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My #1 takeaway from the opening of "No Skin" is that it's a bad idea to make your credits 12 seconds long. Especially when the vid is only 1:44.
My goal for the opening was: Spooky feel, feel of danger, Rebecca as victim, Rebecca as voyeur, voyeurism, being seen, being the seer. The voyeurism of the abductor as danger; the inner eye of Rebecca reconstructing the crime.
This became the opening of the vid fairly late in the process. Originally, I was going to open with tinted and decaying clips of Rebecca, Web, and Paul (Is his name Paul? I can't even remember anymore). I wanted to figure out how to incorporate effects to emphasize meaning. Sadly, elynross pointed out that that set up a vid as equally about Rebecca, Web, and Paul, and it's not. I needed an intro that focused on Rebecca.
(At least I got to do lots of effects work for the credits, splicing Rebecca in and making the footage look like TV footage.) Those clips were over silence; the audio came later, and at first I was planning to put the text credits over the profiling billboard, with Rebecca's face replacing the face of the profiler before her. But it made her seem too much of a victim. She probably looks like too much of a victim still, but at least with contextual knowledge you know that's not the whole truth: She identifies with the victim, she's seeing what the victim sees, she's reconstructing the crime.
The audio for that bit could come late because I did massive reconstruction work on the song -- not just cutting stuff, but rearranging things so much that the structure of the song is completely different from the original. I wince a the one part where the volume's messed up, but I do still feel proud of the rest of it.
No Skin (The Inside)
My #1 takeaway from the opening of "No Skin" is that it's a bad idea to make your credits 12 seconds long. Especially when the vid is only 1:44.
My goal for the opening was: Spooky feel, feel of danger, Rebecca as victim, Rebecca as voyeur, voyeurism, being seen, being the seer. The voyeurism of the abductor as danger; the inner eye of Rebecca reconstructing the crime.
This became the opening of the vid fairly late in the process. Originally, I was going to open with tinted and decaying clips of Rebecca, Web, and Paul (Is his name Paul? I can't even remember anymore). I wanted to figure out how to incorporate effects to emphasize meaning. Sadly,
(At least I got to do lots of effects work for the credits, splicing Rebecca in and making the footage look like TV footage.)
Those clips were over silence; the audio came later, and at first I was planning to put the text credits over the profiling billboard, with Rebecca's face replacing the face of the profiler before her. But it made her seem too much of a victim. She probably looks like too much of a victim still, but at least with contextual knowledge you know that's not the whole truth: She identifies with the victim, she's seeing what the victim sees, she's reconstructing the crime.
The audio for that bit could come late because I did massive reconstruction work on the song -- not just cutting stuff, but rearranging things so much that the structure of the song is completely different from the original. I wince a the one part where the volume's messed up, but I do still feel proud of the rest of it.