Working with a fifteen-minute video comprised of twelve to sixteen video tracks is a nightmare of prodigious proportion. Relax as I'm not going to tell you of my pain because my primary interest is in avoiding pain.
That means do a proof of concept. Yep, that's what that means.
As to visualization, there will be four (or more) parallel videos as in Silas 1, Silas 2, etc.
So Silas 1 moves toward the upper left, Silas 2 moves toward the upper right, and so on.
All videos will be partially transparent such that you can see all of them at the same time, at least partially.
Epiphany: using multiple cameras gains almost nothing for this as the perspective on each Silas has to be the same or overlaying them will only create chaos.
Advisory: keeping the smoke level the same in each video.
Difficulty: high
Therefore, create a foundation video for the full run of the song. That viddie will fill the entire screen as, in effect, wallpaper. With that in-place, additional performer videos can be composited over it such that lasers shoot through the performer(s). The key being that maybe I don't need so many. Bass players are as interesting to watch as wooden Indians outside cigar stores so that's one Silas I can probably chuck.
(Ed: is this being over-thought?)
Nope. This is pain avoidance. If you can see the video, you can shoot it. If you start without a solid visual, you may wind up investing so much time in it that you go on with defending something and pushing it forward even though really you know it's a goat. Best to waste the time up-front and save the argita.
This goes very much to discussion with Cat as to whether video has any value in music. It has massively high value in talking about performers as, in introducing me to some new musician(s), she will almost invariably send me a video link. However, that's not necessarily because of a specific interest in video but rather that's the library, YouTube is where to find the music for just about anyone ... and it comes with video. That she uses them for communication still doesn't answer her question as to whether the video has an inherent value for its own sake beyond simply being a flashy home for the music.
The theme of the song is plain: who dares wins. Ride that dragon.
(Ed: is this more of the 'find the essence' stuff?)
Right you are, Calhoun.
There is logical sense in showing a performer making a piece of music but this is only the HOW the piece was made, it shows nothing at all about the WHY or the WHAT. WHY does he make this particular piece of music. WHAT am I supposed to get about dragons when the performer obviously doesn't have one.
(Ed: if you start wearing a beret and calling yourself a director, we will have you murdered)
Fair enough. I should be murdered if I do that.
(Ed: you're not going to shoot it tonight, are you?)
Nope, I don't believe so. Read above about planning. More important to waste time now than to plunge ... and drown.
Holy whacking bejeebers!!!! (no, I don't know what that means either)
Roll this together with "The End of the World in Fort Worth" - That video needs a song. This song needs a foundation. So ... stick 'em together.
So the story is what ... hmmm. Yah, so if you're facing the end of the world, you damn sure better ride that dragon as otherwise yo' ass is goin' die.
But ... the music for "The End of the World in Fort Worth" is not in the same key.
(Ed: transpose it, Wimpman)
That might not be such a bad answer. It's not a long bit.
Or don't do that at all ... leave Gabriel with his mournful trumpet and his riff ... road scene that gets progressively more trippy ... the wizard on the porch beckoning ... dissolve to the studio and Silas going on about a Harley Davidson. There is no music in-between so it really doesn't matter if the intro is in the same key.
(Ed: stretching)
Not sure. Silas in the "Ride the Dragon" segment doesn't know the world is ending so there can't be any backwards reference to, hey, sorry everyone in Fort Worth just got vaporized. Gabriel with his trumpet doesn't know Silas is going to play. There has to be continuity or this is just playing video Lego blocks. We have the road scene of the driver seeing all the strange incidents in Fort Worth and then driving off into the dark, dark night. The beckoning wizard scene is easy.
(Ed: driver has to meet the wizard)
That's the link-up. Roger that. Driver tells the wizard, oh no, everyone in Fort Worth is being vaporized by aliens.
So. That means one more scene as the wizard has to tell Silas. Hey there, old man. You might not want to make this song too long as the world is ending. Reflective silence. Then on into you don't want to get old and wish you had got that Harley, blah, blah.
I tell you the Mystery Lady would go flippin' berserk with this stuff. She is madly visual and I have no doubt ideas would be flying as fast as gnats on a hot summer night.
I wish Cat were here anyway but the jackpot is she has exceptional photographic skills, particularly in terms of composition. She doesn't do traditional photography but composing a scene in virtual is no different from real. Her visualization is radical and we do love radical.
If Yevette were here then we have the Trifecta as she is hugely interested in video as well.
(Ed: a video harem?)
