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posted by [personal profile] astarte at 12:20pm on 20/01/2008 under
Why do I always end up watching XF instead of vidding? I watched half of the sixth and eight season and these aren't even my favourites, just because I forgot what the scene in the preview was about and then couldn't stop. I suck sometimes at focus or answering emails. I get back to you today[livejournal.com profile] artphilia, but not with good news. Never saw DC, never cared to. Sorry, we will tackle your vidding issues then, this week should be less stressful.

Snagged from [livejournal.com profile] winterevanesce:

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...
7. When you're finished tag some other people to do it!

Opening Credits: Blue October - 18th Floor Balcony ‘I close my eyes and I smile knowing that everything is alright to the core.’ Or the hidden track behind it with ‘I want to feel a punch inside my heartbeat on the floor.’ The first could be a XF vid – besides being cool opening credits for my life.

Waking Up: Matthew Good Band – Raygun ‘Shoot me with your raygun - full of holes so the daylight can get to what's dark.’ One of many songs I love to write with, so yeah waking up creativity with it or start a day is cool.

First Day at School: A Perfect Circle – Passive ‘I'm sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy’ or even better ‘Passive-aggressive bullshit.’ Nah, I had a good time in school after my mom convinced me that I must go even when I knew everything.

Falling In Love: David Gray – Babylon ‘Situations running through my head looking back through time.’ It’s been a while since the first rush or… ‘The love that I was giving you was never in doubt.’

Fight Song: Rob Thomas – This is how a heart breaks ‘Well this is it now. Everybody get down - This is all I can take’ Not exactly a fight song, but I normally give a fair warning before I explode, but if that happens then things like that can come easily out of my mouth: ‘You're not the best thing that I knew - Never was.’

Breaking Up: Blue October – Everlasting Friend ‘Delay the hurtful words of complicated overcast. Please take the message that I'm picking up my chin at last.’ The song reflects the one break-up which wasn’t initiated by me pretty good, well the break didn’t last that long, I’m obviously addictive, when I wanted to be.

Prom: Jann Arden – Insensitive ‘Oh, you probably won’t remember me - It’s probably ancient history.’ We don’t exactly have prom here in Germany, so this has to cover it…

Driving: Matthew Good Band – Sort of a protest song ‘Tonight I'm going to go out and have me some fun. I'm tired of walking around here with my hand on my gun.’ Sufficient enough.

Getting Back Together: Matthew Good Band – It’s been a while since I was your man ‘And folks they used to smile. And now they just think that they should - They just think that they should.’ Strangely fitting.

Flashback: 30 Seconds to Mars – Battle of One ‘Try and crush me - Take me, teach me.’ More aggressive than my usual mental state, but it works as flashback.

Mental Breakdown: Selig – Meinetwegen ‘So sitzt sie da und kaut an meinem Nerv herum, Worte stolpern fleißig über jeden wunden Punkt. Ich kann meinen Namen nicht mehr hören, will nur noch schlafen.’ Perfect, I can’t imagine any kind of breakdown which isn’t brought on by a mayor annoyance from somebody else, in exactly that fashion and in German.

Wedding: Death Cab for Cutie – Soul meets body ‘And I do believe it's true that there are roads left in both of our shoes, but if the silence takes you then I hope it takes me too. So brown eyes I hold you near, 'cause you're the only song I want to hear. A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere where soul meets body.’ Yupp. That one.

Birth of a Child: The Spill Canvas – All over you ‘Yeah, he's a looker, but i really think it's guts that matter most.’ Should I take this as sign my first child will be a boy?

Final Battle: Zero 7 – Spinning ‘As the world came tumbling down you prayed to God what have we done. Free me from these chains I need to change my way.’ Beautiful song and so suiting for this topic on the soundtrack, I see my people fall dramatically in slow motion to this track.

Death Scene: AC/DC – Back in Black Obviously this means that I won’t have just one death scene and instead ‘I got nine lives - Cat eyes - Abusin' every one of them and running wild.’ I love that…

Funeral Song: Apocalyptica – Beginning (Instrumental) Must be a very fashionable funeral with a view shared tears over flashbacks from my previous kick-ass action sequences in my nine lives. Heh!

Credits: Anna Nalick – Wreck of the day ‘Driving away from the wreck of the day and the light's always red in the rear-view. Desperately close to a coffin of hope, I'd cheat destiny just to be near you.’ And the credits are rolling, because I just didn't use up my nine lives in that movie and there is a sequence planned because of the sucess in the box office.
Mood:: 'melancholy' melancholy
Music:: Blue October feat Imogen Heap - Congratulations
There are 7 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] xandra-ptv.livejournal.com at 11:43am on 20/01/2008
and where were you tonight?

granted i'm on a do or die, script deadline for monday but i needed a distraction besides getting pissed off playing zelda.
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 09:25am on 22/01/2008
Well that night I was busy watching S8 with a guilty conscience - knowing with my mental powers that I should avoid getting in the way of your creative progress.

Or I might die again.
 
posted by [identity profile] xandra-ptv.livejournal.com at 09:27am on 22/01/2008
but i'm done now with the first draft. currently i have out sourced it to my aunt to proofread it. haha i made my self-deadline and i didn't even have to pull in all nighter.

And just like my vidding, i never want to look at it again. But damn with writing there are always more revisions.
 
posted by [identity profile] xandra-ptv.livejournal.com at 09:29am on 22/01/2008
and season 8 is okay, as long as you skip stuff or spend those "meh" moments mentally rewriting it.

And i wouldn't kill you. Just ask you vague questions that make you think, my god she's insane.
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 01:47pm on 22/01/2008
Like always, who would have thought that you will bring me at my avisynth-knowlege limits with one simple question?

And yeah, the strange thing about Season 8 is that Scully still is awesome, she just has her baby first and centre on her mind, so her not doing the stunts and action sequences feels like a big old cheat for me. And I agree about Reyes – she should have been brought in, instead of Doggett or a downgraded Skinner. He didn’t have any authority left anyway at the end of S7. Doggett as Reyes loyal partner and then shake up some gender roles. Plus Krycek as a more regular guest.

God, I still want that season with Scully and Krycek working together to find Mulder and Marita being awesome and ambigious and just the whole cast hot and not pregnant and kicking as s- fighting the future like there is no tomorrow. I never got over Skinner killing Rat!Boy even when I have rewritten that scene instantly.
 
posted by [identity profile] artphilia.livejournal.com at 04:31pm on 20/01/2008
Don't worry about the vid, darling. It was just a question. Never mind.^^
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 01:39pm on 22/01/2008
Well, I'm serious about the vidding lessons, if you are interested.

It's not so hard, especially since you already have experience with Premiere and trailers especially of a show not overvidded give you the opportunity to use the most memorable scenes and trailers aren't that long 1:30 is a good range to get serious into editing. And learn to cut and don't cling to long onto scenes.

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