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• Member: Second Element
• Studio: Second Element Video
• Title: Ever Dream
• Premiered: 2004-12-22
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Serious
  • Romance
• Song:
  • Nightwish Ever Dream
• Anime:
  • Inu Yasha (TV)
  • Inu Yasha: Castle Beyond The Looking Glass (Movie 2)
• Comments: With a song like Nightwish's "Ever Dream", I had wanted to tell a simple love story of someone having their love ripped away from them, and them going through hell and high water to get them back. That was how I always envisioned the theme of this song. I had two different animes that I felt would fit nicely to the song, but the second Inu Yasha movie, "The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass", seemed to fit best, and I liked the idea of a kind of "tribute" to it, as it was nearing domestic release in the USA when I first started writing this project. I wasn't, however, prepared for the challenge and the difficulty I was facing.
  
  This is our first real action-based vid, which was a genre I really wasn't very familiar with. The type of videos we are accustomed to making were mini-stories that relied mostly on motifs, symbolism, and a type of operatic pace, the kind of videos that kind of doubled back on themselves and came full-circle. "Ever Dream" was a chronological piece- kind of a Point A, Point B type thing, and was very difficult for me to write like that. Plus, the majority of our videos are very strongly driven by lyrics, and with "Ever Dream", we were concentrating on using sounds and beats to direct the footage and images rather than lyrics. So there were times where I simply did not know what to do.
  
  I consider this video to have 3 very ovbious parts- a beginning, a middle, and an end part. The first part we sat down and wrote and made into a video in about 2 days, and then we were stuck. We had all this footage we had ripped, and weren't even sure where it would go, and how. It required removing several characters and story elements from the Inu Yasha movie to kind of create our own that was still believable and still easy to follow. Several things happen a certain way in the movie in a certain order that does not happen in our video, and yet I'm pleased with how we were able to still pull it together and make it work.
  
  So we finished the first part of the video, and then it sat on our HD for months while we worked on other projects. With our want to release the video before the DVD came out in the last week of December, we kind of gritted our teeth and opened the project back up again, telling ourselves we were simply just going to have to force it out. However, once we were involved in it again, it became a lot easier to finish the writing and get it together, and we even changed a few things that had already been done in the video.
  
  So now it's complete- my only regret is having to compress the video for distribution. The original video is about 3 GIGS in size, with the highest quality. Compressing this video with XVID 2-pass helped make a much better version than our MPEG tests of it did, but it still is not near as beautiful as the original video turned out.
  
  Lyrics:
  
  "Ever felt away with me
  Just once that all I need
  Entwined in finding you one day
  
  Ever felt away without me
  My love, it lies so deep
  Ever dream of me
  
  Would you do it with me
  Heal the scars and change the stars
  Would you do it for me
  Turn loose the heaven within
  
  I'd take you away
  Castaway on a lonely day
  Bosom for a teary cheek
  My song can but borrow your grace
  
  Come out, come out wherever you are
  So lost in your sea
  Give in, give in for my touch
  For my taste for my lust
  
  Your beauty cascaded on me
  In this white night fantasy
  
  Ever felt away with me
  Just once that all I need
  Entwined in finding you one day
  
  Ever felt away without me
  My love, it lies so deep
  Ever dream of me."