Making my set ended up easier this year than when I tried this set of exercises last year; last year, I tried vidding with an anime source, and that was really hard to find clips for. In anime, or at least the one I tried last year, thare a lot of pauses and repeated animations (poeple talking, for instance) or still frames -- not great when you need six second clips. Real people, on the other hand, move and there are more fun camera things to play with. :)
My original song was The Crane Wife's "Curses", which was what I actually matched a lot of clips for. "The Fog" was my second choice...except halfway through I got stuck on "Curses", because the song went in a different direction than "The Fog". ("Curses" felt like a shipping song, essentially, whereas "The Fog" never got there).
So I ended up making "The Fog" the primary song and adding "When The Truth Hunts You Down". And then deciding I didn't like "When The Truth Hunts You Down", going through something like five different songs...and then finally giving up and going back to "When The Truth Hunts You Down".
I dragged "Banana Phone" onto the timeline as a joke, but I think it ended up being my favorite. It was the one I took least seriously and had the most fun making.
I started making a second set -- mainly with the goal of comparing two versions of a single melody, to see how changes in instrument and dynamics affect things -- but I think I've stalled on it. I may do more work on it before the due date, but I think I've learned that I need lyrics to guide me.
In general, I feel like I learned a lot from this!
The constraints make it so much easier to finish something (and experimenting with different songs is both educational and fun), and I feel like the constraints are helpful as a learning tool. Using internal cuts means that I'm paying a lot of attention to how the show is doing its own cuts, and sometimes when things just don't work, I find myself thinking, "oh, it would be nice if I could find [this thing that would work better]".
And I think the constraints forced me to compromise in places, so it's good practice at thinking about which things are okay to cut corners at -- and also, which places are important to get right. I still feel far from the point where I can understand how to get those things right, but thinking about them (and getting them wrong in interesting ways) still feels like a good start.
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Date: 2021-03-21 10:39 pm (UTC)My original song was The Crane Wife's "Curses", which was what I actually matched a lot of clips for. "The Fog" was my second choice...except halfway through I got stuck on "Curses", because the song went in a different direction than "The Fog". ("Curses" felt like a shipping song, essentially, whereas "The Fog" never got there).
So I ended up making "The Fog" the primary song and adding "When The Truth Hunts You Down". And then deciding I didn't like "When The Truth Hunts You Down", going through something like five different songs...and then finally giving up and going back to "When The Truth Hunts You Down".
I dragged "Banana Phone" onto the timeline as a joke, but I think it ended up being my favorite. It was the one I took least seriously and had the most fun making.
I started making a second set -- mainly with the goal of comparing two versions of a single melody, to see how changes in instrument and dynamics affect things -- but I think I've stalled on it. I may do more work on it before the due date, but I think I've learned that I need lyrics to guide me.
In general, I feel like I learned a lot from this!
The constraints make it so much easier to finish something (and experimenting with different songs is both educational and fun), and I feel like the constraints are helpful as a learning tool. Using internal cuts means that I'm paying a lot of attention to how the show is doing its own cuts, and sometimes when things just don't work, I find myself thinking, "oh, it would be nice if I could find [this thing that would work better]".
And I think the constraints forced me to compromise in places, so it's good practice at thinking about which things are okay to cut corners at -- and also, which places are important to get right. I still feel far from the point where I can understand how to get those things right, but thinking about them (and getting them wrong in interesting ways) still feels like a good start.