Vidding Whinge

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I'm finally doing some serious capturing for my next vid, and I'm realizing how spoiled I was the last two vids I've worked on. They both used movies that had impeccable visual style and it was a pleasure working with the footage. This time, I'm using the Sharpe movies, and, well, they don't really have a visual style. The composition is workmanlike at best and dodgy at worst. It's going to be a challenge to find things to cut to. And from a slash point of view, it's been darn hard to find Sharpe and Harper in a shot together that isn't too freaking short or too freaking dark.

It's weird, because the director is Tom Clegg, and he did some interesting episodes of The Sweeney in the '70s. I don't know if he got bored and turned into a hack, or if the notoriously low budgets of the Sharpe made it impossible to do anything other than quickly get a shot and move on to the next one.

Oh well. On the other hand, Sharpe has lots and lots of Sean Bean, so I'm just going to enjoy the aesthetics of the actor and ignore the aesthetics of the show.

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I've been thinking of exactly this while doing the capture: fast cutting is definitely one way to save this vid. The hard part is going to be the song: it's a slow to mid tempo folk song, and finding places to cut fast without working against the song is going to be a challenge. Ah well. It's going to be interesting, and it'll stretch some vidding muscles I haven't used much. (Filter! Effects! Fast cuts! Oh my!)

As for I Spy, I found it a really great show to work with. The shots might be held longer, but the composition is usually quite lovely, and I like that near-garish colour palette. I've got two songs in the vidding queue that I'm intending to use for I Spy. I'm hoping I'll get to them by the summer. (Next up after Sharpe will be MI5/Spooks and then a Wesley vid.)

BTW, since my life is finally getting somewhat back to normal, I've started transferring Miracles to DVD again and I've got two disks for ya. Still interested?