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Picking up the pieces, putting them away
2002-12-06 23:25:53
I threw out everything I'd done on my new video project before November so I can start over. The idea has been refined, and the test footage I'd put together was totally unneccessary. Never has tapping the Delete key felt so good during an AMV project.
I'm trying something completely new for my fourth outing: I'm not giving a rat's ass about the number of frames per clip. I think that's why Versus failed as an artwork for me, that I sat and counted out each snipped element in advance. Editing "by the numbers" certainly gets you a tidy product, but in the case of Versus it's also a soulless product. Mind you, it fit perfectly with the music... also assembled from carefully timed parts.
So this time out I'm pulling (nearly) entire sequences from the film, putting those sequences into separate bins, and then I'll just pull what I want from a given bin when I want it. And I'm not naming the files like I did before, with all the stupid fancy descriptions and what-not. "laser01.avi", "laser02.avi", etc.
My other major departure this time is that I'm throwing out the movie timeline as much as I can. All three of my videos so far have been dreadfully linear. I trapped myself in the storyline, probably out of some half-assed notion of maintaining a storyline for the video itself. This time? Pure visuals. I'm taking a page from ErMaC's "visual poem" videos like I Pray and Soul Of An Angel. Mind you, I have no illusions that I'll achieve anything of that quality, it's just that this is the change in mindset I've undergone during the preparation for this video.
If you'll excuse me, I think I'll go snip footage now. =) -
In case you're wondering what a really silly novel looks like
2002-11-20 17:41:57
http://greyduck.net/nanowrimo/excerpts.php
Don't worry, it's more than halfway over now. Starting in December I can get back to videomaking. I'm learning all about artistic discipline doing this NaNo thing, I gotta say.
"You WILL do an hour per day, or more, each and every day! You WILL make measurable progress!" I wonder if I can set a seconds-per-day chart and actually finish my video by mid-December... -
Sorry, guys, the video has to wait until December.
2002-10-25 13:51:10
I'm participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) for the first time, so that's going to take all of my "creative" time for the month of November.
Details here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/
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Still alive, still kicking.
2002-10-14 17:31:10
I'm sorry to hear about the forum troll situation. *sigh* Restrictions of some sort seem to be in order: "You must be at least THIS decent of a human being to get on this ride." The notion of it becoming an in-crowd thing may not be appealing, but if trolls are the alternative maybe that's what we have to do. Lucky for all of us that it's not my call to make, huh?
Maybe now's the time for that reply-to-journal thing. (Much as I'd love to, I don't have the time to watch every new journal entry for cross-journal convos...)
I'm just about to post the 13th and final Tenchi Muyo Thumbnail Theater (http://greyduck.net/tmtt/) so starting tomorrow my sole creative focus will be on the new video. Installing the 6.02 "beta" patch to Premiere fixed my scrubbing bug (apparently, hopefully) so I can get down to cases. I've picked a trickier song than I originally thought, so I'm probably going to be a couple of months at this one. I need the challenge, dammit! I must grow as a creator! Rawr! ;-)
I'm going to try some tricks and effects this time... little ones, mostly subtle ones, but I think that after three effects-free videos it's time to dip my toe into the water. I also have an idea for a kind of back-and-forth stuttering footage technique that will either look REALLY cool or REALLY crappy. No middle ground on this one, but a life without risks, blah blah blah.
My last video was done to original music by an unknown artist, with a hard deadline for completion. This video is a sort of personal request by a coworker. It's a different kind of pressure that I can only hope I'm up to. Wish me luck. Better yet, wish me stamina and perseverance. -
Oh yeah, and.
2002-09-18 15:10:39
And "Versus" got another opinion today! Hot diggity damn. The video I wasn't that worried about getting opinions on now has almost as many as my first video. Go figure... at least the Ops have been reasonably positive, which makes me feel a lot better about the video than I have been.
I need to strongarm some folks into Op'ing "Mayuka." I really want to know what people think of my personal favorite so far.
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