I've wanted to make this for a very long time, but I never found the right occasion.
But the very minute Jason said he had to leave Japan in July I knew the time was right. I downloaded all the necessary video clips - yes, I handpicked them - and started putting them together. Actually I thought this would be a job of two or three hours... how wrong I was!!
I had to teach myself almost from scratch how to use Windows Video Maker (I've got nothing better), but the program crashed at the most unpleasant moments, at the end of July even my harddrive broke and I had to get a new one, I had to think of some more text, because a collection of "okay" clips would be pointless, so I experimented with text slides, then I realized that I couldn't leave most of the video silent, so I had to pick background music... and it still looked odd, so I had to experiment with video effects and stuff... it got me so much frustration at times I had to put it away for two or three days so it wouldn't drive me crazy... and in the end it took a damn month!
So the perfect timing is way off... it was supposed to be published during the weekend when Jason was on his way home, but my time management totally failed.
At least, for all the shitty equipment and editing skills that I have I'm fairly happy with the result. And I hope so is Jason... after five years in Japan and becoming an elite ALT all he gets is a crappy video. *lol*
Lol.
leolava 2 years ago
that was really fun, but must have taken you a loooooong time to edit together. :)
Thanks!
-Jason
myargonauts 2 years ago