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• Member: codepoetica
• Title: Engram of Gravel Road
• Premiered: 2007-04-16
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • Sting Ghost Story
• Anime:
  • Haibane Renmei (Charcoal Feathers Federation)
• Comments: Background: I started working on this video in November of 2006. I knew I wanted to do something emotional with Reki, and I didn't want a lot of other characters around distracting things, leaving primarily the interaction of Kuramori and Reki. This significantly cut back the quantity of footage available, or forced me to photoshop out a character.
  
  Concept: Reki is confronting and dealing with her loneliness tonight, thinking about Kuramori. There are three distinct phases to the video. I tried to fit several themes into this format.
  
  Phase 1: Despair
  Evening strikes. Reki is making her way through the town, back to OldHome. She's beginning to call up memories. Reki is facing one of the little feathers, watching him Abandon her. Her heart is hardened.
  
  Phase 2: Confrontation
  Little death comes in the form of night. Reki is indulging herself, and slipping into the memories. She draws forth the hurt, the anger, the loneliness. The same old issues of abandonment she's always suffered, and never dealt with.
  
  Phase 3: Peace
  She finds closure, children no longer hate her, and everything looks better in the morning. Knowing smile on her face, I can almost touch her as she fades away...
  
  
  I added a fuzzy border to visually delineate memories over many of the clips.
  
  In each of the three phases Reki is confronted with some external representation of her self-accusation: The young feather running away, Nemu behind her in the hallway, and the kids returning at the end. In each case I used photoshop to prepare a version of the frame to fade with.
  
  Tools Used:
  AVISynth
  VirtualDubMod
  Sony Vegas
  Photoshop
  
  Aisling, you make a good muse.