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  • Member: androvsky
  • Title: Anime on Terrorism
  • Premiered: 2001-11-30
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  • Songs:
    • George W. Bush Adress to the Nation 9/11/2001
    • Wheel of Time Game OST White Tower
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  • Comments: The General with the cup is speaking as George Bush in the video. Since I had to replace the audio of Bush talking with a higher quality one (the original audio was pure real-audio crap) with one minute chunks that I pasted in some of the lip-sync isn't as perfect as it was. Why didn't I just re-edit the video? By the time I noticed it I already declared it done and deleted the source files. I hadn't meant to spend so much time on the video as it was.

    I had ten audio tracks in the project. One was the speech, nine was the sound effect of the nuke going off, the tenth the song. I wasn't impressed with the original sound from Evangelion episode 1 so I mixed my own. Still don't like it, but it's better IMO. It worked better without the song, because there was a moment of pure silence before the shockwave hit. Fading out the song right before really didn't work. Oh well... oh, and I hope someone notices the surprise I mixed into the explosion effect. When I did a search on explosion sound effects I found some sound files that were of an explosion of a completely different nature. ;) It may be too quiet though. Plus I made him say "Goddess Bless America". An easy edit even in Premiere, though a decent audio program probably would've made the edit a bit cleaner.

    I don't even own a capture card, so all footage is either digisubs or DVD-rips. Some of the footage that I ripped has some odd scaling artifacts since I chose an odd resolution to rip at. I think I've got it figured out now though. :)

    As for the video itself (never thought I was going to get around to that? Me neither)... I wanted a mix of satire and flag-waving, of comedy and drama. Usually when you mix too many styles you end up with mud, well I think I kept enough of this video crazy enough so that there's not too much mud there, for better or for worse. Also, I should mention I cut the speech short. It was originally a bit over 4 minutes long, but when I was about half done my eyes just kinda glazed over at the thought of doing the whole thing. Plus, the speech quoted Psalms towards the end, and I didn't feel comfortable matching anime to that. I cut more than just the Psalms quote though, leaving the final video length at 3:16. No, that wasn't planned. Well, I've rambled enough... hope you enjoyed, or at least appreciated, the video. ^_^

    Note: Sorry folks, couldn't keep the video up forever. Fortunately, I've seen it around on various p2p applications from time to time.

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