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like a slow moving train
2006-09-21 08:26:47
SH108:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning: complete
- Storyboard/planning: complete
- Clipping: complete
- Edit: 2:02
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
The video is about half done (it's technically 4:16, but the music stops around 4:04), and while things are looking OK, I'm really wondering how the hell I'm going to manage the rest of the runtime. The immediate stretch of the song gets a lot more complex shots in, but then there's repetition after that, and actually, a whole bunch of the shots that I was acually able to catalogue by number. The shots get shorter as well; I've matched in footage for 33 of the 90 cuts on the tracking sheet, so the last 57 will fit into about the same amount of time as those first 33.
I quit last night going into a shot that I'd have to rebuild basically from scratch, partly because I'm still sick and was running out of energy, but also partly because I was sick of scratching along on a project that I have very little directorial input into. I talk a lot of shit about people who call themselves 'creators' or 'directors' instead of 'editors', but you do have to have some of that in your process, or it becomes rapidly Not Fun. What I'm doing right now is some set design and a whole lot of pure editing, and it's a repetitive picture-mapping process that's somewhat divorced from the music. I had like a five-second stretch last night where I was mapping in video without listening to the audio at all, just following the shadow of Stumpel from my bluescreened map track and laying in video based on that, because that was what was being followed, not the music. It goes faster, but it really kills the fun of it.
I've gotten the Opeth CD down for the next project; source collection and checking should start on the weekend. Saturday morning I'll probably take to scout locations, then go shooting Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, but this will mean not only waking up before dawn Saturday, but also having at least a middling idea of what I want to look for, almost shot-by shot, by then. And lots of batteries.
The Tokko project is looking like it's going to center on Necrophagist after all, but there's a few more CDs in the queue for today, and I may dig out some of my old Defiled as a double-check. Mal sehn.
--Kai out
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nutritious organs stored
2006-09-20 08:36:32
The sled is broken out, and after I get a few life-maintenance things out of the way tonight, it's back to the editing grind. I've got some really good ideas behind this one, so the pressure and desire to blast it out is really mounting.
After 108 wraps, while I'm scouting locations and shooting for the DepreCon project, I'm also going to be moving ahead with preliminary work on a subsequent project, which I'm currently scouting death metal songs for. I've got a bunch of Necrophagist and Hypocrisy in today, and will probably go over to Origin and Vital Remains tomorrow if there's nothing really jumping out. "Intestinal Incubation" is a really good match conceptually as well as musically, but I really want to go a little more brutal with it.
This project was inspired by watching some Tokko last night, which bizarrely is not even in the database as an anime yet.....which does provide a certain ego push to get a video with it out. Of course, it's kind of understandable why the show sunk without a trace; it's based on a gloriously blooddrenched comic, and as a TV anime, is not showing near enough fucking gore, burrowing maggots, dismemberment, and all that other great stuff that made death metal freaks fall in love with the original. Add in that it's trying to do Berserk on the budget of Mystery of the Necronomicon instead of going in reverse, and you can see why it's a little disappointing. In a 13-ep series, though, there's going to be enough mutilation and depravity to nicely fill up a four-minute death metal video.....and if there isn't, I still have the manga to go back to for extra splatter content.
Unrelated Tokko note: the fansubbers, like most fansubbers, are retarded about anything not immediately relating to Japan or anime. In the ED, there's a word that is constantly written out as "Sherry", like a proper name; I realized after 35 seconds of not really paying attention that this is definitely wrong, and it's supposed to be 'cheri'. More importantly, so does anyone not retarded who has ever in their lives even heard of a stereotype of the French. Seriously, how much of a no-life fucking otaku do you have to be to miss something like that, not only in translation, but also all the way through the quality check? Get the hell out of my gore anime and go back to subbing maid shows, you wankers.
--Kai out
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keep the flame alive
2006-09-18 10:10:47
So, SH107 is released, and SH108 is still not ready to go, though this will hopefully change by the end of the week. I'm still sick, but not nearly as bad as I was over the weekend, and I should be able to get a little time tonight before the football game to break the sled out of the ice. I kind of need to get back in the groove for this video, but the impatience and frustration at being flat on my back for the longer part of five days ought to get me up and firing fast.
Enjoy the current video, because the next one only a very select, very strange, few will even be able to grasp at all.
--Kai out
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hey, wake up
2006-09-13 12:00:20
No progress to date, but the plan is to leverage the downtime that I've had in my D&D game over the past 2 weeks to get through the rest of the editing by the weekend and submit the video on Monday; it'll also help that for the first time in 3 weeks, I'm not out at a metal show on the weekend. There aren't too many holes like that upcoming, though, and in October I start Chinese again.
This makes it more fortuitous that I'm pretty sure that I can work up an old idea for DepreCon, which I didn't think I'd be able to do here in the US. Of course, I still need to run through the manga source and scout locations for the live bits, and then get enough overcast-but-not-raining days to shoot everything. Still, it should be a good challenge, and hopefully it'll come out looking nice.
If successful, this should also reestablish enough cred that I can do a total sellout project after that. When such inevitably fails, it's then back to the underground and a lot of stuff with no audience at all; only way to be.
--Kai out
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i reject this fucking race
2006-08-29 14:14:08
No video work (too much gaming, Chinese, and other stuff hogging my weekends), but I did reupload the seven videos that had aged out. In the future, please write a bug report if you try to download a video and Megaupload says it doesn't exist.
I may do some video work this Friday; I'm taking the day off for Hatebreed/Napalm Death (RIP Jesse)/Exodus on the start of their US tour, but that does kind of leave the whole morning with nothing to do. If this is the case, then I may roll up the remaining parts of the video Saturday night, since class gets out earlier. More likely, though, is that I will stupidly procrastinate on my final Chinese assignments and have to do them in the morning, making further video work unlikely.
I still want to finish the video, but the ability to do so is somewhat impaired by the more pressing demands on my time. This is definitely not my prime free-time committment any more, or even my primary hobby; if I can finish this one this week or next, there may be one more video before the end of the calendar year, but that'll be it; I've got a book to write in November, and I'll probably have to go past the start of the new year on my Katsucon project...and accordingly blow a deadline I don't even know about yet. Na, geht's immer so, oder?
--Kai out
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