[fic + vid] the week in fanworks, or reasons why i never get any reading done

[ronsard]

[1] Always - Suzaku/Lelouch - Code Geass AMV

A trick to making anime music videos is to never use a song you like. There's nothing like spending ten hours in editing to make you loathe the very sound of something. No, that isn't my excuse for always using music I'd be embarrassed to be caught having on my iPod. In other news, is anyone else

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[uminohikari]

But it's a good baby step *.*

[ronsard]

Thank you ;_; It's weird considering how shameless I usually am, but every time I stop writing for awhile it seems I lose all my confidence.

[kokanshu]

You make me want to make AMVs so much, goddamn. Although I doubt I'd be anywhere near as good as you - my experience of an editing suite was mostly me being OCD over the sound timing and my group members telling me it was fine and could we burn it already.

[ronsard]

I get OCD about sound timing too, because I suspect I have a tin ear when it comes to these things. But I've learned to let it go, surely the preteen boys who make up my core audience (seriously) wouldn't mind. It's a fairly stress-free hobby in that way.

I keep wanting to make a KHR vid to The Future, Pt. 1 by Voxtrot, but I cannot stand the anime and there are like a million episodes.

[kokanshu]

Yeah that's my other issue, I am so snobby when it comes to anime. I might consider making a DOGS one to Voodoo People (Pendulum Mix) by The Prodigy if the animation's up to scratch, simply because I've always wanted to see a DOGS sequence (particularly the bit at the end of the first volume when Haine and Badou tear up that brothel place to rescue Nill) to that song. But I'm kinda upset that there is an anime at all (see snob comment), so I might ignore it out of spite.

[ronsard]

I'm upset because the promotional materials that I've seen for the anime have led me to believe that it will be... ugly. And that's not okay. If the characters can't look good in their ads I have no hope for the actual show. That said, an action video for DOGS would be entirely sweet, lots of people flipping around and pulling crazy faces and rogue bullets going every which way. Action videos are well beyond my abilities (and interests, usually), but I envy the people who can make them work.

[asikari9]

Slumdog Millionaire is ridiculously awesome, and its soundtrack is just as awesome.
Did you ever see Dev Patel in the tv show Skins? He wasn't half bad.

[ronsard]

I read that he was cast because Boyle's daughter pointed out his performance from Skins to her father during casting. That's pretty awesome. I should really pick up the show again, I really haven't tried enough since I lost my source for episodes the first time around.

[metafictionally]

That fic was way brilliant. I shouldn't have reviewed it on FFN before I read it - apparently you can't do double-reviews, which is annoying but understandable.

ANYWAY. IT WAS BRILLIANT.

[ronsard]

It certainly doesn't hurt to hear it now, thank you :D I had to have the review alert on my FFN account disabled anyway.

[metafictionally]

xD!! Is it because you get too many?

[ronsard]

...it's because I can't bear to hear people ask about that AkuRoku AU that I need to update.

[think_through]

So much yes on the slumdog millionaire/M.I.A. That movie was kickass awesome, worth the $8.

[ronsard]

Oh wow. Where in the continental United States can you still see movies for $8 a pop? I've been shilling a cold 11 for awhile now ;(

[think_through]

ahahaha. um, oregon, apparently. xD And I thought our prices were expensive.