I know there was a lot of discussion, and outlining, and then... we ignored things, for a while. As we tend to do. "February? Pfah! We have boatloads of time!... Wait... It's JULY? WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?" After that, we did that thing where we sat down with tapes and dvds and hunted for clips and got distracted and watched episodes, and are we allowed to count ep watching time? No?
Our vidding is so prolonged, and erratic, I'm not sure how to quantify this.
I went and checked out the metavid directory. The very first file in it, even before the song itself, is Pressure (The vid) dated May 24th, 2005. Then, on the 28th, there is a flurry of capturing that starts up, and goes strong on the 30th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th -- this must have been a major "capture clips" weekend for us, from the looks of those two days. A little on the 6th. Some more on the 10th of June, and then? a few clips each on the 12th, 13th, 14th (huge number of Clockwork Orange here), 15th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, 26 (We hit the A-Team bigtime here)-- actually, the 26th seems to have been a big work date again. Then we leap forward to the 1st of July (can you tell a lot of the work is centering itself on weekends, when we can be here at the same time?) and 2nd. And so on, with work centered on weekends.
That's the clips capturing, which obviously, happened in conjunction with laying down the vid itself, and changed a lot as we went. The very first project file is dated June 2nd, and was metavid2. By July 2nd, we have Metavid25. The final version of the Metavid was version 76. Um. Don't ask us the date on that one...
There was also a bout of us sitting down with Sam's "Learn Premiere Pro in 24 Hours" (It's a LIE. YOU CAN'T LEARN PREMIERE PRO IN 24 FUCKIN' HOURS) in order to... learn Premiere Pro. I suspect we're not allowed to count that either, but Sam's was invaluable for some of the things we did in this vid. This started before we started the Metavid, but we had to learn a couple more chapters in the middle of it.
Keep in mind, somewhere along the line we walked away from this vid for a good chunk of time, and worked on Jerusalem instead. Part of the problem with this vid, unlike any other, was that we needed so much source, and we didn't know what that source *was*. Jerusalem was confined to season 1 disks we had in our possession. Walking involved raiding everyone's collections and demanding to know what they owned and then, occasionally, trolling dvd lists of old scifi shows to see if inspiration would strike.
So. Friday nights and weekends for 2 1/2 months, I'd say, but full of interruptions along the way for other things. Intermittent clips on dates not weekends were Margie running over, throwing disks at me, shouting "Capture this, and see if you can fit it in somewhere!" on her way home from work, or things like me photoshopping the headlines.
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Date: 2005-10-14 07:38 pm (UTC)I know there was a lot of discussion, and outlining, and then... we ignored things, for a while. As we tend to do. "February? Pfah! We have boatloads of time!... Wait... It's JULY? WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?" After that, we did that thing where we sat down with tapes and dvds and hunted for clips and got distracted and watched episodes, and are we allowed to count ep watching time? No?
Our vidding is so prolonged, and erratic, I'm not sure how to quantify this.
I went and checked out the metavid directory. The very first file in it, even before the song itself, is Pressure (The vid) dated May 24th, 2005. Then, on the 28th, there is a flurry of capturing that starts up, and goes strong on the 30th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th -- this must have been a major "capture clips" weekend for us, from the looks of those two days. A little on the 6th. Some more on the 10th of June, and then? a few clips each on the 12th, 13th, 14th (huge number of Clockwork Orange here), 15th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, 26 (We hit the A-Team bigtime here)-- actually, the 26th seems to have been a big work date again. Then we leap forward to the 1st of July (can you tell a lot of the work is centering itself on weekends, when we can be here at the same time?) and 2nd. And so on, with work centered on weekends.
That's the clips capturing, which obviously, happened in conjunction with laying down the vid itself, and changed a lot as we went. The very first project file is dated June 2nd, and was metavid2. By July 2nd, we have Metavid25. The final version of the Metavid was version 76. Um. Don't ask us the date on that one...
There was also a bout of us sitting down with Sam's "Learn Premiere Pro in 24 Hours" (It's a LIE. YOU CAN'T LEARN PREMIERE PRO IN 24 FUCKIN' HOURS) in order to... learn Premiere Pro. I suspect we're not allowed to count that either, but Sam's was invaluable for some of the things we did in this vid. This started before we started the Metavid, but we had to learn a couple more chapters in the middle of it.
Keep in mind, somewhere along the line we walked away from this vid for a good chunk of time, and worked on Jerusalem instead. Part of the problem with this vid, unlike any other, was that we needed so much source, and we didn't know what that source *was*. Jerusalem was confined to season 1 disks we had in our possession. Walking involved raiding everyone's collections and demanding to know what they owned and then, occasionally, trolling dvd lists of old scifi shows to see if inspiration would strike.
So. Friday nights and weekends for 2 1/2 months, I'd say, but full of interruptions along the way for other things. Intermittent clips on dates not weekends were Margie running over, throwing disks at me, shouting "Capture this, and see if you can fit it in somewhere!" on her way home from work, or things like me photoshopping the headlines.