Dragonflies:
alighting here
or flitting there.
“Come fly with me!”
Melancholy.
Posts in category Creativity
On Autumn
Sep15
2011
Written by Mullenkedheim
2011
Written by Mullenkedheim
On Growing One’s Own Food
Sep13
2011
Written by Mullenkedheim
2011
Written by Mullenkedheim
Veranda garden:
cucumbers and many herbs.
Songs of cicadas.
Internet Radio Play: Final Fantasy Tactics
Jun18
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
Final Fantasy Tactics
Like I was saying last time, for a while I was involved in internet radio plays. I was so excited about the idea of them that I actually started up my own. I was going to produce a Final Fantasy Tactics play. It was going to be epic. I got all the lines recorded by people, I got them sent in, I mixed a couple of scenes, and then… nothing. Ran out of interest and time. It’s the first big project I ever started (first of many). It’s also the first big project I never finished (first of many).
The most upsetting part of the thing is that I don’t think I even have the files anymore, so I can’t pick it up now. If I DO have the files, they’re on a 10 year old CD in my damp basement in Canada. Chances of those still working? Nil. 
Anyway, let’s enjoying what I DID make.
The first scene, and the opening credits:
[wpaudio url="http://life.enhasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/000-FFT-Intro.mp3"]
[wpaudio url="http://life.enhasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/001-FFT-Credits.mp3"]
The Promotional Video:
The Audition Advertisement (you can tell it’s 1999, because I felt the need to say the http:// when saying the name of the website [though, to be fair, it was a nonstandard URL {look I can nest brackets}]):
[wpaudio url="http://life.enhasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Bonus02-FFTauditionsopen.mp3"]
The “Death Trailer”:
[wpaudio url="http://life.enhasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Bonus03-HighQualitySadDeathTrailer.mp3"]
While listening to the various clips as they came in, it became clear that a lot of the incidental grunts groans and screams of pain could, when taken out of context, sound rather kinky. So, I made this dodgy little omake, the FFT Audio Pr0n:
[wpaudio url="http://life.enhasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Bonus04-FFTAudioPr0n.mp3"]
And that’s it! That’s all that’s left of the FFT Audio Drama. Kind of sad in a way…
Internet Radio Play: Destiny
Jun16
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
Back in the day, I wrote. A lot. Problem is, it was mostly fan fiction. Final Fantasy 7 fan fiction. Melodramatic Final Fantasy 7 fan fiction. This is the sort of stuff you’d facepalm at if you ever stumbled into fanfiction.net. In my defense, I was in high school, and pretty angsty, so you can’t really hold it against me.
At any rate, at the same time, my clique of internet friends were involved in doing internet radio plays. Someone would write a script (usually anime or video game related), and then have people from all over the place record their lines, e-mail them in (remember, this was like, 1999 — a 5mb file was a big fucking deal), and then they’d get edited together by the director/producer and released.
I wanted in! So I made this. It’s not very good, but you know, whatever. It’s a shame I don’t talk to the people in it anymore. They’re cool cats, this one horrible nerdfest aside.
[wpaudio url="http://life.enhasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/drama.Final_.Fantasy.7.Destiny.mp3-ZeaL.mp3"]
Anime Music Video: “Haruko + Naota = ♥”
Jun14
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
This was the first, and probably most difficult video I made. I decided, you know, gotta get all those quick shots, it’ll be GREAT! What it was was tedious. Epically tedious. But I like the result. 
Anime Music Video: “My Death is the Only Absolute Liberty”
Jun11
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
I LOVE Evangelion. Sure, it’s flawed in some aspects, but it’s so awesome nonetheless. Episode 24 was pretty friggin’ epic, in my opinion. When I heard this track from the Kill Bill soundtrack, I knew exactly how I could use it.
Anime Music Video: “(Bad Memories Are Like An) Infection”
Jun09
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
I think this was the second video I made. I’d just finished watching Gravitation, and I’d just been introduced to the magic that is Chihiro Onitsuka‘s voice. Together, these formed in my mind to make a video like this. The one in my head was slicker, but this was still pretty cool, I thought.
Anime Music Video: “La Reminscencia”
Jun07
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
I entered this video in the AnimeNorth 2004 AMV competition, and everyone hated it. I guess it’s not that good. Anyway, behold what I used to do with my free time!
Anime Music Video: “Your Presence Still Lingers Here”
Jun04
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
2010
Written by Mullenkedheim
In university, I was an avid watcher of anime. If it was reasonably popular, and it came out between 1996 and 2003, I’ve at least heard of it, if I haven’t watched it. But I probably have watched it.
At any rate, there was a period when my doormate in res and I got into making anime music videos. It was a big thing at the time. I never got very good at making them… the more advanced techniques were beyond my willingness to learn — it wasn’t intuitive to me immediately, so I didn’t bother. So I never made anything as awesome as Euphoria (which is, incidentally, the way I learned of the magic of Imogen Heap, but I digress).
Still, I wasn’t utter shite. This one at the top of the post won me Best of Show at CN Anime 2003 (I think it was 2003…) in their AMV competition. I’ll post my works over the next couple days, just so they can be seen again.