JOURNAL: imp (Johannes Michel)

  • possibly my worst project 2015-10-28 09:07:27 Normally I would delete any project that I can't finish, but not this one.

    I have been working on this project since august 2013, well, more like not working on it, only coming back to it every few months for maybe half a week at a time. So here I am, half of the AMV has its scenes selected, and half of that half is done with effects, but there's just too many masks and I'm so damn tired after working on it for like 1 hour :(
    whine whine whine, yeah I don't actually know why I started off like that.

    I think what I need is input and someone or something to get me interested in my own project again... I can't think of anything so I decided to write it down, sometimes stuff like this helps me getting my thoughts straight.

    I have seen a few "similar" videos to what I'm trying to make, but they all were quite not what I had envisioned, I guess I would have trashed this project if they were close to my idea... And don't get me wrong, I doubt my video will be original and innovating, no, I probably don't spend enough time watching other peoples' videos to see the actual similar ones.

    oh god, what have I been writing about?
    I will probably start looking for beta testers soon (again, I had a few back in 2013)...

    Expected release date is April 2017, but at the current rate it won't get finished until, let me get my calculator, 2154. 
  • first entry, some thoughts 2013-08-18 14:08:32 So, this is my first journal entry, anyone actually reads these? Is this some kind of blog?
    I'll just use this to organize some thoughts ^^;

    So, upcoming weekend is this "big" convention, and I entered the AMV contest there, with a video that's pretty well done for a 1 day edit. It could have been so much better (had more than a month time left), but I somehow couldn't care any more, so I send it in... Basically what I'm trying to say is that I regret this decision, but there's nothing I can do about now, so that's that.

    Another thing would be my "next" AMV, started working on it 5 days ago, and another contests' deadline is September 30th.
    I start to doubt I'll make it in time. Planning on a LOT of masks and colour effects... At least the audio was easy to cut down to 2:50.
    Yeah, and I'll have to redo about half of the masks I already did, because they are not pretty enough.
    Oh, and college is starting up the 26th this month, will have even less time to work on this project.

    I have one more issue, the biggest of these: my pride.
    Nowadays I create AMVs for contests only, and how I see it is that with competition, I want to do it myself. Compete without anyone helping me. This is a big problem because I get feedback only when I already "failed" so to say. I'd want beta-testers, but I don't actually want them either. Yeah, that's me. I'll see if I can change that soonish with this next AMV, already have 3 people in my mind I might ask, we'll see.

    Sorry for taking up some of your time :p 
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