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Third entry - you don't see me...
2005-03-18 18:53:29
Time - 5:32, Noise - A Perfect Circle - "3 Libras"
Ugh. I wish I'd quit yawning. It's not like I'm tired. Hey, my mommy is cooking clam strips. Mmm...fatty pre-packaged seafood. No wonder I'm so obese. Bleh.
Curse you, brother! *shakes fist* Why won't you deliver my DVD drive!? I've seriously put any and every project to a screaming halt ever since I first learned that I was going to get a DVD drive. I mean, why make a substandard video from fansubs (Cod bless them, but the subtitles make things difficult [that was a lot of usage of the term "sub"]) when I can make a far cleaner video from the DVD footage itself? Although, that in itself kind of makes me mad. I JUST finished importing all of the episodes I would need for my next video, and now it's all basically obsolete due to this new revelation. So, the drive is a mixed blessing. On the upside, getting a new drive (and ultimately a new editing program) is going to really help with my technical stupidity. I'll force myself to learn, I suppose.
I finished my latest poem today. It's a really disturbing one called "Possessive Compulsive." It's all about abusive relationships, except the people in my poem are twisted enough that they both enjoy it. I use a lot of references to hunters and their prey throughout the piece. When I'm writing, I have the tendency to want to end the poem the same way I started it. In this case, it starts with this couple in the rain, so I also try to end it by making references to the rain.
I've been listening to the rock music channel lately (it's one of those imageless ones somewhere in the 900s) and I've heard lots of new songs that would make great AMVs. In fact, one of the songs I heard not a day later in a Perfect Blue AMV I downloaded. Actually, I was on a A Perfect Circle downloading spree, so I got all of the APC AMVs I recognized the anime of.
Well I need to get my APC fix now, so I'll end it here.
As always, Farewell, Good Luck, and Happy AMV-ing!
- dj_ultima_the_great -
Second entry - the room that confines me
2005-03-17 17:49:10
Time - 4:15, Noise - Silent Hill 4 - "Tender Sugar (Empire Mix)"
Nobody was at school today. The show choir is participating in a contest in Branson, Missouri (lets just say that that's VERY far from home), and they won't be back for a long time. Not until next week will I get to see my freshman. Actually, he's a junior, but since I'm a senior, I've always called him my freshman. It's kind of an unspoken tradition in my school for an upperclassman to take and underclassman under his/her wing. Well, I couldn't wait for my opportunity, so I did it when I was still just a sophomore. That doesn't matter to my freshman, though. He's still a sweetie to me and fully accepts that I am his senior. It's kind of odd, actually. He'll do anything for me as long as I give him a backrub in return. Come to think of it, most of my friends are that way. Maybe I should have considered being a masseuse instead of a linguist, eh?
Anywho, on to more relevant things. I'm terribly lost on what to do about my next music videos. My next video is going to be the Anime Compilation Project. It's nineteen sections long, each section being about a minute or so long. However, due to the extreme length of the video, I'm splitting into three shorter sections, each of which will still be around eight+ minutes apiece. Also, I know that my program can't take rendering eight minutes of edited, effect-riddled footage so I'm going to have to render each section individually and then string six or seven of them together at a time. It'll be a long, arduous process, but I'm really looking forward to the results. Problem is, it'll probably take me well into my freshman year of college to finish the whole thing. Besides, I have other videos that I want to do as well, so I'll likely end up doing the other videos between sections - which will add even longer to my completion time. I feel like this project is too big for me, sometimes, but I still really want to do it. I have all of the music picked out, I know the order of the sections, and I have a good mental plan on what clips I'm going to use and how I'm going to edit them. Ugh. Oh well...this is what I live for, after all.
