Sunday, 10 May 2009

Check this crackpot

I have been editing together some footage from Xfactor auditions to try and make Simon Cowell look like he's saying really nice things about some of the most horrendous people.  I've been doing this to promote feel good drinks and to "spread feelgoodness", as the company puts it.  The idea is a simple one.  The concept is to make feel good drinks a sponsor of the Xfactor and that by cutting together footage of the good auditions feedback with the bad auditions ludicrous singing I would be able to create a feel good atmosphere with someone that is renown for being straight-laced and particularly abrupt with people.  The idea is that a feel good drink is able make anyone feel good.  I am also trying to superimpose a feelgood drinks bottle onto Simon's desk and a big wobbly arrow as if to say "look what he's been drinking".  The whole editing is going to be rough and obvious that what is being witnessed isn't really happening.  I think this will be funnier for viewing and when I spoke to Clinton he seemed to agree anyway.  Its probably only going to last 15 seconds or so, as something that usually gets shown at the beginning of these types of program.  I'll probably do a few different versions using different auditions to see what's going to be the best one.

Ok so this is the main guy I've been editing footage of.  He's called Onka Judge and he's fucking amazing, I love him!.  This is the original video that I've downloaded from youtube - I havn't finished my effort yet but I'll post that too for comparison.



I owe a lot to Gary Peploe who I thought I ought to mention because he helped me a lot with regards to how I should actually go about making my video.  He sat down and showed me how to use Aftereffects for what I needed to do as it would of been to complicated to try and learn it all.  He also showed a few options for how I could incorporate the video with the photoshop images and also went to the trouble of finding a programme to convert flv files into avi and then editing in quicktime!.. I learnt a lot that day. Cheers Gary!

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