New Vid!! Invisible Man!!

[sisabet]

OMG. I am posting a vid. It has been over six months since I have finished anything at all and I worked on this vid for over three months cause I just...my god - I cannot tell you how much fun I have had making this vid, which is really kinda weird considering this is not a fun little happy vid, but whatever. This is me. I eat angst for breakfast and then I have a nervous breakdown for lunch and none of this is really doing anything about telling y'all about this vid, is it?

Okay - first of all: tzikeh and Dorinda have been patiently hearing about this concept (and also entertaining me) since March. That was when this song went on repeat at my house. I am still not tired of this song (but I have a very high tolerance for repetition). They helped convince me that the idea was not only kinda solid, but also interesting. I love you guys.

Then I proceeded to drive my betas insane. Seriously - I think I broke renenet. At the very least she joined me in christening the vid Dewey. sockkpuppett actually went and watched the entire series and she is just so great. And then! Cause I needed more people to join me in being crazy - we rounded off beta duties with permetaform and elynross and they both helped keep me focused on the end.

Except I never wanted to just stop. It is hard for me, right now - with the vid files trimmed and put away, to admit that I am finished with this vid. But this is Dewey. And I dressed him up as best I could and I went and found a village to help raise him and he might have chewed through his right sleeve, but that is only because he got tired of waiting and I told him to sit there and not move and then I was distracted by another vid for just one moment!

And it is good think I don't have kids - you know?


So - the vid (Premiered at Escapade last night):

Fandom is The Invisible Man. Vid is set (psychologically - if that makes any sense?) between the events of "Enemy of My Enemy" and "The New Stuff" so there are spoilers for almost the entire series. If you are DLing the series to watch - don't watch the vid until you've at least seen through "Possessed" cause I would hate for you to be spoiled. It would pain me.

Song is Weeping Willow by The Verve. The credits for this vid were done by the amazing fan_eunice who can make anything happen. She is my Fairy Godmother of After Effects.

Eventually this vid will go up on Headtilt -- after I overhaul the site (muahahaha the power). Until then, it will be available in this post.

WMV format - right click to Download:

http://www.sisavids.com/weepingwillow.wmv

ETA: As of 8-19-09, the wmv file is again available for download at the above link

Comments

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. I think, eventually, I am gonna have to find a new effecty thing to go nuts over cause me playing with the lights has got to get old - but - I reeeaally like playing with the lights.

I'm still learning the blurs and how to use them - I think the idea is to mimic the human eye and how we adjust visually -- except I have terrible vision and wonder how much what feels natural to me in focusing is really intrusive to other people? And see - this is the kind of stuff I bugged Renenet and Lum with for MONTHS. They are up for sainthood.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Personally, I can watch you playing with lights until the cows come home, so don't base any changes in strategy on me. (:

That's an interesting point about the blurs. I like an organic approach, like the way Walter Murch describes a cut as a blink. My vision is craptacular too, though, so I don't know if I'm the best judge. I'll never forget this scene in a film I saw years ago, where a guy wakes up and then puts his glasses on, and the shot is him looking at his room, and it's all blurry, and then you see the edge of the glasses move into the frame and everything gets all sharp and focused. It was so *real*.

Yes indeed, Renenet and Lum are saints. No question about it.