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Because I'm a glutton for punishment
2011-09-24 23:27:59
The Kingdom of L.F.S.
Pre-edit: 3 hours
Edit: 65 hours
Mostly just the hard bits left (including aforementioned chunk I may have to cut entirely), all of the effects and, of course, going back over everything with a very critical eye and deciding whether established scenes need to be changed.
I will say this, though: I have "fixed" several scenes with A++ unpredictability (go me!). If all anyone takes away from this AMV is "Rrraaawwwrr," I will be quite happy. -
Pffweeehhhhh!
2011-09-24 18:29:55
Or whatever that sound effect is after anime characters drink alcohol.
The Kingdom of L.F.S.
Pre-edit: 3 hours
Edit: 60 hours
The Good: I am definitely learning to let go of my usual control-freak editing style, this AMV really won't let me do anything else. A number of times today I said to myself: "Lauren, you don't really need to spend 20 hours on this five seconds of footage, trying to come up with something that makes sense. The trailer couldn't even do it, so why don't you just follow it's lead and just stick with the scenes that have already been laid out for you."
The Bad: "Because it's REALLY bugging me that this video seems to fall apart when I'm done getting away with murder, and using the excuse that 'well, that's what was in the trailer' REALLY seems weak." Yeah, I can use the same edits and generally the same footage, but there's a lot more to AMVing than that.
The Ugly: Unfortunately, I may not have a choice and will just have to remain bugged. I can say with complete honesty that I have scrubbed through every single frame of my source footage, tried dozens of different versions of just about every scene, and still wind up coming back to "This can't be done. Just follow the original trailer's lead and stop trying to make something work that just does not want to work." Am I just not being ruthless enough with my footage? Am I not cracking the whip hard enough?
Love how I personify my footage, as if it's got a personal vendetta against me. It should. I certainly have a vendetta against IT.
Hrm, ok, so in summary, I'm putting together the last half of this video in bits and pieces. Some parts are so horrendous that I just can't deal with them at the moment, and consequently there's big black gaps that really make it hard to gauge the overall flow. I've still got dozens of hours ahead of me on the special effects alone, some of which I have no idea how to create and will therefore take five times as long as they should. I plan to do as much as I can in Photoshop, since when all is said and done, I can get the job done faster and better editing sequences of still images than fighting with the video in AE. Some will still require AE, though, and that's the stuff I'm kind of dreading.
Anyone know an easy way to make confetti in AE? I need to create realistic confetti, mystical confetti. -
Lack of progress
2011-09-22 19:44:16
The Kingdom of L.F.S.
Pre-edit: 3 hours
Edit: 51 hours
The Good: Nope. I got nothin'.
The Bad: Not to belabor this point, but I really got away with absolute murder during the first 2/3 of this AMV. MURDER. Now I've smashed into the all-too-familiar wall of "uh oh, I have to b.s. my way out of this and everybody's going to be able to tEEell..." I HATE that wall. HATE IT.
The Ugly: I am very bored by this video, now. Maybe I've over-analyzed and over-watched it. Certainly last month I was pretty entertained. It just doesn't have that "OMG what am I watching?!" vibe I really like to try and embed. Maybe it's because it's a trailer and pretty predictable? I am still thoroughly entertained by my other AMVs, regardless of how familiar I am with them. What's wrong with this one? Is it too...straightforward? :| Have I made a straightforward, predictable AMV?
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Good grief, I think that IS the problem!! YUCK! I've made a straightforward, predictable AMV!! And now I have to "fix" it!
See, this journal is good for things: it helps me sort out problems with my videos. The problems I see with them, anyways. -
@ Bashar
2011-09-14 07:28:23
If I go, it won't be wearing my 'Bustin t-shirt.That's staying in the closet, right where it's always been!!
Hopefully I'll be able to wear the "Have fun storming the castle" Princess Bride shirt I won. I wish it was a TR shirt, but this was a special sponsored contest... -
How fantastic is THIS?
2011-09-13 18:39:07
I won a Topless Robot.com t-shirt contest based on my (true) story of how my mother had custom t-shirts made to
embarrass the hell out of mepoke fun atcongratulate me on getting into the 2008 Anime Boston AMV finals with 'Bustin!! Guess I know what I'M wearing to my next con! The challenge was to explain about the nerdiest thing you own...
The nerdiest thing I own was not something I purchased for myself, but a "gift" from my mother. I make anime music videos (AMVs) and had a pretty successful one a few years ago which was shown around the country at various anime conventions, one of which I attended in person. My mother decided to show up to see my video and, unbeknownst to me, had commissioned two matching t-shirts to celebrate the occasion. They featured a very large, very obvious piece of artwork on the back advertising my AMV and, on the front, my AMV handle and (on her's) a parody of my handle with the word "Mom" after it. Believe me, "Moooooommmm!!" was uttered profusely that day. I refused to wear mine for all kinds of justifiable reasons, but to this day she still has her shirt hanging proudly on display in the bedroom, right next to her matching con badge.
Note how vague I am being about the specifics. That's the nerd shame talkin'.
Note also that I won without mentioning a single thing about what video, exactly, it is. I know you can't dangle Ghostbusters in front of a nerdy crowd and expect fair treatment. LOL
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