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After many hours...
2011-08-21 16:41:39
...I finally figured out some kind of a pattern to go with the verses of the song I'm using. But now I'm already sure that this whole project has turned into an experiment on whether I can sync to everything and still make it look good. I also noticed that whenever I'm editing anime I fall in love with still frames. With the sync patterns I'm using it's just impossible to squeeze in motion! I need everything to stay still so the whole thing doesn't fall apart. I don't mind though.
All this being said, I'm afraid I'm basically editing a sequel to my latest AMV. Gothic anime, female-fronted industrial music, still frames, seizurific sync... yeah... but it doesn't bother me.
What do you do when you need to relax after spending a few hours on editing? My method of choice is to listen to talks and lectures on philosophy, social sciences and politics on the internet. I'm such a nerd! -____- - It's taking shape...slowly 2011-08-19 17:21:00 I just figured out it's difficult to sync to lyrics, synths and beats all at the same time without it looking too messy.
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Just why do I keep watching anime --
2011-08-17 16:51:37
-- when I know it'll disappoint me in major ways every time? I just watched the whole Welcome to the N.H.K., which is about a 20-something hikikomori guy, Sato, trying to cope with his isolation and depression. It was actually quite a creative series, which broke a lot of rules of anime by introducing a set of characters that are not quite the ordinary type (except for Misaki) but also by not wholly conforming to the ultra-escapist world of anime (which is to say that it actually deals with a lot of real problems like unemployment and suicide in a pseudo-realist manner).
Ok, cool, but I have two major problems:
a) Despite of the fact that the series was unconventional and actually tried to do something better than simple escapism, they absolutely couldn't resist the temptation of inserting a moe character to the series. She's ofcourse embodied in the miserable character of a young girl named Misaki who is on a mission to save Sato from his hikikomori state. It is ofcourse not enough that she's acting so selflessly, she's apparently also suffering a great deal because she feels that no matter what she does she's never going to be selfless enough nor of use to anybody. Quite the typical anti-feminist anime character. In a nutshell: her obvious function in the series is to serve as a sexual fantasmatic element - a cute, miserable and totally selfless girl coming to rescue you from your miserable life. Just why again do I expect to find an anime, which would actually try to break this spell?
b) The series completely failed to appropriate its leftist potential. That is not to say it didn't deal with politics or that it didn't have any ideologico-political message. Quite the opposite! We get a lot of that from N.H.K.: unemployment, social exclusion and isolation from society, depression and suicide, multi-level marketing ploys and continuous reference to conspiracies (even if they're consciously at a fictional level). A lot of problems were refered to and actually taken quite seriously. However, my problem lies on the level of the actual message of the series. Just how again did Sato recover from his hikikomori life? His allowance was completely cut off. I should have known the series would regress into this typical anti-social-welfare state nonsense. In this dream world capitalism meets employment demands perfectly, employment is just a matter of will, there's no exploitation, no insufficient minimal wages nor dept problems, no social exclusion, no homelessness nor mental or drug problems. The conclusion? Cut off allowances and all social problems will heal by themselves. If you don't have a job you obviously deserve to die. I can only gasp at the intellectual brilliance and the moral stance of this solution.
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Editing sucks
2011-08-14 16:27:57
I'm having the classical AMV editor moment of "this idea looked good in my head but I can't seem to edit it properly". Figuring out the patterns for your sync is the most horrible thing. When you've managed to pull them off things just start to flow by themselves. I still got a lot of tweaking to do...
...but I'll postpone that for tomorrow.
PS. How is it possible to not love Slavoj Zizek? http://www.newstatesman.com/film/2010/03/avatar-reality-love-couple-sex - Oh yay 2011-08-12 18:21:13 Work was absolutely tedious today, I got home late, I'm editing in the middle of the night...and I'm totally unsatisfied with what I've just edited. Awesome.
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