackmail and the commitment to each other were the only reason they were after the scripture anyways)...the bell is a death knoll.


shown with full-frame shots, the full picture, the full experience, layered again with the helping each other towards the open doorway to summarize but still using the whole screen and they're always together not cut off from each other anymore by the framing, and then open and outside and ready to travel on.

YES. so much yes! I am just...unspeakably *esctatic* that all this came through, that you got like everything and yet this was your first vid and just ::amazed and awed and uttely thankful for your feedback::

Just...wow. This whole thing just makes me thankful and more energized and more...just..

wow.


You officially get first look at the current Saiyuki vid I'm poking at...=D that is, if you want. It's still in the developmental stage but I should have a partial draft done within the month. Email me at kanzeyori@yahoo.com if you have the time to peek and/or chat about it...

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I am so very sorry that I've been so horribly slow to reply to this. I was too disorganzied to get a chance before I left for travel on Aug 12, and I've been just as disorganized plus in poor health since I got back. *hangs head*

I was and am still so flattered and excited by the idea of getting a sneak peak of your new Saiyuki vid, if the offer still stands -- regardless, I'm so excited you're making a new Saiyuki vid! But I can't make any promises about getting back to you in a timely matter, I'm afraid. I really do feel bad about it.

My email is calendarfish @ gmail.com, and I'm occasonally on AIM as "anomalisms"

And I still have this thread marked to come back with more replies to your comments when I am able.

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wah! and I'm even more horribly slow to find this again after wading through comments that are way backlogged. The Saiyuki vids is a bit stalled right now because I'm reconceptualizing it. In essence it's a Saiyuki vid vidded from the manga...which is an...::cough:: interesting challenge

I'll go ahead and flag this comment message to get back to you when I have more of it done, right now it's at about 15s, which is really nothing to speak of ::wry grin::

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I am glad I didn't miss my chance to see it.

And I can see the draw to try a Saiyuki vid from the manga... I've never made a vid (although now that I've got a new computer, I'm hoping I can maybe figure it out, maybe it can be possible), but there are certain songs I can't help but want to put certain images and events to, wanting to try make a vid of my own... and then I realize the the most important parts I'd want to draw on were never animated at all. >_< Because of course the part of Saiyuki fandom I obsess over most is Gaiden.

I will be very interested to see how you're vidding from the manga as soon as you are ready to show it!