Video: "Red Dust", Narnia

[tehlime]

Baby's first video~! I'm really excited and really nervous, so please drop me a comment, even if it's just to say you watch it. (This video was done and ready a few weeks ago, but then life happened, and uploading this video didn't.) Thanks to my two betas, such_heights and theanonsisters, for all their help, and for putting up with my very detailed questions about their

Comments

[atlantisgrrrl]

Holy shit, that's beautiful! And I'd love to give the beta thing a shot, if you don't mind me getting my opinionatedness all over your vid, that is :)

[tehlime]

Thank you! ♥

That'd be awesome! I think I can put up with your opinionatedness, if you don't mind me asking lots and lots of detailed questions. ;)

[atlantisgrrrl]

It's a deal! Details are *everything* when you fiddle with a vid. I mean, abstract concepts are all well and good, but you can't put abstract ideas on the timeline, can you now.

We can do this per lj message thingie or per email (atlantisgrrrl [at] yahoo [dot] com). Just send it (and any questions you have to start with in particular) over when you're ready :)

[tehlime]

Exactly! Man, I wish you could put abstract concepts on a timeline. I would be all, "Ping! Done and done". It would be so awesome. ;P

I've already finished my first draft (!!!). Of course I already know there are some things I want to tweak. But I'll send it over and you can take a look at it. :)

[tehlime]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

[banbury]

Oh, that was just beautiful. Very good, even pace.
You put a lot of thought and effort in your vid and you're lucky to have betas (when I worked on my first vid I was alone and made all the beginners' mistakes :-\ )

[tehlime]

Thank you so much, I love hearing why it worked for a viewer. :) And I'm glad all the energy I put into it came across.

Yeah, I'm so glad I put out a beta request right after finishing my first draft. I think it made my video much stronger.

[winterevanesce]

Lovely!
This is really excellent, especially for a first vid.
Keep up the great work!

[tehlime]

Thank you so much!

[opportunemoment]

That was very cool - I really loved the moment where Peter looks up from the Narnia battle and you cut back to the planes. My instinct is that a bit more intercutting between Narnia and the Blitz might have been cool, but totally take that with a pinch of salt as I'm very new at this too. :)

[tehlime]

Ha, thanks! I liked that transition too. :)

Yeah, I see what you're saying. I think the problem is how short the song is. I put the planes where they were because the song returned to the instrumental theme that is used in the beginning, and I wanted to tie the beginning and the end of the video together musically, as well as visually. But the song ends pretty quickly after that, so there wasn't much intercutting. Thanks so much for your input, I really love talking about little details like this! :)