Fashion show! Fashion show! Fashion show at lunch!

[anoel]

I have to wish a big Happy Birthday to destina! I hope you had a wonderful day :) Same goes for kelbelle, shadownyc, morgandawn, paraka and sherlockelly who I wish a big Happy Belated Birthday!

I've been watching Ugly Betty since all my fun shows lined up have disappointed me lately and I am loving it. It's so fun and entertaining but at the same time has so much diversity, tackles great plots and issues and has a lot of emotional heart to it. I adore Betty and Daniel as friends, love Marc (like Emmett! but delightfully meaner) and Justin (SO CUTE), have a huge geek crush on Henry and I love all of Wilhelmina's schemes. And I completely ship Betty/Henry because have I mentioned the super cute geek love? I'm up to 113 and I just have to say OMGOMGOMG It's Alex Alexia!!! Wow. I was not expecting that at all and it's a huge surprise and have I mentioned WOW. I mean they did something similar on Nip/Tuck but that's cable and into being groundbreaking while this is kind of unbelievably new. So cool. I can't wait to see what happens!

ETA: Brother incest OMG!! *squee* I love this show. It has guts.

I'm still working on vidding my Premiere vid for Vividcon. I keep stopping and starting again because I'm so afraid of messing this vid up as I've had the idea for a year and a half and it's the PERFECT song. At least I love it and have played it on repeat too many times to count and still love it everytime. At the very least everyone should be exposed to it. But I don't want to do a lesser job on it than I'm able to and I'm afraid I'm not good enough to do it. The good news is my idea/concept/narrative for it is about 90% done and I have most of the clipping done and some of the basic clips down. There's a lot of musical aspects to the song that I want to show in the visuals but it's really hard to do. Does anybody have any vid recs for vids that you think use the music *really* well? Not just cutting on the beat but capturing all the little things in the music whether through internal motion, effects or whatever else. I've also been thinking about framing in videos. As in what are the different reasons for opening and ending a vid with the same (or same scene) clip versus beginning and ending a vid with two different outcomes to show the contrast between them? Think Superstar versus Out Here. Any thoughts?

Office wise, I really enjoyed watching this documentary about The Office. I wished it talked more about fandom but I did love seeing all The Office love. And I'm really looking forward to going to Chili's with my Office loving friend before Evan Almighty. An awesome blossom, extra awesome and Baby Back Ribs are sure to be on the menu ;) And I just have to say that after watching The Dundies yet another time, it's still my favorite episode. It may not be the best episode (I'll give that title to Casino Night), it makes me the happiest. It shows how much Michael cares about his employees even when he messes up in showing it and how they all care about each other as a family. Drunk!Pam is amazing and makes me smile and happy and *her* feeling that way. And then there's the fun boss!Jan/Michael phone conversation, Michael's boycrush fun and Dwight being Dwight. The music in the end is perfect to me, it sums it all up and leaves me satisfied and smiling (TWSS!).

Comments

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the birthday wishes. :D

[anoel.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :)

[paraka]

Thanks :)

I have a friend who is absolutely in love with Ugly Betty. I haven't watched it myself, but I hear it's good.

I don't want to do a lesser job on it than I'm able to and I'm afraid I'm not good enough to do it.
Oh god, I can relate to that. There are a couple vid ideas I have going in the b ack of my head and I can *see* the finished product, and it's *awesome* I'm just afraid to actually *do* it, since I am not that awesome, and I'm afraid of screwing it up. :( On the other hand, something that's only half awesome has got to be better than no awesome. I really have to just sit down and get back to vidding...

As for the recs, only two vids come to mind, I described one here (it's SGA so you might have seen it already), and this one (you need to be logged in to see download it though...). The second one relies a lot on the beat, but they also work off a background riff really well. I love this vid :)

[anoel.livejournal.com]

You should definitely check it out. It really is good.

Yeah, I know it's better to try and fail but I'm still scared of messing up that perfect idea in my head. I do hope you vid more! I haven't seen the SGA one, was saving it until I've reached that episode but I think I'll be finishing up S1 tomorrow so hopefully I can watch the vid in. Thanks for the recs :)

[in-lalaland.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw Ugly Betty ! Henry is sooooo adorable it's not even funny ! And Betty and him look so cute together ! Just keep watching this is getting better and better with time.

Since I can't hear anything because my computer sucks, I'll try to watch your Offive documentary later. Thanks for the info though. It's great to see that your Office's love is stronger and harder than ever (TWSS !)

[anoel.livejournal.com]

I know! I about died with cuteness at Henry a dozen times. I adore them even though I don't like the whole girlfriend thing. Offive hee. My love for The Office never can leave, it's too much a part of me.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of ways to go about music matching. Matching an effect to a certain sound in the music, matching a character to an instrument, matching an emotion to a music phrase, using internal motion (arm swing for a guitar twang), etc.

I am in no way an authority on the subject, but one of the few things I can offer is that pacing is important and the real test of whether the vid uses the music well is if I automatically think of the vid when I hear the song.

You asked for recs and recs ye shall have:
greensilver's Ghost Song (http://greensilver.livejournal.com/339923.html)
Nicky's Change (in the house of flies) (http://obsessive24.livejournal.com/160232.html), Cells (http://obsessive24.livejournal.com/137621.html), and Steady as She Goes (http://obsessive24.livejournal.com/183314.html)
fieryhand's Fitter Happier (can't find link, I think it's offline)
dualbunny's The Perfect Drug (http://dualbunny.livejournal.com/95399.html)
Pompeii, In Your Honor, Wings of Steel, Karaoke Soul, All These Things That I've Done, and Evening on the Ground (http://www.alter-idem.com/)
sisabet's Baby, Icebound Stream, and Dr Who on Holiday (http://sisabet.livejournal.com/220944.html)
asolat's Pon de Preplay, Bohemian Like You, Zebra, and A Day in the Life (http://intimations.org/vidding/)
bradcpu's Living Dead Girl (http://bradcpu.livejournal.com/25240.html) and Vertigo (http://bradcpu.livejournal.com/28864.html)
kristin's Closer (http://www.avenuepotter.com/~kristin/cbmusicvids.htm)
luminosity's More Human Than Human, Blood Fugue, and Bricks (http://www.slum.slashcity.com/lum/eyecandy)
eunice's Swing Down Chariot (http://myrtleneunice.com/eunice/vids.html)
JS&ARR's The Sky is Broken (http://www.any-time-soon.com/farscape.html)
Rowena's Pluto (http://www.deadbutstillpretty.com/videos.html)
hollywoodgrrl's A Bitter Song (http://community.livejournal.com/sync_slaying/1025.html)

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for all the recs! I will look at all of those closely for using the music. And yeah, all of those ways are great ways to match up to the music.

[mozartfan1313.livejournal.com]

This will definately be a long summer without The Office. I miss it already.

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Yeah same here. There's a certain excitement in looking forward to a new episode every week and without it, it takes away some of the fun of the fandom. But thankfully my love for it can make it through a summer.

[buffyann.livejournal.com]

A great vidder that uses the music pretty perfecty and all the layers of the song is ShadowNos. His video,"VII, the end" is excellent in that regard. (http://shadownos.com/2006.html)

That's the first example that popped into my head :)

Good luck with your vid !

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec! I've never heard of him but I'll check it out. And thanks :)

[livelovebelieve.livejournal.com]

I LOVE MARC! He's one of my fave characters on Ugly Betty. :)

I have your icon. I hope you like it!!

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my love for Marc has increased ten fold since I first met him. I think he's my favorite now and the finale was just so perfect for him.

Thanks! That looks great :D I will go add it to my userpics now.