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jinkyoThis year there were nearly 10 prompts that appealed to me, which was great because my fannish interests tend to be niche. Of them, Black Girl in a Big Dress, sounded amazing. It's a cute YouTube series about a Black girl who loves historical dress but lives in the present day - with all the travails of work, love, and saving the estate. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsfdAYPzeQ7kPLZ9-pz2I2Q
I watched the series and ripped it back in November. Next was the challenge of finding a song. I had no songs in mind, only the vague idea that a classical version of a pop song might be good. Only, I don't really know pop songs. I found some classical covers of Taylor Swift songs, who the recipient, sandalwoodbox, said they enjoyed in their sign-up letter. One song had some nice musical change ups and became a contender. After a week of auditioning music, I also had a hip-hop violin piece from Black Violin that sort of worked. I took both of these pieces of music into edit.
I used the DaVinci Resolve automated clipping tool for the first time on this project. Yes, it cut clipping time tremendously! My source clips were very short, less than 20, 3-5 minutes episodes (vs 50, 50 minute tv show episode, which is my usually clipping source). The biggest drawback is that the system made a hard cut at each perceived scene change. Shots/reaction shots were split into 2 or more clips and none of those clips could be stretched out. In the end, that wasn't a huge limitation. I edited with those short clips alone for the bulk of the vid. There were a few shots that I had to go back to the full episode and do a more traditional clip in order to get handles.
In December, Bridgerton began airing on Netflix - a show full of Black girls in big dresses. The show used the musical conceit of classical covers of pop songs. My idea had been vague at most and I wasn't in love with either of the songs I'd picked, and now I certainly don't want to copy Bridgerton, so it was back to auditioning music.
By this time on the visuals, I'd discovered that my heroine really only had 3 big dresses and I'd have to stretch that footage (Thank goodness for the ball!). I'd also decided her love life was too complicated to explain in 2 minutes. My focus, or story then, would be about her being kinda' fumbly as Adrienne in real life, much more realized when she's in her big dresses and how she carries some of Lady Kate's fire over into Adrienne life. With this in mind, I started googling for songs about fashion and hoping for the best.
So many not good fashion songs later, I came across "Vintage Clothes" by Paul McCartney. Normally, I would have dismissed this out of hand - I don't particularly care for McCartney or the Beatles, or Wings, or soft 70s sounding music but I was desperate, and January was right around the corner. Thank goodness for desperation! Musically, the song was hella' enticing for me. There is some nice piano and two amazing bass and drum transitions. The lyrics *mostly* worked, nothing a little editing couldn't fix. (I cut out the non-relevant lyrics, the boring music parts, and the longish bit between the exciting part and the end.
YAY!!
From there it was just a matter of syncing visuals and music and playing around with the shots until I had something that visually flowed. LOL! Like, I placed clips with actual shot to shot flow intent, which is not a big part of my normal process but I was very pleased with the result.
[Fanvid] Vintage Clothes
No Warnings Apply
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28787661
I watched the series and ripped it back in November. Next was the challenge of finding a song. I had no songs in mind, only the vague idea that a classical version of a pop song might be good. Only, I don't really know pop songs. I found some classical covers of Taylor Swift songs, who the recipient, sandalwoodbox, said they enjoyed in their sign-up letter. One song had some nice musical change ups and became a contender. After a week of auditioning music, I also had a hip-hop violin piece from Black Violin that sort of worked. I took both of these pieces of music into edit.
I used the DaVinci Resolve automated clipping tool for the first time on this project. Yes, it cut clipping time tremendously! My source clips were very short, less than 20, 3-5 minutes episodes (vs 50, 50 minute tv show episode, which is my usually clipping source). The biggest drawback is that the system made a hard cut at each perceived scene change. Shots/reaction shots were split into 2 or more clips and none of those clips could be stretched out. In the end, that wasn't a huge limitation. I edited with those short clips alone for the bulk of the vid. There were a few shots that I had to go back to the full episode and do a more traditional clip in order to get handles.
In December, Bridgerton began airing on Netflix - a show full of Black girls in big dresses. The show used the musical conceit of classical covers of pop songs. My idea had been vague at most and I wasn't in love with either of the songs I'd picked, and now I certainly don't want to copy Bridgerton, so it was back to auditioning music.
By this time on the visuals, I'd discovered that my heroine really only had 3 big dresses and I'd have to stretch that footage (Thank goodness for the ball!). I'd also decided her love life was too complicated to explain in 2 minutes. My focus, or story then, would be about her being kinda' fumbly as Adrienne in real life, much more realized when she's in her big dresses and how she carries some of Lady Kate's fire over into Adrienne life. With this in mind, I started googling for songs about fashion and hoping for the best.
So many not good fashion songs later, I came across "Vintage Clothes" by Paul McCartney. Normally, I would have dismissed this out of hand - I don't particularly care for McCartney or the Beatles, or Wings, or soft 70s sounding music but I was desperate, and January was right around the corner. Thank goodness for desperation! Musically, the song was hella' enticing for me. There is some nice piano and two amazing bass and drum transitions. The lyrics *mostly* worked, nothing a little editing couldn't fix. (I cut out the non-relevant lyrics, the boring music parts, and the longish bit between the exciting part and the end.
YAY!!
From there it was just a matter of syncing visuals and music and playing around with the shots until I had something that visually flowed. LOL! Like, I placed clips with actual shot to shot flow intent, which is not a big part of my normal process but I was very pleased with the result.
[Fanvid] Vintage Clothes
No Warnings Apply
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28787661