On a happier note, I'm pretty sure I'm getting a DVD drive soon, so I can finally stop using downloaded footage. At least, that's what I hope anyway. Hopefully I can then make lots of PS2 videogame music videos, then. I can rip normal PS stuff, but I need the drive for PS2 stuff. That's how I understand it. I hope I'm not wrong or I'm going to be one frustrated girl. Also, when I get this new drive, I'm thinking that it's going to be time for a program upgrade as well. I just don't think Windows Movie Maker II is cutting it, anymore. Granted, there are some wonderful guides to help me make the most of that program, but I just don't think it is enough. My ambitions for my ideas are really starting to strain what I can do with my program. Therefore, with my graduation, I hope to become a lean, mean editing machine. I guess that means I'll have to start figuring out how the hell to rip stuff with other software, too. I just have to keep telling myself that it's all worth it in the end.
I can't wait 'til I get Devil May Cry 3. It looks great, but I'm dirt poor, so I'll have to get by without it for a while. My best friend is really looking forward to getting it too. Hope it doesn't disappoint. If it does, I'm flaming Capcom. ^_~
As always, Farewell, Good Luck, and Happy AMV-ing!
- dj_ultima_the_great -
First entry - no plot, no point, no climax...
2005-03-16 21:44:26
Time - 8:11, Noise - A Perfect Circle - "Passive"
Okay, so this is my first journal entry. Anywhere. Ever. Figures that I wouldn't get into doing this until after I had uploaded my videos. NOW I'm suddenly a practicing member of the site.
Well, what should I write? I suppose I could write about my AMVs. Yeah, that'll do for a first cliche entry. As far as my videos go, I don't think I see too much of a difference until I hit my fourth video (which is the only one not uploaded.) They all pretty much have the same amount of effort put into them, and none of them really came out different from each other until my fourth. Once I hit that, I think I really started to get a concept for editing. I'm absolutely obsessed with good timing, but that doesn't show half the time, I know. That's because I tend to time on the off-beats, or I don't stay consistent with the beat I choose to edit to. My seventh video is my best, but it's made up of Silent Hill largely, so it may be some time before I get my first opinion on that one. Which reminds me...
Hey! A few days ago I just got my first opinion. Granted, it was less-than-stellar and less-than-positive, but it was very honest and I appreciate that a lot. Everyone tells me that I'm really hard on myself, but I guess that's just me compensating for not hearing "you suck" often enough. Everyone tells me how good I am at stuff, but not many people tell me when I just suck. Well, except in sports. I get "you suck" a lot in that, but I've come to expect it then. I've got a story about praise, in fact. I thought it was kind of amusing today in chorus. Rather than standing in our sections (soprano, alto, tenor, bass), my teacher allowed us to mix with each other, so that no part was standing next to the same part. A friendly (but oddly preppy) sophomore girl commented on my singing after we finished rehearsing a piece. She told me that I sounded really good. So, I turned to her and said "not really, but thanks." So, she just smiled and said "yeah, you're right, I'm lying." I felt kind of guilty; she had just given me a compliment, and I basically threw it away. I thought it was amusing when she first said it, but I felt bad afterward. I guess I'm weird like that. Actually, to be serious and honest, I should probably taking meds for depression. The way I figure it, though...I'm not suicidal, and the general state of morbidity (is that even a word) that I'm usually stuck in just serves to make my poetry interesting. Great. Now anyone that reads this is gonna get worried about me. Well, not anyone. But some people freak out when they hear others talk about depression and suicide.
You know, though, that's probably why I don't come up with many comedy ideas for AMVs. Most of my stuff is very serious, because I tend to see the darker sides of things. That's part of the reason why I've been absolutely infatuated with Silent Hill. It fuels that morbid side of me and in turn my work benefits. It's twisted, but that's the way it works with me. Oh, anyone who hasn't at least HEARD of Silent Hill should get into it. It's so dark and gritty that I can't help but absolutely adore it - which is why my seventh video (my best one) is my favorite currently.
That's funny. I just unintentionally lead myself back around to where I started in this entry. Go Silent Hill! ^_^
As always, Farewell, Good Luck, and Happy AMV-ing!
- dj_ultima_the_great
Irony of the day: why don't I participate in gym? Well, you know what they say...there's no 'I' in 'team.'
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