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jinkyoPerson Of Interest | Glitter & Gold
100th YouTube subscription celebration vid!
Song: Glitter & Gold by Barns Courtney
Warning: Guns, explosions, slight blood
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30228528
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VxBZYa1AAU0
I ended last year with 56 YouTube subscribers, a bit short of my goal of 100, but decent enough growth from my start of 37. The real impetus behind growing the YouTube is to build in an audience for my vids. Because I tend to vid one-off fandoms for exchanges, or POI and Pros content, the natural audience pool is small. I can deal with small, but I'd like to reach as many viewers as I can. Also, I'm enjoying all the YouTube algorithm tinkering bits, so the quest for 100 was a fun side project.
At some point in January I saw a sharp uptick in subscribers and views, all coming from a Gen John Reese vid that I'd cut for an exchange in 2018, "What a Shame" From the analytics, I could see that the vid had been linked from Facebook but after tons of searches, I was unable to find the source link.
Audio layering
This was technically easy, though messing because I had to keep track of 6 channels of audio attached to video. Later, I went through and cleared out the unused channels. The real fun was piecing it all together and "hearing" where the layered sounds could fit.
Through a happy accident, I created new 'music', aka "Root's theme". It was a stray sound in the mix that blended well with the real song and added an ominous (to my ear) little accent for her.
My favorite mix of music and sound is at 1:41, John smashing the baddie through the car window.
Overall, a fun little project and a good practice of working with sound effects in vids!
*sadface* Dude, that mystery link is driving so much traffic and I'd love to actually see the conversation that's happening around it!
Anyway, viewers came, left mostly positive comments, and more importantly, subscribed! By January, I was at 80+ subs and growing I felt pretty sure I'd hit 100 soon and since the POI vid was the cause, that pretty much determined the subject for the next vid.
The song was easy enough. I've been fascinated by the many takes on Glitter & Gold influenced by voordeel's original Hannibal vid: https://youtu.be/RspfMI-rZpw. The Marvel version is probably the best known, but as it turns out, lots of other vidders ran with the style for their own fandoms. I could not find a POI vid set to the song which meant, obviously, I had to make one.
The original song is just under 3 minutes long, so about a minute longer than I wanted to deal with. I cut one of the verses (Do you walk in the meadow of spring) and a few repetitions of the chorus to get a canvas that came in at 1:55.
Clipping and concept.
I had to clip all of this from scratch because I usually ditch the audio tracks for vidding. My Source for POI vids are the Blu Ray disks with 6 audio channels, ripped as mp4. I accidentally (rediscovered the wheel) learned how to grab voice, background music, or sound effects separately from those channels a few years back when I worked on "Wolf at the Door". Working with sound effects in the vid was exciting because it recalled some of the best parts of creating podfic. Win!
Except, I actually ditched this vid midway through clipping. My relationship with POI has become troubled in the last few years. I enjoy the ASI and surveillance themes immensely. I enjoy Harold Finch and Nathan Ingram a whole lot, John Reese is a beautiful face to vid....ugh, but then there's everything else that I hate. I hate how casual the show is with gunplay/guns as entertainment. I hate how unrelentingly undiverse the show was and how they doubled down on that in later seasons - from numbers all the way to background talent (people walking the streets, in office buildings, everywhere!).
Sorry for dragging you into my brain there, but yeah, that's what brought this vid to a halt for a week.
At some point in February, I was up to 97 subscribers so it was either give up on a celebration vid or try to make "Glitter & Gold" work for me. The solution was to limit myself to the first 3 1/5 seasons when "everyone is still alive" and there is a richer set of characters to work with. This gave me a period with Joss, Shaw, and Leon. Zoe was added to the roster because I wanted the taser scene from Lady Killer and I needed an 8th character to round out some of the sequences. Plus Zoe is hot and awesome.
So I have my cast, I'm re-invested in the vid, and it's time to start laying down more timeline. There's not much of a story here aside from "Look at these cool characters being badasses, listen to these cool sound effects"
Audio layering
This was technically easy, though messing because I had to keep track of 6 channels of audio attached to video. Later, I went through and cleared out the unused channels. The real fun was piecing it all together and "hearing" where the layered sounds could fit.
Through a happy accident, I created new 'music', aka "Root's theme". It was a stray sound in the mix that blended well with the real song and added an ominous (to my ear) little accent for her.
My favorite mix of music and sound is at 1:41, John smashing the baddie through the car window.
Overall, a fun little project and a good practice of working with sound effects in vids!
