Work Text:
Password: bite
Download: MP4 (75.79 MB), MP4 HD (562.66 MB), WMV (106.48 MB), WMV HD (125.61 MB), Subtitle file (SRT)
Streaming: Vimeo (Password = bite)
This was my main assignment this year. I enjoyed the show a lot, and had a lot of fun vidding it. It has one of the best villains in any show (ironically not a focus in the vid). Going full vampire in the vid is what I really wanted, so it was just a matter of finding the right song. I had a shortlist of three, but picked this one in the end because it was so much fun.
There are only two interesting technical things about the vid I want to discuss. My wonderful beta, Jamez pointed out that the first half was cut more metronomically than the second half, and that the colours didn't match very well.
I decided he was right about both. I didn't want to make the second half quite as rigidly cut-cut-cut as the first, because the music shifts, and I wanted to echo that, but I did make sure there were regular beats throughout, even if they weren't achieved with cuts. I really liked how it turned out. Kind of relentless, and then chaotic - just like the vampire.
The colour was interesting. The show has a very non-genre look at the start - part of the pleasure is in the slow build. But it meant I didn't quite know how to fix the colours. How do you colour match a source that's so different in canon? I mean, the obvious way is to strip everything back to a sort of neutral and go from there, but what a lot of work for not a lot of reward! In short, I went and did a bit more research on colour work and used LUTs for the first time. LUTs (Look Up Tables) apply a consistent pre-set look to clips. It's really designed for raw footage rather than clips which have already been processed, but after a bit of trial and error I found they worked well. I'll definitely use them again in future projects.
All in all, a lot of fun to make, and I'm quite pleased with it.