my pop video project

[erilyn]

With many thanks to all those in fandom who share footage and photos, to glendaglamazon, withdiamonds, eponymous, marrymehowie, daisydust for encouragement, suggestions and clip help, and especially trumpeterofdoom for listening to me drone on about this more than any one person should have to, and for making many useful suggestions (which I didn't listen to enough).

The Joy of Pop
Why I love Nsync and Backstreet Boys - eighteen minutes of song, dance and extreme dorkitude.
+ avi - 113 meg
+ wmv - 40 meg

Backstory: About a third of those attending the fan gathering get__together in NZ were pop fans. I decided to try making something for us to watch, that hopefully other fans could enjoy watching too, even without knowing the groups or the context of footage. Mind you, I'd done virtually no video editing before, didn't have a clear idea of what I was making, didn't want it too slash focused (didn't want to exclude non RPS fans) and wanted to limit myself to reasonable quality footage, as where we were having the gathering has a bigass screen. Over the month or so that this project consumed my brain, I did question my sanity a fair bit, and my ideas on what I was making kept changing, so I'm not claiming I achieved these goals ;) But I'm reasonably satisfied with how it turned out.

While I was making it, glendaglamazon suggested I ask about the sparklecon footage party. withdiamonds and marrymehowie kindly accepted, and barring any issues (::crosses fingers and toes that the dvd works::), hopefully they will watch it this weekend at the party.

I put in and took out more clips than I ended up using (and struggled to keep it group-centric when it was turning into a Chris and Brian lovefest, I swear) and might ramble at length another time about the making of this (there are two things I had to do that I impressed myself with, though they really aren't that cool *g*). But for now I'll shut up!

I hope you enjoy, and would love to hear your reactions/thoughts on it :)

Comments

[marrymehowie.livejournal.com]

You act as though we did you a favor or something, hon! I know the finished product will be fantastic. I'm downloading, but not watching until I'm in Orlando:)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Ooops, I was totally thinking it was virtually the weekend and y'all would be in Orlando already. Stupid timezones *g*.

Have a fantastic time, and give my love to everyone :)

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

I'm downloading this and I'm sure it will be wonderful. As far as I'm concerned, you could have just made a Chris lovefest and I would have been ecstatic. *grins* Thanks for sharing.

[marrymehowie.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the last ones out. Flight leaves at 7am. Gotta go to bed, lol.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

This is like your last chance to sleep for 3 days. Go to bed already! *g*

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

But that would have been to easy ;) And thank you!

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

Easy, yes, but also very much enjoyed and drooled on and squee worthy.

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

oh, and hot, as well.

[yetunknown.livejournal.com]

congrats! snagging the avi.

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

That was the best 18 minutes and 19 seconds of my entire month! I adore it. Thank you so much for putting it together and sharing it with all of us!!! I even saw footage I'd never seen, of both groups!

:huge huge hugs:

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Apart from meeting everyone it was the coolest, most fun aspect of the entire get__together! Will download with glee and watch and re-squee.

I didn't realise you hadn't edited before - good job!

[callsigns.livejournal.com]

shell_shocked and I watched this together and just died of happiness. What awesome times! What an awesome video! Thank you so much for this; it really makes me so happy to be a part of this fandom, and this video just reminded me of how many friends I've made because of those boys. And oh my god, the end was the absolute BEST PART! <333333

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

I love this so very muchly. Footage I hadn't seen before and a bunch of pretty boys all in one place. I had to squee when I heard your radio clip of Chris saying he was coming to Australia to hug you. The entire thing was just wonderful, and made me cherish them all even more than I already did

I do have a question about the footage you used. What appearances were it when Justin and JC are engaged and Chris got him pregnant, and the Joey loves Justin appearance?

Btw; what program did you use to do that, if you don't mind telling?

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

That goes without saying ;)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy! :)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I forgot to tell you - I left the dvd at arysteia's place for you!

[faithette.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that was amazing!

So much squee-able footage in one place! and so much footage I hadn't seen before!

Thank you so much for sharing your efforts!

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! And your comment has brought up a good point - I'll make a list of where the clips come from, and will share any that people haven't seen :)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you hon :) I'm loving to hear that it's making people happy, cause it's basically my loveletter to the guys and to this fandom!

Gotta ask - the Lance end, or the credits part? The first part of the video I made was the Lance part (though it then kept changing with better photos of them etc), and the credits part was very last minute *g*.

[callsigns.livejournal.com]

The JC soundbite!

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, I appreciate that :)

I've realised that I'll need make a big list of footage so people can find stuff they haven't seen before *g*. The first bit is from an interview they did in Japan, not sure of specifics, I got it from an Nsyncland dvd. The second is from Live at Much 2000.

The major editing work was done with Cyberlink PowerDirector, but I also used VirtualDub, WinAVI, Windows Movie Maker and Creative Wave Studio.

[marythefan.livejournal.com]

Oh, you didn't think I wouldn't dl this, did you? Grabbing now; I'm sure there will be some more reax once I can watch and formulate words. :g:

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it :) I'm going to make up a list of what footage I used, so people can find stuff they haven't seen before.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

*cough* Do you mean Chris? The soundclip at the end is from me talking to Chris on the radio *g*.

Though you know what they say about couples looking alike, maybe they sound alike too? ;)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I look forward to your reaction EAGERLY! *g*