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ok back to work
2009-01-25 19:21:17
The AMV AMV (working title. I have something much better planned, but that would a) give it away and it's b) possible unworkable, so in the meantime I'm stuck with this)
Pre-Edit: no idea. What I do know is that I have to rip - for what must be the fifth or six times - clips from the entire MOHS series. Why I didn't keep the VOB files LIKE I DO FOR EVERY SINGLE OTHER SERIES I EVER EVEN FLEETINGLY THOUGHT OF MAKING AN AMV OUT OF is beyond me.
Edit: Two hours
The Good: Ok, so I procrastinated all day before being able to stomach editing long eough to have even a teensy tiny bit of success. Not for lack of trying - I sat down three or four times for 10-15 minutes and wound up abandoning all hope very quickly. Wait, why is this good? Because at around 6 p.m. I finally got something halfway palatable on the timeline and immediately rushed off to make dinner and this journal post to celebrate.
The Bad: I feel this AMV is going to be nowhere near as funny and entertaining as it should be. As usual, I overestimated the quality of the footage and, as usual, will be struggling to make a video out of a bare handful of scenes. One reason I need to re-rip the series to scavenge for any and all cannon fodder.
The Ugly: I'm not sure what the protocol is for dragging other editors into one's AMV as part of a joke. Some may be flattered, some may be amused and everyone else may be like "Hey! Why didn't she use ME in her AMV!" As much respect as I have for editors of all stripes, there are certain individuals whose accomplishments would serve my ends very well. I will seek permission, of course, as I've done in the past, so this is really a non-issue unless some of them TAKE issue with what I'm doing and don't...allow it... I'm not sure how to get in touch with some folks, though. With my luck they wouldn't respond even if I did. :| Drat. I only need four editors (ish). I've got three pinpointed already but the fourth might be exceedingly difficult to make contact with. -
***AMV Procrastination in Progress***
2009-01-25 09:29:38
What the heck is all the fuss about...banners?
Quantity over quality, people. Perhaps the site should limit the number of banners one can submit. Pending approval/disapproval by site members (not admins), one would then be free to upload more. The better your banner, the better chance it has of gaining worthy votes quickly and opening up another spot for more of your banners.
If the overall quality of the banners in the queue was higher, I'd personally be paying a lot more attention to them. It's aggravating checking off one "worthy" banner every dozen banners or so, particularly when you can tell one person submitted a whole block of unworthy ones that are preventing access to potentially better ones.
I'm picky.
And this has nothing to do with the fact that my logo's on the banners, because sometimes I can't find the logo in the banner anyways. It's sort of like a "Where's Waldo" exercise. It would be interesting to do an experiment and submit banners with progressively smaller and smaller logos to see at what point the powers-that-be felt it was too small to be legible. I suspect it would be quite small. ^_^ -
>:<
2009-01-24 19:04:58
I'm not sure why, but...is it just me, or has there been an explosion of hideous commercials for hideous products on TV lately? In just the past few days, I've been bombarded with ads for some weird elastic hair thingies, a sweater blanket and now some plastic hangars that I swear I remember seeing hawked in the 80's. Is the recession SO bad people need to be prodded into purchases by "But WAIT, there's MORE!" taglines? Are they recycling ads from 20 years ago? Talk about cheap.
This has to do with AMVs, because I am avoiding making them like the plague by turning on the T.V. :| I never watch T.V. ... but I find it's hard to make AMVs when life is full of upheaval. This is rather silly, since my life isn't very upheaved at the moment, but I can tell it's coming and that's almost as bad.
Match.com should send an AMV editor my way so I can ask him to make my AMVs for me! A GOOD editor. Who takes direction well. And is reasonably fit, has a great sense of humor, loves animals and doesn't mind that I can't cook. -
Status: changed
2009-01-22 10:04:44
I’ve backpeddled (for what, the fifth time?) on upcoming AMV plans. Now it’s back to MOHS bizarreness. The thing going for this concept is that I don’t feel overwhelmed by the looming impossibility of the task. Sure, it’s not the most original thing ever, but it’s not a rehash of 5,000 other videos, either. Plus, if things go well, I’m hoping it will have enough cleverness to raise it above the level of generic MOHS AMV.
I also *might* be able to finish it by April 1, which is a huge incentive. What will likely get in my way is a repeat of the rotoscoping effort required for Takeout magnified tenfold. I am not above (or below?) creating scenes from scratch that do not appear in a series if it will allow me to make an AMV, but where does one put down the pen tool and just say “Ok, I really do not have the footage necessary to pull off this concept?” And then, of course, there’s the problem of communicating to viewers the enormous amount of work that goes into a heavily rotoscoped AMV that is supposed to look like it was never rotoscoped. That old debate about whether masking is an effect really rears its ugly head in such instances.
But what do I call this AMV?
“The AMV Gods are Against Me” - hardly anyone would get the joke.
“POP” – ok, but then I have to come up with a clear and logical explanation for this possible acronym. *amusing ideas percolate* It sure doesn’t take much to get my creative juices going, that’s for sure. This is why I work things out in writing. *cackles* Of course, it might not work at all. Hrm…
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Status: unchanged
2009-01-15 10:15:03
AMV is not going well, because it's basically not going anywhere. Vista is messing with my DoC footage, so I have to make clips from it on my work PC and tote it home. I'm still yanking myself back and forth on the specific approach I want to take with this upcoming endeavor.
Meanwhile, random thoughts of "Gee...there are other videos I could make that would be a lot easier" keep distracting me. Plus, every time I mentally prepare myself to set aside time to do some editing, other things keep interfering. Normally I'd be happy about this, but it's becoming rather bothersome now that I REALLY want to work on this project (and REALLY need to).
I don't want to go to AB this year a) kicking myself for not even trying to make something or b) Knowing I didn't make good use of these long winter months to put a lot of work into a big video. It's ok if it's not done by the end of March (which it will definitely not, at the rate I'm going), but I'd like it to be well on its way.
I think it's safe to say I'm on the down side of AMVing, heading for the finish line. But who knows how long it will take me to get there. :|
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