An experiment...

In my never ending quest to try to make something out of the crappy tools at my disposal, I've created this little video. It's actually my rough attempt at something a little more ambitious, but I just wanted to see what Windows Movie Maker had under the hood when mixed with my favorite MS Paint. I had intentions of recording my own dialogue but a sad drawback of Movie Maker is that it only has one audio track. In a way, I kind of like the 1920's style of the dialogue cards. It's crapp-ily charming, which is the name I'll probably call my memoirs one day (Crappily Charming, the mmyers story). I think I've thought of a way around that little audio speedbump, but anywho, this is what I made this weekend.

I played with a lot of different music but then settled on this nifty little track by Satie. Gymnopedies No.1 seemed a little bit too much of a bummer and if you've watched the video already you know it's a bummer enough. Gymno No. 2 (my favorite of the set) is a little jauntier and fit well with my little story about love. Sad, sad love. I played with some Django Reinhardt and the Mills Brothers but always came back to Satie.

Anywho, hope you enjoy it and here's to more experimenting.