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Quick! Quick!
2001-10-29 09:50:06
My boss is not around, so I can waste a little time to write in the journal, ha!
This journal thing is very good... I am being much more in touch with a bunch of people I really like, and I find it wonderful.
I was talking with gambitt about a new video I would like to make... nothing precise though. It's a very *very* fuzzy idea by now, but I hope I will be able to work it out: I'll keep you informed (for whoever cares :P)
Other thing is that I discovered this NightOwl guy after seeing Numb and downloading his Fight Club video. Geez, this guy is pure genious!! I blame myself for not having followed any kind of artistic school or whatever. The more I see from this guys (like him, gambitt, EK), the more I am convinced I would better start doing something else.
Maybe feeding ants... that would be nice.
However I am learning (or at least I am trying :P)... and the good is that I am having fun from it.
Ok...
<jingle> Enterprise, beam me up!
- Marco -
Sunday bloody sunday
2001-10-28 17:05:33
Welcome, turboneko.
1003 people have viewed your profile.
Ohooo!! This is nice... so more than one thousand people bothered to read my profile: thanks ladies and gentlemen!!
My project is going on slowly but surely, and I'll think I can finish it up in less than 3 weeks. I know that probably not many will be interested since it is a remake, but surely is coming out a *good* remake (at least I think :P).
Ok, let's go to work now! And remember: swallowing bleach is not safe and should not be tried at your home. This is only a simulated action...
- Marco -
Sleeping on my desk...
2001-10-25 10:11:46
I promised some kind of post yesterday evening but I was so tired that I hadn't the force to do that, sorry.
Uhm... I don't know why I ask for sorry when I believe that most of the people will probably skip over all this crap anyway :P
So I am still here, still working on my stupid project, but this time I want to speak a little bit about how I plan and create my videos.
Many people says that it's always the music first and then the anime. Which is true for me too in most of the cases. You know, it's far easier being kicked by an idea when you are listening music.
You are sit, with your eyes closed, listening to your CDs or radio... and then, hell of a sudden you stand up breaking in thousand pieces that very precious chinese vase near your foot saying "Holy crap! This song would be perfect with.... !!!" (add anime at your choice).
I call this the "super inspired video idea", when in matter of seconds all the plot of the video flows in front of your eyes and you are 150% sure that it will be a great video.
However, it's not that simple being struck by so genial idea.
The path I more often follow is another: I listen to a song, and I realize that it's so good that it would really fit a music video well. Then the "search for anime" begins... trying to find out which can be the best anime to match up.
Actually this has been the path I followed with 3 (out of 4) of my videos, the most eclatant being my very first one. I was so hardly in search for an anime to match X with this music coming from MI2 soundtrack (which is GREAT and I warmly recommend, and then Cristina suggested me to use X. This has been a really great combo in my opinion (even if the realization sucks a lot :P).
Once you are all set with music and anime, the worst thing that you can do next is to start capturing footage and opening premiere to start working.
Eerr... this is basically what I did most often, but gaining experience can teach you something ;)
The very, very important thing you have to do *before* starting your video is planning it. I mean, I ask myself "What I want to tell with this video?", "What kind of message I want to transmit to people?", "What part/aspect of the characters/series I want to focus on?".
These are very important questions because they form (in my opinion) the borderline between a good video and an outstanding one. How many times I saw a video and thought "Geez, a nice concept lost in a random selection of scenes"?
Too many to count...
My first videos (well, I did 4 in total so I can speak for about all of them :P) were done without much planning, and I think that it can be easiliy recognized. Now, after a 6 months stop in AMV making where I watched many videos and reviewed some of them, I am trying to start with the second kind of approach. It will not be easy, I know, but one of the greatest things about this site is that you can be in touch with other people. And so I will be able to share and confront ideas... which is always good.
Uhm... where did I were? Oh, yes! After the planning section I finally sit down in front of premiere and, when it graces me without crashing every 5 minutes or so, I can start the video itself.
This part is probably the longest one for me. I can have everything planned (but this is not likely to happen :P), but I am so perfectionist... ok, say "fuc***g picky", that I can easily spend a couple of hours on a 12 frames transition. The most eclatant example in this has been my Spice Senshi video... gosh, that thing sucked up something like 150+ hours of work. I still can't believe I made it at the end... but still I am not satisfied with some sections.
However my general way of working is to make the video progressively, trying to make it the most "definitive" possible before passing forward.
But in these last times I am moving towards what I call the "incremental approximations" method. I build some seconds until I am roughly satisfied by them, then go forward. When I finish all the video (or some kind of big section) I step back and try to fix up what of unsatisfactory I left behind.
Effectively, I am not sure that being so picky in my editing is such a good thing. I mean, when I put all of that work in a video very often I become tired towards the end. And beacause of this I can occour in poorer editing just to finish the whole friggin' stuff up.
And this is always bad.
Once I finished the video I watch it, and watch it, and watch it... and make Cristina watch it, and watch it and... ok, you've got the idea.
I have to say that when I come up with the whole stuff I am almost always pretty satisfied with the result, so I am not likely to go back and change it again.
So, when I finish it up, I burn a cd with the complete avi output (I edit always in huffyuv) and then clean up the poor HD, making it ready for another video :P
Well, this is roughly how I make my AMVs. I am aware that I skipped a lot of stuff (mostly technical, some on the planning), but I am lucky if you arrived till here without running out your room screaming :P
So I think that I bored you enough with this crap for this morning...
I Hope that these divagations have been at least interesting for someone (I don't dare to think them "useful" :P).
- Marco (Back to work!!)
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Almost time to go...
2001-10-24 17:25:53
And also this day of work has finished (almost). I am going to play some soccer and this is good because I will let some stress out.
However, I'll keep you informed this evening... see you soon!!
- Marco -
Oooooooooh Yeaaaaaaahhhh!!
2001-10-21 13:28:42
Watch out people! Ronin is back!!
MWHAHAHAHAHAH!!
Very soon on your computer screens...
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