Amazingly enough, most of life has nothing to do with sex ... but it is a teenager's dream, isn't it.
That means do a proof of concept. Yep, that's what that means.
As to visualization, there will be four (or more) parallel videos as in Silas 1, Silas 2, etc.
So Silas 1 moves toward the upper left, Silas 2 moves toward the upper right, and so on.
All videos will be partially transparent such that you can see all of them at the same time, at least partially.
Epiphany: using multiple cameras gains almost nothing for this as the perspective on each Silas has to be the same or overlaying them will only create chaos.
Advisory: keeping the smoke level the same in each video.
Difficulty: high
Therefore, create a foundation video for the full run of the song. That viddie will fill the entire screen as, in effect, wallpaper. With that in-place, additional performer videos can be composited over it such that lasers shoot through the performer(s). The key being that maybe I don't need so many. Bass players are as interesting to watch as wooden Indians outside cigar stores so that's one Silas I can probably chuck.
(Ed: is this being over-thought?)
Nope. This is pain avoidance. If you can see the video, you can shoot it. If you start without a solid visual, you may wind up investing so much time in it that you go on with defending something and pushing it forward even though really you know it's a goat. Best to waste the time up-front and save the argita.
This goes very much to discussion with Cat as to whether video has any value in music. It has massively high value in talking about performers as, in introducing me to some new musician(s), she will almost invariably send me a video link. However, that's not necessarily because of a specific interest in video but rather that's the library, YouTube is where to find the music for just about anyone ... and it comes with video. That she uses them for communication still doesn't answer her question as to whether the video has an inherent value for its own sake beyond simply being a flashy home for the music.
The theme of the song is plain: who dares wins. Ride that dragon.
(Ed: is this more of the 'find the essence' stuff?)
Right you are, Calhoun.
There is logical sense in showing a performer making a piece of music but this is only the HOW the piece was made, it shows nothing at all about the WHY or the WHAT. WHY does he make this particular piece of music. WHAT am I supposed to get about dragons when the performer obviously doesn't have one.
(Ed: if you start wearing a beret and calling yourself a director, we will have you murdered)
Fair enough. I should be murdered if I do that.
(Ed: you're not going to shoot it tonight, are you?)
Nope, I don't believe so. Read above about planning. More important to waste time now than to plunge ... and drown.
Holy whacking bejeebers!!!! (no, I don't know what that means either)
Roll this together with "The End of the World in Fort Worth" - That video needs a song. This song needs a foundation. So ... stick 'em together.
So the story is what ... hmmm. Yah, so if you're facing the end of the world, you damn sure better ride that dragon as otherwise yo' ass is goin' die.
But ... the music for "The End of the World in Fort Worth" is not in the same key.
(Ed: transpose it, Wimpman)
That might not be such a bad answer. It's not a long bit.
Or don't do that at all ... leave Gabriel with his mournful trumpet and his riff ... road scene that gets progressively more trippy ... the wizard on the porch beckoning ... dissolve to the studio and Silas going on about a Harley Davidson. There is no music in-between so it really doesn't matter if the intro is in the same key.
(Ed: stretching)
Not sure. Silas in the "Ride the Dragon" segment doesn't know the world is ending so there can't be any backwards reference to, hey, sorry everyone in Fort Worth just got vaporized. Gabriel with his trumpet doesn't know Silas is going to play. There has to be continuity or this is just playing video Lego blocks. We have the road scene of the driver seeing all the strange incidents in Fort Worth and then driving off into the dark, dark night. The beckoning wizard scene is easy.
(Ed: driver has to meet the wizard)
That's the link-up. Roger that. Driver tells the wizard, oh no, everyone in Fort Worth is being vaporized by aliens.
So. That means one more scene as the wizard has to tell Silas. Hey there, old man. You might not want to make this song too long as the world is ending. Reflective silence. Then on into you don't want to get old and wish you had got that Harley, blah, blah.
I tell you the Mystery Lady would go flippin' berserk with this stuff. She is madly visual and I have no doubt ideas would be flying as fast as gnats on a hot summer night.
I wish Cat were here anyway but the jackpot is she has exceptional photographic skills, particularly in terms of composition. She doesn't do traditional photography but composing a scene in virtual is no different from real. Her visualization is radical and we do love radical.
If Yevette were here then we have the Trifecta as she is hugely interested in video as well.
(Ed: a video harem?)
Amazingly enough, most of life has nothing to do with sex ... but it is a teenager's dream, isn't it.
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