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Anything But TV Challenge....
...so I picked music! Three of my favorite songs/performers. The challenge at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
universe_the was to spend three hours. My personal challenge was to learn how to do those tumblr-style graphics with a gif embedded in a background. Also with lyrics. Interesting experiment. Kinda fun, actually.
Not sure the gifs were the most effective; hard to find appropriate clips, and I had trouble with the text layers, obviously.
But anyway...Bruce Springsteen is probably my favorite performer of all time, in that I found him at a most impressionable time in my life, and this line from Badlands--that it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive--is so meaningful to me in our guilty, scared, judgmental society. It's true, people!
Prince is a genius, and I really wanted to keep with the "glad you're alive" theme and do Let's Go Crazy, but I couldn't find a good clip, and I didn't want to pretend that the Little Red Corvette clip below was anything besides what it is, one of the best performances in any video, ever.
Talking Heads' This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) is actually my most favorite song, and that's saying a lot. It's lovely; look it up. Exactly my idea of romance....
Time Spent:
Selecting songs and finding videos: 30 minutes
Researching how to do the layout in photoshop: 30 minutes
Downloading videos and making screencaps: 30 minutes x 3 = 90 minutes
Making gif #1, coloring and inserting background, adding lyric layer: 45 minutes
Making gif #2, coloring and inserting background, adding lyric layer: 30 minutes
Making gif #3, coloring and inserting background, adding lyric layer: 30 minutes
TOTAL: 4 hours, 15 minutes
universe_the was to spend three hours. My personal challenge was to learn how to do those tumblr-style graphics with a gif embedded in a background. Also with lyrics. Interesting experiment. Kinda fun, actually.Not sure the gifs were the most effective; hard to find appropriate clips, and I had trouble with the text layers, obviously.
But anyway...Bruce Springsteen is probably my favorite performer of all time, in that I found him at a most impressionable time in my life, and this line from Badlands--that it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive--is so meaningful to me in our guilty, scared, judgmental society. It's true, people!
Prince is a genius, and I really wanted to keep with the "glad you're alive" theme and do Let's Go Crazy, but I couldn't find a good clip, and I didn't want to pretend that the Little Red Corvette clip below was anything besides what it is, one of the best performances in any video, ever.
Talking Heads' This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) is actually my most favorite song, and that's saying a lot. It's lovely; look it up. Exactly my idea of romance....
Time Spent:
Selecting songs and finding videos: 30 minutes
Researching how to do the layout in photoshop: 30 minutes
Downloading videos and making screencaps: 30 minutes x 3 = 90 minutes
Making gif #1, coloring and inserting background, adding lyric layer: 45 minutes
Making gif #2, coloring and inserting background, adding lyric layer: 30 minutes
Making gif #3, coloring and inserting background, adding lyric layer: 30 minutes
TOTAL: 4 hours, 15 minutes