VVC 07 (ClubVivid) Vids: Boogie Wonderland, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

[charmax]

Here are my 2 Club Vivid vids for Vividcon this year. I have no idea if they were actually shown (yet!) These were both finished in May so I've been sitting on them since then. It's been killing me! Anyone who knows me knows patience is not one of my strongest suits. So finally here we go, YAY! I hope y'all enjoy them. Any and all feedback would be awesome, seriously.

Thank you so much killabeez for giving me your thoughts on Boogie Wonderland back in May, "Awesome vid!" from you made me incredibly happy and reassured. astartexx,  massive thanks go to you because, as always, your commentary, squee and insight was/is invaluable! colour_me_sassy, the feedback then and the feedback every time you give it is cherished. Without going too overboard with the cheez and the embarrassment - I love you all. :P

Boogie Wonderland was inspired by killabeez's "Puttin On The Ritz" (I'm a hopeless fangirl ;)) but I've moved the focused era on 20yrs or so.


Video Title: Boogie Wonderland
Song Title/Artist: Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind and Fire
Movie: Multi
The Rocky Horror Show
Saturday Night Fever
Staying Alive
Roll Bounce
Xanadu
Flashdance
Fame
Boogie Nights
Grease
Footloose
The Full Monty
Car Wash
Can't Stop The Music
Summary: Cracktastic. Glitter, sparkles and gratuitous crotch shots..
Length/Format: 2.21(Xvid)
Notes: Boogie Wonderland was the song I picked out of the list of songs given on the vividcon LJ. I hope whoever gave it as a prompt thinks I did it justice. The song was edited down and melded with another party type track to give it that extra Disco vibe. 
Yes, some crappy movies were purchased for the purpose of this project. That's how much I love vidding. I'm never quite sure if I should do notes or what details you would like to read so if you have any specific questions then please ask in the comments.

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Video Title: Don't Let Me Be Misundersood
Song Title/Artist: Don't Let Me Be Misundersood - Santa Esmeralda
Movie: Shrek 2 (Puss)
Summary: Puss in Boots wants your understanding.
Length/Format: 2.13(Xvid)
Notes: I have to admit I had forgotten how little screen time Puss gets in Shrek 2 which made the vid a very different sort of challenge from Boogie Wonderland with it's seemingly endless clip choices. Again, as with Boogie Wonderland, if you have any specific questions about this vid please fire away in the comments.

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Comments

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

oooh oooh I remember Disco - I was so there :D

And my favourite shrek character *rushes to download them both*

[charmax.livejournal.com]

For most of Disco I was a twinkle in my mothers eye. I do have painful memories of rolled down leg warmers and deely boppers though being an 80s kid.

I hope you enjoy the vids. :D

[buffyann.livejournal.com]

Boogie Wonderland : dude, that was so much FUN !!!!! I love disco and the vid is so fun and happy, it gave me the urge to dance even if I'm at work right now.
I loved the used of several source, which, if you don't know the movies, you don't notice at all. You melted everything very successfully. And I also loved that effect in the end with the split screens. really, so much fun !!!

Don't Let Me Be Misundersood: </strong wow. This one is awesome as well !! Your editing is incredible, I'm serious. *love* I love the humor in this one and the horse dancing rotfl !! Really awesome work !

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm glad you liked them both, buffyann. I do have great fun when I make lighter vids. I still angst when I'm making them but somehow I can forget it all when I've finished.

[buffyann.livejournal.com]

I can imagine ! All those great club vivid vids gave me the ruge to make more lighter vids !

[bunnythenavia.livejournal.com]

The Charmax touch in Don't Let Me Be Misundersood is obvious. What is the Charmax touch, you ask? It's the ability to give a movie/tv series a magical feeling. You know, a sorta fairytale. And Puss is a fairytale, indeed.

Boogie Wonderland is pure joy. It reminds me of a VH1 80's music video. And I never cease to snicker when I see John Travolta dancing. He's so ridiculous!

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[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

SO wonderful - Boogie Wonderland had me laughing out loud!

[crazywritinfool.livejournal.com]

Yep, they were at Club Vivid and they were wonderful! I especially liked "Misunderstood" -- what a neat idea for a vid!

I look forward to watching again when I don't have a gajillion dancing bouncing heads between me and the screen. :-)

[Reposting--didn't realize I wasn't logged in--no coffee yet]

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Excellent, thank you so much for letting me know they were shown. I can stop with the nail biting now. :D

I'm thrilled you enjoyed the vids and I hope you still like them when you see them in the cold light of day.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

That's the kinda reaction I was hoping for. Cheers!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Zohar. What a lovely thing to say about the Charmax touch! Puss was such a great character and not unlike John Travolta with the strutting bravado. John Travolta is a god I tell you, a badly dressed hand jiving god.

