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LEGO Star Wars 12 Days of Christmas
The 12 Days of Christmas- Lego Star Wars style!
A sing along sang by the talented Brick7 and HoldingOurOwn
LEGO Star Wars 12 Days of Christmas
The 12 Days of Christmas- Lego Star Wars style!
A sing along sang by the talented Brick7 and HoldingOurOwn
What he meant to say was, "A Sing along by the talented Brick7 and the not-so-talented HoldingOurOwn".
I hope everyone enjoys it.
By the way, I love the "follow along with the Stormtrooper head"
This is kinda hard to rate/review, since it doesn't have any animation whatsoever.
(Well, the droids dancing and rebels running hardly counts.)
I can't help but to compare this to Lech's "Twelve Pains of Christmas." Yes, it was released back in 2004, but it was recently-ish bumped.
Lech's not only has animation in for all of the "days/pains," but different animation each time through.
That way, it encourages people to watch the whole thing instead of simply skipping to day twelve and watching everything just the once. Yours has mostly slides, and the same slides every time. There's no reason to watch all twelve days develop. The song itself (I'm talking about the "Twelve days" format, not just your version.) can get boring relatively quickly, so pair that with the same slides over and over, and things go south after about day four.
The only animation that I saw in yours was some VERY choppy, and obviously poorly looped footage. Looping clips isn't a problem, but only it the viewers can't tell that it's looped. If you had a rebel running from far off-screen, across the set, and off-screen on the other side, then not only would it be less noticeable looping, but the clip would be longer each time and only repeat a few times. (As opposed to the break-neck pace of the current stuff.)
Here are two final thoughts, and a question:
#1, If you must use slides, make the sets really detailed and interesting.
#2, It's obvious that the singers have a slightly different tune going on in their heads. It wouldn't take much to prevent that.
And what do trolls have to do with LSW?
Hey, Pritchard Studios. I must take full responsibility for the audio. For personal reasons, I had a very shallow window to record my voice. I only had time to record one take. When I did, I discovered, to my horror, that the my recorder wasn't running! I had no time to do even one rehearsal take, and had to find a way to squeeze in the one & only take again. I had hoped that in post-production the places where I was off the beat would be edited. But I know that CyberCom also was doing this on a very short schedule.
Actually, the best thing is to start these things earlier in the season. But I just thought of something else! I've mixed audio with myself and Brick7 singing a duet together before. (Watch the closing theme song to Holding Our Own Episode 1, on my youtube page). Maybe CyberCom can send me all the source audio and I can re-edit the song & re-release an updated version next year with additional animation. I'd like to see the two R2D2s' heads spinning in opposite directions! Whatdayasay? Let's come back stronger for 2013!
By the by, I watched Lechnology's 2004 video for the first time this year and enjoyed it!
And there's nothing wrong with doing slides, but maybe they can transition like slides. I have a music video called "The Complete History of Recorded Music, part 1". I animated a chrono-odometer (if such a thing exists outside the Time Machine). The odomoter's rolling provides the transition. The odometer also looms closer as it approaches the present. The video can be seen at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VFdKZo … p;index=16
Maybe I'll put this in the non-brick film forum. Okay.... now I am just rambling on. I should have shut up a few paragraphs ago. Happy Bickfilming.
Last edited by HoldingOurOwn (December 29, 2012 (09:05am))
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