JOURNAL: Daio Kaji (Rogelio Duran)

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  • blood video... postponed... (sp?) :/ 2004-03-29 23:02:59 well skool certainly likes to suk up all my time. :/

    even though i'd decided to continue my BBB (bizkit-boiler-blood... that might work for a title ^_^) video, i haven't had any time to continue working on it, heck, most of the climax scene are friggin finished, it's the in between lyrical stuff i gotta worry about mostly... but in some ways, those are probably harder because i gotta have smooth transitions as opposed to fast cuts during a fast chorus

    i still have a shit load of work to do in skool right now, i'll be busy for a couple of weeks with a lot of end-of-term essays... man this sux, i finally have an idea for a video, regardless if it's ground-breaking or not, and suddenly i have no time to edit >_< D'OH!

    well on the plus side, i recieved Now and There, Here and There through mail order yesterday, so gonna watch that with my sis whenever i find time between essays

    ps.. Naruto manga rox, much better than manga, not that the anime is half-bad anyways, just that the manga is sweeeter, the only down-side is no special effects like the anime, but that's not saying much 
  • Blood video 2004-03-23 09:37:03 okay fine, i was gonna scrap the blood video, the movie is really short and some people don't like it, and that limp bizkit boiler song is really long and some people don't like it
    ... ..
    but you know what? WHO CARES?!, i forgot the most important thing, it's MY video and i showed it to my friend J.Alana, and she really liked it, she was impressed with what she saw (the parts that i had done... the actual video isn't finished) and she was really impressed, probably mostly because i hadn't edited in a long time so the last thing she saw was a craptacular video from probably a year ago.

    But besides that, she likes limp bizkit, and that also reminded that not everyone will like everything, and not everything is for everyone, so there will always be some people who don't like ur stuff, but there will also be people that appreciate what you did

    so i'm still gonna find a new song for this blood video, something a little more easily enjoyable (mostly i wanna find something shorter too, heh heh) but that'll be a different video, i'm still doing this boiler video, so there will be 2 Blood videos in the end... which almost isn't surprising considering i did 2 DBZ-Movie 8 videos... both of which were sorta noobish... maybe since these are turning out above average, they will both be above average and the next time i use a different anime, my skillz will have surpassed anything i ever dreamed!!... or at least i won't suck ^_^;
     
  • /Spring Break 2004-03-21 20:56:16 today's the last day of Spring Break, it wasn't too bad, some things were really really good while others were really REALLY shitty

    Las Cosas Buenas (spanish for 'the things good' ... i hope)

    1- i got a week off from school, TWAS VERY KULE!!

    2- i got a complete weekend off from WORK, KULE INDEED!!

    3- during this week off, i finally started editing again, i've been a member of this site for a long time... imo anyways, long enough to know the layout anyways, let's leave it at that k? well the only videos that i have uploaded to the server (hosted at all) are videos that i did wayyy bak and that suk when compared to what a good video really is. they're not too bad when compared to some of the crap uploaded here... okay, so my Crash video is a nice stinky pile, but Du Hast isn't complete crap and even has some nice transitions in there, heh heh. but the point is that those videos are old and like it's been said before, people only think ur as good as ur latest work

    sooo, if ppl see my latest work, they will automatically think i'm an editing nooB, and that's never good... unless you R a nooB, but i'm not, but talk is cheap right? well all my jabbering up to this point could be regarded as crap, but you know what? listening to someone's rants gives you a better understanding of how they're minds work, so meh

    all ranting aside... i've begun editing my first video with premiere, i started editing it during this spring break, i had Wednesday and Thurday off from work too, so i had plenty of time to mess around. The actual video idea came a long time ago, i decided to brainstorm video ideas using all the anime that i had in my meager collection, I came to Blood: the last vampire and said.... what the hell would go with that?
    turns out that Fluxmeister made a Blood video using Korn - Make Me Bad, and it wasn't 1/2 bad, so what's one of Korn's close friends? Limp Bizkit!
    ... yeah i know, they sux, how the hell could limp bizkit go with boiler, well i was a High School student with a lot of time, so i decided to go through all my music files on my computer and got to 'Boiler'

    the song itself isn't that bad, and the fact that i kinda like the music video they made probably influenced me into thinking i could do a good video myself, it's different than most of their songs imo, it's darker, softer, and angrier all at once.... or maybe not and i'm just decieving myself to stop looking for music already

    as you can tell, not a lot of thought was put into thinking up this AMV, but you know what? after probably like a year of no new videos, it gets really boring to just watch other people's videos, and because i want people to see my new skillz since watching so many 'professional' videos, i decided to start making a video, this is the video i started to make because it's the first one that i was able to get footage for quickest =D

