Post by thunkerdrone on Oct 19, 2014 18:18:18 GMT -5
Hi, I recently did an editing project, to improve a fun 2012 Chinese language movie called 'Full Circle'. (a film with English subtitles about some seniors who escape from a nursing home to perform in a talent show)
My plan was to edit the film to shorten some of the tiresomely long tracts of dialogue, and to add some lively music, and to generally make the movie, which was a great movie to begin with, even more enjoyable to watch. I was just using some very basic video editing software, and when I matched a couple of Sparks songs to a couple of the scenes in the film, the results were astonishing, in the way that the music synched up perfectly with what was happening in the movie scenes. I did not alter either of the two mediums in the slightest to make this happen. The songs were untouched , and the original movie footage was untouched. I did nothing to shorten or lengthen the movie to match the music.
see for yourself here:
The following short clip is my edit of the original scene. This scene is where the seniors have just escaped the nursing home and are fleeing in a bus, and encounter some drunken thugs playing around with them on the highway, keeping them from passing etc:
www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=UZ6cmMc3XRc&start_at=3534&end_at=3711
In the above three minute (song length) clip, the way the song synchs up perfectly with the chase scene , and synchs with the confrontation at the side of the highway, and then synchs with the final resolution is remarkable. It is like the music was tailor made as a score for the film.
Bear in mind that I added the Sparks song 'At home, at Work , at Play' without changing a fragment of the song or the film to match eachother. (the confrontation scene is funny because the young guys take out crow bars and tools to help change the tire, and the people in the bus think they are going to use the tools as weapons to attack them)
Here is another example of the same thing:
In the following scene, the seniors are still on their way to Tianjin City in
their bus. The bus has stalled and they have to push start it to
to get it going. I included the brief previous scene with it in the clip , where
the younger concerned relatives of the seniors from the nursing home are pursuing the bus, in an attempt to bring them back to the nursing home. On the way to catching the seniors , they are somberly reflecting on how little time they might have left with some of their aging relatives. I only included this brief previous scene with the clip because this preceding sets up the mood of the following scene perfectly (to show how even the intro to the Sparks song 'Hasta Manana Monsieur' fit perfectly into the film)
www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=UZ6cmMc3XRc&start_at=3746&end_at=4032
In the above, song length clip, note the way that the Sparks song (Hasta Manana Monsieur) starts out with weak flutes and then ignites, gradually accelerates and explodes into the soaring, traveling sound of 'Hasta Manana Monsieur' as exactly the bus itself does (the bus engine catches ingnition, the bus accelerates, and they break into the freedom of wide open prairie) ........I have no idea how this happened.., how it all synched so perfectly and effortlessly. It is mind boggling. Then later in the clip, the electric guitar solo coincides perfectly with their encounter of the stampeding herd of horses. The weird part is that I left the original score intact beneath, and just loud enough for parts of it to be heard, and even the original surprisingly accents and compliments the Sparks song perfectly.
Watch the whole movie below. I used only Sparks songs (six Sparks songs) in the movie edit of six different scenes from the opening scene to the final scene. You will find the same thing happened with every song, perfect accidental synchs, without editing the film or music a bit. Even the lyrics synched (who don't like it?, little proof that I'm not just a vegetable) , Achoo [about healing someone sick and take them to a happier place/who knows what the winds gonna bring when the invalids sing la-la's with a powerful sting that'll stop any opera or any bing), Hasta Manana Monsieur (about traveling and being misunderstood and moving on, hasta manana is Spanish and translates to 'see you tomorrow'), even 'At Home At Work At Play' contains the line 'you've got to catch her' during the chase scene when the seniors are fleeing, and the line 'I tried to tell you in the night, that with a girl like you I could do without guided tours' as they flee on their tour bus. So many coincidences even with the lyrics, and this along with the sequential synchs is mindblowing. The music in question was composed and recorded 40 years ago, and somehow synched like this with a 2012 Chinese film.
see the whole (edited) film here:
'Full Circle'.
My plan was to edit the film to shorten some of the tiresomely long tracts of dialogue, and to add some lively music, and to generally make the movie, which was a great movie to begin with, even more enjoyable to watch. I was just using some very basic video editing software, and when I matched a couple of Sparks songs to a couple of the scenes in the film, the results were astonishing, in the way that the music synched up perfectly with what was happening in the movie scenes. I did not alter either of the two mediums in the slightest to make this happen. The songs were untouched , and the original movie footage was untouched. I did nothing to shorten or lengthen the movie to match the music.
see for yourself here:
The following short clip is my edit of the original scene. This scene is where the seniors have just escaped the nursing home and are fleeing in a bus, and encounter some drunken thugs playing around with them on the highway, keeping them from passing etc:
www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=UZ6cmMc3XRc&start_at=3534&end_at=3711
In the above three minute (song length) clip, the way the song synchs up perfectly with the chase scene , and synchs with the confrontation at the side of the highway, and then synchs with the final resolution is remarkable. It is like the music was tailor made as a score for the film.
Bear in mind that I added the Sparks song 'At home, at Work , at Play' without changing a fragment of the song or the film to match eachother. (the confrontation scene is funny because the young guys take out crow bars and tools to help change the tire, and the people in the bus think they are going to use the tools as weapons to attack them)
Here is another example of the same thing:
In the following scene, the seniors are still on their way to Tianjin City in
their bus. The bus has stalled and they have to push start it to
to get it going. I included the brief previous scene with it in the clip , where
the younger concerned relatives of the seniors from the nursing home are pursuing the bus, in an attempt to bring them back to the nursing home. On the way to catching the seniors , they are somberly reflecting on how little time they might have left with some of their aging relatives. I only included this brief previous scene with the clip because this preceding sets up the mood of the following scene perfectly (to show how even the intro to the Sparks song 'Hasta Manana Monsieur' fit perfectly into the film)
www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=UZ6cmMc3XRc&start_at=3746&end_at=4032
In the above, song length clip, note the way that the Sparks song (Hasta Manana Monsieur) starts out with weak flutes and then ignites, gradually accelerates and explodes into the soaring, traveling sound of 'Hasta Manana Monsieur' as exactly the bus itself does (the bus engine catches ingnition, the bus accelerates, and they break into the freedom of wide open prairie) ........I have no idea how this happened.., how it all synched so perfectly and effortlessly. It is mind boggling. Then later in the clip, the electric guitar solo coincides perfectly with their encounter of the stampeding herd of horses. The weird part is that I left the original score intact beneath, and just loud enough for parts of it to be heard, and even the original surprisingly accents and compliments the Sparks song perfectly.
Watch the whole movie below. I used only Sparks songs (six Sparks songs) in the movie edit of six different scenes from the opening scene to the final scene. You will find the same thing happened with every song, perfect accidental synchs, without editing the film or music a bit. Even the lyrics synched (who don't like it?, little proof that I'm not just a vegetable) , Achoo [about healing someone sick and take them to a happier place/who knows what the winds gonna bring when the invalids sing la-la's with a powerful sting that'll stop any opera or any bing), Hasta Manana Monsieur (about traveling and being misunderstood and moving on, hasta manana is Spanish and translates to 'see you tomorrow'), even 'At Home At Work At Play' contains the line 'you've got to catch her' during the chase scene when the seniors are fleeing, and the line 'I tried to tell you in the night, that with a girl like you I could do without guided tours' as they flee on their tour bus. So many coincidences even with the lyrics, and this along with the sequential synchs is mindblowing. The music in question was composed and recorded 40 years ago, and somehow synched like this with a 2012 Chinese film.
see the whole (edited) film here:
'Full Circle'.