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• Member: Starherd
• Studio: WTF Productions
• Title: R.A.D.
• Premiered: 2003-04-08
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Fun
• Song:
  • Madonna Die Another Day
• Anime:
  • Read Or Die (OVA)
• Participation:
  • Fanime Con AMV Contest 2003, Fanime Con AMV Contest 2003 (2003-06-20)
• Comments: "Action/Character Profile/Drama/Fun? WTF?"
  Yes.
  The concept of putting this series to this song came first, and it all fit, with lots of
  action stuff going on (and lots of explosions, and James Bond-type Easily Escapable Traps).
  Some of the sequences came out fairly light-hearted, and the song just sortof bops along...
  but there's dramatic stuff happening, too. The video ended up being about the friendship
  between the two female leads of the OAV, Yamiko and Nancy - and about love and
  betrayal and survival. With lots of explosions.
  
  For some real fun: play (and listen to) this video at double speed. I'm not kidding.
  For some reason, it's hysterical.
  
  As I listened to this song in the end credits of Die Another Day, the concept for this video
  suddenly hit, and it stuck. I found an MP3 of the song and got started as soon as I got home.
  (I realize (now) that someone else here on animemusicvideos.org also got the same idea,
  and indeed, got it first. That's why the title is now "R.A.D.", for "Read Another Day",
  so as to differentiate the two.)(That's what I get for making the videos first and researching
  animemusicvideos.org about them once I finish.) :-)
  
  The music that I used in the opening credits is from an MP3 that someone left on my
  computer six years ago (or so) in college. I have no idea where they came by it, or
  who the artist is, but it's the theme song to the TV show Secret Agent Man (from the 60's,
  I believe).
  
  This is the first video I've done using Premiere at all.
  (Kasra, the other half of WTF, helped.) All I did was the overlaying of clips to keep quieter
  parts of the base video from dragging (at Kasra's suggestion), but it was quite a
  learning experience. :-) Thaaaaaanks, Kasra.
  
  Hopefully I'll be taking this to a convention this year sometime...
  (I figure if I put it out here now (04/08/03), it won't hose my bandwidth after a con.)
  
  *06/04/03 This ought to be fun - Me and Lightfeather (the other person here on
  animemusicvideos.org who has a Read or Die video to Die Another Day) both
  submitted our vids to Fanime... I wonder if they'd play them back-to-back? ;-)
  
  We're still serving the videos on Direct Connect,
  and you can search for the videos by filename on WinMX:
  RODADFull1.mpg
  
  For further information, please see Starherd's user profile.