The vidding thing? They take me a long time because there is so much hair-splitting. For that vid I was left with the prospect of slowing everything down exponentially in places because the expressions I wanted were lasting a couple of seconds at most. Which means you have to get clever, aka ZOMG I'M DOOOOMED!! And the only way I could make that work was with the slow dissolves and running clips backwards and crap like that.
I also held all the snowstorm footage for the end thinking I had lots and lots and no worries. (And also it wouldn't integrate well with the other footage because of the totally different lighting.) Well screw me. *G* I had to repeat pieces over and over flipping them and running them backwards and stuff to make it work. Fortunately it did work.
And it's so different from art. With art my goal is to crystallize a whole bunch of storytelling down into one frozen moment. And ya know -- HH and WB have been really elusive for me. I can do them up separately and pair Bush up with other people but jamming them together has not been a rip-roaring success so far. I think it's because defaulting Bush with movieverse characters is cleaner because it's a much thinner universe to my eyes. The books are info dense and there are a crapload of them so the relationship with HH is goddamned tricky to get down into 25 words or less. And I'm not sure even after a gazillion rereadings that I really have all of it.
But I'm gonna try them again. I've reread Undertow like 234897192873 times and it does not pale with the rereading and I'm hoping it can in some way give me the kick in the ass I need to make some HH/WB art that is worth a shit.
Re: what do you mean the compression ratios are off? i thought bush was just sucking in his cheeks.X
The vidding thing? They take me a long time because there is so much hair-splitting. For that vid I was left with the prospect of slowing everything down exponentially in places because the expressions I wanted were lasting a couple of seconds at most. Which means you have to get clever, aka ZOMG I'M DOOOOMED!! And the only way I could make that work was with the slow dissolves and running clips backwards and crap like that.
I also held all the snowstorm footage for the end thinking I had lots and lots and no worries. (And also it wouldn't integrate well with the other footage because of the totally different lighting.) Well screw me. *G* I had to repeat pieces over and over flipping them and running them backwards and stuff to make it work. Fortunately it did work.
And it's so different from art. With art my goal is to crystallize a whole bunch of storytelling down into one frozen moment. And ya know -- HH and WB have been really elusive for me. I can do them up separately and pair Bush up with other people but jamming them together has not been a rip-roaring success so far. I think it's because defaulting Bush with movieverse characters is cleaner because it's a much thinner universe to my eyes. The books are info dense and there are a crapload of them so the relationship with HH is goddamned tricky to get down into 25 words or less. And I'm not sure even after a gazillion rereadings that I really have all of it.
But I'm gonna try them again. I've reread Undertow like 234897192873 times and it does not pale with the rereading and I'm hoping it can in some way give me the kick in the ass I need to make some HH/WB art that is worth a shit.
*stops babbling*