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My first music video on Second Life

Ruben Charleville
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Join date: 28 Nov 2007
Posts: 3
08-28-2008 05:52
Hi All!

This being my first, there are a couple of things I've learnt since then, but I've still got a lot to learn! I hope you enjoy it, and please get back to me with criticism and advice. Many thanks in advance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR9LlBYYY2o
AWM Mars
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Join date: 10 Apr 2004
Posts: 3,398
08-29-2008 05:44
Hi Ruben, good to see you have dipped your toes into making machinima :) .

The content of the movie fitted the song well, however I would say, try not to be too narratively visual to the song. To expand that... I felt like the scenes were being dictated to by the song, as opposed to being a compliment to it. You can create scenes that work alongside of the song, giving a greater depth of perspectives in media content.
The song says, 'spots of red' and you show them, it says 'broken glass' and you immediately show it, same with seasons, therefore the movie in a single layer.

Allow the viewer to listen to the song and discover those elelments in the movie as it flows through at a slower pace, which fits the tempo of the song.

May I suggest that you explore the following:
Put the scenes into a flowing, slow paced set of coherient scenes, with the music turned off while you edit. Use faded in shots, then use pan/zoom to move into the scenes. Create a start, middle and end. Once done, turn on the music again and watch it.
As a leader, show a scene of the broken glass with the rain, then later, go back to that scene using the snow, again for spring and summer, creating 4 unique scenes in equal spacing through the movie.
The viewer will be listening to the song as the movie plays, by the end scene they will have peiced together all the elements and be satisfied that they have received and understood the whole content, they don't need to feel that 20% of the way into the movie, otherwise they will become bored/distracted. Consider this concept in a book and that's only using one media, the reader would not want to know the end in the first chapter.

Overall, its an excellent start and I look forward to seeing more examples of your work on the forums and ingame. :)
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Ruben Charleville
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Join date: 28 Nov 2007
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Many thanks AWM!!!
08-29-2008 08:58
Hi AWM,

Many thanks for your advice! That's great advice, and I'm going to go through it bit by bit to make sure that I'm following it and work on redoing it in that new format. I'll put it on the forum again once I've completed it.

Many thanks for your welcome and your advice!