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This is just a statement.
2009-03-18 10:17:45
The VCAs are like hurricanes during hurricane season. Some people bitch and moan about living in hurricane zones, so you tell them to shut up and move if they don’t like it, and yet when the storm is flooding your own basement, chances are you’re cursing the hurricane too. And even if you don’t curse, the flooding is still frustrating and capable of making a terrible mess of your stuff. Doesn’t mean you’re going to move, though.
I’ve chosen to live in the hurricane zone and I’m accepting the mess it’s making of my stuff because that’s the price I pay for living here and there’s nothing I can do about it. If the hurricane spares a few of my possessions, I’m definitely going to be grateful for that since I could - after all - be left with nothing at all. I commiserate with neighbors who didn’t come through the hurricane as well as they would have liked, of course…but there’s not much we personally could have done to change the way things turned out, is there?
And that's all I have to say about that. -
Wow x 2
2009-03-17 10:24:38
Two spots in the finals, one for each of my videos. Thanks again to all who gave their nod to them - it still surprises me and, as far as I'm concerned, this is as far as it will ever go so I'm saying thanks now for getting them this far. This entire past year actually has been one unexpected turn of AMV events after another. I'm still not quite sure how the heck I - possibly one of the most spectacularly failure-prone editors in AMV history - did what I did...but it's all over with, now.
Well, not quite - one last possible hurrah in May, and then 2008 AMV fallout is over with.
I am disappointed that a number of other people's videos I was rooting for didn't make the finals. This pretty much happens every year with the VCAs (for me), though, so I guess I should have expected it. :| -
LOL
2009-03-16 10:14:25
Nothin' like the VCAs to make your star ratings plummet. :D
I lucked out with Sephiration Anxiety last year... I initially made it obvious in the commentary section that there was a problem with the video, so lots of people glanced at it, but didn't actually download the thing. At the time I was a bit annoyed, but now I'm rather glad things turned out that way. Maybe in a few years my other two videos will recover from the VCAs...lol -
QC updates
2009-03-14 13:00:17
I haven't received any QCs in awhile on my videos, so the VCAs are kind of helping in that department. A few standouts:
"Who ya gonna download ? DriftRoot" Very cute. :P
"You should get laid... uhhh... I mean paid for this." I sort of do get paid for this, if you're looking at "this" as coming up with and implementing creative concepts.
"you are a crazed fangirl, hon. But that's a good thing." Actually I'm not. A crazed fangirl/boy would never be consumed by a burning desire to crucify Advent Children.
And who's calling me hon!!?
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Whatever happens this year with the VCAs, I'm potentially not going to find out until about four days after the fact. The annual Photoshop World Conference is in Boston the week after next and I'll be there for the whole thing, sans a computer. The hotel does have courtesy PC stations in the lobby, but they're usually occupied, so the resounding silence/ignorance from my corner March 24-27 will be due to me being out of town for awhile. Yes, that's right, I do not own a laptop! (oh the horror) -
Hmmm
2009-03-12 10:06:58
I don’t usually like receiving those notorious chain e-mails with pictures of cute kittens or quasi-pithy introspective stories, and unfortunately I know someone who does send them to me almost every day, however occasionally I get something interesting, which in this case I can reproduce here:
----Only great minds can read this - This is weird, but interesting!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuanmnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pb oerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!----
Apparently I have a great, strange mind ‘cause I can read it without any problem?
This relates to the manner in which many advocate lip syncing AMVs: you get the opening of the line and the closing of the line synced accurately, and the viewer is likely to overlook interior discrepancies. If you watch subtitled anime of various quality, this is actually what THEY do in many cases, one reason why I really raise an eyebrow at evaluating lip sync in AMVs, because a lot of the time it seems we’re holding editors to a higher standard than the studios held their animators. There just seems to be a little something wrong, there.
In fact, I find a lot of what’s considered “good” lip sync in AMVs looks unnatural, because chances are in the anime itself it would not have been that exact at all. Doesn’t help, of course, that lip sync in AMVs draws an incredible amount of attention to itself…perhaps the most attention of any simple “effect” one can do. Even more than rotoscoping, because - done right - you’re not going to be paying attention TO the rotoscoping, whereas you’re going to pay a lot attention to lip sync whether done right or wrong.
And for hveaen's skae I mnaet btgnesrsihs dwon -50, nto Stiatroaun...
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