Whew. Finally got another fanvid up, and boy was this one stubborn. Vids numbers one through three practically wrote themselves, but this one insisted on me trying out several different directions to take and even then was shy about telling me what footage to use. Eventually, we both came to an agreement and we’re pretty happy with the result. [Continued]
It was an innocent enough pop reference, one that’s been made in many circles for, oh, probably about 30 years or so. My friend didn’t realize the fanvid idea it would plant in my a-bit-off-kilter mind, though one appeared quickly, and I told her so. I sat on the idea for a little while — much longer than I’d thought, it seems, when I now check my archive of e-mails and see it’s been four months?? — until just a couple days ago. It’s a long film from which to pull footage, you see. And a rather short song. And while I didn’t even realize myself, a short song with very few lyrics from which to write a “script” for the video.
Ah. A challenge. [Continued]
1994: Video store employee Kevin Smith releases a credit card-funded, black & white film called Clerks.
2000: After the success of the film clerks and its follow-ups, Smith creates a cartoon series based on the two leads of the film, Dante and Randal. ABC picks up the series and airs…two episodes. Those and the four unaired episodes are later released in a collection called Clerks Uncensored.
2005: As my first attempt at making a fanvid, I decide that the Clerks cartoon should be paired with Talking Head’s “Once in a Lifetime.” Why? Because at one point in the show, bored as usual with his convience store job, Dante sighs, “Same as it ever was.” A vid was born. [Continued]
I added my first vid to the site. (Technically, it’s the second one I started, but the first one I finished. More on that later when I post the other vid.) Most, if not all, of the videos on this site will be in Flash Video format, so all you need is the latest version of Macromedia Flash installed. Who knows, maybe you don’t even need the latest.
As for the video: For a while now, Porcupine Tree’s “Collapse the Light into Earth” has sounded, to me, like it would sound good over the credits for Donnie Darko. Not that there’s anything wrong with the current credits theme, but nonetheless the song somehow fit the mood of the film. I especially liked the idea of juxtaposing the chorus with the image of the jet engine falling through Donnie’s room. (My thinking was not meant in a morbid way, I assure you.) At any rate, I kept this in mind over a period of months, but couldn’t quite determine how to go about piecing together a vid. [Continued]