on the menu today

Aghhhhh such frustration such aggravation this project has amounted to in recent days...

Did some extensive work on the flying stuff and it actually came out pretty good. Was struggling with the music for it then just spontaneously thought, ok, why not use flash aaaah from queen, then my brain hit the target and figured out it'd go perfect with the highlander princes of the universe score.

I prettymuch listen to film scores and various musical pieces every day to hopefully find the stuff I need as I edit....

Like if you're going to do stuff that has an epic scope to it, music that fits that visual is always operatic and grandiose, choir music or classical, or in my case a rock with sorta a high pitched acapella which is what queen does so well. But Rock goes very well with static since he's so punkish and surfer dudish, he blends well with that style of music.

I don't mince on music with this stuff. It probably accounts for half if not 80% of the success of the scene working.

As I edit, I try not to be desperate for the scene to work... it can happen where you make the scene essentially into a slide show to music, not a movie scene... So I try to avoid that and keep a narrative, keep a logical story flow, but I've been editing music videos for so long, it's kinda my style, so it's unavoidable.

But I love to just strip the music away and let the scene just exist at times. It bluntly thrusts you into the scene and makes it feel real...

Came out good, gonna try making progress on the shannon scene, then we get to work on the batman joker stuff, which is going to be hell on earth to fix up...

But I can say from this vantage point, this project will be worthy of recognition. Didn't hope for that, but yeah it'll be nifty and be a good little flick to watch....