by rose4emily » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:46 pm
Kalium - no, it's not just you. The opening few minutes really do drag, and there's another point in the middle that could really use some help (I'm guessing that you stopped watching somewhere around the "rain-bridge" scene). The last seven minutes, oddly enough, are much better than the first seven in my opinion, but they also include a section that I have to imagine would get a very strong love/hate response both visually and musically (the "chaos" section as I would like to dub it).
I think I will go ahead with making some masks and playing with some overlays in the portions that just crawl along right now, mixing in some material of similar mood from later in the series to give the viewer more to look at without making the speed of motion or fequency of transitions too great for the slow and low pace of the music in those areas of the video.
I haven't had too much time to work on the actual video-making yet, between my academic work and messing with the server to get that to work right, and it shows. There are only two reasons for my posting the video in its current state at all:
I want to encourage other people to put up their ideas even as they're just beginning to come together, to encourage peer review and idea exchange.
I wanted to determine whether or not anyone could stand the song nevermind the video. It has some very pretty passages, but also a lot of "noise" that I happen to like and see as fitting, but that I'm not so sure many other people would.
may seeds of dreams fall from my hands -
and by yours be pressed into the ground.