Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion FoLC Productions Music Video - Rocky Raccoon

Woo-hoo! Okay, this is my first vid (counting Kryptonite , the L&C tradition, as my "almost first vid" )!

The song is "Rocky Raccoon" by the Beatles. It's a fun song we used to sing on family bike trips, and, well, one day not too long ago, I thought it'd make for a good L&C vid. Of course, I had no clips and no experience... That's where Psychofurball came in, listened to the song, and told me I had to make the vid! She provided the clips, the encouragement, and a lot of great FDK. This wouldn't have been possible without her.

Like I said, it's a really fun song. I personally suggest listening to it alone first, because I think the video will distract you from some of the lyrical subtleties. Just a thought.

As it happens, the song tells a story. A story which almost, but not quite, matches up with a certain plot from the show. Both plots had to bend a bit to fit together, but I think it works well enough.

Anyway, I'm currently on vacation, and stuck with dialup access, which means it takes me hours to send the file anywhere (for some reason, even with a 44k connection to the server, I can't seem to transfer files at more than 2kbps... <sigh>). I had sent a copy to Rach for final beta approval (she did that for me, too...), but then she spotted a little mistake. I fixed it, but she was smarter than me and signed off for the night before I could even consider sending the new version tonight. Silly me decided to upload the thing to my personal webspace, so I could send it wherever it needed to go just by pasting the link.

That took until after 6am. And that's when I decided that as long as I had it up, I might as well share. I'll get it uploaded to the right site later, and then update the link (and maybe make this post make a bit more sense than I can make at 6:30am).

EDIT: The file is now gone from temporary storage, but you can find it at its new home at The FoLC Video Archive . I have now updated the link below to reflect this change.

Rocky Raccoon

Enjoy!

Oh... one more thing. I remembered a FoLC who doesn't speak English as her native language saying that she had to look up the lyrics to really appreciate a vid. So, I tried to do something about that with this one. Please let me know if you think it works or if it's just distracting.

Paul

Paul, what an original idea!!! It's really fantastic! I love how you turned this into an old movie, sometimes fastforwarding to give it that special flavour of movies from the 30s. Really, really well done! I adore it!

Kaethel

wow paul!!! that was freakin awesome! I adore it! GREAT job!!!!!!!!!!! i love how Lois was magill, lil, and nancy! that was awesome i'm off to watch again!
jen

Paul could you put up Kryptonite again, the link won't work. I really love that song. Ok now I am going to look at your new one. Laura

Woo Hoo! Paul that was fabulous! I loved the old film filter, Where did you get that! and the words going across was great. You matched the scene to the music very well. I also love the beatles so I am glad you did one of there songs. Keep it up boy! Laura

Wow, thanks for the comments, guys!

I'm so glad you like it! I had a lot of fun making it.

Laura, although I came up with the idea and chose the clips for Kryptonite, the actual vid was made by Trenna. I had no vid to work with and didn't know how to work with it, in any case. So, it is or was hosted on her site. I'm not sure what happened. Just tried opening another of her vids, and it seemed to work fine. <shrug>

Luckily, I kept a local copy for myself. So, I'll upload it soon and post the new link.

One warning, though: That vid was made with an odd sense of humor. Odder than usual, I should say. The song didn't make much sense to me until I saw it from Lex's POV, which made it amusing, in an ironic and evil way. Looking at the comments, I'm not sure how many got the joke. So... see what you think.

Anyway, thanks again for the comments! Keep 'em coming!

Paul

Hi Paul!!

Hi love your vid.
And the lyrics was really a very good idea, thanks for think about us.

All the effects are great.

Karla

Excellent job Paul!

Very original idea executed perfectly!

~Liz

Well, I already told you... THIS VID FREAKING ROCKS!!!!!!! (at least I think those were my exact words. I could look up the log...)

I laughed everytime Lois had a new "name." Inspired work with "Rocky" shooting Lex and then Lex in a wheelchair!! Gideon's Bible was great!! The Lex being "Dan" but also called "Daniel"... that had me cracking up so hard. And you know what... rather than going through this line by line, because it's really just that good... I'll just say that you did a GREAT job with clip/lyric matching, especially considering the song wasn't written for L&C. )!!! I'm really impressed!

I already gave my two cents on IRC, but I'll tell you again. This was great! And the credits were hilarious!

I love this vid, Paul! I told you it was worth posting. And the credits Got me going when i frist saw it before the ok. But I do hope you plan on making more. With or without my help. Hopefully with.

Rach

Well, I just found you on IRC, too, but I'll post it here anyway.

This was so creative and clever. I loved it ... from the subtitles to the black & white film to the special effects and choppy/fast motion .. .it was just like an old movie. What a fantastic idea. And so original.

Kudos, Paul! I'm very impressed and had a lot of fun with this one.

Kathy

Com-plete-ly brilliant!

And just when I'm bowled over, the credits run, and the whole thing simply gets...brilliant-er.

Man, Paul. I want a Timmy. The two of you together are amazing.

Wonderful! More, please! No resting on your laurels, (laurels are so uncomfortable anyway), there are millions of songs out there and you've got work to do.

CC

Did I say I loved it? Don't think I mentioned, but didn't want to leave that out of the gushing.

WOW! Paul, I'm in awe!

How can I *not* love it?! That rocked. I enjoyed the look of it, the words going across (it gave it a unique look), speed - it all matched the song. I'll second everyone else's enthusiasm.

Thanks ya'll! for your awesome work.

Woo-hoo! Lots of great FDK!! Thanks everyone!

I'm so glad you all enjoyed it so much!

/me does the happy FDK dance...

Glad to hear the captions worked. It was an experiment, but it sounds like it had good results.

Oh, and glad to hear you liked the credits, too. I had fun with them.

Sorry I'm not responding more individually, but there are so many message to respond to (which is really cool!!) and only so much I can say back.

So... Woo-hoo!! Thanks for the great FDK, everyone! I really appreciate it from each and every one of you! Keep it coming.

Oh... one more thing... I uploaded the vid to the new, spiffy, and very cool FoLC video archive for more permanent storage. So, you can now find it here.

Paul

OMG!

Thanks, Lara!

I thought of that, of course. But it didn't fit with the story, which was a blend of the song's story with the story of the ARGH.

Besides, there's something amusing about Lex being called Dan.

And see? It's the "impossible" vids that come out best.

P.S. Did you take the time to read the credits?

Awesome vid. Loved the credits. The "Yellow Sun" is in movies now.

ok, my first thought when reading this thread was: what do they all have with these credits? but after seeing the vid I know it now: cool

Admitted, the subtitles where a bit fast in the beginning (I know it wasn't possible any other way because the singing is very fast), but this way I was with a combination of voice and text at least able to understand everything