- I couldn't wait... 2005-03-21 09:00:37 Well, I just started editing my new AMV. FLCL this time. I don't have the DVD:s yet, and I had said to myself that I wouldn't start working on any new AMV until this summer, when I could buy some new DVD:s. I guess I was too excited about my new idea, because I just couldn't wait. I started eiditing with downloaded footage, just so I can have a sort of framework to start with when I get the real source footage. The song is one I have loved since I first heard it, and I've had this video idea at the back of my mind for a few months. Like my first video, I didn't have a detailed storyboard when I started out, but since I'm taking it slower this time around, I figure I will have plenty of time to figure it out as I go along. Also, unlike my first vid, I have a clearer concept of what I want the video to be like this time. The basic idea is fast-paced with detailed action synching and lots of well-synched and suitable effects. Not much of a story in there (I mean, it's FLCL...), but the theme is supposed to be centered around Naota, Haruko and Sameji, and Naotas problem with older girls. There will be very little lip-synching, partly because there was so much of it in my last vid, but mostly because it doesn't go well with the song; the more motion there is in a clip, the harder it is to lip-synch, so in a fast-paces action video like I'm planning, lip-synch would just lower the pace and take away the action effect.
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Never buy the cheap stuff...
2005-02-28 10:02:21
I got the long awaited "perfect" evangelion collection... Like I might have suspected, it was a japanese edition for sale in malaysia, the philippines, hong kong and so on... With all 26 episodes crammed onto 3 DVD's. It wasn't a total rip-off, because everything was there, including english subs and japanese, english, spanish and french (!) dubs. But the footage was a catastrophe. All very poorly de-interlaced with tons of ghosting. I immediately sold it off to a friend for half the price. Now I'm saving up to get the platinum edition, like I should have done from the beginning.
Let this be a lesson for any and all who read this; be careful with the cheap stuff... -
I can't wait...
2005-02-14 09:44:05
I promised myself that I would wait until this summer before I got serious with my next AMV, because of school. In theory, I've kept that promise, but I actually can hardly think of anything else. I think it has potential to be very good, and I'm really excited to begin editing. I'm making a plot outline for the lyrics now, and the 3 min 40 sec are almost full already.
Two days ago, I ordered the Evangelion Perfect Collection in used condition from amazon.com for a measly 33$! Ten dollars postage, but still a VERY good deal, since the price for a new copy is about 150$... It's gonna take at least a month for it to arrive, which is good, since I won't be tempted to start editing with it before the semester is over.
The song I'll be using is not the most original of choices. In fact, I was a bit surprised to learn that no one had done it before. It seems like such an obvious idea to me... The actual song has been used in 13 several AMV's in the catalog already (and other songs by the same band have been used in 9 more), but to tell the truth, none of them are any good... Also, none of them use Evangelion footage.
It's gonna rock... -
First AMV done!
2005-02-03 18:13:39
Well, I didn't keep a journal during the project, but better late than never... Finally, after two intense months of creativity, hair-pulling and going totally berserk over the way Premiere crashes all the time, my very first AMV is complete and uploaded. Only one opinion so far, and one inofficial, but they were good ones. Better than I had ever hoped for, actually. All the work was already worth it just to show myself that I really can make a decent music video, and that great feeling of getting ideas transferred from your brain into something tangible (or at least onto some magnetic storage media). But getting good opinions from others truly made my day. I'm already looking forward to starting the next project, but for now I will have to seriously concentrate on school for a while. Also, I'm going to play around some with Premiere to learn how to make and tweak visual effects better; one of my ideas is for a very effect-heavy FLCL video that I'm just dying to make... Whatever my next project will be, I'm going to give it more preparation and reflect more on the story and flow of the video as a whole this time. I think that's the key to making a truly great video. Just look at Kevin Caldwell's Engel (I know it's not exactly an original example, but it was the first amv I ever saw and still my favourite): you never even get to see an EVA until halfway through the video and then it takes another minute or more for the action to reach it's climax. It starts out slowly and humbly and builds up toward the end. That way you get into it from the start and start paying attention to the details, the action- and lip-synch and the feeling and mood of the video, so that when the action starts for real it really hits you full force.
Well, there won't be any more editing for me until I can make enough money to get my hands on some new DVD:s, anyway...
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