Lost not Forgotten (Submission for Dream Theater's Video Contest)

Ok...this is an update in nearly one year. Still don't know who's checking this blog but posting this anyway.

This video is a submission for a contest which was held by my favorite progressive metal band 'Dream Theater'. They wanted to have a fan-made video which they're gonna play while they're playing at their upcoming us tour concert. It was such a chance(I still cannot believe that they actually had that contest...almost felt like this one is for me...) and I just couldn't let it go away.

So, I created a 10-minute long abstract psychedelic video using some of my stuffs, and some of the open sources which I could find on the web. Those "sources" include not just video footages, but also processing codes, quartz composer patches. I modified all of them to fit in this video(I guess and hope I didn't violated any copyrights).

The best part of this video is, that I actually won the contest!!! OMG. I don't have anything more to say...

The Salvation : Graduation Work

song : Dream Theater - The Shattered Fortress

This is an unofficial music video for Dream Theater's "The Shattered Fortress". Also it's my graduation work.

5 of my drawings were mainly used for narrative and many other small pieces to reinforce it. As I mentioned at the end of the video, a few of the images were downloaded from the web, and then modified or retouched to fit this video.

The sources are as follows(actually there are few more but I'll mention them later as soon as I arrange the links),

http://roflmachine.com/​images/​deadtree.png
http://flickr.com/​photos/​dipfico/​3316921948/​

And two images by Muybridge were used to create animation effects(man running, bird flying).

Except drawings or illustrations, every real images were recorded using iPhone 4.

Conquest

Ok...Just wanted to play around for a while. Mixed Disney's "Lion King" with The White Stripes' "Conquest". Which means, I don't have any copyrights or whatsoever. Matter of fact, I hope this doesn't violate any copyrights of Disney or The White Stripes. It's just nothing(and I know that nobody is gonna check this vid).

Main intension was to experiment images and pixels. And I'm not sure what I was gonna experiment with them. So let's just fuck it. It is still just a play.

A Scene of That Day

A description of my imagimary doomsday. Sometimes in my dream, I see a crimson sky, blackened shapes and people talking and wandering. It may be a war scene, or a scene of doomsday. I don't know.

Early in this april, it snowed like hell. Since that day was so cloudy, it didn't look pretty but very misty and desperate. So I took the scene and decided to make a very dark, vicious video.

Sounds in this vid are backwarded and slow down. All of them are songs from certain musicians.

Road Decalcomanie

song : Delphic - Counterpoint

This is kind of stepping back...but it didn't work out that well.

I'm a bit disappointed that couldn't finish this stupid vid as I expected in many ways. It's way too long (I even cut out 30 seconds of this song but it's still too long. I'm not blaming the song though. I love it), and that makes this vid boring. And in the point of creativity, there's nothing new. I call this as "step back", but still this is nothing but a mixture of my former two vids.
And lastly, I tried a plug-in called "Toonit" by Red Giant and it was too heavy for my computer. Exporting took 7 hours only to cause a crash in Premiere CS3(I know...there can be many many factors for this).

There can be some positive points in this one too though. First, I like the compositions of layers in a few cuts. Since I only used "mirror" and "replicate" effects, 3-4 different layers in a cut have not-so bad unification.
Transparency between layers also worked out great(IMO).
And in some cuts, this vid look fantastic(IMO).

I don't think I might be trying another SYNCHRONIZE-THE-SONG video ever. I'm so bored. This one will be the last. And that makes me more frustrated that my last try turned out to be a failure.

The chinese letters in the beginning mean "BIG FAILURE".

By the way, why the fuck am I writing this brief? Does anybody check this blog? Why am I using english here?