[A.Zander] "[Joe_Mo] "or would that actually be a fortunate side effect to weeding out those with litte money, time/patients and/or experience. "
...this is my point exactly, why would they really want to do this?"
[Neil Slade] "..you know, if you are Tori crazy, this might just be your thing-- just have fun..."
Do you guys not remember that Beastie Boys concert DVD from 2006? They passed out 50 video cameras more or less randomly to kids in the audience, and told them to shoot anything they wanted. The name of the video was "AWESOME: I Shot That!"
Guess what it looked like. Amateurs shooting more or less randomly, just like it was supposed to.
So here are the vectors:
**"Shaky and amateur" are two of the Beastie Boys' favorite words. That's what they were looking for. (Nausea might have been on the list too.)
**Two of Bjork's favorite words are "surprise" and "diverse." She wanted work that came at her from a direction she wouldn't have thought of herself.
**Tori's favorite word right now? I don't know, but it could be "makeover." Look at her! Those pictures don't look anything like her! She wants a video that doesn't look anything like her.
Another favorite word has *always* been "fan." I think she's among the handful of artists who most understands the personal connection her fans have to her, and this time, wants to cultivate it in a new, far less serious direction -- just like her makeover: new, far less serious. Maybe draw in some fans who are new and far less serious too.
Which is why this thread is so exasperating. You're treating it like a biiiiiig problem that must be approached by a furrowed throbbing brow, trying to understand The Furtive And Inscrutable Agenda behind it.
On the literal level, you clearly skipped the part where the first challenge posed is multicam editing. If you see this footage as a keying project,
you flunk the first test.
If you think you're supposed to use this footage all the way through, in exactly the way it's handed to you,
you flunk the second test.
I'm willing to bet that there hasn't been a literal, start to finish concert video that never wanders outside the arena since Def Leppard. Why try to improve the already perfect? :-)
So help a sister out. Do something that looks truly amateurish. Do something that looks nothing like a Tori Amos video. Do something Sony would never, ever have paid money for. And like Neil says, have some fun. Untwist your panties.
(Neil, LOVE your movie.)
Anyway, my skills STINK. In case you were wondering, THAT's what you smell right now. So do as I sweetly, gently suggest, and not as I stupidly, clumsily do.
In any case, here's one stupid, amateurish attempt that uses paint, motion tracking, a teensy bit of roto and apply modes. If anything, I should have added more filters. Maybe some film damage to start.
I love you too much to inflict the whole thing on you, so here's Bloopie's frame treated in a way that's especially un-Tori-like, unprofessional, and that Sony would never pay money for, ever. And I had fun whipping through it right quick.
Abuse me. I like it.
Love,
Tim
