Vid Projects

[extrapenguin]

In honor of today's snowflake_challenge being to talk about a fannish project you're currently doing:

Remember my vidding resolution to complete my vid_bingo card? I am currently procrastinating on clipping for my character study vid, and thus went through and dl'd all the Sheng Wei x Ai Ye filmograpy I listed here plus the new one douqi subtitled on baihe_media. I also installed cleancredits and ran it! I couldn't get the mask maker GUI to show up, so I made my own with GIMP – for the first pass I'm just getting rid of the bilibili logo in the corner. The hardsubs I can clip around, zoom around, or do on a later pass. My current issue is that I am bad at making masks. I cropped out the built-in letterbox of the test footage and even then, the logo is ... well, the pixel interpolation left the end result a bit blobby. Ah well. At least it's less noticeable than the original logo.

(Unexpected bonus of the built-in letterboxing: For three of the source short films, the logo is wholly on the black letterbox and I can easily crop it out! For one of them, the hardsubs are also in the letterbox! \o/)

Also I've taken a look at the Wikipedia lists of science fiction films released by decade from 2000 onwards to see if there's anything a) made in Europe b) starring a woman c) I might want to watch and vid. This is me preparing for the Eurovision show of vidukon_cardiff. Why do I love homework so much.

Things which should have interesting visuals:
Aniara
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Gravity
Cargo

Other things I might at least not insta-hate based on the summary:
Immortal
Hell
What Happened to Monday
Morgan
W (I feel like I should watch this just because it's Finnish)
The Girl With All the Gifts

If you know any of the above is good, bad, or extremely (un)viddable, please tell.

(space_swap schedule tomorrow.)

Comments

[fiachairecht]

Aniara and Gravity are both gorgeous, though I don't know that I would quite call Gravity scifi.

...I don't know what I expected from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets but that cast list was Not It, it looks ridiculous and I need to watch it now.

[extrapenguin]

Gravity has, based on the Wikipedia plot summary, shots of space, so no matter how dumb it is, it will get a spaaaaace bonus. But I think Aniara is the one I'll watch first, if I ever get to watching anything from the list, since it looks like a kind of science fiction not often represented in movies.

[douqi]

I'm so interested to see what you're going to make out of the GL footage! Btw here is a new Sheng Wei/Ai Ye video I haven't subtitled yet (but will do shortly). Also, I really feel you on the logos and hardsubs! Kuaishou especially does an irritating thing of having its logo move periodically around the four corners of the video, which makes vidding super annoying.

[extrapenguin]

!!! Thank you!!! ...huh, it looks like anything above 360p is locked to logged-in accounts? I think I'll crib off your YouTube mirror for the download. *g* And yes, of the popular Chinese platforms, Bilibili is the least annoying logo-wise. Douyin's is animated, which always makes it way too eye-catching for me, and yes, Kuaishou hops around. At least Bilibili's is stationary.

Also my Chinese is nowhere near good enough to get the story beyond the very basic level. I do see what you mentioned on the comm about this one being very talk-y.

...I think this must be the third time I see that guy cast as a domestic abuser in a sapphic shampoo commercial. What a way to be typecast.

[douqi]

I have been able to pull videos without the logo off Douyin by going to Developer Tools in Chrome, then the 'Network' tab and the 'Media' panel. Doesn't seem to work with the other platforms though.

Haha, I guess that guy will never be short of work!

[eglantiere]

valerian has a banger opening, pretty visuals and an absolute nothingburger of a movie after that. i watched it in the movies and i couldn't retell you the plot or key scenes if you made me.

[extrapenguin]

Technically I only need pretty visuals for a vid, but sounds like other stuff would be more stimulating/inspiring. Thank you!