Vid

[lierdumoa]

So I made it back to my room around midnight last night and vidded till 2:30. I vaguely remember getting about 30 seconds vidded, thinking they looked like ass, and being shocked and amazed each and every time I looked at the clock at just how much time had passed. I fell asleep on the too-small couch in my room and woke up at 8:30, and was delighted to find I had no hangover. I made myself a tuna sandwich for breakfast, e-mailed my mother, then re-opened premiere and fiddled with the 30 seconds until they stopped looking like ass.

Which brings me to now, as I'm just realizing that I not only forgot to clip a very important episode, but deleted it off my computer and have to re-rip it. Fun, fun for everyone.

The most annoying thing about this vid, that I still don't quite know how I'm going to handle, is the color scheme. The song is, like, brown or brown-ish in my head, which seemed perfect for the fandom when I first heard it, only I conveniently forgot that Simon is a doctor and therefore half of his screentime everything is friggin blue and white. linzeems, oh how I hate you for making me sensitive to color. The vid is hurting me in ways I did not know I could be hurt.

OMGneedsleep.

Also, have new vidbunny.

"Imagine" cover by A Perfect Circle, originally by John Lennon; X-Men movies; Xavier & Magneto dual POV, may or may not be construed as shippery

Comments

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

linzeems, oh how I hate you for making me sensitive to color

*cackles evily*

Man, I feel your pain though - that was one of my biggest peeves when I was vidding the FLV. The song was burnt-out, siennas and natural tones and charred colors...and Lex always wants to be in Metropolis where everything is blue and metallic and industrial, damn him! *g*

Personally, I still think someone should invent me a plug that goes directly into your brain, so we could export clips as we think them up.

Linzee

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Your color sense makes sense to me on pretty much everything but VAST, as all of their songs seem to strike you as brown variations, and my brain can accept virtually any color scheme or even black and white as long as it doesn't look muddied.

I'm wondering if this has something to do with my beat consciousness that obsessively cuts music up into levels. You tend to see vids as collages and make vids that don't really have climaxes. It's like either you're averaging everything I hear into one color set or I'm putting a prism up to whatever it is you're hearing.

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, VAST isn't muddled at all. Creed is muddled. Puddle of Mudd is muddled. VAST is extremely rich and vibrant for me. That particular song is very burnt out and glowing (hence the shiny, shiny vid). Pretty When You Cry is equally colored. I can't really describe it - I wish I could plug my brain in and show the colors for you, because they aren't muddled at all. They sort of...shift, kind of jewel-toned. But at the same time, very dark and earthen.

And wow, I make no sense at all.

Linzee

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Alright the glow factor does make sense to me, because as I was telling my roommate, unlike a lot of hard rock songs where the sounds just jumble together into one composite noise, VAST has a very clean sound. Even at the loudest points, you can still distinctly hear each element of the music and each element sounds smooth.

As for earthen -- earthen tones are probably the only tones I can't visualize with VAST. They are kind of dark and burning to me, but it's a chemical burn.

But then, it doesn't come naturally to me at all to translate sound into color. I translate sound into movement. When I heard "Pretty When You Cry" the thing I knew right off the bat was what to do with my hips and my arms and my legs, before I ever decided to vid it. So really, it's like I'm doing an indirect translation from sound to movement, and then from movement to color. Sometimes our color choices will match up, and sometimes they won't.