JOURNAL: NPC3000 (Nathaniel Cohn)

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  • If I burn his clothes, the nice man won't have anything to wear!!! 2003-09-29 00:30:10 I've had so much creative energy yet since the completion of Leave the World Behind, I haven't been able to think of a single good video idea...until now that is!!!!!

    I don't know if what I'm working on currently, qualifies as a "music video." It's very different from the usual stuff that's posted every week. I don't even know if it'll be any good or if people will like it as it is very self-indulgent. All I know is that it may well be the most exciting video I've ever worked on! :)

    I guess that's reason enough for me to work on it! :P

    As for other stuff, it'll be two weeks until I can get back home and finish my Black Heaven video, can't wait to get that on the self. And my g/f just visited me today and brought the Insomniac CD (Greenday :P). One of the songs for which I've had a very peculiar idea. I'd like to give it a shot even though it involves a very commonly used anime(FLCL). One which I myself have used in the past...If it turns out not looking just like any other FLCL video, it'll be a project.

    And last but not least, I ordered the first Haibane Renmei DVD two days ago!!!! :-D I've never seen the anime before but I've heard enough to make me think I'll like it. Plus, even if I don't like it, what AMV creator can object to the ownership of new footage? 
  • After months of vegitating in your freezer... 2003-09-18 00:45:53 A BLACKOUT OCURRS AND I RISE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    It's been a very looooooooooooooong time since I wrote anything here. Guess I've just been lazy about it. Those very few of you who have even so much as the slightest interest in my videos might want to check out my two latest if you haven't already:

    Stand Inside Your Love:
    http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=22534

    Leave the World Behind:
    http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=23405

    I feel like, Weezer. After a rediculously long period of producing absolutely nothing, I actually make a video, and very soon after that, I make another video. :)

    I still haven't run out of energy. I'm totally pumped. Totally ready to make something new. I have one problem though. I have no video ideas!!! ;_; Well, actually, I always have video ideas, but none with the very little anime that is accessible to me in my dorm or on this campus and my though rapidly growing, still meager music collection.

    I have at least one music video that I guarantee will be around before the end of the year. It's the video I've been working on this summer. I still need to do some more work on it and I won't be able to until I get home because that's where the footage is but, oh well.

    Right now I'm rather desperate to find something new to make. May the AMV Guys In The Sky grant me the power!!! 
  • ya-ya? 2002-12-07 18:11:01 Hmmmm, y'know, instead of apologizing which by now would be cliche for me, I'll just say:

    never never ever expect me to accomplish something at the time I say I will. I'll get it done eventually but I will not be able to fit it in before a deadline no matter how well reasoned that deadline is.

    Busy homework weekend, the video won't be out until next week :-P 
  • MWA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! 2002-12-03 18:19:39 Finally! I'm about to complete another video! ^_^

    I have a rough copy ready for corrections and the video should be released sometime between today and thursday.

    I haven't completed a video for five months (good god! has it really been that long?!! 0_0) so it'll be nice to finally have something on the shelf.

    This video has the least effects of any of my videos, in fact, there are no effects if I counted right ^_^ After making We Are Building a Religion, I was starting to feel like all videos must have effects or else they'll be boring so I wanted to convince myself that this wasn't true. I did however, use lots of overlays, fades and transparencies like in Religion.

    Anyway, if you're not interested in hearing the story about making this video I suggest you read no further because it's rather long:

    I originally wanted this video to be a sub-conscious effort. In other words, no speakable theme or incredibly meaningful insights, just touching moments throughout. Thing is, I felt kind of guilty for making such a sentimental video and just expecting people to be touched by it without offering some kind of overall theme, concept, message or just plain thought to back it up. It seemed manipulative of me.

    This created a dilemma that made me stop working on the video for at least a month and a half. Sure, the song has a point that, with some thinking, I realized did thematically apply to the series in several ways. The problem was that I couldn't find a way to show a convincing parrallel between the series and song in a video, it wouldn't work >_<

    Not to mention the fact that the song I used, a good song though it was, was not by any means one that I wanted to listen to over and over.

    I'd considered this video a side project so it wasn't too hard to procrastinate about finishing while I was busy with college applications and schoolwork. I even considered dropping the video all together. The problem with sub-conscious work is sometimes your brain just dies on the job and you can't think of what to do next.

    Eventually I decided that I had to finish the video. The footage was taking up fourteen and a half gigs on my hard drive (originally ripped for a video that I started and then stopped making when I realized it was utter crap :-P) and I wasn't going to trash it without making any use of it.

    Also, I hadn't released a video for a while and I was getting nervous that my AMV-making abilities were going down the tubes. Since July, I'd started a bunch of videos, only to quickly loose interest and trash them not long after that. I felt like I was going nowhere in AMVland and was afraid that I might eventually give up all together.

    I did the last 75 seconds of the video in the last couple days, finishing a rough copy yesterday...or today since it was about 1 in the morning when I was done. ^_^

    Still, while working last night, guilt toward making a meaningless drama video crept back to me. Particularly in editing the last 30 seconds where I took the subject matter of the video in a different, more peculiar direction, I started concentrating on two characters. I was like "where am I taking this? not only is the video meaningless, it's also random!" >_<

    All the same, I continued to edit. Then, within the last ten seconds of editing I realized something. My video had a point all along!!! O_O

    The song suddenly seemed to go perfectly with the series. And the video made sense! It had a theme and it reached a significant conclusion in the end! What a big surprise, I thought I was just messing around! O_O

    Since the beginning I felt that there was a connection between the song and the series (Bebop is the series if you were wondering ^_^), I just didn't quite know how to make sense of it until I was almost finished.

    In other words, I'm pretty certain that I must've subconsciously known where I was taking the video. I knew that there was point being made all along, I just had to edit all but ten seconds before I became conscious of it.

    And in short, the video created itself! :)

    I don't know if anyone will get the message without it being explained, care about the message at all or even like the video one way or another (with a series as overused as Bebop, I'll be lucky if anyone likes it! ;-) ). The most important thing though, is that I feel satisfied with my work. The video now feels like a real accomplishment and not just a little side-project that I did to keep active. I don't mind much if people don't get the point so long as I know that there is one. Not to mention, I'm also happy that I now can write a confident, pretentious, self-important introduction to the video instead of admitting once again "it doesn't really have theme or message..." ^_^

    So, the lesson to this overlong, overblown story that suggests that I take AMV-making waaaaaay too seriously is this:

    When making an AMV, don't get so uptight all the time. Don't always tell yourself what to do, let your mind wander once in a while. If you get an idea for the video that you have a feeling might be good but your logical self tells you you're just being stupid, give the idea a shot. It could turn out to be the part of the video that you like best. And if you find a song that you feel has a connection to an anime, but you can't think of a good concept or message to justify its existence, try making it anyway, you just might be surprised in the end! ^_^

    Well, I'm sure by now I've made a big enough deal out of the video that it won't satisfy anyone's expectations. So I'll shut up. ^_^ 
  • And once again the NPC whines like a little baby about his workload... 2002-11-19 16:34:07 good god!


    >_< IT NEVER ENDS!!! >_<

    First it was two stressful weeks working on college applications, then it was a whole weekend spent working on and english essay AND project, then it was studying for a big statistics test yesterday and today I have to study for a social issues exam AND a physics quiz!!!

    Not one day in two and a half weeks have I not had to worry about SOME important test, quiz or essay!

    I am THIS close to exploding into a demonic firey demon so I can burn my school to the ground!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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