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vividcon challenge theme was set as Blast from the Past, I nearly squeed. I'd been mulling over ideas for a vid for Red and the overall focus of that movie, retired spies going into action, seemed like a natural choice. Add to that a recent obsession with 1930s big band and swing music (thanks to some recs from Jim Byrnes on Facebook) I thought I was on the path to perfection.
After sifting through a range of choices, I decided on Bugle Call Rag by Benny Goodman. The beginning bugle notes of Reveille for the call to action and I thought the musical phrasing lent itself well to introduction of each character. So I started clipping and outlining and set to work.
This is where it all fell apart. I couldn't make the pacing of the song fit to the clips I needed to tell the story. I tried speeding clips up or slowing them down to shoe horn them in, but no matter what I did, I hated it. When vidding becomes more work than fun it's time to hang it up. So I'm not going to have anything in Vividcon this year. No premiering vid, no challenge vid. Sigh.
vividcon challenge theme was set as Blast from the Past, I nearly squeed. I'd been mulling over ideas for a vid for Red and the overall focus of that movie, retired spies going into action, seemed like a natural choice. Add to that a recent obsession with 1930s big band and swing music (thanks to some recs from Jim Byrnes on Facebook) I thought I was on the path to perfection.After sifting through a range of choices, I decided on Bugle Call Rag by Benny Goodman. The beginning bugle notes of Reveille for the call to action and I thought the musical phrasing lent itself well to introduction of each character. So I started clipping and outlining and set to work.
This is where it all fell apart. I couldn't make the pacing of the song fit to the clips I needed to tell the story. I tried speeding clips up or slowing them down to shoe horn them in, but no matter what I did, I hated it. When vidding becomes more work than fun it's time to hang it up. So I'm not going to have anything in Vividcon this year. No premiering vid, no challenge vid. Sigh.
