A silent black and white "Monster Movie" by Me:

[capri0mni]

Confession: it wasn't meant to be silent. I spent most of the afternoon and more of the evening composing a simple music line to go with this -- matching up the timing of the different "chapters," and everything.

But although I had good luck with the first on-line MIDI-to-Mp3 converter I tried (the tune came out sounding exactly like it went in), every time I've tried it since the MP3 results sound nothing like the tune I wrote: making the overtones louder than the actual notes, and the incorrect balance of the overtones, too, so it comes out in an entirely different, discordant, key.

So then, I decided to try AudioSwapping from YouTube's library. But that means they stick an ad on your video. I wouldn't even have minded that if the ad came up when the video first starts. But no. It had to pop up and cover the bottom of the image just at the point where the creature's feet get filled in.

So back to silence it went.


(PS: the first dozen views are all me, checking back to see if my changes had taken effect yet, and figure out Why T.F. the music I'd chosen played sometimes, and not others...).
:-/

[ETA: I found the decent converter! So here's a link to the video with its intended music: http://youtu.be/-1uNuDcGI0w

I tried to upload it as a response to the first one, but it won't show up until I, as owner of the first one approve it. But there is no notice anywhere on YouTube that I've received a video response -- so I can't approve it. :-/]

Comments

[trouble]

That's cool. I loved it!

[capri0mni]

\o/ Thanks! :D

[pebblerocker]

What a lot of work must have gone into that! I love how the music fits with the images and the black-and-white looks great. The monster is gorgeous and I really liked the way the words came up.

[capri0mni]

Thank you!

...More play than work, actually. But, like all play, it's mainly a learning process -- learning how to help an idea progress through images first, and words second ... and learning how to use the tools: the scanner and Windows Movie Maker.

Things I want to get a better handle on:

1) a way to make sure the image remains in place as the details expand, rather than wobbling back and forth the way it does.

2) getting even better at matching up up words and background music. My main goal (which I missed the mark on) was to have the music match up with the syllables of the words as they appeared, I was a bit off on that.

As for solutions:... I think (I'll have to try it), if I make a single straight line horizontally across the paper before I start drawing (printing it on the paper with the computer, to make sure it actually is straight) the scanner software can use that as a focal point to adjust the image (the program was written with scanning printed text in mind, and converting it to .pdf). And the music thing will just take practice. ;-)