    During this Spring Break, i added about 2 and 1/2 minutes of footage for the Music Video, turns out i don't suk as an editor! heh heh, imagine my glee. the quality of the footage is great and the sound is good, the movie itself is incredibly short and it takes effort to choose the best clips for the song, i did all of the chorus sections first because they're easiest obviously, and i got about 2 other sections in between those chorus's
    (something like that... point is i've edited a good chunk of it)
    the timing with the cuts is really good, nicely synced and in good places in the anime to allow for shit to happen in the clips, not just random cuts to the beat

    i'm messing with some fading in and out of black, it really works well with the final buildup right before the music blasts into the chorus.
    the lyrics of the song seem to fit Saya pretty well (well enough for a video)
    the focus of the song is the person being independant after having people use her and they've had enough shit so they do things on their own, the same can be said for Saya, so it fits well enough on that level

    ... that's all for the good things

    Las Cosas Malas (spanish for 'the things bad'... i hope... i really couldn't care less if it's right or not, as long as i know what i mean)

    1- during the break, i was supposed to do an interview with someone i'm not close to, find a focus of that interview and write a 3 page essay on it and turn it in on the Monday that we come back... as you've guessed it, i didn't do it...
    the person that had agreed to do the interview never called me back when i left messages to plan the interview... i found another person last minute... but it's even further into the last minute and they haven't contacted me either... IS THE WORLD AGAINST ME?!?!

    2- My Blood video will probably get scrapped. the song is kinda long and besides that, it's not really likable by a lot of people, to put it bluntly, it sux =/
    so i'm still gonna do a Blood video, but i'm gonna have to scrap the stuff i've already edited and find a NEW song to use that will not suk and will fit Blood (since it's the footage that is available to me)

    3-last bad thing is.... after break, i have to go back to school... what kind of crap is that? =/ 
  • Spring Break 2004-03-11 23:45:54 tomorrow is the last day of school for now, starting next monday, i have a week off from school
    it's weird, it's not like i've been waiting for it, drooling at the sheer thought of it or anything, it crept up on me and it's almost like i don't want it to come

    i'm not weird or anything... okay maybe i am (heh heh) but what i mean is that i'm enjoying college, this is my first year and i've had great teachers (for the most part) and awesome school classmates, college so much owns HS, especially since so many shit-heads go to high school and just goof off and make it a bad place to be, that and incompetant teachers is what makes HS so shitty, thank god that there are still some good teachers, not saying all non-college teachers are stupid dicks, just saying that HS is where a lot of the bitter ones go to make kid's lives miserable

    but i will always have respect for the few teachers that really tried to make you learn something instead of just being able to spit out answers to them according to some text book

    also the fact that college, even community college is something that is 'extra' it really filters out the losers that make learning a chore, pretty much everyone i meet (talk to) is really kule and i enjoy talking with them.

    but there are always teachers and better teachers everywhere you go

    Hell, even freaking speech class is kule, especially since there is a girl there that talks to me :up: heh heh
    she's pretty kule, smart (smarter than me) wants to be a parademic (rawk) and is hawk :cheesey smile: i'm gonna interview her over Spring Break for an english class interview/narative essay and see what i can see

    the fact that i won't be in the classes i'm enjoying is the reason i'm ALMOST not looking foward to Spring Break, but since i get to chill, that will make up for the long hours i've had to work and go to school

    damnit i wish i had a dvd-rom drive, especially wish i had more money (who doesn't right?) to buy shit

    it's not that i want to be a compulsive spender, but i really get into the concept of 'catching up' so i like to buy old manga and anime that everyone already has seen and talk about, it sucks to be left out of stuff, and whenever i get a chance, i love to hear people's opinions on topics i'm familiar with

    familiarity with other people's opinions and really trying to understand them is part of the reason i do so many reviews/ops here on amv.org
    it may have seemed like a stupid goal, but i was trying to get on the 'most opinionated' list, at first i was doing it just for recognition in a community that i felt i was a part of, after a little while, i realized i was doing it for the wrong reason, it doesn't matter for shit whether or not i'm on some list, what's really important is learning to understand what was going through the mind of a creator as they were making the video, what the 'concept' was, and a lot of people tend to forget to add an actual concept to a lot of their videos and they figure since so many have done it, it must be okay

    pft, whatever

    anyway, spring break is coming and getting more than 5 hours of sleep will be nice, i really would like to get a dvd-rom soon to start ripping footage of dvds and making videos to feel more a part of AMV.org, but i know it'd be the stupid thing to do since i have other financial things to worry about, college being a biggy since i'm attempting to pay for it myself, ever since i learned that no matter what people say, everything in ur life is ultimately up to YOU, no one else has so much impact on your life, if they do, they're not suppose to and imo it's wrong, knowing that, i know that i have to learn to act as an adult, i know my dad doesn't know shit about the kind of person i am, in his eyes, i'm a little smart-mouth wannabe grown up who doesn't know what the world is about

