by OtakuOutpost » Wed Jul 10, 2002 5:32 pm
I think I'm going to add a little to this...
Someone above mentioned that they didn't understand my video. Maybe I can explain it for you.
The chorus is a good place to start. The lyrics of the song are...
"I will be watching over you
I am gonna help to see it through
I will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you in silent lucidity"
Since you've seen the series you should know that Tomoyo-chan films Sakura whenever she can. This is interpreted as "watching over". Kero-chan helps Sakura throughout the series by explaining the powers of the clow cards and identifying them. Thus, Kero helps Sakura see it through. Lee is always around. He helps her when she's in trouble and on several ocasions, protects her in the night. Yuki is always smiling and friendly, thus is smiling next to her. Lets not forget her crush.
Remaining lyrics, shall we?
**First verse**
"Hush now don't you cry"
(Sakura's father quells her guilt over breaking the laptop)
"Wipe away the tear drop from your eye"
(Lee tells Sakura to get a grip and Sakura wipes the tears from her eye)
"Your lying safe in bed"
(Sakura sleeping peacefully, shows the sequence where Jump becomes a big monster and is chasing her)
"It was all a bad dream spinning in your head"
(cross disolves into tormented sleep - this transition makes clear the sequence was a dream)
"Your mind tricked you to feel the pain of someone close to you leaving the game of life"
(From the tunnel where Sakura faced the erase card. Card erases Sakura's friend, thus a close person leaves the game of life. Up to this point, the lip sync is there to carry the video. Beyond this part, very little lip sync is used or intended. Without the use of it, the video would be boring. The song is two slow to pass a myriad of clips during this part. Emotionally and lyrically the magical scenes aren't ready to make an appearance.)
"So here it is, another chance. Wide awake you face your day"
(Sakura wakes up and prepares for another day at school)
"Your dream is over... or has it just begun"
(at this point Sakura finds the clow cards and casts windy on accident, thus beginning her adventures)
During the next part of the song, the instrumental parts kick in and the video completely changes moods. Prior to this the video is moving very slow with the music. Now the video begins to flow at a higher rate and the sceens start using panning camera angles. Magic becomes an obvious element in the video.
**second verse**
"There's a place I like to hide
a doorway that I run through in the night"
(Sakura flies down a hallway to this place, then runs through a doorway, followed by an archway in the night)
"Relax child you were there"
(Tomoyo comforts Sakura)
"but only didn't realize, and you were scared"
(Music dictates a sweeping shot here because of the way the violins kicked in. I tried to make it look like she was someplace safe, followed by her getting scared and ducking behind Tomoyo)
"It's a place where you will learn"
(School. Miyuki sensei teaching)
"To face your fears"
(Fighting the monsters from "the create")
"Retrace the years"
(Sakura spies in on Tora and Miyuki's past)
"And ride the whims of your mind"
(Sakura flying next to Kero from the opener. Kinda sounds like "ride the winds". Either way it fits well lyrically)
"Commanding in another world"
(Sakura commands the capture staff to release. Looks otherworldly)
"Suddenly you hear and see this magic new dimension"
(Sakura is surprised at how she can't hear anything when the Silent first uses it's effects. It's timed really well so it fits on hear and see. The magic new dimention shot is the art gallery from the same episode fading into the magic field of silent)
*insert chorus*
*solo*
**Third verse**
"If you open your mind for me"
(Lee meditating before using powers)
"You won't rely on open eyes to see"
(Sakura uses her powers to try to locate a clow card. Opens her eyes timed with lyrics. Next seen shows the Mirror with it's eyes closed as Watery passes through it. It makes it look like Sakura is in combat without using her eyes to see.)
"The walls you built would then come tumbling down and a new world will begin"
(Miyuki sensei breaks the walls of "the Maze". They come tumbling down. Next Sakura is experimenting with "the Glow" in a precognisent dream. Looks like she's possibly creating a new world)
"Living twice at once you learn
you're safe from pain in the dream domain,
your soul set free to fly"
(Sakura and mirror (living twice at once). Mirror tucks Sakura into bed (safe from pain in the dream domain). Mirror then disolves (Sakura's soul is set free). Sakura then rides the back of Kero (flying) from the Alice and Wonderland parody episode.)
"A round trip journey in your head"
(Shot from an acid trip Tomoyo had during the encounter with "the Dream")
"Master of Illusion"
(Illusion card. Sakura is now the master of illusion)
"Can you realize
your dream's alive
you can be your guide but.."
(The entire show features a reoccuring dream involving the Tokyo Tower (clamp specialty) which is precog. This is just after she collects the final elemental clow card and where she runs into Yue. Basically, the Dream is alive.)
*chorus again*
*song ends*
You complain about a lack of effects. I call it appropriate use of effects considering the song and mood I was conveying.
Was it a technical marvel? No, but the visuals created during the solo were noteworthy and impressive. I could have made the whole video look like that, but then the song wouldn't have mattered. Timing and placement of visuals to play on the song's movements is crititcal to a drama video.
Ok, now back to the AX bashing...