vid fail

[valoise]

When the 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.

Comments

[bleukittie.livejournal.com]

Now you can start on the vid for the next PWFC con!

[valoise.livejournal.com]

The mental gears are already turning. But I'm probably going to do something else first that doesn't include Peter.

[mackiedockie.livejournal.com]

Benny Goodman--bet the backbeats there were muy complicado. And he makes it sound so smooth!

[valoise.livejournal.com]

Looked more like a school teacher than a jazz musician, but man could he play the clarinet. Had a knack for putting together a great orchestra, too.

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

Awww. Maybe next time?

See you there....

[valoise.livejournal.com]

No Vividcon for me at all this year. I can only manage to get to one con this summer and I've decided to go to Worldcon instead.

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

I know how that is--cons are so much fun, but so expensive. Never mind the time off.

Maybe some time!