I got a beta for you guys! Except... I wasn't able to cover the whole song like I wanted to. There are two very sizable holes in the timeline, but I can fill them in soon enough. The entire track is about 60% done. I just wanted to get this out there, maybe give some of you more motivation to work on this project more.
Link [9.3MB] It'll remain on yousendit's servers until next Friday, as I uploaded it two days ago.
The storyboarding goes as follows:
0:00 - dreams, aspirations
0:12 - early stumbles*
0:20 - up, up, up
0:30 - success!
0:36 - fall from grace
0:41 - determined, slowly working up*
0:48 - setbacks*
0:52 - big setbacks, pain/angst/depression*
0:58 - revival!
1:05 - the final stretch
The sections marked with *s are the ones that I have yet to edit. Basically I made all the happy parts first, so now I have to fill in all the sad parts.
I still have a little bit of work to do on the parts that are already there - they're cut, but not polished. I feel that there are some beats that simple cuts and motion are not powerful enough to emphasize, so I need to add some more sparkle to those beats. Don't worry, they won't be of the seizure-inducing type.
Let me know what you think!