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Tach Leute!

Da ich zum Drehen nach Dänemark eingeladen wurde (Ende 2003) und diesmal mehrere Leute am Schnitt beteiligt sein sollten, mussten wir uns auf ein Programm einigen. Die Wahl fiel dabei ganz schnell auf Adobe Premiere 6 bzw 6.5 oder 7... also setzte ich mich ran und holte mir zum Üben aus meinem Lieblingsspiel MGS2 mal ein paar Sequenzen.
Das tolle an dem Spiel: Man hat 14 Stunden Ploygondemos in denen man selbst Regie führen kann. Nahezu jede Einstellung ist dort vertreten und man kann also richtig schön regietechnisch Storyboards planen...

Zunächst machte ich just vor fun einen Werbetrailer mit einigen Effekten, habe rund 12 Stundne damit zugebracht allerdings hierbei die Untertitel nicht entfernt.

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Nachdem ich 2 Tage jweils 6 Stunden daran gesessen und das Werk vollenedet hatte, hatte ich aber immer noch nicht genug.
Ich wollte das Erlernte festigen und schnitt somit noch ein Musikvideo, welches mich 12 Stunden in Beschlag nahm (ja komisch ich brauch immer gleich lang dafür...) - übrigens ohne Untertitel, dafür mit hübschem weißen Rahmen

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Hier mal das Making Of zu dem Musikvideo:
(englisch weil urpsprünglich ausm amerikanischen Forum)

1: I listened to the music again and again anf thought about which scnes could be good.

2: I captured the stuff I needed from the polygon demos on pc. Then I loaded them in the program.

3: I started to cut.

