| Feb. 16th, 2008 @ 11:16 pm musing on how to vid DBSK |
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+ right now, the only source I could easily work with is Banjun Drama because it's on the AADBSK2 DVDs ... I think Vacation could be mixed with BD for footage mining because they are stylistically similar.
+ Banjun Drama: colorful palette, bright video lighting, simple visual style. Lots of randomly cute bits. GOOFY AS HELL. Though, despite that, the guys are dialled *wayyyyy* down through most of it. Aside from Dangerous Love, not slashy, but I was thinking BD would be great for a "goofy group" vid anyway. DL scenes can be part of the goofiness, or work some "stealth slash" in the vid.
+ BD has a logo on upper left, but it's consistent there, and always the same, so visually, I think it can become invisible to the viewer. Some eps have brief overlay logos in spots, but nothing that couldn't be worked around.
+ Songs? Ugh. I'm thinking something perky, poppy, maybe on the bubblegum side. I was even looking through my old tapes of 60s girl groups. But the lyrics need to not be a love song, I think, for the "goofy group" idea to work. (Though in a moment of weakness, I considered Porno Graffitti's "We Love Us," despite it being a love song, because the only English is the refrain, "We Love Us You." But IIRC the tempo is too slow for the kind of cutting I think a BD vid would need. ETA: I had the refrain wrong, and the tempo is definitely wrong.)
+ In a way, I think song choice for a non-BD vid would be easier, because you wouldn't be limited by the bright, colorful, goofy Banjun Drama footage, and can tell more stories, including slashy ones.
+ But that would be the *only* way a "real personas" vid would be easier!
+ There's *lots* of footage, which is better than too little, but it's all problematic footage from a technical viewpoint. Mongrel assortment of file formats, most of which Final Cut Pro will not recognize, which means pre-processing it in ffmpegX or MPEG streamclip. There are probably PAL vs. NTSC vs. SECAM differences, too, so the clips may not play nicely together even after pre-processing.
+ Then, assuming you can even get the clips into a format Final Cut will handle: bugs! Logos! Watermarks! Fucking text fucking everywhere! Makes for visually appalling vids. People's eyes just can't process it all so fast and focus on what the vidder wants the focus to be. Options here:
(1) Drop $2K on AfterEffects, conquer the steep, years'-long learning curve, and remove all the text from each clip manually. I don't see AfterEffects in my future anytime soon.
(2) Stick to the least text-laden clips, and stick to HQ. Will severely limit available footage, and exclude some golden classic moments.
(3) Crop clips in Final Cut. This can be done, but it's tricky and the main problem will be the degradation of the clip quality. You can always tell when a clip has been zoomed or cropped. In one of the Jaeho vids I watched on YT, there was a textbook bad example of this -- the creator had zoomed in on some thigh-petting, but it was almost impossible to tell what it was because it was so pixelated.
+ Stick to performance/concert footage and selected behind-the-scenes. This would limit the kinds of stories you could tell, but might keep the footage manageable, and might make it easier to find HQ source.
+ Cracky idea: use only the MVs! I haven't seriously considered this, but it might be possible to tell some very odd stories this way, mixing up footage from various MVs. *imagines Balloons side-by-side with Purple Line* Okay. Cracky. Some MVs will also have the text-everywhere problem.
+ Songs? Just about anything? I have no ideas whatsoever. I'm still staggering from the video problems this would present. But I haven't ruled it out. Heaven knows, I would not mind having the *necessity* of staring at hours of lovely footage of the lovely guys and at the end, if all goes well, have a slightly less atrocious fanmade DBSK vid to show for it. But no song has come up and hit me as a perfect choice yet.
+ Huh. As I type this, Porno Graffitti's "Vintage" came on the iPod and its poppy sound could maybe work for BD. I need to look up the lyrics. If it's PG, even if it's a love song, it probably has a twist or sting in the tail, which isn't a bad thing. Hmmm. The sound definitely could work. It's slightly silly.
+ And the next song is Roxy Music's "Virginia Plain." No. So not going there. |
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