New Vid: Time of Your Life

[ash48]

Title:: Time of Your Life
Vid by: ash48
Music: Good Riddance** by Green Day
Category: Ensemble / Themed Montage
Warnings: Spoilers for Season 4
Length: 2.34m
Size 20.7mb
Summary: Tribute to the recurring characters who met their demise in Season 4.
Links:
Streaming: You Tube
Download: Send Space (.divx)
Download: 4Shared (.avi)

Thanks as usual to my wonderful beta _sharvie_. Especially for her immense patience while I sent her umpteen copies of this and for some awesome suggestions. You know I love ya right?

Also thanks to maichan808 and SVS friend Toni for their valuable feedback. Thanks also to spn_sceneit's Inspiration Post and from_the_corner for the song suggestion.

Vid Stuff

The last couple of years I've made tribute vids to all those lovely characters Kripke and Co. kill off during the season. All the characters in this vid have been recurring characters, except one. I'm completely guilty of putting him in because a) he fit a lyric *hides* and b) I've grown a little attached to the idea of him and he felt like more that just a MOTW.

These aren't character studies as such as each one has such a short amount of time, but what I tried to do was catch a little bit of the essence of the character's life and then demise.

I wouldn't say I've angsted over this vid but boy did I play with it a lot. I was pretty set on the structure from the start but for some reason I just couldn't settle on the transitions. Cross dissolves? Straight cuts? Flashes? Blurs? How long should this cross dissolve go for? What's the best way to signal new sections? Ahhh! Just stop already! So I did. It will have to do.

I am nervous about this one. It's not what I call a "big idea" vid. It's more a vid I wanted to do for myself as a way of saying goodbye to some memorable characters in Season 4.


**not my sentiment at all. Luckily these words are not mentioned in the song. Also the irony of "It's something unpreditable.." isn't lost on me. Of course it's friggin' predictable. You're a SPN OC!! What do you expect!?

Disclaimer: No money made but comment are gratefully (and warmly) accepted. :)

oooh, new vid icon. My hubby is good to me. <3

Comments

[mranderson71.livejournal.com]

My turn for a late comment!

I rather enjoyed this. At first it seemed an unusual combination of the audio & visual but it worked. And it was the song that drew me into wanting to watch it. So great job on making it entertaining.

The other thing I wanted to give you props on is your audio work during the vid. My one pet hate is when people don't bother to lower the sound of their music track when putting in those grabs but you did this like a pro. And you managed to put most of them in places where there was no singing which is also pro. But in those places where there was singing, you didn't have to strain to hear what the characters were saying in the grabs through the music. Ive seen many far more experienced vidders still doing this so I am very impressed.

Great stuff!

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hi. Wow! Thank you so much for this thoughtful and lovely feedback.

Particularly for your compliment on the audio work. I did work very hard to make the sound grabs as seamless as I could with the soundtrack. I prefer to have all my sound bytes during the breaks in the singing, but with this one I couldn't help but put some over the singing. I'm thrilled you thought it worked well.

Thank you again. Your comment has been very encouraging.