Created: 17 Aug 2015
What’s that? Another video inspired by the splash screens from Evangelion???
As the description says, this video was prompted by those infamously crummy lyrics videos on Youtube. They’ve offended my sensibilities since long before I’d created a Youtube channel. “Surely there must be a better way to format these?“ I always thought.
At the same time, Kinetic Typographies seemed like overkill. Surely there has to be a tasteful way to format these. Plain text with no frills. But also in time to the music and with some attention to detail. Then I watched Evangelion, and found my answer.
I’m happy with this format, it’s what I always wanted, and I think it fits Bohemian Rhapsody in particular quite well. However, I didn’t hit it out of the park. The whole video needs a do-over in terms of timing.
Here’s a little secret for aspiring editors out there:
See where my mouse is? That’s when Freddie Mercury says “Mama…”
DON’T MAKE THE TEXT APPEAR RIGHT THERE!!!!!
I should have placed the text saying “Mama” a few frames ahead of where the audio says it, to better maintain the illusion of a sync. But I didn’t, and the whole video suffers for it. You may not have noticed before, but it’s been a glaring issue to me since the video came out.
It was still a major learning experience, and if I were to ever make another lyrics video (which I might), I’ll be more careful.