[bunnythenavia.livejournal.com]

p.s. my mum really loved the Puss video. She now has it on her own computer.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I always find it strange that some people share vidding or videos with their parents or other family. It's extremely cool but strange. :D

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

Just finished another rewatch of 'Misunderstood' - it's a pure delight Charmax and is definitely very 'you'. So fun and action packed - there was so much going on I was ooh and aahing along with Ellie :) I adore the sequence of Puss first apearance around 0.17 to 0.26 and the tapping of paw/foot as the stage rises at 0.52. And the horse at 1.42 LMAO !! I could go on and on....

A Lovely vid and it's going to be a firm favourite here like 'Truckers hat' is too. Back with fb on boogie wonderland later.

Love

[culturevulture7.livejournal.com]

Boogie Wonderland -- love the song anyway and the cuts are great (gotta see Roll Bounce, I suppose). Of course, you had me at Saturday Night Fever ;-)

Misunderstood - love this song too and it works for Puss

Great stuff!

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

I loved all the getting-down in Boogie Wonderland, but I have to say it was Don't Let Me Be Misundersood that really got me. Who was it that was saying how a really good vidder can just rely on cutting alone? ;D Both of these vids demonstrate SO MUCH mastery that it just takes my breath away. I especially loved the Spanish flavour of the song, which is quite appropriate given Antonio Banderas and all, and the green transitions are perfection. You, my dear, are most old-school hardcore and unbelievably good at what you do. Much jealousy and fear!

P.S. back to our regularly scheduled programming, "It's Time To Pick Charmax's Brain!" How did you do the moving layers? Still with the targa sequencing/photoshop as we'd previously discussed? Or have you found a better method these days? :)

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Glad you and Ellie enjoyed "Misunderstood" so much. I do love Puss and my lovely Bailey cat was very much the inspiration for this vid. He is the master of "puss eyes" which gets him out of all kinds of trouble.

And I can't believe you still watch Trucker hat! :D

Re: Love

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks, for commenting.

I'm not going to make any comment about Roll Bounce except to say the skating is very impressive even if the acting isn't. I watched Saturday Night Fever for this vid for the first time in years and discovered a love for it I never knew I had.

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

Funny I thought of Bailey and your lovely photos during the vid - we are usch a sucker for the 'puss eyes' eh?

Ellie loves vids so much but there aren't many suitable ones around that are good too, so when we find one we cling to it like a blankie...

[charmax.livejournal.com]

All the getting down was just pure fun. There's nothing quite like John Travolta doing his thing. The pastey white British "full monty" arses always brought a smile to my face, my other half said it was the money shot.

As for Misunderstood, Puss is just my favourite Shrek character and so well observed in his cattiness, it was a homage to my boy cat, Bailey. The song seemed so obvious I was surprised it wasn't on the soundtrack, sometimes going with the obvious choice is the way to go.

The moving layers was done using the targa method but since I made this vid I have found a better alternative. You can import a section of avi into adobe Image Ready and do any masking on the whole sequence then export as single frames. It's way easier than the previous method. Of course, if I was any good at masking in After Effects it would be a doddle but I'm not as comfortable with the bezier curves and pen tool in AE as I am in PS. My method is definitely harder than it needs to be.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Puss eyes never fails. Because Bailey's eyes are brown it makes it all the more effective, like this morning when he wangled his way into three breakfasts by playing me and Max off against each other pretending he hadn't eaten when really he was on his third dish. Greedy! Whilst we're talking about Bailey I'll definitely be coming to you for that picture at some point.

There aren't really that many vids for younger viewers are there? I guess we'll have to make them for her. :D

[bunnythenavia.livejournal.com]

Don't tell me you don't share your vidding love with your wife!
My mother is my number one fan. She watched most of my vids. I don't let her watch everything, though. I learned my lesson after I showed her an old vid of Queer as Folk and she had embarrassing comments about Brian's ass. She's so much dirtier than me.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Ha! My wife definitely but my parents or my sibs? No way! But then my mom isn't as cool as yours.

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

Goodness. I feel woefully inadequate to deal with all the tech stuff. However, I will trust your good advice as I always have done, and hope to god that I can be as competent as you one day. (Ha! One can always dream.)

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Ha you jest! ;)