New Vid: "The Hard Way" (Mirror's Edge) / Festivids 2012
Description: Let me walk you through the world that I currently stay in.
Made for bradcpu for Festivids 2012
Source: Mirror's Edge (Video game) and trailers
Song: "The Hard Way", Fort Minor
Length: 2:27
Size: 66.2 MB
Format: avi (xvid)
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Original LJ Post / Original DW Post
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
The Hard Way (Mirror's Edge) from Sneaky McSneak on Vimeo.
Password: edge
Lyrics
Come with me
Let me walk in through the world that I currently stay in
You can take a look around and tell me if I’m mistaken
You can even talk to everybody that I live with
Maybe you could tell me why everybody’s so distant
Is it me or maybe when I look around daily
I don’t even know the people I can put my trust in lately
People that I used to hang with now their actin’ to different
I’m still the same person why doesn’t anybody listen
Can somebody please just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we’d be
Right now I dunno why I push through the pain
That I got through and I’m losin’ hope
Deafening voices
That frequency inside my head that says
I’m going at it the hard way
Voices in my head
Can somebody please just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we’d be
Right now I dunno why I push through the pain that I got through
And I’m losin’ hope, give me one reason not to
Deafening voices
That frequency inside my head that says
I’m going at it the hard way
Notes
This vid was interesting for many reasons. It was my first time vidding a video game, which was exciting since video games have become so central to my entertainment hours in the last few years. I was also vidding in secret for my husband, which meant lots of late night vidding and some elaborate stories.
Mirror's Edge is a fantastic video game, both for its narrative and visuals. The gameplay and cutscenes have very distinctive looks, so figuring out how to balance the 3D and 2D visuals was interesting. In the end, the video relied mostly on the cutscenes and the game's narrative, omitting many of the most striking aspects of the gameplay segments. For those, you really need to see absolutedestiny's Raise Your Weapon, which is amazing.
I used the gameplay by soma1509 and cutscene by GamesHub as well as various trailers.