You may ask yourself, "What does SDW do when she wakes up at 2:30 in the morning with cramps and can't go back to sleep?" Well I'll tell you what she does - she does her IDVP vid for the day.

Today's vidlet was suggested by scarlettgirl. She asked for a Season 4 vid (especially Wesley) set to Kid Rock's, "I'm A Dog."

I'm A Dog (6.4 MB)

Please note that there is naughty language in this song, so watch/listen at your own risk. :P


Lyrics
Freedom or death, nothing left to do but fill it up
Triple x eyes and lust
You need to give it up
Live it up sucker
cause their saying my days are numbered
Who wants to live long anyway?

It's a goddamn shame
people that look at me
but I know in the end you give a fuck about me
that's the reason I spit fire
that's the reason I'ma set your ass on fire
I should've never left the bottom
and if they want the truth then tell them bitches I shot 'em

I'm a dog baby
See me riding 'cross the country
I'm a dog, bitch
big suitcase full of money
I'm a dog, woman
And I'm roll in an El Camino
I'm a d-dog



My Thoughts
If you know this song, then you know that I juggled verses like a vidder with a God complex. But there were just some lines too good to pass up and they were in vastly different areas and I wanted to bring them together. And lo! I saw that it was good. There's a little audio jump at the end when it cuts to "I'm a dog" that bothers me and would be fixed if it was any day not today. Heh.

I can't decide what I think about the vid. I like it just fine on the one hand, but I feel like it's missing something on the other. I messed around with text within the vid today because that's something that I've never done and there are moments I like it and other moments I think it fails, especially the "sucker" and "freedom or death" sections. I was trying to teach myself Motion this morning and spent a good hour and a half trying to figure that out and how I could work with it and my vid and then finally realized that was a battle for another time. But at least I forced myself to open it up and randomly click stuff, which is always the first step.

My final thought: Season 4 Wesley is hot.



What I Learned
Not too much this time, honestly. I used the Bars and Tone generator for that bit at the very end. I played around with keyframing the scale of an overlaid clip for the text, and for the lust clip I used a drop shadow set to 100 opacity, 100 softness, and colored yellow instead of black. I also messed around in Motion but the fruits of that knowledge was not borne by this vid.


Now it's time to go to work. Oh boy! *cough* Also on the agenda for today: decorating our tree, taking pictures, getting the light timer to work on the outside lights, cleaning out the garage so I can pull my car in, preparing for our vacation, and ripping source for the last IDVP vid tomorrow.