If you'd told me a year ago that I'd spend every spare moment of three days working on a guerilla marketing video for a French recording artist nominated for an MTV Latin America video award, I would have looked at you like you had lobsters crawling out of your ears.
And yet, here we are. It's funny how life works, huh?
I literally just uploaded it to YouTube, so I don't think it's propagated through to the 'Most Recent Videos' listing, or shown up yet as a video response to that tactical nuke video I keep linking...so please consider this a sneak preview of the promotional video I made for Alizée with my own widdle hands:
A couple notes on the making-of...the director's commentary, if you will:
- This is my first ever YouTube video, and only the third I've edited with Windows Movie Maker. It turned out alright, all things considered. It's not perfect, and it took me about three times longer than it should have, but I learned a lot while putting it together. The next one will be better.
- Though it's a far cry better than the dual VCRs and jog-shuttle editing board I used in AV Club back in high school, Windows Movie Maker is a little skimpy on options, and is a bit of a bitch to work with besides. If anyone knows of a cheap-as-free alternative that's more robust, or at least a little more user-friendly (i.e. less prone to crashing repeatedly), I'd appreciate it if you dropped me a line.
- My original plan was to use J'en Ai Marre! as the backing music, but lip-syncing it with the clips plucked randomly from throughout the original video proved to be too cumbersome, and not lip-syncing it just looked weird.
- Plan B for the music was to use David Bowie's Heroes, a song I've always loved which I thought was oddly appropriate, especially given the ongoing superhero metaphor running through Op Drop. Unfortunately, there's about thirty gazillion versions of it out there, all of them different, and most of them over six minutes in length. I tried a few, but they also proved to be difficult to work with as far as syncing things up went. I finally just gave in and went with the Wallflowers' cover from the Godzilla soundtrack, instead. It's an inferior version, I know, but at least it's studio-quality and easy to sync to.
- I have plans to do a version of this for La Isla Bonita too (the next most-watched Alizée video on YouTube), and possibly versions for Ella, Elle L'a, Mademoiselle Juliette and Fifty Sixty as well. We'll see--there's not a whole lot of time left before the voting ends. If anyone has suggestions on how I could improve upon this first effort, I'd be more than happy to entertain them.
And, of course, don't forget to vote!
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It's worth more than a couple hundred, it's worth a couple thousand! Well, for me. Also, you've lost some of your anonymity sir...
ReplyDeleteHeh. It appears that way, but no--I emailed Ruroshen to thank him for posting my clip at AAm, and mentioned I was having trouble adding it as a video response to the JEAM video. He suggested it might be due to my YouTube account being so new, and offered to host a mirror on his to see if he could get it to work. He's managed to get it submitted--YouTube wouldn't even let me get that far--but so far, the original user hasn't responded.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame poor Ruro for what happens here at OpDrop. C'est pas son faute. =)
Oh, poo. Now the only victory I have to look forward to is Lili's. She better win... Or the time spent casting 2000+ votes will be all or naught.
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