ProjeKct Life

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:27 pm

Otohiko wrote:Anyways... anyone mind if I start getting ready for doing that first track? I just wrote my only exam, and I'm going to be almost completely free to edit within a few days.

OK Oto, I'll greenlight it. The more I think about it the more I realize that Arjuna is the perfect anime since so much of it (from what I've seen) involves birth, death, and the cycle of life. I've also decided that splitting the intro is a bad idea and that it will work better as a solid stand alone segment. A spectacular intro would do wonders for the rest of the project, watch Shameless Rock Video and you'll see what I mean. That's the beauty of the setup, instead of people watching it and thinking "that was awesome" you have people watching the title screen and thinking, "This is going to be good."

Doesn't Arjuna also have some visual representation of the power that is given to the girl? I could try to recreate that for use in the transitions as Jasper-Isis suggested a while back.

As for the name, I'm more worried about people thinking we can't spell then thinking we're misusing the name. In fact of all the people here who know what ProjeKct refers to I'll bet half of them are on this project.

Songbird21 · Post by **Songbird21** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:29 pm

So do you have an open spot or what?

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:48 pm

Wow, that was interesting timing, I just answered your PM 3 seconds ago.

Anyways, Based on the number of responses I've had I think we are going to have space for everyone. Some sections will be longer than others but I'll sort it out somehow.

While I'm answering questions, Bum: I like the idea. A little bit of action would be good for the video as long as it stays withing the bounds of the theme. You want to shoot for showing a progression rather than a single emotional state. For example: Instead of just showing a bunch of scenes of him being depresed show the incident and his reaction to it, then show what he does about it, and possibly the resolution or his coming to terms with it. Instead of showcasing an emotion try to make it as fully fleshed or 3 dimentional a representation of that period in his life as you can, that's the goal of the project. Got a little wordy there, this isn't set in stone but that's the kind of thing we want to shoot for, as long as you avoid a lot of pointless action it should be fine.

Is that some thing you could do with the section at 4:45? I belive you are the only one so far to request it.

Songbird21 · Post by **Songbird21** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:54 pm

Okay. Here's the 2 sections, in order of preferance, that I want to do and what I plan to do with them:

8:17 to 10:08 Bridge/Thematic Break: Anime planned for use- Mai Hime, Naruto, Inu Yasha and Ah! My Goddess (The movie).

8:17 to 8:40- Straight action from differant battles
8:41 to 9:14- The sadness and terror of war/battle
9:15 to 9:32- Fighting for survival (Good side nearly loosing)
9:33 to 10:08- Turnover. Good side wins. (Which should blend into the next setion nicely)

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0:00 to 1:50 Introduction : Anime planned for use- Naruto

0:00 to 0:40- Naruto as a baby and child and the pain he endures
0:41 to 1:02- Naruto fighting in battles
1:03 to 1:50- How Naruto's life has changed and the joys he's now experianced.

Lemme know which one you'd like me to do.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:23 pm

Heh, I already sense that the tracks I think of as my favorites will be quite sought-after here

Songbird wrote: 8:17 to 10:08 Bridge/Thematic Break: Anime planned for use- Mai Hime, Naruto, Inu Yasha and Ah! My Goddess (The movie).

8:17 to 8:40- Straight action from differant battles
8:41 to 9:14- The sadness and terror of war/battle
9:15 to 9:32- Fighting for survival (Good side nearly loosing)
9:33 to 10:08- Turnover. Good side wins. (Which should blend into the next setion nicely)

Sounds like an interesting idea; perhaps these aren't the titles I had in mind, but action/conflict/fighting is probably what we need there.

Whoever does this though, I'm gonna be watching this section very carefully - it's a theme I'm very familiar with and would really like to see done well. Let's see how this develops

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Alright, I'll get started on the 1st segment shortly, I hope (all I have in the next 10 days is an essay, no classes/exams to worry about for a while). Depending on how this goes, I may have something solid done within a week, or barely get started... but you probably should see something from me by the end of next week regardless.

Speaking of which, have we thought about a main FTP and such?

Toji Fujawara · Post by **Toji Fujawara** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:26 pm

Hay sorry...i pmed pen pen the othe night after he pmed me so ill just make it public. Im gong to make my choice very soon. I just need to re-listen to the audio. I will make them later tonight...in fact ill just make an edit to this post

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:04 am

Oh darn, I just realized something I hadn't before - Arjuna, as I can see, is 16:9. I can probably work around it for the segment through cropping things out and such, but I guess that'll already be a bit of a minus...

I guess I'll just start working with it letterboxed, and see if I can think of a way of 'pretending it's fullscreen'. I really wouldn't want to drop using the show just because of this...

I would really like suggestions - anyone dealt with things like that before? What would you do - stretch? Crop? Leave it as is?

I'm experimenting with this myself right now...

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Edit: I looked at it again, and resizing it to 4:3 doesn't actually look half bad in most places... but I'm still open for advice.

Toji Fujawara · Post by **Toji Fujawara** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:30 am

Otohiko wrote:Oh darn, I just realized something I hadn't before - Arjuna, as I can see, is 16:9. I can probably work around it for the segment through cropping things out and such, but I guess that'll already be a bit of a minus...

I guess I'll just start working with it letterboxed, and see if I can think of a way of 'pretending it's fullscreen'. I really wouldn't want to drop using the show just because of this...

I would really like suggestions - anyone dealt with things like that before? What would you do - stretch? Crop? Leave it as is?

I'm experimenting with this myself right now...

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Edit: I looked at it again, and resizing it to 4:3 doesn't actually look half bad in most places... but I'm still open for advice.

best thing to do would most likely be to make an avi synth sctipt witht he lines

LanczosResize(720,360)
Addborders(0,60,0,60)

thats justme though....and if im correct i think that what you did so me posting was uselss and damn this is taking forever to dl

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:38 am

Well, that's letterboxing; that is what you'd normally do - but I believe Pen-Pen is trying to keep all tracks in the same aspect ratio, which is 4:3 (unless he backtracked on that).

I'm actually testing things out now, and the 'stretching' of the image in some scenes is not too bad - and in others, I guess it would just be possible to just crop or letterbox it.

Toji Fujawara · Post by **Toji Fujawara** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:45 am

Otohiko wrote:Well, that's letterboxing; that is what you'd normally do - but I believe Pen-Pen is trying to keep all tracks in the same aspect ratio, which is 4:3 (unless he backtracked on that).

I'm actually testing things out now, and the 'stretching' of the image in some scenes is not too bad - and in others, I guess it would just be possible to just crop or letterbox it.

argh now i feel stupid....*stops posting with his minamal knowldge of avs*