Hey everyone starting off my week of video with a homage to the silent film era. Now as I previously stated in my pre-production post about this assignment, despite there being many different genres in anime I can probably go ahead and assume there’s a severe lack in the silent film genre. With that being said, I present my mute, colorblind version of Kill Me Baby!:

Just to give a little plot description for those of you who don’t understand why 2 girls suddenly decided to beat up a watermelon. Suikawari, or put simply watermelon splitting, is a traditional Japanese game that shares basically the same rules as a pinata. The player must find and split the watermelon with a wooden stick, bat or any other instrument while being blindfolded. The first person to split the melon is the winner and then all participants share the watermelon chunks. It is often played at beaches, festivals, picnics and other outdoor activities.

I really can’t begin to describe the frustration in making this video, things went wrong in areas I never could of predicted. The easiest part of this assignment was changing the color schemes to black and white and turning it mute; both very simple processes on Photoshop, saving it with Photoshop automatically takes away the movie’s sounds as a matter of fact. But after that is when things started going down hill. I thought all I had to do now was divide the clips into segments and then interject in between with some text slide dialogue. But if there’s one thing this class has taught me, is that any process that starts out too easy will most likely get extremely hard as it moves on. After making my very first draft of my video I discovered a huge problem after test uploading it to youtube, the dialogue slides went away after like 1 second of being shown. This was by no means what I set the slide transition to so I was pretty freaked out about what exactly went wrong. Eventually I had to scrap the idea of simple text based slides and design actual text dialogue boxes to input in the video. After this the video was finally working properly.

At first I just used a simple old timey song throughout the whole video, but I felt this could of been a lot better so I made a new audio track for my movie using audacity. It was kind of a pain to create the audio files without it being synched with the actual video but I feel the end product came out well. The sources for my audio track were all found on http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?genre=Silent+Film+Score&page=1 aside from the film reel noise which I took from freesounds, here are my sources:

• 8mmprojector_start-run-stop_18fps.wav by nemoDaedalus
• Doh De oh
• Comic Hero
• Old Timey
• Plucky Daisy
• The Chase FX
• Trouble
• Kill Me Baby episode 4