I don't know if it's because I'm busy doing mostly non-computer stuff on the weekends, but it's been hardest to drag myself to the computer these last two days than the whole rest of the project so far.

Today's vidlet was suggested by catatonic1242, who asked for an Angel character vid set to Tori Amos' "Agent Orange." Cat - I know that's what you asked for but I don't know what happened, it became a sort of bitter Fred/Angel vid. You'll see. I hope it's ok.

Agent Orange (5.4 MB)

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Lyrics
Mister suntan
mister happy man
mister I know the girls
on all the world tours
mister agent
he's my favorite
and they don't understand
he's got palm oil fans

yes he's down and there
and everywhere
he's getting an a to z
an underwater city
where she swims and swims



My Thoughts
This vid started out as an unseen "I' narrator. And then I needed to rip source and I thought it would be a Cordy narration. But then I tried to pinpoint who the "she" would be and thought it should be a Fred narration about Angel and Cordy. And then when I tried to rip a key scene from "Offspring," my source kept coming out completely ruined so I had to drop that. And I figured I'd make it a general Fred POV of Angel in season 3, including scenes of Connor and the others. And then I realized Angel kind of leads Fred on and boy I wonder if she's bitter and, well, here we are. So the "she" became innocent Fred and the narration is "dumped" Fred. In case you're wondering, the original end clip was supposed to be Cordy ascending in 'Tomorrow.'

I actually like how this turned out, especially the "they don't understand" part with the quick transitions and the end where it brightens up to white.



What I Learned
A lot of playing around with transitions this time. It opens with a cross-zoom from black, then uses a spinback 3d transition. The four quick shots of the women use Swing transitions with the Angle of Axis either 0 or 180 degrees. I use an Additive Dissolve at 1:18 which I absolutely love. That's an effect I'm definitely going to be putting to use again. There's a random edge wipe at 1:33 and, finally, the last clip I applied a keyframed brightness filter to get that fade to white.


We put our Christmas lights up today along our deck and I can't stop looking outside at all the twinkly colored lights. It looks really pretty and festive. There's also a Tigger Santa hat adorning my work laptop screen and it's making me laugh. Only two more episodes of Keen Eddie left, and no more "new" episodes for me (tonight was the last one I hadn't seen - "Sticky Fingers").