    if ur thinking, father-issues, well think what you want, i don't have father issues, i simply know the kind of person my father is and i know what he thinks of me because we've talked about those things, i also know that EVERY parent looks at their child and sees just that, a child, sooner or later, tears will fall when the child leaves the home, it's simply a matter of life and if i ever have kids, i know that they will grow up before i realize it, a parent doesn't know their child has grown until the child shows the parent, so as much as i consider myself to be sensitive towards people's feelings, there will come a time when i will wrongfully over-parent my kid and they will have to let me know that they've grown out of it, and i will respect them all the more

    btw, i'm only a smart-ass because i talk to my dad like an equal, if he says something that's wrong, i'll point it out and tell him where he's wrong, just as i would expect anyone else to point out my own faults, can't grow without making mistakes right? whether in ur head or in real life, a mistake has to be at least considered before it can be avoided

    parents will probably always be old-fashioned, and old-fashioned is a relative term, it just so happens that some parents nowadays are set in the way of thinking that elders are 'entitled' to respect and obediance and that they don't have to do jack to earn it, sorry to say that i feel that it's wrong because i've grown up in a world where people assume they deserve my respect when all i ask is for a reason to give it to them, it's the kind of 'show-me' mentality that i carry around i guess. but i try not to go overboard with the whole logical thinking, if things can be interpreted or assumed, it's just as good

    let's assume this journal entry is over =D 
  • Why Kaji 2004-03-09 01:10:11 hmmm, i know people don't often use Kaji Ryoji as an alias, so a lot of ppl probably wonder why i chose him to be my AMV creator alias... not to mention that whole Daio stuff

    well, in case you HAVE been living under a rock, Kaji is a character from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, an awesome series in it's own rite and always a popular topic for debate

    to me, Kaji is one of the few characters in NGE that is really true to himself and knows what he's about and is never really in question of himself and comes off as a really stable person

    most people probably see Kaji as the double-agent that used to 'get it' with Misato when she was in heat in college, well he was, but that's only his surface, if NGE teaches anything, it teaches us that the surface shows nothing but a hint of what goes on underneath

    whether you're looking at the original anime or the adapted manga, Kaji is not a weak character, he has his reasons for what he does and he knows his path and is happy, possibly one of the few characters in NGE that is truely happy and that's awesome to me to see in such a depressing and manipulative show

    i think the only people that Kaji got close to were Misato/Asuka/Shinji and possibly Ritsuko

    to Misato- Kaji was her old and first lover, he sorta symbolized her freedom from the cold world that she was cast into alone. and it's not like he was just some weird guy, Kaji was with Misato cause he loved her, he accepted her for who she was and was honestly in love with her, he is always concerned with Misato even after they break up, i think that's a great attribute that Kaji has, he's compassionate and understanding in a non gay way, heh heh
    of course, Misato after a while got scared and ran away from Kaji because she saw her father in him, but then again, that was a psychological problem within Misato, so i won't address that further

    to Asuka- Kaji was just simply charming and a hot guy for her to hold onto that won't treat her as a child, if Asuka is in love (false love) with Kaji, it's her own fault, Kaji was just not the kind of guy to brush a girl off, he lets Asuka have her fun and hang with him out of probably sympathy because of her past

    to Shinji- Kaji, imo, was one of Shinji's here-and-there father figures
    when shinji asks Kaji a question, besides practically speaking in riddles, he gives honest information and makes sure to take Shinji's feelings into account and protects shinji with soft words while still not shielding him from the truth
    Kaji is the one that convinces Shinji to return to Nerv and fight Zeruel (sp?) because Shinji has the power to do so and he should protect those he loves when he HAS that ability

    In this scene, i prefer the manga version (although it's likely not really Kaji's past, it's still very effective so i like it)

    Kaji lays the truth out for Shinji, Gendo is NOT the one to blame for Toji's death, Shinji is, when shinji simply gave up and did nothing, he gave his father the 'go' to destroy Toji when shinji could have faught the angel and saved Toji from harm, because of the fact that Shinji is responsible for that death, it's true that he does not deserve the privaledge to simply walk away and wash his hands of this problem, he can't walk away just as Kaji or anyone else can't walk away from problems and expect them to stay away

    to Ritsuko- ...damned if i know, guess he's just a drinking buddy, i don't know if Ritsuko was ever in-the-know about Kaji's alternate identities or not, but i'm sure she sees him as a friend and also as a tool, but most of all
    AMUSEMENT ^_^ heh heh

    final thought- Kaji is just an honest person that knows how to live his life and is extremely content with his life and what he's done in the past and has come to know himself better than a lot of people know themselves

    as for Daio... i did a search for King/Lord in Japanese and 'daio' came up, so instead of using Lord Kaji, i wanted to be a bit original so i used the japanese translation... problem is, lol, most people use Kaji-sama to mean Great King Kaji or sumtin similar, but -sama just means a superior pretty much, so i wanted to make sure it was Great King, not just King or person that is better than i am type of translation

    /random pent up thoughts 
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