32 beats from happiness

[aycheb]

This vid is totally kicking my arse. Right at the last, which happens to be the first and I know exactly what it needs to do and the kind of things it needs to do it but just can't seem to figure out exactly what. Had an inspiration this morning that almost cracked it only to realise that the colour was all wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. So yay me for

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[laurashapiro]

Re your vid: is this a situation where you can tweak the color in your vidding program? Sometimes you can make really amazing changes that way, and make non-working things work.

I adore In the Blink of an Eye. It's helped me so much, in terms of understanding why editing can produce emotional responses. It's just plain nifty.

[aycheb]

I have had some success with tweaking shots with a single main colour in FCE but tend to go all deer in the headlights if there's more than one. Must face fears. But I'm also thinking this isn't just a problem with the colour as such, the clips that weren't right were a run of dark spacey shots and also there was too many of them, the rythmn was wrong. The bulk of the song is quite pacey/dancey but it starts with a more tentative, tinkly piano bit and I needed to re-adjust to that and go gentler on the explosions. I have an almost working version of the beginning now (but am begining to have doubts about the end).

Nifty. Exactly, all those ideas about when the audience blinks had the kind of simplicty that feels true. And you get this wonderful impression of him standing up, conducting proceedings like Tom Cruise in Minority Reportbut searching for the emotion instead of the killer.