JOURNAL: Engar

  • Engar 2003-04-07 17:18:53 Hmm..

    I'm not really sure how this works, I feel crazy even trying but ce la ve. This is going to be the first and probably last entry in my Journal so I better make it half decent.

    At the moment I'm between 3 first draft videos, all DBZ and none Linken Park.

    The first and oldest is Good Enough set to footage of the Cell Games Saga and more significantly, what Gohan is thinking about as Cell powers up his final devestating attack.

    The timeings pretty good in the first 10 seconds, rolling over the Z-Fighters with every change of chord. Theres some parts I'm not happy with but I can deal with that. The majority of the video is the Z-Fighters getting beaten up by the Cell Jrs with close ups to show how torn up poor Gohan is.

    Then switches to a few seconds of his bout with Cell and (this is something I'm unhappy with) jumps to Cell knocking away Vegeta. I'm going to have to go back and fidel around in order to get some shots of Goku sacrificing himself, as next I have some half decent lip synching with Goku giving Gohan a pep talk. Then Gohan powers up a response attack and fires to the last beat. Not so bad, at least thats what I thought. :D

    Next is what I'm told is my best but I just cant see it like that. It's Been a while is the song and it's like the first in that it focuses on Gohan's feelings during the Cell Games (I'm obsessed) but unlike the first it shows a direct link to the experiences Gohan had of being a failure in the Saiya-Jin Saga to his fight with Cell.

    It my not be how the show played it but after looking at it more, there are quite a few smilarities. Cell Jrs = Saibamen. Two armies destroyed. The whole group fighting together. If you really get inside Gohan's head (sad as that may sound) it isn't too far of a stretch to believe he would see a connection and that would be part of the reason he held back.

    Anyway, after seeing the Z-Force get beaten up for a bit Gohan see's Android 16s head. Gohan flashes between watching Piccolo die in front of him as a child, to 16 die infront of him in the present. Gohan is pushed over the edge and explodes to the music, the ass kicking begins.

    The footage cuts between Gohan outraged as a child to Gohan outraged as an adolescent in the Cell Games, showing him going over the rage he had felt and using it to push himself forwards in the fight. Some more death and a few cuts I'm not happy with later its all over and though even I think its good, theres still something about it that I don't like. The clips just don't flow together like they should, I'll need to work on that.

    The final one is focussed on Piccolo rather than Gohan, I'm breaking away from the kid for once. The song is Bad Company (made by the band Bad Company if you'll believe it) and it's pretty good for an oldie.

    The outline of the plot is that Piccolo, just before his fight with possibly his greatest opponent in the series Android 17, runs through his life since that faitful day that Raditz kidnapped Gohan. At least that was the plan.

    I suffer from a severe lack of footage, 99.9% of mine is downloaded episodes with varying quality and sometimes little signs at the bottom. The problem with that is that not all episodes will work and I don't even have all the episodes there are. I was hoping to have footage of Piccolo as a child and Piccolo fusing with Kami but no such luck. It would also have been nice to have some from the Frieza Saga (I refuse to split it up into things like the Ginyu Saga, the Namek Saga, etc) but thats life I guess. I'll try and get some for the remake.

    The only real problem I have with the video (don't let me down-play the fact that there are some REALLY cool parts) is that it runs down at the end. There are 30 seconds of just pointless fighting really (I know, *shock* theres pointless action in a DBZ vid, I try and make my action serve a point thank you very much) then it goes to fading through the various stages of Piccolo to the final one. Cut and print.

    So there are the 3 vids I'm working on at the moment, I'll probably redo the 1st completely as I've lost all record of it. The second I will continue to push off and the 3rd I will hopefully get to soon.

    Whoever reads this, (if that's possible, I'm not quite sure) know that this is actually quite helpful. It's good to get your thoughts written down, you can think better that way. Just my own final thought.

    Cya around..

    Engar  
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