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• Member: Vlad G Pohnert
• Title: Memories Dance
• Premiered: 2001-07-06
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • Loreena McKennit The Mummers' Dance
• Anime:
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
  • Laputa, Castle in the Sky
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
  • On Your Mark
  • Pom Poko
  • Porco Rosso
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Whisper of the Heart
• Participation:
  • Anime Expo 2001, Anime Expo 2001 (2001-07-05)
  • Otakon 2001, Otakon 2001 (2001-08-10)
• Comments: By far my best video to date.
  
  AnimeExpo 2001
  - Best Drama
  Otakon 2001
  - Best Dramatic/Sentimental
  Animemusicvideos.org's Viewers Chose Awards
  - Best Sentimental
  - Best Artistic
  
  I have always wanted to do a music video tribute to Miyazaki ever since I got my Studio Ghibli Laser disk box set about 3 years ago. Trouble was I never could find a song worthy.
  
  When I finally diecided to make the video, Loreena McKennitt's Murmmers' Dance seemed to be the perfect choice. Originally I started to use the short version, but found I could not make my concept fit and therefore went to the extended 6 minute version.
  
  I spent well over 3 months assembling this video. The planning and video clip capturing alone took one month.
  
  I wanted to show the different themes of Miyazaki and how he has incorporated them in his work. From the start I planned to use a Photo Album like approach since I though how one remembers memories when looking at photographs. I used extensive use of Photoshop to create the photographs that changed to the animated scene. I then used After Effects to zoom out and show all the photographs.
  
  This video had a ton of overlapping effects such as Porco Rosso's plane flying accross the Tigermoth from Laputa or the Angel from On Your Mark flying into the sky with the Tigermoth.