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Gah.
2003-06-23 00:14:54
The encoding for the con just seems fated to fail.
Huffy: fine, I assume.
XviD made from Huffy: fine, in fact it's on Local RIGHT...NOW.
MPEG made from Huffy: sound vanishes 1/3 of the way through.
SHOOT ME. If I have to watch this damn video one more time I will SCREAM. I like it and all, but I've seen it run by about ten freaking times in the past two days.
Aghhh. Other than that, things are good. Decided among a couple of possibilities for what will probably be Video 8 (two ahead of now). Thought up another video idea today, but it will just simmer on the back burner for an extremely long time. It's multi-series, and I want to think of a few more series to use. It's possible there are good matches out there that I haven't even seen yet - so I just want to keep it in mind and keep on watching different stuff. Ya know how it goes.
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Dah da da deedle-dee... [I've been listening to Suikoden instrumentals all day]
2003-06-20 22:06:15
Okay, over the accidental plagiarism bit, but the other part still makes me want to draw lines in the dirt with a stick and sulk.
Well, I think there are still a couple of people I know from places other than the .org who are going to Otakon, so maybe I can meet up with them. I was just looking forward to having the guts to say hello to people this time, and now I find that nobody gives a damn about you unless you're in the competition. You just don't count.
Lovely...
So I'll greet the people I know from other boards and such who are going, and... try and avoid the bitchy friend of mine if he goes.
*waves tiny pennant* yay.
Offer to hang out is still open for anyone who is not an elitist bastid - despite my babbliness online, I actually don't talk much IRL unless I'm 1) around people I know really well -and- 2) heavily caffeinated.
So I'm less annoying than it may seem. ^_^ And my two traveling companions are much cooler than I.
May just turn to rampant spending instead of socializing... assuming I have enough money by then. Ahem.
To rent:
Noir, NTHT, Escaflowne, FY, Fruits Basket, Eva I suppose. Excel Saga to make sure I like it before buying
To buy:
Trigun, CB, Saiyuki, Descendants of Darkness (YnM), Read or Die, Slayers, Lodoss; Moxy Fruvous, Enya's latest, Radiohead - The Bends, Pet Shop Boys - Very [rerelease], new copy of Depeche Mode - SOF&D, and the best-ofs of Blondie, the Rolling Stones, and the Eagles just for the hell of it. And if by some insane chance I happen to see them at a con or somesuch, the OSTs of Valkyrie Profile or Suikoden 1 or 2.
Ahaha. Money? Yeah. ;)
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Everybody having a good time... except you
2003-06-20 10:38:21
Just trying to make a decision here. Don't mind me.
Okay, I've got two songs for what is practically the same idea.
One is lower-key - fast-moving but mysterious-sounding, a "driving song" as I tend to think of them. The concept that goes along with it covers more ground, but might end up in a pile of nonsense like most of my high-concept videos. ;) It's the "artsy" choice, even though neither are really that artsy. I favor this one, but I don't trust my own judgment. It is also probably about three times harder than the second one in technical terms, considering the kinds of ideas I want to portray (like one layer rippling and then being ripped off like a flag or a curtain, revealing the next layer... my mind needs to be slapped).
The second option is faster, and much more emotionally charged. The concept is simpler and more direct. Because it is a simpler, clearer concept, its message will probably get across even if you haven't seen the series (which seems to be my curse). It's the "emotional" choice.
The scales are tipped harder in favor of the first one because it also interfaces well with a related idea I want to do, and had considered making a set of videos to be released at the same time (kind of like making an Ayeka tribute and a Ryoko tribute at the same time, only...not. ;) ).
But every time I do something I get the same answer: "Uh, it's okay I guess, but I haven't seen the series so I don't know." I always have this problem! I mean it's good if they still like it, but apparently I can't do anything that involves prior knowledge of a plot, or NOBODY is going to get it! Is my brain broken? Do I just suck so bad at AMVing that I can't make videos that anybody can follow from scratch? Why doesn't anyone else have this problem? I mean, I've watched tons of videos from series I don't know, and although I didn't know the context, they were still visually interesting. I never leave those "Uh, what the hell was going on but it's okay I guess" reviews. But I keep getting them. It's very frustrating.
I'm on the verge of saying fuck it, I'll do the artsy one that nobody is going to get, and the other half that goes with it. (Thereby making a nine-minute AMV out of two songs, which NOBODY is going to watch. ;) Though I'd release both parts separately too.)
Trying to make people happy is just going to make this too complicated. So I'm sorry, but screw it. I'll do what I want, and I apologize to the AMV-watching public.
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Started a landslide in my ego
2003-06-18 18:19:33
What was I going to say? Oh yeah.
I think the confusion about the work time on "Imaginary" might have come from a past journal entry - I didn't expect to finish the video that night, but make no mistake, it was a good 90% finished when I started that particular editing session. I didn't do a whole ton of editing that night; it's just that I didn't realize it was so close to being done. That's all. Trust me, I'd been biting my nails over this video for a good month or so, even though I only put in an hour or two a day on the days that I did work on it. (I tired pretty fast working on it. I think it might have been the song. It's not exactly the most perky/energetic thing in the world.)
In past journal entries I had also whined a LOT about its being stuck, which was probably just me burning out on video editing for a while.
Anyway. I've got that post-video compulsion to jump right to the next one, which is probably a Bad Idea. I'm not likely to finish it considering the compulsory "burn out and recharge" cycle. However, I might be able to get a start on it and come back later. Hmm.
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*Snoopy dance*
2003-06-17 21:11:14
Sometimes I feel like an attention whore re: my videos, but really, all it takes is one comment from somebody who's seen the series saying "Yes, I see what you were trying to say there." I don't really mind if they disliked most aspects of the video. Just that "Okay, I see what you were after" is justification to me, because I worry that my ideas vanish into a pile of randomness. If I find that it did make sense to somebody, then I'm happy. And anything else is icing, helping me to improve my video-ing in general.
So, yay.
And it seems like half of everybody I've ever talked to on teh intarweb is going to Otakon. It's odd. I keep hearing about more. Well, I guess with a con that size, the odds are pretty good.
And I'm slated to be in part of a gamemaking collective with a group of other non-idiot game editors (gamekas? :P), which is teh k3wl.
Yay, saith I.
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