New FFMV Made By Me(tm) by buckthorn

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New FFMV Made By Me(tm)

POSTED BY: BUCKTHORN
UPDATED: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:52
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Monday, December 15, 2003 4:57 AM

Hi!

In honor of the DVD release and the Atlanta Shindig, I made a Firefly Music Video... to the tune of "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" from the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack.

It's very shiny and I would appreciate feedback. ^_^

It's located at

http://www.geocities.com/buckthorn_42/ffmv.html

... and it's not actually hosted at Geocities so no bandwidth worries, I'm just using Geocities as a counter.

Hope you like it!!

~Brian

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Monday, December 15, 2003 6:53 AM

SARAHETC

That was really fun. Your literal interpretation of some of the lines was cute and your cuts were all very well timed. The post-credit coda made it really great.

Very shiny. I wanted Mal to turn to the camera and say, "We're in a tight spot!"

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

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Monday, December 15, 2003 8:29 AM

MANIACNUMBERONE

This really kicked A**! I love this song,
and I was impressed how you made just about every part of the song match something about Mal's life.

You got a great eye for vid making. Make another. Please.

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Monday, December 15, 2003 10:16 AM

BUCKTHORN

Thanks!!! *warm fuzzies*

I am planning on re-working a bit of it... I can think of three scenes I wanted to change. They were mostly last-minute additions when I realized that the scene I wanted to use was too short or I just didn't know what to use in a certain spot yet.

My biggest gripe with it is the slowed-down Serenity wake at the very end... it doesn't flow well with the rest of the video so I need to find a longer shot of the same thing. A couple of other nits, but I was happy with how it turned out seeing as how it really only took 4 hours to make (although much longer in terms of mental creativity with trying to match scenes to lyrics.. I was about halfway there when the release date/Shindig snuck up on me) :)

But again, thanks to you both!

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Monday, December 15, 2003 10:21 AM

XENARC

I would love to be able to see this, is there a way for you to put it up in another file format, like a .avi or mpeg?

XenArc

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Monday, December 15, 2003 10:28 AM

ZAPHODB

Very nice job. I love that song. My only question is what the title card at the end reads. The text is extremely hard to make out unfortunately.

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Monday, December 15, 2003 10:49 AM

BUCKTHORN

Quote:
Originally posted by XenArc:
I would love to be able to see this, is there a way for you to put it up in another file format, like a .avi or mpeg?

XenArc

I can give a shot at re-rendering it. My only worry is the size... the SVCD I made for the Shindig was 50 megs. But I can make a run at it and see what I get.

Sorry, it's the whole "reaching the widest possible audience" thing that keeps Microsoft stock price going up. :)

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Monday, December 15, 2003 10:51 AM

BUCKTHORN

Quote:
Originally posted by ZaphodB:
Very nice job. I love that song. My only question is what the title card at the end reads. The text is extremely hard to make out unfortunately.

Yeah, I know... I have a tag on my webpage that reads, "This website best viewed by coming over to my office and looking at it on my monitor." I guess contrast would be preferable.

Basically it just says what the song is, where the images came from ("Firefly"), my website, and what I used to create the video. Nothing spectacular, but probably something I should give attention to.

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Monday, December 15, 2003 11:57 AM

MANIACNUMBERONE

Quote:
Originally posted by buckthorn:
Quote:
Originally posted by XenArc:
I would love to be able to see this, is there a way for you to put it up in another file format, like a .avi or mpeg?

XenArc

I can give a shot at re-rendering it. My only worry is the size... the SVCD I made for the Shindig was 50 megs. But I can make a run at it and see what I get.

Sorry, it's the whole "reaching the widest possible audience" thing that keeps Microsoft stock price going up. :)

I took it upon myself to convert this to an .avi format. It's 13 megs... and all it needs is buckthorn's permission to be distributed.

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Monday, December 15, 2003 12:18 PM

BUCKTHORN

Quote:
Originally posted by ManiacNumberOne:
I took it upon myself to convert this to an .avi format. It's 13 megs... and all it needs is buckthorn's permission to be distributed.

Absolutely. Kick it out there and let me know where it is so I can link to it (like I said with the Geocities thing, I've been trying to keep track... an anal-retentive thing that I know will pass :) ). But yeah if you want to post it somewhere and link to it just let me know so I can put it out the link too. Otherwise if you can put it somewhere temporarily I can download it and host it myself.

But regardless... "Permission granted."

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:53 AM

BUCKTHORN

By the way, I now have this up as a RealMedia file as well. Hopefully that will help the Mac people?

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:12 AM

ZAPHODB

There's also a new media player for Macs from the evil Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/mac71.aspx

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:18 AM

SERENITYSSON

Shiny!
This was a great piece of work that now owns a spot on my desktop. You really should be proud of the work you did.

Also... I can kill you with my brain...

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:43 AM

JAYNESGIRLFRIEND

Loved this! Good pacing, some of the images you picked for certain lines were perfection (the Kentucky line and the shots of Mal closing doors are my faves.) One nit that may just be a me thing. The closer shot of the singers in Canton was kind of jarring since their lips don't match the words. Doesn't bother me when its talking, but when the characters are clearly singing it jolts me a bit. Of course I pick because I love!

"I was gonna get me an ear, too." - Jayne

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:25 AM

KELSO

Quote:
Originally posted by buckthorn:

In honor of the DVD release and the Atlanta Shindig,

Crap! When was this? I live in Atlanta!

Great video, BTW.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:11 AM

MANIACNUMBERONE

Here is a link to this great fanvid in .avi format.

http://www.magicbishop.com/FFMV-bdw.avi

or you can go directly to http://www.magicbishop.com/buckthorn.html

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:05 AM

ZAPHODB

Buckthorn, I've added a link to your vid on my Firefly Fanvid page. It's basically a listing of all the Firefly vids lurking out there with links where they were available.

http://www3.telus.net/vchrusch/fanvids.htm

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:42 PM

BUCKTHORN

Big Damn Reply....

Thanks for the feedback to everyone. I agree, the Canton singers are off as are a few other shots... as I get time I'm going to be re-looking at this and probably making some changes. So if you have the first version, it might be a collector's edition someday! hahaha. haha. ha. right. anyway.

Thanks separately for the AVI conversion and posting and for the link posting. I feel honored.

Oh, and the Atlanta Shindig was this past weekend... there's a yahoo group called atlantashindig I believe.

Okay so it wasn't all that big.

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Friday, December 19, 2003 4:11 PM

BUCKTHORN

heh.. I exceeded my MindSpring/Earthlink bandwidth for the month. *sigh* I'll have to host it elsewhere, it would appear.

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Monday, December 22, 2003 10:52 AM

BUCKTHORN

I have the link for the AVI version now on this page, so you can download the AVI since the WMV and RM portions aren't working.

bandwidth is such a hassle.

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