Fannis Fifty #5: my Festivids gift

When you were a child, did you ever have a Christmas where Santa Claus brought you exactly what you wanted? For Festivids 2022 I got exactly that! I wanted a Christmas vid for one of my favorite Christmas movies, Die Hard, and that's exactly what I got with Carol of the Bells

Festivids: adventures in trying to vid Rashomon

I offered Rashomon as a source I wanted to vid for festivids this year and I was matched up with cupidsbow

Rashomon is one of those movies that everyone's heard about, even if they've never seen it. A murder is committed and there are widely divergent tales of how and why it happened. I knew that I wanted to pare down the story. While I used the woodcutter's discovery of the body to start, the short vid needed to depend entirely the bandit, the samurai, and the samurai's wife to show the wildly conflicting story. After a fruitless search for music with lyrics, I quickly decided to use instrumental music and 2Cellos' version of Technical Difficulties.

I got everything ready, started laying clips in the timeline and then second-guessed myself on the song choice. I lot of time was wasted to discover I had it right in the first place. In the movie Kurosawa never actually shows the murder take place or the actual corpse. The suicide version of events happens with the samurai standing in background. The vid would need to stand on the emotions of the three main characters, with their actions taking a secondary role. After many, many edits this is the finished result.

perception of truth on AO3
perception of truth on YouTube