00:10 : General film preview
00:11 : First scene from above: Was extremly slowed down, from the normal speed of 100% to 50,
number 2 and 3 where just cut to the beat of the music.
from 00:22 : the scenes with the steps; I call the cut technique heavy, cause it's usually cut
to the beat of the music, but comes a little too late sothat it doesn't seem smooth.
to 00:33 : Is a general scene, nothing changed here.
00:34 : Is cut to the lyrics "I don't know who to trust" - Pliskin "betrayes" Raiden,
he tells the Ninja to knock him out. At "trust" Raiden falls down.
(remember that at the end of the game Raiden even doesn't really want to trust Snake anymore)
00:39 : The switching to Emma is an effect I included here. This scene with her is again slow
motioned from 100% to 40% in speed.
00:41 : Switching from Emma to Raiden: Again an effect taken here (like the ones in the first
video) when Raiden looks up from his sniper rifle, the speed is slowed down again
(about 20%)sothat it would work good with the music. ("everyone is [so] far away":
Emma is there on the pipe and he can't help her)
00:44 : Emma is injured: again the speed was slowed down to work with the music
00:45 : "dust" Pliskin stands up - is again slow motioned.
00:46 : "lies"- the singer sings it long. All the time he sings the word Emma falls down
(slow motion)
00:49 : "trying" - switching to Pliskin how he rushes to Emma, normal Speed.
00:50 : I'm so tired "of this to see" - Pliskin, -slow motion. I wanted to show that
even he feels anger here...
00:52 : Raiden looks up from his sniper rifle, again slow motion to show his pain,
to 00:54 an effect was added to make it seem more "cruel" to him - I think the way
he holds his head shows sadness.
00:56 : Raiden sits at the stairs. Fast motion! From 100% to er... I guess it
was 250% or so. I think it's cool that the word "this" exactly is when he moves his lips.
00:58 : Raiden at the place where he meets Fatman, original speed. He also seems
to say a word from the lyrics here (so I did cut "to" the lyrics again) the word is "between".
01:01 : A cut to see Raiden from the front. The cut was made to the beat -
exactly when the first climax starts (01:03) Raiden turns around to aim at Fatman.
01:03/4 : Fast motion from 100% in general to about 500! I thought it's mean to
throw Raiden from one bad situation to the next, so the fast cut is to the beat
again and at
01:04/5 : He starts to fly and hits the wall. The part where he sinks to the ground is
also cut to the beat.
01:10 : switching to Solidus. First normal speed, than at the word "away"
(so cut to the lyrics again) high speed (about 250%).
01:12: "Cause I swear" Solidus is standing on the Harrier. Extremly slow motioned here.
01:15: Switching from Solidus to Raiden - again I used an effect. "For the last time" -
Raiden seems to say it. The next part is again about not willing to trust so I
choosed the scene with Pliskin and the Ninja again.
This sequence is cut to the lyrics again.
at 01:19: "With you" Pliskin seems to say it and when these words come he er... how's it called?
He "moves" his arms... the secne before at 01:18 was worked with slow motion again cause I
didnt want it to seem as if he speaks all the time.
01:22: Is cut again to the lyrics. First slow motion then normal speed at the word
"suddenly" (Is it suddenly? I thought so...) the ninja puts his hand to his head.
Then you see Raiden "shocked"
01:26 : Is the scene from the game where Pliskin usually says "Bed time, Raiden".
I just took the first part of it and slow motioned it extremly cause I didn't want him to
say anything I just wanted him to look bad/evil.
from 01:28 : The scenes with Otacon are normal speed, just cut to the music.
01:32 : The music itself has a sad mood here. When you see Pliskin first,
moving threw the screen from right to left and then Raiden, it is slowed down again to
about 40% I guess. The lyrics "trieng to break but I'm so tired" etc: Means Emma who just died.
(the others weren't able to avoid it...)
01:37 : The three men go out of the room, normal scene.
01:41 : Cut to Emma who lies on the ground, to beat and music, then slowy faids out till
you see nothing just a
black screen.
01:48 : Extremly slow motioned here, to the word "take", the cuts after that are made to
the music, an effect was added here again at 01:52/53
01:54 : This is a nice motioning effect: Raiden moves slowly while the people around him
are rushing forward.
01:57 : "away" - Raiden lets his head "fall" forward (down) - is extremly slowmotioned here
but the people are still rushing. I think he looks pretty sad here, too - and he isn't really
happy cause this is the part where he wonders for what he did all the stuff he did and
what was real, who to trust and stuff.
01:58 : Raiden moves his head. I thought it would be mean to throw him now into the next
troubble cause he moves his head and then sees Ray. - with an effect added from 01:58 to 2:00
02:01 : Snake looks up to Ray. I wanted to make the following scenes look realistic
cause in general case you don't have any chance against such a big Mech so I let look
him up as if there's no hope... (or so)
02:04 : Ray raises and shows how big he is. A little slow motion was added here.
02:05 : Now we see that all are in troubble. (normal speed, cut to the beat)
02:06 : A black screen, then Ray opens its mouth, a black screen again.
I took those black screens to increase the feeling of Ray being big, mighty and "evil".
02:08 : Realistic, how I had made it: Snake tries to free himself (slow motion) but the
handcufs (02:10) won't break.
02:12 : I won't waste myself for "you" (X3) - even when I listened the song the first time
I wanted this: Ray at everytime the word "you" is jelled here is shooting out some missiles.
I slowed down the motion sothat it really looks like (to me) as if Ray "swallows" out these
er missiles (as if it needs much power to get them out) I used the black screen again to make
it look more evil... Then you see the misslies from above, again Ray 3 times (same effect)
cut to the music...
02:25 : The situation seems hopeless but at this moment cut to the word "I" (slow motion)
Fortune raises her hands against the big beastly weapon/tank (Ray).
02:27 : Cut to the music "take it from the inside", slow motioned again,
cause the lyrics are slow, too - you see Fortune who tries to protect the others.
It still is a hopeless situation but now with a little hope in it.
02:31 : The missiles come down, to the beat of the music - I took slow and fast motion
again sothat the missiles would come down exactly to the beat of the music.
02:34 : Cut to the beat, original speed: Fortune who protects the others.
02:35 : "Away" again then "cause I swear" : Raiden stands up, a sign of hope,
slow motion sothat the moving of Raiden would work well with the music.
02:37 : Ray; it seems being out of missiles now, slow motion again.
02:39 : Raiden looks up, seems to realize that Ray is "empty", slow motion.
02:41: Look at Rays tale, you will see the fast motion then!
02:43: Snake suddenly starts to run, slow motion.
02:43/44: He still runs, fast motion now (to the beat).
till 02:46: Normal cut to the music
02:49 : "and just throw it all away" the lyrics may suggest that Snake now throws his own
life away to help the others.
Normal cut and speed when he runs, till he jumps. The jump is slow motion again.
A cut at 02:53 : They will fall down in the water in fast motion
Then the end with Raiden, he seems to say "you" at one time.

So this is the "secret" how I made it. Worked with the movements, the lyrics,
the beet of the music and several cut techniques to create something like a new
story with its own style of directing (mine), showing, how cruel killing is and how
it "destroyes" Raiden threw the game.

Thank you for reading.