The Ballad of Mal & Inara (Fan film)

POSTED BY: Jaron95
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 06:45
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DECLAN

Monday, October 17, 2005 6:34 PM

Very shiny! But is there something wrong with me when I can idenitfy every episdoe from which the scenes come?

Also, thanks for the technical details that you supplied to the other poster. It's helpful to me also.

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Originally posted by Jaron95:
Wow, thanks guys! :)

For technical details, I used FairUse - http://www.fairusewizard.com - to pull scenes from the DVD. It rips and caches the whole data stream and lets you choose to export whatever clips you like as XviD or DivX AVI's.

Hope that helps!

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COSMICFUGITIVE

Monday, October 17, 2005 6:41 PM

Gorgeous. I really loved this! It was put together really well and the music was perfect. Well done! Thanks for sharing this!

-Cos.

SMAUG

Monday, October 17, 2005 9:46 PM

JARON95,

Let me state again that I really loved it.

So far.. thinking about it over the weekend.. I have a couple of ideas to toss your way.

One.. I thing it might be nice to actually have the title "Ballad of Mal and Inara" somehow at the beginning instead of the end. The rest.. song title.. your name.. etc. are fine at the end.. but it might work better to have the title somehow at the beginning.. and make the title "bigger".. I don't mean bigger in font size.. I mean bigger as in presence. Sort of like the illuminated Firefly logo.. actually I think it might be better to take firefly out altogether and replaced with some type of F/X of the title of this piece. Like if you could replicate the same f/x of the firefly logo.

Then secondly... I know it sort of "fit" the song.. but the way you ended it... seems very "final"... granted.. so did the song.. but I don't see the ballad of Mal and Inara as being "final" in anyway. Within Firefly.. The story of Mal and Inara.. is that of them comming together... no matter how long and tragic the path. So I believe in fitting with that.. there should be a glimmer of hope (even if very tiny) at the end of the ballad.. not one that lends more toward "tragic finality". If that makes any sense.

Anyway... just a couple thoughts of constructive critisim...

Smaug..

JARON95

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:45 AM

Thanks, Smaug. :)

Though I don't plan on going back and changing this video (mostly because I already deleted the source footage), I really like your ideas!

And thanks again to everyone else for the feedback!

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