Tag: i did this

i used to edit videos all the time 5-6 years ago but it was with a shitty old version of Vegas on a shitty old laptop, so when I recently got Vegas Pro 14 (and a much better laptop) I decided to give it a go and see how much I remember. 

mothing fancy yet, just simple cuts and stuff, just to awaken those muscle memories, and since I absolutely love Critical Role what better way is there to warm up than by making a video of my favourite gnome.

I didn’t really have a plan for this video, I wanted to make a sad one and I wanted to make a happy one, so I just made both at once. I didn’t have a script for it either so it’s p clunky and the first half only has audio cause I was too impatient to download all the episodes in HD.

eeehh?

spoilers for as far as episode 114 so…

Best music videos of 2017
1 Glass Animals: Agnes

“(…) it’s hard to explain exactly how it feels inside a human centrifuge. you sit in a small egg-like pod about the size of a horse which hangs off a 50 foot steel horizontal frame. It looks like something out of a bond villain’s lair. it’s claustrophobic and uncomfortable and also incredibly hot.

slowly the whole thing starts to rotate like a helicopter blade. Faster and faster until every part of you becomes crushed under the extreme gravity. its like being slowly sat on by an elephant, or like your whole body being punched in slow motion. you have to flex every muscle and use every ounce of strength you have to keep going.

breathing requires serious effort. movement becomes incredibly strained and almost painful. everything that once weighed 5 kilograms now weighs 50. its difficult even to keep your eyes open. it hurts in places you really didn’t know existed. veins and capillaries burst under the pressure and bruising begins. its a rapid physical overdrive.

the blood rushes from your brain making it impossible to think rationally or focus. your eyes are also drained and you get tunnel vision…only able to see small circles of the world directly infront of you and your sight goes completely greyscale…no more colour. your balance and spatial awareness goes and the world begins to spin like you’ve had way too much to drink. but the most striking thing is the way that the machine pulls on your heart. you can actually feel it struggling to beat and changing shape…flattening inside of your chest. Its similar to that horrible sinking, tugging heartache that comes only with complete and overwhelming sadness. and then you pass out.

we ran the centrifuge 18 times while i tried to sing along to a song which i find difficult to listen to at the best of times.

this was probably the most intense video-making experience I’ll ever have. But its the only way that we could just about begin to simulate for a moment what happens within Agnes.”