JOURNAL: Chaos Angel (Dave Warren)

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  • This one's for you, Laura. 2002-06-22 21:35:16 I have begun work on my first non-anime music video today. A few months ago, My little sister asked me if I could make her a music video with the Harry Potter movie. She loves Superman by Five for Fighting, and she thought the song worked really well with Harry. I gave it a listen, and I agreed, so I began work.

    All I had available at the time, however, was a downloaded bootleg of the movie my mother had gotten off of Morpheus. When I tried to use that, Premiere kept crashing, because of the DivX codec. So, I gave up on it.

    Now, though, her birthday is coming up, and we have the DVD now, so I thought that making the video would make a good birthday present for her.

    Had a few glitches in the footage that I had to fix, but the video is coming along nicely. Thankfully, I have a little over a month to finish it, because I don't want to work on it when she's in the house.

    I'd like to post the video on the site if it turns out well enough, to get peoples opinions on it. However, here's a question I have about that. How would you feel about someone posting a video on the site that has absolutely nothing to do with anime at all? I mean, VGMVs can be excused, since many people who like anime also play video games, but I'm talking about Harry Potter and Five for Fighting. If anything, it's British.

    Please e-mail me with your opinions on someone posting a video on the site that has absolutely no connection with anime at all. Make the subject heading something like "Harry Potter vid", or something so I don't confuse it with junk mail.

    I'll probably make a thread asking peoples opinions in Off Topic closer to the time, if I decide that I want to post the video at all.

    Arigato.

     
  • Independant films rock 2002-06-21 21:58:26 I just got back from a screening of a local filmmaking student who wanted to showcase his work. Very nicely done. I am going to try to see more low-budget independant films. It was refreshing to see something that has not been engineered for popularity.

    While I am on the subject, I want to shout out a movie that should be avoided. Behind Enemy Lines. Do not waste your time and money. I watched the first twenty minutes or so and just walked away. It's completely cookie-cutter (why must the main character in a war movie always be the same "I-can't-stand-all-these-damn-rules, I-want-to-do-it-my-own-way" arrogant shit? And why is his [and it's always a guy too, at that] supervisor always an older person who never acts without consulting the manual and is in every way the polar opposite of the main character? BNL said it best: "It's all been done before.") and the main character is a STUPID FUCK!!! He left his injured friend laying in an open field, didn't even think to look for a hiding place, and the guy, of course, got shot by the enemy. The camera work was annoying too. Too much revolving 360 degrees around the actors (That got annoying REALLY quickly), and WAY too much of the jerky-motion effect. I am glad I stopped watching, because I don't think I could have handled any more.

    I must look into independant film festivals in my area. I really liked what I saw today, and I'd love to see more. 
  • Devolution, you rock!! 2002-06-03 21:53:45 Thanks to Devolution, I am now free of Angelfire!! Woot!! Thank you so much, I owe you big!!  
  • Two complete turnarounds in one post. Woot!! 2002-05-29 18:49:43 I have decided to shelve the Memories re-make once again because I was just getting no ideas for it, and I do not want to just dump random stuff in and call that the video. So, I saved what I had to disc, re-claimed my hard-drive space, defragmented, and started work on a video that popped into my mind. That video, however, died when I could not think of enough good scenes that I thought would work. It was an Eva vid using a song by Tori Amos. The problem is, I did not want to use ANY footage of the Evas at all, which cuts the possible Asuka scenes by about half, then you figure that many of the available scenes would not work for what I wanted to do, and I have a very short supply of clips to use. A different anime may work better, but until I find that anime, the idea is going to be shelved as well.

    Now, I am going to work on something I have wanted to do for awhile. For quite a while, I have wanted to create a Bastard video that features a lot of action, as well as imagary that brings up ideas of anger and suffering. I have been searching for a good song for it, though. Iced Earth's "Melancholy" was the song that originally gave me the idea, but when I thought about it, it didn't really have what I was looking for. I toyed with a couple other ideas until today.

    I had "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails stuck in my head all day, and realized that it was exactly what I was looking for. The only problem I have with using "Closer" is that it just begs to be compared to "Closer to God" 1 & 2 by ErMaC and William Milberry's Key the Metal Idol vid, which I believe is unnamed.

    Well, my thoughts on that are thus. I am choosing to go with my inspiration. It is my idea, and my video, and if I want to make it, I will. It may be compared to previous works by other edittors, maybe favorably, maybe not, but it is mine to create as I see fit. If I am going to study filmmaking, I can't live my life in fear of being compared to those before me. I have to go with my inspiration and my gut. That's really the best way to do anything in life.

    I am planning all kinds of things. Pans, text integration, all sorts of nifty shtuff. I hope to make this one my most technically involved video yet.

    While I'm here, I want to say thanks to AbsoluteDestiny and ErMaC. AbDes, thanks for pointing out to me that I was creating my source clips all wrong. From now on, I shall never de-interlace again. Inverse telecine all the way!!

    ErMaC, thanks for writing your guide. It has been a big help in getting my videos to look good. Most recently, I learned how to inverse telecine my vids to achieve much better quality than de-interlacing them was giving me, thanks to the information in your guides. De-interlacing was giving me massive ghosting problems that inverse telecining doesn't. So, thanks!! 
  • Experimentation is a good thing. 2002-05-16 00:21:51 I taught myself how to do some effects that I've been wondering about for a long time. Specifically, zooming in, changing color, black and white, lens flares (working on learning how to get the damn things to move around), and a few other things.

    It's amazing what you can learn by just experimenting and trying new things and learning for yourself. 
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